St. ♥ Dragon Girl (Kiyoshi Seinto Doragon Gāru) is a romantic action comedy shoujo manga series written and illustrated by Natsumi Matsumoto. It was serialized in the shoujo magazine Ribon from 1999 to 2003 and compiled into eight volumes. The manga was localized in English by Viz Media under their Shoujo Beat imprint.
The manga follows the story of Momoka Sendou, a high school martial artist, and her childhood friend and love interest, Ryuga Kou, who specializes in Chinese magic. One day, Ryuga summons a dragon to help protect Momoka's psychic cousin, Shuran, from a serpent king who wants to make her his bride. However, instead of possessing Ryuga's body, the dragon's spirit goes into Momoka, imbuing her with power she's never had before. Together, Momoka and Ryuga fight yokai and solve mysteries, all while stubbornly suppressing their feelings for each other.
Tropes
- A-Cup Angst: Momoka has some insecurities about her flat chest, which is why Ryuga often teases her about it.
- Charm Person: Yakumo is a high school substitute teacher who has the ability to hypnotize his female students into doing his bidding.
- Chocolate of Romance: At the end of chapter 2, Momoka finally gathers the nerve to give Ryuga chocolate for Valentine's Day. She has trouble expressing her feelings so she considers this gesture to be a small step in progress.
- Girlish Pigtails: The energetic and often immature Momoka sports twin buns and pigtails.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Momoka's hobby is collecting plushies and she has room full of panda plushies which is fitting considering her girly personality and fixation on pandas. Her favorite plushie is a worn one that Ryuga rescued from a river for when they were children.
- Intimate Healing: In chapter 2, Ryuga tries to feed Momoka medicine via a kiss in order to break out of her brainwashed state. She manages to come to and punches him before he can do anything though.
- Megaton Punch: At the end of chapter 1, Momoka punches Ryuga into the sky after he teases her about not admitting her feelings to him.
- No Eye in Magic: In chapter 2, Momoka avoids getting hypnotized by Yakumo a second time because she protected her eyes with contact lenses.
- Paper Talisman: Ryuga uses paper talismans for his magic attacks.
- Pervert Revenge Mode: In chapter 1, Momoka sends a boy that was looking into the girls locker room flying with a punch she dubs the "Pervert Repel Fist". The other female students thank Momoka and start rain more attacks on the peeping tom.
- Punch Catch: In chapter 1, Momoka tries to angrily punch Ryuga after he makes a quip about her flat chest but he catches her punch in his hand.
- Tsundere: Momoka is normally a sweet girl but Ryuga's teasings always manages to draw out her violent side.
