A genius actress has just awoken!!
Suzuki Hikaru, Hoshino Sayaka, Ito Chihiro and Suzuki Shinobu are all new students who have just entered the same middle school. Sayaka is a shy girl who secretly loves acting. Hikaru is an energetic boy who loves basketball. Incidentally, he shares the same last name with Shinobu, a popular rich boy who would be perfect if not for his rotten personality. Chihiro is Hikaru’s childhood friend and has long had a crush on him.
On the day of the opening ceremony, Hikaru happens to witness Sayaka acting out the lines of a drama on the rooftop and is instantly captivated. Upon seeing Hikaru getting along with Sayaka, Chihiro’s chest begins to ache. When Shinobu sees this, he is overcome by a strange emotion and his heart starts beating faster… Unbeknownst to the four, this is the beginning of their magnificent love story; one that would last years to come.
18 Volumes (Complete)
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If a savior ever comes and does an edit of the manga that focuses mostly on Chihiro and Shinobu, I would love to revisit this. I remember reading this a while back, and loving their romance. The main couple was boring tho
Not really a fan of the main couple (they're boring. Sorry fans) cause the side couple was more interesting to read
This comic is a cliche yet surprisingly fresh manga. The story plays on love at first sight with two suzukis (one black hair tsundere (Shinobu) and one cutie red head (Hiruka)). I earnestly believe that 70% of the story focuses on Suzuki/Sayaka, which gets really tiring after a while but can also be really cute. I love (as most fans) Shinobu/Chihiru. What makes this a fresh story is that it parallels both love stories as well as have all four people as good friends. Never once did Chihiru hate Sayaka for being loved by her childhood friend Hiruka Suzuki, but instead cheered them on. I found this surprising since most mangas heavily rely on this feud for the sake of drama.
So in short I highly recommend it. Heck, I searched everywhere until I found spanish translations of this comic (Thank you spanish class!)
10/10 for art, it's absolutely beautiful and wonderfully aids all of the shoujo cuteness and humor.
8.5/10 for story. It's fresh, but not too fresh.
+1 for Shinobu/Chihiru relationship (I mean, come onnnn. That's why we really read it).
Finished the series by reading the chinese raw. This manga was only good because of Shinobu and Chihiro tbh. Hikaru and Sayaka starts off as a cute couple, but they got together so fast like wth?? Ikeyamada Go focused so much on them that it started to become boring and then annoying. Sayaka is just plain awful orz
She was fine before she lost her memories, after that, she just became a goddamn plain tsundere.
Hikaru and Sayaka's relationship becomes annoying because of all the unnecessary drama that keeps going on and on forever. And sometimes Sayaka is just so dumb /facepalm.
Shinobu and Chihiro on the other hand, have a more complicated relationship that makes you at least curious as to how they're going to end up together. Plus, Shinobu's unrequited feelings are just so sadly cute ;;
After this one, I am gonna stay away from Ikeyamada Go's mangas I guess. Moe Kare was good but ever since Uwasa no Midori-kun, it was as if she ran out of better ideas /sighs
well for me the manga is boring when the story about Hikaru and Sayaka's -_-' i hate 'em as a couple , i wish they would bring more Hikaru and Sayaka's in the story >< it well be more exiting 🙁
Personally I would rather read about Shinobu and Chihiro! They are soooo cute together<3 That and the fact that their relationship history is a lot more interesting then Hikaru and Sayaka's... I mean theirs is so anti-climatic and i literally just skip over any pages involving their relationship; which is almost every page -_- I like them as their own characters, but I really wish that Go-sensei had made the main couple ChihiroxShinobu.
i still love this manga even though i don't like the part about sayaka losing her memory.
I feel sorry for hikaru that she was with another man and hikaru wasn't not the first love experience[s**] that is. Knowing that he was he first boyfriend was supposed to be the only b/c of the promise they made to each other. Still love IKEYAMADA Go works especially moe kare and get love!!(get goal!!)
I wasn't really too interested in this series for the first 7 volumes. There weren't any real problems (at least in my mind) because everything was really cliche, problems were solved easily, and honestly the relationship between Hikaru and Sayaka is very boring (esp since the mangaka overdoes it with their relationship). I seriously just read it because I really liked Chihiro and Shinobu (sorry Hikaru x Sayaka fans!). But once they hit high school, that's when the really interesting parts of the manga happened! Already looked through the raws and am SUPER excited for scanlators to continue this project that has become one of my faves 🙂
