Suzuka

Description

From Del Rey:
Yamato is ready for a fresh start. So when his aunt invites him to stay rent-free in her big-city boarding house in hustling, bustling Tokyo, Yamato jumps at the chance. There's just one teensy-weensy catch: It's an all-girl housing complex and spa! Things get even more nerve-racking when Yamato meets his neighbor Suzuka, a beautiful track-and-field star. She's not just the cutest girl Yamato's ever met, she's also the coolest, the smartest, and the most intimidating. Can an ordinary guy like Yamato ever hope to win over a girl like Suzuka?

Official English: INKR, Azuki

Type

Manga

Related Series

Suzuka 2 (Side Story)

Fuuka (Sequel)

Kimi no Iru Machi (Spin-Off)

Associated Names

Love Mate

Suzukaze

Судзука

ลุ้นรักตามสายลม (VBK)

涼風

Groups Scanlating

Latest Release(s)

c.Side Story by Red Hawk Scanlations 13 years ago

v.6 c.41 by Ala Atra Scans & Anime Source 15 years ago

v.6 c.44 by Dynasty Scans 17 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

18 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1

Ends at Vol 9, Chap 72

User Reviews

Suzuka by cryptic

Suzuka by genre001

Suzuka by bloodstainx

Forum

15 topics, 827 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.1 / 10.0 (1715 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.07 / 10.0

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Last Updated

July 3rd, 2024 9:29am PDT - 10 months ago

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Genre

Comedy Drama Ecchi Mature Romance School Life Shounen Sports
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Kodansha

Serialized In (magazine)

Shuukan Shounen Magazine (Kodansha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Azuki (digital)

Del Rey (Defunct / 15 Vols)

INKR Comics

Kodansha USA (18 Vols - Complete; Digital)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #746

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Monthly Pos #1156

(-211)

3 Month Pos #2102

(-37)

6 Month Pos #2429

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Year Pos #2421

(-139)

List Stats

On 1242 reading lists

On 998 wish lists

On 4365 completed lists

On 185 unfinished lists

On 391 custom lists

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Forum Posts Click to view the forum

Buying Suzuka (Seo Kouji)

4 years ago

Will I enjoy Fuuka/Kimi no Iru Machi?

10 years ago

suzuka side story

13 years ago

The End!

14 years ago

Hidden secrets, hints and the like (spoilers)

15 years ago

User Comments [ Order by time added ]

Way-Way-Way overated

by Mhaaad
12 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

I Really didn't like the main character personality from the first chapter, and don't like tomboy girl like the female lead.
But I considered the good rating of this manga on this site and decided to give it a shut.
I'm in the middle of the 4th chapter and it just keep getting annoying!!! V.ANNOYING!! Actions that doesn't make sense!!
Like in the 4th chapter when the tanned girl take a needle and inject it into the guys NECK just because of a little cold!! I MEAN COME ON!!!!

Stupid manga .. I wouldn't recommend it

... Last updated 12 years ago

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love is not a simple

by Romashk
16 years ago

Rating: N/A

I was happy reading this, more than any other sports manga(H2 for exp.). Why? Cause sports life is not just about Koshien 🙂 .
And main character, although had talent, had to work to be successful both in love life anf career.

About the ending. It's not such an uncommon story. And just because they had to take a Fuka detour, doesn't mean they'll lose their passion for sports.

Ps. If anyone has problems about Suzuka's personality, they should reread parts about her father. With a parent like that... brrr... poor child.

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loved it

by Azari02
16 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

This has got to be my favorite manga ever. It comes close to my idea of the greatest romance story. Even though some people hated how Suzuka was b*tchy, i personally enjoyed it and thought it was a great touch to her character, she wants to be chased after. It was really good the only part I hated was how long he was going out with the mangaer. Every chapter he spent as her boyfriend made me cringe (except the part where he takes suzuka to his hometown and on the bridge). To make this manga perfect i would have made suzuka go out with another guy after he breaks up with the manager girl. Then show more scenes of yamato crying, and in pain. that would just make the reunion of the two so much more powerful! The manga actually made me cry twice, and i love crying over a manga. (I know im such a wuss)

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Delightfully realistic from start to finish.

by lomegil
16 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This manga is an incredibly enjoyable ride. The only thing is, you have to keep in mind that it should be placed not with Love Hina or Ai Kora (good mangas in their own right), but rather with the likes of Asatte Dance and Living Game. It's kind of deceiving, really, because Suzuka's got the formal attributes of a school ecchi/harem romcom, and takes some time to pick up the steam, but what you actually get is a realistic, psychologically convincing story of a young couple's transfer from teens to adults (can you say Bildungsroman?). Oh, you're bound to wish to smack them many times throughout the series, but it's not because the characters are unconvincing - it's because they are, and they act according to the rules of real life, not the naive and simplified preconceptions of what relationships are like.

