Pure Trance (ピュア・トランス, Pyua Toransu?) is a science-fiction manga by Junko Mizuno. Her debut manga, it appeared as a serial in the booklets of Avex Trax's Pure Trance techno compilation CD series. It was later collected into a bound volume by East Press and published in 1998. The comic is defined as shōjo (for girls), but goes far beyond the conventions of the genre.
Last Gasp published an English translation of Pure Trance in July 2005; the edition was produced by jaPRESS.
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