“Hirose finds a love letter, meets Hanashiro, and their lives intertwine through fate and unexpected romance.”
The Match Seller
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Hirose finds a love letter, meets Hanashiro, and their lives intertwine through fate and unexpected romance.
University student Kiyotaka Hirose finds a love letter tucked into the pages of a borrowed book. The intended recipient is a mystery, but the writer's identity is clear: a fellow student who's suddenly leaving Tokyo and heading back to his hometown. Hirose is determined to return the letter, and as he tries to do so he runs into a black-market match seller, Seiji Hanashiro. Drawn to each other at first sight, tangled up in destiny and their own feelings, the men see their lives turned upside down by a single love letter. (Source: SuBLime)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 10 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 20m approx
- Published Jan 2005 – Dec 2009
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M14742 catalog