Hadashi de Bara o Fume

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Poor Sumi Kitamura… Her irresponsible older brother Eisuke keeps bringing home orphans for her to take care of even though they can barely afford their own basic needs! Just when Sumi's financial problems become dire, wealthy Soichiro Ashida enters her life with a bizarre proposition: he'll provide her with the money she so desperately needs if she agrees to marry him. But can Sumi fool high society into thinking she's a proper lady? Moreover, is it worth giving up everything for this sham of a marriage?

Type

Manga

Related Series

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Associated Names

Güllere Çıplak Ayakla Basmak

Hadashi de Bara wo Fume

Hoa hồng tình yêu (ĐN)

Hoa hồng đỏ (HĐức)

Stepping on Roses

Stepping on Roses Barefoot

نمشي على الورود حفاة الأقدام

ก้าวย่างบนดอกกุหลาบ

玫瑰契約

裸足でバラを踏め

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Latest Release(s)

c.57 (end) by Roselia Scanlations 13 years ago

c.56 by Roselia Scanlations 13 years ago

c.55 by Roselia Scanlations 13 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

9 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

User Reviews

Hadashi de Bara wo Fume by xfrommetoyou

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User Rating

Average: 7.4 / 10.0 (899 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.36 / 10.0

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Last Updated

April 7th, 2025 6:26pm PDT - 1 month ago

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Genre

Drama Historical Romance Shoujo
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Author(s)

UEDA Rinko

Artist(s)

UEDA Rinko

Year

2008

Original Publisher

Shueisha

Serialized In (magazine)

Margaret (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Viz (9 Volumes - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #727

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Monthly Pos #1408

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3 Month Pos #2214

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6 Month Pos #3431

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Year Pos #4361

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On 861 wish lists

On 1976 completed lists

On 218 unfinished lists

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Who thinks that Sumi and Nozumo are siblings?

13 years ago

Chapter 55 -Spoilers-

13 years ago

Rinko Ueda to End Hadashi de Bara wo Fume in Japan

13 years ago

[spoiler] ch 52

13 years ago

blinded by love ( spoilers)

14 years ago

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Great manga from Rinko Ueda-sensei!

by dearest88
13 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

The art is fabulous, so is the story. Although the story may be simple, it has been well conveyed and portrayed. I wish the story was over 9 volumes, about 11 volumes could have satisfied me.

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More like a soap opera...

by rindtron
13 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

I don't actually like Ueda Rinko mangas that much. And I imagine Sumi to be one of those mindless, high-pitched girls who usually annoy me. But despite this, I grew to like her. The characters have become more 3D in the last ten chapters or so (I'm currently on 54) and Sumi has become stronger, so I am pleased to have read this far.

The drama at the beginning was pretty easy to handle - after all, cliched plotlines lose their impact after being read twenty times - but there is one point when there is too much villanary (this feeling is amplified by the sheer amount of 2D characters who played a role in the drama) and too little character focus. I think it is Ueda-sensei's style, to run the plot at this speed, but the neglect of character development made it difficult to trudge through.

Her art is wonderful though, and I'll probably rate it higher if the manga continues along its current improved storytelling pace. ;>

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Bleh.

by Starkick
13 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

Started off okay - typical shoujo, with the arrogant short-tempered rich guy picking up the sweet, naive, bordering on idiotic poor girl - and then just barreled off downhill.

No character development, especially for Sumi, very little in the way of a really interesting plot, and to be honest, I find none of the characters likable or relatable anymore, if I ever did at all.

What ended this manga for me, though, was the characters making so many decisions seemingly completely at random, with no logic whatsoever behind their actions. That got me so frustrated and annoyed I just couldn't bring myself to keep reading anymore.

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Some cliche once in a while is not that bad u-u

by VaahS
13 years ago

Rating: N/A

Ok, this series sure is insane sometimes, the charachters are a bunch of weirdoes, lots of cliches and you can pratically predict the end by now but well... Sou is changing his personality, he's becoming a better person and Sumi is quitting being sooo naive (at least a bit) and I'm really really looking forward to seeing Nozomu going nuts with the news the are coming (concerning Sumi, family, firm etc).
The true is I'm a big fan of soap-operas (mainly the Mexican ones with all that drama) and there's the art that's really great (I mean, Sou is such a bishie, man) so I really enjoy reading Hadashi de Bara 😀

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Complete let down

by 1122shadows
14 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

After reading up to 48 ch of this, I think it's too much of a let down to continue this torture. Sumi and Soichiro are willing pawns played by just about every other character. I can't even sympathize over their plight because there is no character development, and you can't blame it on stupidity either, as they seem to know their own predicaments (Sumi loves being a martyr while Soichiro is too prideful). So you just kind of switch from loving them to despising them because they are truly unrelatable. It's like they are the bad guys in this story and you start to empathize with Nozomu, who's become a tragic hero! Also, the plot is so predictable the ending is obvious.

