The original Comic Girls manga is serialized in Houbunsha’s Manga Time Kirara Max seinen manga magazine.
After a reader survey ranks Kaoruko at rock bottom, her editor recommends a transfer to an all-female manga creator dorm, where Kaoruko lives and commiserates with fellow mangaka Koyume Koizuka (a shojo manga artist), Ruki Irokawa (an ecchi manga artist), and Tsubasa Katsuki (a shonen manga artist).
The story follows Kaoruko Moeta, a 15-year-old high school student who makes yonkoma manga under the pen name of “Chaos”.