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is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

 manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 series written and illustrated by Io Sakisaka. It began serialization in 2011 in the shōjo

Shojo

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 manga magazine Bessatsu Margaret

Bessatsu Margaret

, or for short, is a shōjo manga magazine published monthly in Japan by Shueisha. It is targeted at girls aged roughly 12-17. It is a spinoff of the magazine Margaret.-Current:*360° Material - Touko Minami*Acanthus - Izumi Yamaguchi...

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Plot

Yoshioka Futaba has a few reasons why she wants to "reset" her image & life as a new high school student. Because she's cute, she was ostracized by her female friends in junior high, and because of a misunderstanding, she couldn't get her feeling across to the one boy she has ever liked, Tanaka-kun.

Now in high school, she is determined to be as unladylike as possible so that her friends won't be jealous of her. While living her life this way contentedly, she meets Tanaka-kun again, but he now goes under the name of Mabuchi Kou. He tells her that he felt the same way as she did when they were younger, but now things can never be the same again. Will Futaba be able to continue her love that never even started from three years ago?

Main characters

Futaba often shied away from boys, writing them off as crude, rough and vulgar all except the mild voiced- small built Kou. They shared a brief attraction to each other.
One day Kou suddenly moved away without any notice leaving behind a stunned Futaba.
Futabas life took a drastic turn after Kous departure, the other boys started to take notice of Futabas flawless face, alienating the girls. They began to hate Futaba and blame her eventually exiling her all together. Now in highschool, Futaba is determined not to be too girly in order to avoid a repeat of middle school.

Kou was well liked in middle-school, he liked Futaba and they had a growing relationship, but then he suddenly moved away in the middle of the school year. His parents divorced and he now lives with his father (presumably he first lived with his mother after the divorce, but when starting high school he moved in with his father instead, for unknown reasons). Currently attending the same highschool as Futaba under a new last name (probably his mother's). He eventually admits to being "Tanaka-kun", and while acting cold and uncaring towards her most of the time, his nice side becomes gradually more prominent.

2nd year, currently being ostracized by the girls in Futaba's class for being too cute.

Kou describes him as obnoxious, he seems friendly to Muaro, she pretends not to notice or care.

2nd year. Described as a beauty and a lone wolf.