Hello!

This particular manga has been bugging me for ages - I've looked everywhere and found nothing!

It starts with two really plain characters - a boy and a girl - who have the same first or last name. One of the side characters remarks that they both have the kind of name that would appear on a sample test paper (might be 'Tarou' but I'm not sure). Both of them have black hair and wear glasses - the girl has a bob with bangs but I can't remember what they guy originally looked like.

They discover that there is really intense bullying going on in the school, and I think the target is whoever comes last in exams or smth? And so, independently of each other, they change their appearance - they both get contacts, the boy spikes up his hair (I think) and they girl gets blonde hair extensions, starts wearing makeup, and gets a bomber jacket. They're complete badasses now - fighting the bullies, thwarting attempts to hurt them, etc.

It was still updating when I found it but it was obvious that the main guy and girl were gonna get together. And the way I last found it was that there were the main two, the guy they saved from bullying, and another girl in the group.

Some scenes I remember:

• At the sports festival, the girl is attempting the high jump and the girls manning the bar sneakily move it up a few centimetres. As the main girl doing her run up, she sees a (monarch?) butterfly, which is the symbol of the female lead in a gang series she worships so to avoid stepping on it she backflips over the bar.
• The leader of the bullies has blonde hair and he's, like, the son of the principle or smth? So he can basically do whatever he wants. At one point the main girl goes into the top class, where he is, and he scribbles all over a test and everyone - even the teacher - praises him for it.
• The main two meet their first ally/friend after they save him from the bullies - he was being tormented in the gym and I think they saved him after he was tied to the backboard of a basketball hoop
• Soon after their 'delinquent transformation' a whole bunch of students try to dump trash on them from the windows, but they either avoid it all or catch some in a trash bag or smth like that
• One time when the girl is sitting on a chair she gets her hair caught and remarks that she's not used to long hair.
• I think at the sports festival either the main asshole or a rival school conspires to blow up stuff??

Please help me it's driving me crazy to remember p much everything except names! The one thing I could probably use to find it!!

Pika Ichi You have to read the chapters to see the 'plain' appearance but from your summary I think it's this

Yes it is!!!! Thank you so much holy shit