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Eh..

by enaikelt
14 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

It was alright. Although I do disagree with Joziess on that point:

It was kind of naive and shallow of her, but it seems like the author's point was that it was a sort of slap in the face for him. I can't say I've been in that position myself, but I've been in positions where I was stressing out and over-thinking a situation, when in retrospect what I needed was to sort of take a look at the big picture a bit and relax. It seems consistent with Nozumo's character that that was his problem.

She caught lucky though. I can't say it would have worked for most non-Nozumo people.

Personally, I don't actually mind the female lead all that much. I quite liked the story in general, even, and read through till the end. The female lead was a bit naive, and man, she can't save herself, but I liked her alright. At least she tried.

But her husband. I could have killed him. Frankly, he doesn't deserve to be the leader of his company. He had the potential to be an unbelievably cool character, but he's unbelievably immature; he yells, throws tantrums, slams doors. He takes out his emotions on his co-workers and doesn't attempt to hide it. He's underhanded, and the whole mess with Nozumo was his fault in the first place. Really, he's just a weird tsundere mix of occasional professionalism and a lot of childishness, yet he complains that everyone sees him only as a figurehead. I'm almost sorry that he inherited.

So it was okay. A bit cliche, but I can live with that. It was good enough to hold my attention, but toward the end, I was starting to sort of shy away from it, with all the bad omen foreboding. ;_;

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GUILTY PLEASURE.

by infinatexlove
15 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

The characters are cliche'd. And stupid. And one is creeepy and sinister as hell. It's passionate, sometimes over passionate. "I'll hire you" type plot with constantly increacing rivals for the main character's affection. A tsundere guy. Love love love everywhere. But I am hooked on this sickly sweet wrap up of insanity. I remember thinking, "GOD THIS MANGA IS HORRIBLE" and grinning as I continued onto chapter after chapter, it was dirty good fun. (Not dirty like sexy-dirty. But it does have some of those elements of force that are commonly cliche'd.) It pushes cliches to such a limit that it is totally original.

A good manga if you want to just loose yourself to angry, adoring, crying, absolute girliness, it reminded me of when I read my first real shoujo manga, and can bring veteran shoujo romance manga readers back to those feelings as well.

Not really recommended for a first time reader, for you'll just keep on looking for the same insane passion as you go on reading different mangas, but fail to find it. A good dirty-secret manga. Intense. I could read it over again and just go crazy over the insanity of it all. Oh and, historical feel is a plus.

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Sweet... and it's Funny

by Akatsubaki
16 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

I don't really like shoujo manga... 90% of them are.... i don't need to mention it.
But i think this one is pretty entertaining...
The artwork is pretty good,
the mansions were drawn nice and the characters is sweet. I like when the setting of story is in early meiji era. It's rare to have a manga series which the story is in meiji era, when old japanese cultures met western cultures. Ruroni Kenshin is one of them. So this manga has historical genre in it..
The story also fun and sweet, not too depth, but the plot was built quiet good.
And what i love, how the gentle and kind prince in love can turn out to be a psycho! 😀 😀
Ok, i like complicated stories + intrigue when it comes to drama and romance.. and the artwork must be good, and bishounens.
But i've never seen any shoujo manga to have psycho char hahaha.. and seeing ichijou gives me chill, more than Kira (death note) 😀
And how this manga adds one more genre : Sport.
When it's surprisingly add shogi, japanese chess, in the flow of story 😀
I can't stop thinking about how funny n entertaining it is, but
the mangaka must play carefully because if it's take one step wrong, it can be a mess..

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More fun than I thought

by extrapeach
16 years ago

Rating: N/A

Ueda Rinko's art just keeps getting better and more detailed. She draws such nuanced expressions on the characters' faces. Of course it's cliche at the beginning, but the best kind of cliche. The kind that makes me feel nostalgic for older shoujo manga, as opposed to the kind that just makes me groan. It's such a classic premise (poor, good hearted girl +sudden money+romantic issues), but the actions of the characters sometimes surprise me. It's difficult to tell what each character really wants, which makes the story fun to read. Ueda-sensei has obviously been doing shoujo for a long time. The story reads more like a pro's fond look at classic romance than a newcomer's hackneyed rehash of stupid plots she thinks are new and fresh.

Anyway, I give this story an 8 for now. I will continue reading it.

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Unbelievable...

by Kinky-Chan
7 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

What on earth did I just read. The whole manga feels rushed and the MC is friggin' annoying to be honest. She doesn't want to be near Nozomu yet whenever she sees him, gets all flustered and making it obvious for everyone to see that she and him got a thing for each other. It feels like there is a lot of holes in the plot though I gotta admire the angst coming from the antagonist and the anger from Mio (or was it Miu?), all because of jealously and not being able to get what they want.

Even so, this manga is pretty typical, there is nothing new about it and if I want to recommend, I'd ask you to read Tsuki no Shippo instead. What about this manga you ask? Well, probably you can read it while eating fast food. Just read it quickly and go.

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