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The Diet Goddess

The Diet Goddess
スリム観音
Surimu Kannon

Shoko wants nothing more than to be able to dance with Kasugano at the Senior Fairwell Dance. She's picked out a perfect dress, and decides that she's going to lose enough weight to fit it perfectly just for Kasugano. Shoko decides to travel to Karuizawa to join the Kannon Fittness Program and lose a few extra inches. When she arrives there she meets Yamato Fujishima a young man with a chip on his shoulder who really puts the ladies through their paces. Most of the dieters give up, but Shoko perseveres through the rigors of training and reaches her goal. At the end of the training, she finds out that the reason Yamato was so hard on her was because he had recently broken up with his girlfriend, and was taking out his frustration on Shoko.

At the dance Shoko attempts to approach Kasugano and ask him to dance with her, but just as she does Kagamiya, a fellow plump classmate asks him instead. Shoko hears that Kasugano likes chubby girls and is heartbroken. On the way out of the dance, Shoko sees Yamato standing outside waiting for her. He tells her how he wanted to see her in her dress and then asks her to dance.

Published In:
  • Petit Comics 1991 September
  • 1 or W
Publication Date: August 8, 1991
Pages: 3 (full color) 36 (black and white)
Anime Adaptation: None
Notes:
  • This story is one of Takahashi's only shojo manga works. However she also published the four-panel gag manga "My Scandal" in a shojo magazine as well, though it is much less substantial than this piece.
  • Kannon is the Japanese name for the Indian Buddhist deity Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. Because of the boundless love he offered to all beings, this was the most popular of all the Buddhist deities throughout Asia.