There's a lot of great josei that got completely overlooked in the 2000s, and few were as overlooked as this title.
WALKIN' BUTTERFLY (U-okin * Batafurai), by Chihiro Tamaki. First published in 2003 and first published in North America in 2007.
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PLOT:
Michiko has always been taller than average. By the time she turns 19 she's over six feet tall, and years of teasing, comments, and insults from others have given her a major complex about her height. She feels physically and psychologically isolated from the world, to the point that she dropped out of school and is now stuck in a series of dead-end jobs with a gaggle of fellow dropouts.
Michiko's world changes when a pizza delivery gone wrong leads to her being mistaken for a model. When a designer declares that she will never be a proper model, Michiko is inspired like never before. Now she'll take on anyone and anything to become a model, if simply to show that cocky jackass just how wrong they are.
