The Candidate for Goddess is a manga series created by Yukiru Sugisaki. Taking place in the year 4084, the plot centers around Zero Enna, a candidate for piloting the massive mechanized weapons called "Ingrids" (or "Goddesses"), humanity's only defense against extraterrestrial being known as "Victim".
The Candidate for Goddess was originally serialized in Comic Gum, a monthly Japanese manga magazine published by Wani Books. The 26 chapters that comprise the series were compiled into five tankÅbon (volumes) and released between August 1997 and November 2001. All five volumes of the series were re-published in 2005 as part of the "Gum Comics Plus" imprint. Tokyopop acquired the series in early 2003 for an English distribution in North America. The series was adapted by Marv Wolfman and published between April 14 and December 7, 2004.