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“Loner Maehara unexpectedly befriends popular classmate Asanagi over shared love of B-grade movies.”
I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class
クラスで２番目に可愛い女の子と友だちになった
7.99
859 rank · 17,503 readers · 247 favorites
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Synopsis
Loner Maehara unexpectedly befriends popular classmate Asanagi over shared love of B-grade movies.
Maki Maehara is always on his own at school. He has no friends or hobbies others share, and he doesn't expect the upcoming academic year to be any different, even surrounded by new faces. And six months later, it seems like he was right—until he runs into his popular classmate Umi Asanagi at a video store! Always at the center of attention and called the "second prettiest in class" by the boys, Asanagi's from a totally different world. But it turns out the two have more overlapping interests than just the B-grade movies they came to check out...and Asanagi asks Maehara to be her friend! (Source: Yen Press)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 11 sampled reviews
8.3
/10
What 11 readers settled on.
91%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 10
σ 1.76
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.76 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.7 pts
Recommenders 8.7 · others 4.0
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Score over time
↑ 0.27
Running avg · Dec 2023 → May 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “this manga is a fairly cliche "loner nerd with no friends gets with a 10/10 girl" manga, but i do like how it explores friendship and the deep problems in the main characters private life (his...”
- 9 “Just when you think this series is a classic rom-com that might lose its spark once the romance peaks, it takes a sudden, sharp turn into the protagonist's confrontation with their parents'...”
- 10 “10/10... It starts as a generic rom-com manga, but wait... hear me out... it is a rom-com manga that's for sure... yes the character development is slow but its steady... it's not going in full...”
Verbosity
Short · 82%
Medium · 18%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Published Jul 2022 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M64533 catalog