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Description
Her whole life, Hikari Hanazono has been consumed with the desire to win against her school rival, Kei Takishima--at anything. He always comes out on top no matter what he does, and Hikari is determined to do whatever it takes to beat this guy!

At age 6 Hikari lost to Kei in an impromptu wrestling match. Now, at 15, Hikari joins "Special A," a group of the top seven students at a private academy, for the opportunity to trounce the guy who made her suffer her first defeat.

Type
Manga

Related Series
SA - Jougai Rantou (Sequel)

Associated Names
S・A スペシャル・エー
S・A Lớp học ưu tú
S・A(スペシャル・エー)
S.A特优生
Special A
S•A

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Latest Release(s)
v.17 c.99 (end) by Potato-Otaku (1513d ago)
v.17 c.98 by Potato-Otaku (1514d ago)
v.17 c.98 by Irhene Gakuen Community (1522d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
17 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1
Ends at Vol 6, Chap 33

User Reviews
Special A by PrincessVera

Forum
19 topics, 242 posts
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User Rating
Average: 8.3 / 10.0 (1745 votes)
Bayesian Average: 8.27 / 10.0
10
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9+
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5+
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4+
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Last Updated
February 18th 2013, 8:11pm PST

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Genre
Comedy  Drama  Romance  School Life  Shoujo 
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Author(s)
MINAMI Maki

Artist(s)
MINAMI Maki

Year
2003

Original Publisher
Hakusensha

Serialized In (magazine)
Hana to Yume (Hakusensha)
The Hana to Yume (Hakusensha)

Licensed (in English)
Yes

English Publisher
Chuang Yi
Viz (17 Volumes - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #616 increased(+40)
Monthly Pos #860 increased(+28)
3 Month Pos #985 increased(+21)
6 Month Pos #958 increased(+66)

List Stats
On 2401 reading lists
On 896 wish lists
On 3209 completed lists
On 341 unfinished lists
On 392 custom lists

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Forum Posts
SA finale !!! =o 246 days, 23 hours, 42 minutes ago
Your favourite moment??(SPOILERS) 572 days, 14 hours, 9 minutes ago
Who's your favourite character(s) in Special A? 572 days, 14 hours, 23 minutes ago
special a question 603 days, 11 hours, 37 minutes ago
did anyone notice? 1050 days, 0 hours, 15 minutes ago

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Rating: N/A
by phantasmia
May 7th, 2009, 4:18am
Special A is really a worthy manga. It's not about easy way to gain happiness - boyfriends, sex etc. It's about true feelings for each others. Really, much people will probably think this is another stupid, cutie manga with nothing but cutie characters and cutie events. But this manga is also probably the first and only one about true and important things in life! It's about friendship and love - things that can't be obtained in easy ways. Today I'm really sick when I read something and after 3 chapters a boy and a girl have problems with "bearing the child or not?". Special A is different. Hope you guys notice it. And hope you guys choose important things in yours life too...
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 8 because of the first few volumes..   
Rating: N/A
by wasabi_senpai
May 3rd, 2009, 7:19am
The first few volumes of S.A were GREAT. Great characters, storyline and humour but....the last few chapters were quite disappointing. I've just finished reading the finale and felt.....nothing. It made me feel quite cheated too since I thoroughly enjoyed reading this manga and all of a sudden I feel like I've wasted a lot of my time since it just fizzled out towards the end. Did the mangaka lose their passion? In overall, I'd read up until ch80 or so and just use your imagination to finish the rest...it's probably be better that way.
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 to my own demise of wasted time   
Rating: 1.0 / 10.0
by slayerxv
April 29th, 2009, 5:04pm
picking up romance manga as a boy should be a sin from reading this crap, from black lagoon lol to this. i kinda liked it at first ending just made me realise this was RUBBBISH. I wasted my time cus i was bored so For gals and boys dont waste your time it werent worth it didnt learning anything from it. the rating on this should hit minus numbers like -10

... Last updated on April 29th, 2009, 5:06pm
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 Diminishing   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by Aenonar
April 29th, 2009, 3:12pm
Started off kinda funny, but like starstruck said, it just lost it's touch. And I don't know what happened towards the end.. It felt like every story was just cut off, none of them had any flow in them.. Shame..
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 Finally!   
Rating: 3.0 / 10.0
by Licia Valentine
April 29th, 2009, 4:40am
The end of SA was just released, thanks so much! However... as my personal comment, I felt... cheated. Is this really shoujo? Come to think of it, no development was made the whole time this series started. From start to end, Hikari wants to defear Kei. All in all, the romance in this series is... 1 over ten (ten being the highest). Their characters are weird. I will not read it again.
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 It used to be great...   
Rating: N/A
by starstruck
March 19th, 2009, 5:44am
It started off really fun but I don't know whether the mangaka got bored or her passion for the series dwindled because the quality of the manga dropped vastly. The art in the later volumes just might be worse than the worthless plot developments. I felt sad because at one time it was my favourite and now I'm just waiting for it to end. This is what happens when series don't finish when they should.
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 Err   
Rating: 1.0 / 10.0
by xdeLiiRiOus
February 1st, 2009, 3:43pm
It was cute! really nice, I loved the art, it was funny. But it got really draaggy and the girl is incredibly oblivious to the guy. I got tired of reading it after awhile, and might consider picking it up again if the manga is COMPLETE. I don't understand how Kei can be so patient of her, I'm already impatient even after just the first few volumes.
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 pfft   
Rating: 3.0 / 10.0
by zoff
January 20th, 2009, 11:05am
seriously, the only thing that made me read this manga (i dont read shoujo that easily =P ) was Hikari not seeming like one of those uberly stupid, dense and useless heroines. otherwise, it's all the same; a friend group, love affairs, bla bla, the stuff we see in every shoujo manga. and unfortunately for my hours spent reading the manga,Hikari turned to a boring character from a very funny and enjoyable character. she somewhat let go of her goal as well =P but, on top of all of that, the fuckin pointless babbling about 'the happiness' and 'having fun' in the manga is what made me drop this series. so, uh, boring. =P
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 Nice artwork but...   
Rating: N/A
by Cloverbomb
January 13th, 2009, 2:11pm
... not a great story?
I tried to like this but it didn't work out.
At the beginning, I loved Hikari. Spunky girl with a goal whose tired of being 2nd best against a guy who can remember everything, is good at everything and does... well, everything. But as I continued, she gradually became a lot dense in my eyes and my liking for her as a heroine dropped dramatically. She's as goodhearted as ever but... ehh.

cl123's review said my thoughts best.
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 Hm...   
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by velovelo
January 3rd, 2009, 11:19pm
I'm so irritated with the fact that the mangaka keeps introducing the characters' names and backgrounds in almost every single chapter of volume 1 and even volume 2. Kei is not the only person on earth who can remember things after reading it once! Nonetheless, it's a pretty cool series, I just need to read more of it (but got irritated not even halfway after starting).

update: ok I've read till chp 51 and the next chp available is 54 somehow and I think I can't tolerate this manga any further. Never before have I finished reading 51 chapters of manga within two working days! I think I skimmed.

... Last updated on January 6th, 2009, 2:38am
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