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is a science fiction josei (targeted towards women) manga by Mitsukazu Mihara. Appearing as a serial in the Japanese manga magazine Feel Young from 1998 to 2002, the thirty-three chapters of Doll were collected into six bound volumes by Shodensha and published from August 2000 to August 2002. Taking place in the future, the plot focuses on relationships between people and the eponymous androids; the series has an overarching plot that follows an illegal reprogrammer of Dolls and his revenge against the corporation which creates them. One of the characters, the corporation that manufactures the Dolls, and the concept of the Dolls appeared earlier in Mihara's short manga (1995), later collected in IC in a Sunflower (1997). In 2003, Tokyopop licensed the series for an English-language translations in North America and the United Kingdom, publishing the series from August 2004 to October 2005. The series has received several positive reviews from English-language critics, and the first volume placed in ICv2's list of the top 100 best-selling graphic novels for July 2004. In 2011, Tokyopop's North American branch stopped publication and returned its manga licenses. Plot Set in the future, Doll centers around relationships between humans and the eponymous androids—created by Kaoru and Motohiko Kirishima and manufactured by SG Corporation. During the development of the "Sterol-2" Doll, Kaoru's mental condition begins to deteriorate; after attempting to retain a copy of her mind and memories in a prototype of a Doll, Motohiko realizes his mistake of trying to replace his wife. Retiring from the corporation to care for her, he leaves behind eight other prototypes, which are seen throughout the series: a nameless male Doll, who was the constant companion for a woman and cremated with her by her greedy stepson; Chocolat, a maid who was discovered in a trash heap by an elderly farming community; Honey, a secretary loyal to the SG Corporation president; Cherry, the maid to an award-winning, bulimic writer; Vanilla, a maid to an elderly man and his unfaithful, younger wife; the sexaroid Veronica, one of two Dolls built for sexual intercourse, and her unnamed partner; and S, who hunts down illegally reprogrammed Dolls for SG Corporation. Doll also focuses on Ichiro, a reprogrammer of Dolls who was abused by his stepmother and stepsiblings.

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“Before Barbie, dolls were babies, to be fed and burped and bathed and wheeled around in prams and put down for naps.”
— Jill Lepore, "When Barbie Went to War with Bratz", The New Yorker, (January 22, 2018).
“As Kozinski would write in his opinion in Mattel v. MGA, it’s possible to make dolls that don’t look like porn stars but “there’s not a big market for fashion dolls that look like Patty and Selma Bouvier”—a reference to Lisa Simpson’s big-nosed, wide-waisted, thick-ankled aunts.”
— Jill Lepore, "When Barbie Went to War with Bratz", The New Yorker, (January 22, 2018).
“In Shinto, everything has a soul. Even if you don't want the dolls anymore, you can’t abandon them. There is a special ceremony that is performed for them at a shrine. It’s like a ceremony for a dead person. Since dolls have a human form, they must be treated as such.”
— Shin Takagi, as qtd. in Roc Morin, "Can Child Dolls Keep Pedophiles from Offending?", The Atlantic, (Jan 11, 2016).
“It is a common belief in Japan that dolls are mirrors. The dolls show their owner’s true self.”
— Shin Takagi, as qtd. in Roc Morin, "Can Child Dolls Keep Pedophiles from Offending?", The Atlantic, (Jan 11, 2016).
“From my experience, kids are most interested in movie merchandise from about three to eight years old,” says Lisa Wragg, who worked in children’s licensing for many years. “At about eight, it tends to wane as they get more into music, artists and social media.”
— Lisa Wragg in "Lights, camera but no action figures: are movie toys going out of fashion?", by Anna Smith. The Guardian, (5 Apr 2018).
“The Sex doll industry has been transformed by advances in computer generated images (CGI) and silicone technology. Hollywood special effects technicians began using advances in these technologies to create realistic corpses for films. (Ferguson, 2010). These mannequins were the beginnings of the realistic, functional sex doll.”
— p. 10.

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Notable quotes

“Before Barbie, dolls were babies, to be fed and burped and bathed and wheeled around in prams and put down for naps.”
— Jill Lepore, "When Barbie Went to War with Bratz", The New Yorker, (January 22, 2018).
“As Kozinski would write in his opinion in Mattel v. MGA, it’s possible to make dolls that don’t look like porn stars but “there’s not a big market for fashion dolls that look like Patty and Selma Bouvier”—a reference to Lisa Simpson’s big-nosed, wide-waisted, thick-ankled aunts.”
— Jill Lepore, "When Barbie Went to War with Bratz", The New Yorker, (January 22, 2018).
“In Shinto, everything has a soul. Even if you don't want the dolls anymore, you can’t abandon them. There is a special ceremony that is performed for them at a shrine. It’s like a ceremony for a dead person. Since dolls have a human form, they must be treated as such.”
— Shin Takagi, as qtd. in Roc Morin, "Can Child Dolls Keep Pedophiles from Offending?", The Atlantic, (Jan 11, 2016).
“It is a common belief in Japan that dolls are mirrors. The dolls show their owner’s true self.”
— Shin Takagi, as qtd. in Roc Morin, "Can Child Dolls Keep Pedophiles from Offending?", The Atlantic, (Jan 11, 2016).
“From my experience, kids are most interested in movie merchandise from about three to eight years old,” says Lisa Wragg, who worked in children’s licensing for many years. “At about eight, it tends to wane as they get more into music, artists and social media.”
— Lisa Wragg in "Lights, camera but no action figures: are movie toys going out of fashion?", by Anna Smith. The Guardian, (5 Apr 2018).
“The Sex doll industry has been transformed by advances in computer generated images (CGI) and silicone technology. Hollywood special effects technicians began using advances in these technologies to create realistic corpses for films. (Ferguson, 2010). These mannequins were the beginnings of the realistic, functional sex doll.”
— p. 10.

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