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Genres
Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Drama
Summary
- Asuka Masamune is a high school boy who looks tough and cool but actually prefers more girly hobbies
- Asuka falls in love with Ryo, a brave and upfront girl, after he sees her face off against bullies
- A lighthearted love story between a boy with secret feminine tastes and a girl who often acts manly
Description
Asuka Masamune is a badass. Really. He is a tough, cool, 2nd-year high school guy who is also a master at kendo. He exudes an aura of manliness that is difficult to deny. Everyone at school admires him. But for Asuka, life is torture. You see, he can never show the *real* Asuka to the world. While he is phenomenal at kendo and looks very cool, Asuka is living a lie. He actually prefers much more girly things: knitting, cooking, sewing, shoujo manga, plushies, cute things—he loves them all. When he was a child, this worried his mother very much, as Asuka's father abandoned the family after declaring he wanted to be a woman. The shock made his mother so ill that Asuka swore to become a more manly man.
Poor Asuka. Bound to this promise, he goes through his life acting macho and cool, when all the while he would much rather read the latest Hana to Mame comic at the bookstore and dream of a shoujo manga romance. When Asuka rescues a female classmate, Ryou Miyakozuka, from some bullies, he instantly falls in love with her, and his desire for cute things and sparkly shoujo romance is reawakened!
Authors
Characters
Asuka Masamune
main
Ryo Miyakozuka
main
Gen
support
Yamato Ariake
support
Kitora Kurokawa
support
Juta Tachibana
main
Kiyomi Masamune
support
Iruka Sakiyama
support
Hajime Tounomine
support
Hiromi Yoshino
support
Other Facts
Published
Mar 25, 2006 to Nov 26, 2012
Serialization
Bessatsu Hana to Yume
Original Publisher
Hakusensha
English Publisher
Viz
Where to read
You can read the official version of this title legally here:
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