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“Minato pretends to be a stranger to her stepbrother Tooru, who then romantically pursues her, escalating her lie.”
Liar x Liar
ライアー×ライアー
7.09
8,278 rank · 5,116 readers · 18 favorites
Shoujo
Comedy
Romance
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
Minato pretends to be a stranger to her stepbrother Tooru, who then romantically pursues her, escalating her lie.
One day, on a whim, 20-year-old Minato dresses up in her friend's cute high school uniform and goes out briefly into the city. To her horror, she ends up running into her stepbrother, Tooru, who is actually only months younger than her. Since he's cute, and a notorious player, Minato has had to deal with constant jealousy and suspicion from other girls all through their school days. Amazingly, she manages to convince Tooru that she's actually someone who just happens to look a lot like his sister. He is so convinced that he starts trying to date her and, for various reasons, she goes along with it. What started as a simple joke is now evolving into the biggest lie Minato has ever told!
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 10 sampled reviews
7.3
/10
What 10 readers settled on.
86%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 9
σ 1.62
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.62 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.5 pts
Recommenders 8.5 · others 5.0
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No
Score over time
↑ 2.30
Running avg · Feb 2013 → Jul 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “I personally started this manga because I was tired of drama, this manga made me literally fall on the floor. Plot: A 20 years-old girl goes in town dressed with her best friend's high school...”
- 9 “If you like deep psychology stories that take their time to show the characters' deeper layers, read this one. Kind of like Cheese in the Trap, at least one character is an intriguing mystery to...”
- 9 “Liar x Liar is about a girl who ends up sort of by accident dating her step brother while in disguise, so he had no idea its actually her. I'm sure you can already tell from the premise that it's...”
Verbosity
Short · 60%
Medium · 30%
Long · 10%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 70 × 10 ch × vol
- Total read 9h 20m approx
- Published Feb 2010 – Jun 2017
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M15382 catalog