“Champion boxer Yae confesses to average Satoru; they secretly date while he trains her to hide their relationship.”
Saotome Senshu, Hitakakusu
早乙女選手、ひたかくす
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Synopsis
Champion boxer Yae confesses to average Satoru; they secretly date while he trains her to hide their relationship.
Satoru Tsukishima has just been confessed to by fellow high school boxing club member Yae Saotome, who is currently the Kanto region's Female Featherweight Champion. Overjoyed at first, Satoru isn't able to accept her feelings as he believes that she should be focusing on boxing instead. Yae's championship will soon be on the line, and the entire school is counting on her to someday represent Tokyo in the Olympics. It also doesn't help that he's nowhere near as skilled as she is, conflicted by the thought of a rising star being in a relationship with someone as average as him. But when their coach finds out about the confession, Satoru is assigned as Yae's trainer so the two can secretly date and spend more time together while also engaging in club activities. However, if anyone finds out about the two, it will mean the end of their relationship. With this in mind, their pure and awkward romance begins!
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 17 sampled reviews
What 17 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.28 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↑ 1.12
Running avg · Sep 2017 → Oct 2025
- 8 “Saotome Senshu is not bad, but it kind of ends out of nowhere, so you're left feeling that you wanted more of this. I really wanted more, but it's a really good manga. You won't regret reading this...”
- 10 “First review and I have to say I have reread this manga so many times in the past years and when it finished I think it was last year I cried like a baby since I knew I won’t be seeing it much and...”
- 10 “Besides girl abs being hot, this was a super wholesome experience, I loved every chapter of it. I loved every fight sequence, every romance bit, every comedy bit, everything. The artstyle is pretty...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 124 × 10 ch × vol
- Total read 16h 32m approx
- Published Aug 2016 – Oct 2019
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M41879 catalog