is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Kaneyoshi Izumi. The story follows Ai Maekawa, a teenager who gives herself a total makeover during a school break in a bid to reinvent her image and become popular. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine from the March 2000 issue to the July 2002 issue. Shogakukan collected the individual chapters into six bound volumes under the Flower Comics imprint. Viz Media licensed the series for an English-language release in North America. Synopsis Ai Maekawa was a jimi, or country bumpkin, in middle school. After a popular student embarrassed her by flipping her skirt up in public to reveal her unattractive, grandmotherly panties, Ai used the period between middle and high school to carry out a complete makeover. Between dieting, makeup and new clothes, Ai makes herself into a beauty. She enrolls in a school that she thinks no one from her middle school will choose so that she can start over. Imbued with newfound confidence, she decides to openly pursue the most handsome and popular boy in her class, Sô Ichinose. Ai's past is not so easily abandoned, however, and Ai finds out that popularity is more than skin deep as she attempts to win Sô's affections and make friends in a field of doubt. Characters The main protagonist of Doubt! She was originally a jimi, the Japanese equivalent of a geek/nerd/dork, in junior high. After a devastating and embarrassing event she decides to step up her game. A few months before her first year of high school, she says she "manufactures" herself into a beautiful young woman. Now getting everyone's attention she enters a roller coaster of a ride in high school. The very first day of school she meets Sô Ichinose and his friend Yuichiro Kato, known as the two hottest guys in school. Mina Sato doesn't seem to be very happy with Ai after watching her hanging out with the boys too much. She becomes Ai's enemy for the first few chapters, thinking that Ai was trying to hook up with Yūichirō, but after learning that she was actually after Sô, they become the best of friends. By the 2nd volume Ai and Sō enter a relationship. But unfortunately for Ai, things go far from what she had expected when Yūichirō announces that he is in fact in love with her too. The most