Marmalade Boy
Tokyopop licensed "Planet Ladder" for an English-language release in North America and serialized it in its manga magazine "Smile". The first volume was released on April 23, 2002; the final volume was published on March 8, 2005. "Planet Ladder" belonged to Tokyopop's line-up of manga in its original right-to-left format; previously, the majority of manga licensed in the United States was "flopped" to read left-to-right for a Western audience. As a result, it was displayed in a case with the eight other "unflopped" manga—"Chobits", "Dragon Knights", "Marmalade Boy", "GTO", "Real Bout High School", "The Skull Man", "Mars" and "Cowboy Bebop"—and heavily advertised in anime magazines and on fan sites. "Planet Ladder" went out of print on April 2, 2007 in North America.