Mysterious Girlfriend X
| Mysterious Girlfriend X | |
Cover of the first manga volume | |
| 謎の彼女X (Nazo no Kanojo Ekkusu) | |
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| Genre | Romantic comedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Riichi Ueshiba |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Afternoon KC |
| Magazine | Monthly Afternoon |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | March 25, 2006 – September 25, 2014 |
| Volumes | 12 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Ayumu Watanabe |
| Written by | Deko Akao |
| Music by | Tomoki Hasegawa |
| Studio | Hoods Entertainment |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Tokyo MX, AT-X |
| English network | Anime Network |
| Original run | April 7, 2012 – June 30, 2012 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Ayumu Watanabe |
| Written by | Deko Akao |
| Studio | Hoods Entertainment |
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| Released | August 23, 2012 |
| Runtime | 26 minutes |
Mysterious Girlfriend X (Japanese: 謎の彼女X, Hepburn: Nazo no Kanojo Ekkusu) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Riichi Ueshiba. It was originally published as a one-shot story in 2004 before becoming a serialized comic in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from March 2006 to September 2014, with its chapters collected in 12 tankōbon volumes. The manga is licensed in North America by Vertical. The series follows a boy named Akira Tsubaki who knows next to nothing about girls, along with a new transfer student Mikoto Urabe, a mysterious girl who wears a cold facade, their first encounter takes a turn for the romantic.
An anime adaptation by Hoods Entertainment aired in Japan from April to June 2012, with an original video animation episode released in August 2012. The series is licensed by Sentai Filmworks in North America through Section23 Films for home video and streaming via HIDIVE.