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“Akari injures famous Kabuki actor Horiuchi, becomes his assistant, and gradually falls for his cold, silent charm.”
Backstage Prince
楽屋裏王子
7.4
4,103 rank · 9,475 readers · 45 favorites
Shoujo
Performing Arts
School
Drama
Romance
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
Akari injures famous Kabuki actor Horiuchi, becomes his assistant, and gradually falls for his cold, silent charm.
News of the handsome and famous Kabuki actor, Ryuusei Horiuchi reaches the ears of Akari but she has no interest in checking him out when all she wants is to meet the one who truly loves her. Just when she declares this statement she accidentally injures Horiuchi, who silently glares at her before leaving. Later on in the day, she finds a black cat, which she follows right into Horiuchi's Kabuki theater. Guilty for causing a bruise on the actor himself, Akari volunteers to become his assistant until it heals. While Akari initially dislikes Horiuchi's silent and cold personality, her feelings begin to change as she remains by his side.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 11 sampled reviews
6.6
/10
What 11 readers settled on.
75%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 6
σ 1.61
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.61 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.8 pts
Recommenders 7.8 · others 4.0
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No
Score over time
↓ 2.36
Running avg · Jul 2007 → Mar 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “I taught that the plot was very taught through. with nice/funny plot twists and interesting events that took place. The drawing style was something that really peaked my interest. there were many...”
- 7 “I first found this story by looking on a site to see if i could find the manga chapter i was searching for but i ended up looking at summary's of different manga's... at first the thing that caught...”
- 8 “Backstage Prince is a story about a regular girl finding a love interest in a very famous Japanese kabuki performer. It finds it's climax and conflict in the idea that the kabuki world is of its...”
Verbosity
Short · 64%
Medium · 36%
Long · 0%
Read Order & Related
A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Backstage Prince begins and ends here.
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A Manga Publication
- Format 6 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 48m approx
- Published Jan 2004 – Jan 2005
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0597 catalog