“Debt-ridden teen Fumi becomes housekeeper for rude writer Akatsuki, discovering his hidden kindness while working to repay her father's debt.”
Tsubaki-chou Lonely Planet
椿町ロンリープラネット
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Synopsis
Debt-ridden teen Fumi becomes housekeeper for rude writer Akatsuki, discovering his hidden kindness while working to repay her father's debt.
Due to her father's six million yen debt, sixteen-year-old high school student Fumi Oono and her father are evicted from their apartment. In need of a place to stay and a job to earn money, she starts to work as a live-in housekeeper for the young writer Akatsuki Kibikino. When they meet for the first time, the two start off on the wrong foot, with Akatsuki calling Fumi useless and treating her like a child. Determined to pay off her father's debt, Fumi works hard to prove him otherwise. However, despite Akatsuki's foul-mouthed and mysterious behavior, she begins to realize that he is not as despicable as she initially thought, gradually unravelling the passionate and caring person underneath.Included one-shots: Volume 7: Hirunaka no Ryuusei Bangai-hen: Blue Volume 8: Hirunaka no Ryuusei Bangai-hen: Red
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Derived from 20 sampled reviews
What 20 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 1.80 · split reception
5.5 pts
Recommenders 8.5 · others 3.0
↓ 0.50
Running avg · Sep 2015 → Jul 2025
- 8 “While the story itself is kind of a cliche shoujo manga (which has its ups and downs), it definitely has somethings that other shoujos do not. For one, the communication between the two main love...”
- 7 “This manga has all the things I love: romance, older guy, and beautiful art. I am a big fan of the mangaka, Mika Yamamori, and her other work, Hirunaka no Ryuusei. The art is clean and pretty;...”
- 9 “All of the characters are great. There's not a long period of misunderstandings like how most shoujo mangas go. The love interests can communicate well and are very mature. There are very few stuff...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 85 × 14 ch × vol
- Total read 11h 20m approx
- Published May 2015 – Aug 2019
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M34358 catalog