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“Yusa fakes dating classmate Haruta to hide her crush from best friend, questioning her true feelings.”
The World Best Boyfriend
理想的ボーイフレンド
7.54
3,002 rank · 5,792 readers · 52 favorites
Shoujo
School
Romance
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Synopsis
Yusa fakes dating classmate Haruta to hide her crush from best friend, questioning her true feelings.
Upon entering high school, first-year student Yusa Tachikawa fell in love with a tall, athletic senior on her school's basketball team. Watching the basketball team practice every day with her best friend, Nanami Sugio, Yusa eagerly looks for chances to talk to him. One day, Kaede Haruta, a quiet guy from Yusa's class, takes shelter from the rain in Yusa's part-time workplace. Looking to keep him entertained in the meantime, she recommends he read her favorite shoujo manga. The following day, while Yusa is talking to the guy she likes, she realizes that Nanami harbors feelings for him too! Worried that Nanami will restrain her feelings for Yusa's sake, she claims that she loves Haruta instead. With determination to maintain their cover, Yusa asks Haruta to pretend as her boyfriend, and even though he is far from her ideal type, she begins to question what she really thinks of Haruta.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
8.0
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 1.73
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.73 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.00
Running avg · Sep 2017 → Aug 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Don't be fooled by the title, Risouteki Boyfriend (理想的ボーイフレンド lit. "Ideal Boyfriend") or the English name: The World Best Boyfriend, it doesn't give you a miracle-like shoujo story of a girl meets...”
- 9 “When it comes to love, we always wonder if someone that someday will become our boyfriend/girlfriend is suit our type. but as things continue, we realize that love isn't always created because the...”
- 9 “The story summary you are provided isn't very much to go on. You might assume this is another cliche plot but its certainly far from that. Story 9/10 So the story is very entertaining. It follows...”
Verbosity
Short · 50%
Medium · 50%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 29 × 7 ch × vol
- Total read 3h 52m approx
- Published Mar 2016 – Jul 2018
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M44766 catalog