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“Naive schoolgirl Yume loves ex-Yankee Shoubu; her best friend Roko falls for Shoubu's playboy friend Yuuji.”
Heart
ハート
7.47
3,500 rank · 2,768 readers · 37 favorites
Shoujo
School
Comedy
Drama
Romance
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Synopsis
Naive schoolgirl Yume loves ex-Yankee Shoubu; her best friend Roko falls for Shoubu's playboy friend Yuuji.
The story revolves around a innocent naive schoolgirl, Yume, who falls in love with a gorgeous ex-Yankee, Shoubu. Meanwhile, Yume's best friend, Roko, falls for Shoubu's best friend, Yuuji who is a playboy. (Source: MU)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
7.3
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 6
σ 1.25
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.25 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.67
Running avg · May 2010 → Jun 2011
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Heart Manga is such a wonderfully paced story?! It has the typical stupid, innocent hearted and clumsy main girl with the Ex-yankee boyfriend!? They fall in love and begins their trials and...”
- 7 “Having read other reviews of it, I can understand why some don't really like this manga. The author, Rie Takada, spins a story which could have been resolved in one volume, into ten. Its a classic...”
- 6 “This weirdly entertaining story is about Yume Katsumi, a sincerely honest and stup- I mean nice girl who falls in love with a Shoubu, the new kid at a neighboring school and notorious ex gang...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 33%
Long · 33%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 58 × 10 ch × vol
- Total read 7h 44m approx
- Published Jan 2001 – Jan 2003
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M6423 catalog