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“Hikari plays matchmaker for shy Mari and Ootani, while four teens navigate unrequited love.”
I See Your Face, Turned Away
きみの横顔を見ていた
7.85
1,263 rank · 4,923 readers · 53 favorites
Shoujo
Love Polygon
School
Award Winning
Romance
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Synopsis
Hikari plays matchmaker for shy Mari and Ootani, while four teens navigate unrequited love.
Hikari's your typical freshmen in high school who's been recently daydreaming about Mari's, her shy best friend, love story. She decides to ship Mari with Ootani-kun, their classmate, after finding out about his crush on Mari when his friend, Asagiri-kun, tried getting the two to talk. The main character is Mari, the leading man is Ootani, and Hikari is the typical best friend in the story. Not bad... right? A youthful story between four kids going through unrequited love. (Source: Kodansha, translated)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
8.3
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 6
σ 1.70
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.70 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.67
Running avg · May 2024 → Jan 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “I don't usually write reviews but I couldn't help but do it after seeing this manga doesn't seem to be as recognised as it should. I started reading this whith very low expectations, I don't know...”
- 10 “Ah, shoujo. Usually I can be quite picky with this genre, but I truly did not expect this one to be such a gem. Let’s get straight into it. My favorite thing is the art, no question about it. And...”
- 6 “I'm writing a review because I don't plan on reading any more. I've only read up to chapter 18, so this is my opinion on them. It wasn't what I expected. What I thought it would be was Hikari...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 67%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 20 × 5 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 40m approx
- Published Apr 2022 – Jan 2026
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M65085 catalog