Tenshi Ja Nai!! (天使じゃない!!) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takako Shigematsu. It was serialized in Princess magazine from February 2003 to May 2006 and published in eight tankōbon volumes by Akita Shoten. In North America, the manga was published by Go! Comi from October 2005 to September 2007; it went out-of-print when the company shut down in 2010.

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Reception

Tenshi Ja Nai!! received mixed reviews. In Manga: The Complete Guide, author Jason Thompson described the series as "trashy but enjoyable"; he criticized its "stiff" artwork and "unrealistic" plot twists and characters, but admitted that "the romance is entertaining in an over-the-top way". In contrast, Zac Bertschy of Anime News Network found the artwork to be "surprisingly beautiful", with "clean, very elegant linework", and described the plot as "easy to follow and hard to dislike". However, he acknowledged that the series sometimes "dips into cliché"; he also criticized the romance subplot between Izumi and Yasukuni as "standard fangirl pandering" and complained that, in general, the characters "lack ... strong personalities". Nevertheless, Bertschy felt that Tenshi Ja Nai!! is a "sweet, light-hearted little shoujo comedy that deserves a look from fans of the genre."