“Perfect façade queen Yukino clashes with rival Arima, who blackmails her with love and secrets, forging unexpected romance.”
Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances
彼氏彼女の事情
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Synopsis
Perfect façade queen Yukino clashes with rival Arima, who blackmails her with love and secrets, forging unexpected romance.
Yukino Miyazawa is the perfect model student. Pretty, kind, good at sports, always at the top of her class. But she's not all that she seems. It's all an act of deception; she is really the self-confessed 'queen of vanity,' and her only goal in life is winning the praise and admiration of everyone around her. When she enters high school, she finally meets her match: Souichirou Arima, a handsome, athletic, popular, and very intelligent young boy. Ever since he stole the top seat in the class from her, Yukino has hated him, and has been plotting on how to take back her former place as the object of all other students' admiration. What she wasn't expecting, however, was that Souichirou, the very boy she hated, would confess his love for her. Or that he would find out about her deception—and use it to blackmail her! Together, they discover that they have more in common than they knew, and they slowly begin to bring out each other's inner selves. (Source: MU) Included one-shots: Volume 1: Tora to Chameleon: Yakusoku wa Isshukan (The Tiger and the Chameleon: A Promise for One Week) Volume 4: Ashita Mata Mori de Aou ne (Meet Me Again Tomorrow in the Forest) Volume 8: Abareru Ousama (The Raging King)
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Derived from 29 sampled reviews
What 29 readers settled on.
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σ 1.79 · some divergence
5.1 pts
Recommenders 9.1 · others 4.0
↑ 1.59
Running avg · Feb 2008 → Nov 2024
- 7 “this story takes a long time to get good.like in the second or third is were it is good.the first volume is really slow. you get kinda bored but wait until the second volume to deceide if you want...”
- 10 “God. Did that manga made me cry. Been a long, long while since a manga got me this emotional. From the get-to, it is an entertaining Shoujo series with a great cast of characters with loads of...”
- 10 “HI! Barbie herein shoujo magical girls, but i read this again at my 19 years old, and really felt every single one of it, this great story makes you think about self issues, and self discover when...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 108 × 21 ch × vol
- Total read 14h 24m approx
- Published Dec 1995 – May 2005
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0015 catalog