Abstract

If a girl asks you something, just say YES!

Komatsu finally gets his first girlfriend. However, he is toyed with by Minako, a mature woman who works at the post office, and ends up having his first sexual experience... He also meets a guy just like him, Yamada, a male classmate he looked down on, who has had plastic surgery and become a handsome man! Komatsu falls behind. Meanwhile, he is still interested in Ota Sakura, the popular girl in his class.

Everyone has gone through those complicated days. Those days when you couldn't help but worry about how others see you. The story is set in Tokyo in the 2000s. High school life is rife with a "school caste system" based on lookism. It's a harsh world where being popular or not is everything. This is the story of how an unattractive guy named "Komatsu" falls in love with "Sakura", a popular girl in his class, and grows as a man and as a person. When it was serialized, it was sometimes called the "popularity bible" and the "male version of Happy Mania," and it caused a stir.

A storm of unfathomable empathy may arise among readers currently living as students. And how will that era affect readers who have grown up over time? Moyoco Anno's masterpiece, which depicts the "inexhaustible emotional intricacies" of high school romance, is revived as a complete edition (4 volumes) with the beautiful color pages from the serialization.

Author’s Information

Born in Tokyo. Made his debut as a manga artist in his third year of high school. Notable works include "Happy Mania" (1995, Shodensha) and "Hataraki Man" (2004, Kodansha). Won the 29th Kodansha Manga Award for "Sugar Sugar Rune" (2003), a fantasy manga serialized in the girls' manga magazine "Nakayoshi" (Kodansha). Won the Excellence Award in the Manga Division of the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival, sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, for "Nose-Choking Gentleman Recollections" (Shodensha). Currently, he is serializing "Go Happy Mania" in "FEEL YOUNG" (Shodensha).