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“Popular athlete Ayame can't stop obsessing over shy classmate Shiraishi after a trivial incident sparks hidden feelings.”
Shy na Ano Ko ni Natsukaretai
シャイなあの子に懐かれたい
7.27
5,633 rank · 1,883 readers · 8 favorites
Shounen
School
Girls Love
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Synopsis
Popular athlete Ayame can't stop obsessing over shy classmate Shiraishi after a trivial incident sparks hidden feelings.
"My seatmate, Shiraishi-san, is just too cute—and it's driving me crazy!" They know each other, but they're not exactly friends. Ayame Akaogi and Konomi Shiraishi are classmates—nothing more, nothing less. Ayame is strikingly beautiful, a standout athlete, and popular in class, whilst Konomi is shy, introverted, and has only one friend. They should've had no reason to interact... so how did things end up this way? What started as a small, trivial incident caused Ayame's hidden feelings to overflow, now she can't stop thinking about her! (Source: Kadokawa, translated)
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Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
5.5
/10
What 2 readers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 5.5
mode 2
σ 3.50
Agreement
Polarized
σ 3.50 · split reception
The polarity gap
7.0 pts
Recommenders 9.0 · others 2.0
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Score over time
↓ 3.50
Running avg · Aug 2025 → Dec 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “I love this series. Something about the story of two girls going from strangers to friends (and maybe more?) with a sense of earnest innocence really makes me smile. When my only complaint about a...”
- 2 “I Want to Get Close to That Shy Girl is one of the most trite, vacuous piles of nothing that I've ever read. This work says nothing and somehow accomplishes even less. Our two leads are about as...”
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Medium · 50%
Long · 50%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 16 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 08m approx
- Published Jan 2024 – Jul 2025
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M73243 catalog