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“Kanoko joins high school, becomes "Strategist" for Cultural Affairs, and joins Newspaper Club after frequent school transfers.”
Koi dano Ai dano
恋だの愛だの
8.08
684 rank · 12,914 readers · 224 favorites
Shoujo
School
Comedy
Romance
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Synopsis
Kanoko joins high school, becomes "Strategist" for Cultural Affairs, and joins Newspaper Club after frequent school transfers.
Aside from being transferred from school to school during her middle school years, Kanoko has entered Takara no Tani High School with Tsubaki. For some reason, she becomes the "Strategist" for Cultural Affairs Department in reference to the Three Kingdoms and ends up joining the Newspaper Club... (Source: Chibi Manga) Included one-shot: Volume 10: Futsuu Hyakkei
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Derived from 6 sampled reviews
9.2
/10
What 6 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 0.69
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.69 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.17
Running avg · Sep 2011 → Jul 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “This one also has really great ratings... I think it's quite good so far but I'll have to see what other story we can get from it, still too early to tell. Basically, Kanoko, who has transferred...”
- 10 “story: The initial plot starts as off with Kanoko planning to revive the newspaper's club just to cause trouble and observe the "war" between the 3 biggest clubs; with the "war" being a main plot...”
- 9 “While the manga is not all that original itself, many factors set it apart from your typical shoujo manga. First: This is a sequel to another manga which had less of a concise storyline but did...”
Verbosity
Short · 17%
Medium · 67%
Long · 17%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 46 × 11 ch × vol
- Total read 6h 08m approx
- Published Oct 2009 – Apr 2016
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M12565 catalog