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“College student Shizuka joins a hot springs club and must hide his embarrassment when he encounters Ruka, a girl he saw naked while drunk at a hot spring.”
Hetakoi
ヘタコイ
7.57
2,773 rank · 16,270 readers · 180 favorites
Seinen
School
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Ecchi
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Synopsis
College student Shizuka joins a hot springs club and must hide his embarrassment when he encounters Ruka, a girl he saw naked while drunk at a hot spring.
For his twentieth birthday, Shizuka chooses to go to a hot springs alone. To his surprise, he also ends up seeing his first naked woman... a passed out drunk girl. Soon afterward he enters college, and his friend from high school convinces him to join the female dominated travel and hot springs club. Amazingly, the girl he saw naked, Ruka, is also a member of the club! Now he must interact with his club more or less normally, and pretend he doesn't imagine Ruka naked every time he sees her. He is determined that his embarrassing secret never be made public! (Source: MangaHelpers) Included one-shots: Volume 5: Katakoi Volume 10: Toori no Kado wo Magaru made
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 19 sampled reviews
7.7
/10
What 19 readers settled on.
78%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 10
σ 2.27
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.27 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.9 pts
Recommenders 8.9 · others 4.0
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Score over time
↓ 1.32
Running avg · Oct 2010 → Mar 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “So far I've only read 7 chapters of the manga and I think it's GREAT. The art is really good and so it's the plot,which I think it's something new. It's funny and seriouse; kept me clicking and...”
- 10 “Amazing. Loved the style of drawing, even though I had never seen it before. Main character was original and entertaining. However, plot was kind of cliched, typical manga rom plot. Luckily, the...”
- 9 “This story got the best confession line ever in manga. I must admit, the author got really good job putting everything to work out in this Hetakoi. I easily enjoy every page, and every second of...”
Verbosity
Short · 21%
Medium · 63%
Long · 16%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 61 × 10 ch × vol
- Total read 8h 08m approx
- Published Oct 2007 – Apr 2012
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M13983 catalog