Considering that, the ending, which took a beating from some of the commenters, is actually organic and fulfilling as well, as long as you remember that this is a realistic manga, not a harem/idealized love story. In fact, I'd hold Suzuka's ending as one of the best things about this manga, for both the sense of emotional closure and being so damn positive and uplifting. True, there are so many mangas - as well as books, movies etc. - that botch their endings, unable to come up with a logical conclusion to the plot and character development. But Suzuka clears the hurdle with ease and grace (come on, where else to use a track-and-field metaphor if not here?).

The only complain to be voiced, IMO, is that around Vol 6 the quality of scans takes a dip to plain shitty. Kudos still to those that scanslated the chapters, but it would be great if Dynasty or anyone else would've finished the job of releasing good quality scans of this manga. Seriously, it's so worth it.

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Very good

by d3sud3su
17 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Well after I finished this series. Probably my first complete manga to be finished and its just wonderful, but i would have prefered a different ending well only wishful thinking now.

I like the writers manga if you liked this i would recommend reading Kimi no Iru Machi the new series coming out

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SAFE SEX, PLEASE, USE PROTECTIONS!!!

by matrice
17 years ago

Rating: N/A

I can't deny that it's pretty good and realistic, but in my opinion the whole final part totally sucks... In the end none of them can reach their original goal, Yamato remains a normal worker and acn't even go to college, let alone beat the blonde guy: in the end, even if they like each other a lot, they both have pretty crappy lives, if you ask me. Two very promising athletes have totally lost their BIG occasion simply because they are IDIOTS who doesn't even know that they have to do safe sex... I mean, who the hell would have done it if they din't have a condom in that moment? Couldn't them wait a little bit? I mean, they have done it only once and they mess up they whole lives like that... Probably it was the most moronic thing they could have done. I mean, now even middle schoolers know the importance of "safe sex", how come that two adults aren't able to restrain themselves long enought to reach a shop and buy some sort of protection?
Well, besides that the main character is a big idiot who can't do nothing seriously and is emotionally unstable. But that could have been tolerable, as long thay both go to university and reach their goals: instead, after all that work, they have to ruin everything in a way which is just TOO stupid to bear.Normal life could be that way sometime, but we all know that sometime real life SUCKS. I am not implying that being a normal family like they become in the end is a bad thing, but surely while reading it I couldn't help but to think "too bitter, please author find a solution and patch things up". Arghh, why the heck did they do it without a condom? Really!!! I can't help to think that that was a forced development, I would really ask them: "why didn't you wait a bit, after all that was your first and last time..."!!!... It's not something that I would have ever made if I was in tehir place.
The bad thing is that after all it was a pretty good manga, so it kinda feels that the author screwed up in the final part (maybe because he didn't want to write about they lifes during university, maybe because he wanted to talk about that difficuls situation... But why don't use some secondary character, then? Why don't use Honoka or any other couple available? Why waste the efforts of the main characters). Well, in the end I enjoyed gratly that story, althought I have some complaints, so I really recommend to read it.

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worst female lead ever

by chudman
18 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

She's unreasonable, irritating, got a terrible personality and is completely undeserving of the attention she gets. If only Yamato would come to his senses and give her a good slap then this manga would be a lot better. The author must really have some "getting walked over by girls" fetish to have created a main lead like her. The art's good though...

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Good in the beginning

by bountyxneo
18 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

The story was really good in about the first 80 chapters but the story started to decline and it felt like the author was just trying to fill pages. The story need to become more interesting or it needs to hurry up and finish. Hopefully the story will get better because I really like this manga.

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amazing...

by endoftheroad
18 years ago

Rating: N/A

Suzuka probably one of my favorites...how did I discovered it, one sunday morning I was scanning through the channels and stumbled on Hero TV. So i watched the first or second episode of it and intrigue buy the drama setting of the anime, so i eagerly waited for the commercial to see what was the title of it and immediate I downloaded the manga, at first the story was kind of lame cause of how Yamato pursues for Asahina, yeah ok so in the end they end up becoming a couple, and next the story was all screwed up. it was all still Yamato being too selfish...but when they broke up that's where the story builds up already...nice...i hope this continues...

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great manga

by [deleted member]
19 years ago

Rating: N/A

this is a great manga even though its similar to love hina at least this one doesnt go the road of the supernatural and the persons feelings are like those of people in real life you want what you cant get or w/e else like that

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