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“17-year-old Mikako's final high school days bloom into quiet romance with quirky seatmate Midorikawa through shared music.”
Mikako-san
みかこさん
7.38
4,377 rank · 2,712 readers · 46 favorites
Seinen
School
Romance
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
17-year-old Mikako's final high school days bloom into quiet romance with quirky seatmate Midorikawa through shared music.
The future, romance, everything is "undecided," yet the remaining days of high school seem as if they'll be over in the blink of an eye. Mikako Ichimura, 17 years old. Midorikawa, the strange guy who now sits next to her after a seating change and oddly prefers red pencils. At first, Mikako didn't think much of it, but after learning that they both love the same band, their relationship begins to change bit by bit... The day to day life of a 17 year girl woven together in a soft literary style. (Source: MU)
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
9.3
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 0.47
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.47 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.33
Running avg · Mar 2018 → Mar 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “A very sweet and refreshing story. I liked every single page of it. The art is very beautiful. The characters feel so real you almost feel like you’re there with them. I would sometimes read a...”
- 10 “First of all, this is undoubtedly my favorite manga of all time. Maybe it's because of that, or maybe in spite of it, but I can never seem to properly review it. I think a lot of my relationship...”
- 9 “Mikako-san is incredibly bittersweet. What the story boils down to is essentially a teen drama about relationships and finding one's place in the world, but it's the author's understated and poetic...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 67%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 221 × 7 ch × vol
- Total read 29h 28m approx
- Published Jan 2009 – Oct 2013
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M37874 catalog