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“Lethargic Saya sings idol Takase Kazuki's song at karaoke—only to discover he's secretly watching her.”
16 Life
シックスティーンライフ
7.06
8,686 rank · 14,892 readers · 47 favorites
Shoujo
School
Romance
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Synopsis
Lethargic Saya sings idol Takase Kazuki's song at karaoke—only to discover he's secretly watching her.
Saya is an ordinary lethargic female high school student. At karaoke while she was singing enthusiastically a song of her favorite artist, Takase Kazuki, the person himself was watching her…!? (Source: Chibi Manga)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 10 sampled reviews
6.5
/10
What 10 readers settled on.
71%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 7
σ 1.50
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.50 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.6 pts
Recommenders 7.6 · others 4.0
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No
Score over time
↓ 2.50
Running avg · Sep 2010 → Jun 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “I got bored one day and decided to read a random manga. This is how I came across 16 Life. The story was enjoyable and the plot was entertaining, but the girl was just too "typical shoujo drama...”
- 7 “So I was updating my ps so I decided to read some shoujo mangas to kill time. The art is pretty cute . It showed what the character is supposed to feel on that scenario. Im a fan of shoujo mangas...”
- 8 “Story : 7 , good I liked the storylike fast pace romance , age-gap , romanctic moments ( typical moments ) but it was nothing new ..it was predictable but i cant deny the fact that i loved their...”
Verbosity
Short · 40%
Medium · 50%
Long · 10%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 12 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 36m approx
- Published Dec 2009 – May 2010
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M11366 catalog