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“Two apathetic university students bond over cigarettes and coffee while navigating daily campus life together.”
Philosophia
philosophia
6.96
10,313 rank · 5,166 readers · 49 favorites
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Slice of Life
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Synopsis
Two apathetic university students bond over cigarettes and coffee while navigating daily campus life together.
Ai-chan, a pretty student in her first year in a university, meets Tomo after she asks for a cigarette light from Ai. An apathetic, budding friendship ensues as they try and survive everyday university life together with the help of their daily does of caffeine and nicotine.
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7.3
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 8
σ 0.83
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.83 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.75
Running avg · May 2015 → Dec 2023
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “This story is very well-written, the characters are deep and it doesn't contain any of the standard manga clishes. If you're looking for a happy love story then you might be disappointed (I was),...”
- 8 “In a world where everything can get repetitive, there would be just one random day when you will meet someone very odd and obscure who will surprisingly and astoundingly change your life and...”
- 8 “Story: The story has two main characters where sometimes the point of view changes amongst them. The story focuses on their relationship as well as their individual pasts. The chapters flow quite...”
Verbosity
Short · 25%
Medium · 25%
Long · 50%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 6 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 48m approx
- Published Dec 2010 – Dec 2012
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M27579 catalog