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“Coffee shop owner Kazuto falls for regular customer Jun, who likes another worker, before graduation.”
Katakoi Lamp
片恋ランプ
6.62
16,146 rank · 902 readers · 4 favorites
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Drama
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
Coffee shop owner Kazuto falls for regular customer Jun, who likes another worker, before graduation.
Kazuto Muronoi runs a cute little coffee shop, where many people enjoy doing some work or writing papers for school. Among his coffee shop's regulars is a college student named Jun, who often studies there. It was love at first sight for Kazuto! Will Kazuto be able to find the courage to confess his crush before Jun graduates college and stops frequenting the shop? And to make matters even more complicated... it seems Jun has his sights set on another worker at the café! (Source: Tokyopop)
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Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
6.5
/10
What 2 readers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6.5
mode 4
σ 2.50
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.50 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.0 pts
Recommenders 9.0 · others 4.0
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No
Score over time
↑ 2.50
Running avg · Sep 2022 → Jan 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “This manga is totally adorable! Everything from the cover art to the characters to the art to their faces and their bright smiles is completely adorable and totally moe! I want to hug both of the...”
- 4 “Katakoi Lamp is a bit of a weird manga. The plot seems simple enough, Kazuto runs a coffee shop and Jun is a regular customer who can't seem to take his eyes off him. Before Kazuto realizes, he's...”
Verbosity
Short · 100%
Medium · 0%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 8 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 04m approx
- Published Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M56799 catalog