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“Ninako learns love's bittersweet complexity through unrequited feelings and overlooked affection, guided by friends' experiences.”
Strobe Edge
ストロボ・エッジ
7.96
919 rank · 68,269 readers · 2,200 favorites
Shoujo
Love Polygon
School
Romance
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Synopsis
Ninako learns love's bittersweet complexity through unrequited feelings and overlooked affection, guided by friends' experiences.
Through the eyes of Ninako Kinoshita, it seems as if everyone knows what love is. Even when it comes to her own feelings for her childhood friend Daiki Korenaga, it is her friends who attest she is in love. However, a drop of doubt forms in her heart when Ren Ichinose, an attractive idol of the school, accidentally breaks Ninako's phone charm on the train. His earnest promise to compensate for it touches Ninako and she wonders if this is what real love feels like. Love is like an apple: its outer appearance may look sweet, but its taste can be deceiving. For Ninako, she meets the bitterness of unrequited love as her very first. But as her knowing friends go through different experiences with love, Ninako struggles to understand its complex flavor and fails to notice the way a certain someone looks at only her.Included one-shot: Volume 6: Colorless Dreamer
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 20 sampled reviews
7.8
/10
What 20 readers settled on.
82%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 10
σ 2.69
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.69 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.7 pts
Recommenders 9.4 · others 2.7
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Score over time
↓ 2.20
Running avg · Jun 2009 → Mar 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “Personally I LOVE SE. The artwork & character designs are flawless. the story is adequate and not annoying. its about unrequited love and rejection. there is more than one love triangle in this...”
- 10 “This is my first review, so. Okay, if you're a lot like me and very into light, fluffy rom/com shoujo mangas, Strobe Edge is a really good choice. I've read it a few times and I think it's the...”
- 10 “All hail Sakisaka Io-sensei! Sasuga desu ne~. I gave this manga a 10/10 score simply because it was such a masterpiece.(tears) Although it exhibits a common plot for shoujo mangas – cute girl falls...”
Verbosity
Short · 30%
Medium · 45%
Long · 25%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 43 × 10 ch × vol
- Total read 5h 44m approx
- Published Jun 2007 – Aug 2010
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M5293 catalog