“Shy Mitsuki befriends four popular basketball players, sparking romance and envy at her high school.”
Waiting for Spring
春待つ僕ら
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Synopsis
Shy Mitsuki befriends four popular basketball players, sparking romance and envy at her high school.
The timid and reserved Mitsuki Haruno seeks her dream sociable life at high school. But despite her best efforts, her ineptitude to speak her mind impedes her from befriending anyone. Nonetheless, while working at a cafe one day, she has a fateful encounter with her school's four idolized basketball players—Towa Asakura, Rui Miyamotoi, Ryuuji Tada, and Kyousuke Wakamiya. At first glance, these four heartthrobs come off as arrogant individuals, responsible for invading her cafe's safe haven. Soon after though, as they uphold their promise of keeping her workplace a secret, Mitsuki starts to see them in a new light. Hence begins an improbable friendship between Mitsuki and the boys, as her days of solitude finally comes to an end. However, things aren't always so simple—with her heart waning toward Asakura and the female students green with envy, is there a chance this friendship could blossom into something more?
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 14 sampled reviews
What 14 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.52 · some divergence
3.5 pts
Recommenders 8.5 · others 5.0
↓ 2.21
Running avg · Apr 2015 → Oct 2025
- 9 “The story is pretty compelling and it does the love triangle trope extremely well. I'm tired of reading romance manga where the "new love interest" is supposed to be a big deal but only last for a...”
- 10 “Oh my gosh. This was the first manga I've ever bought as a physical copy and just wow. Holy crackers this manga was such a cute wholesome high school story! Mitsuki is such a nice female lead with...”
- 8 “I thought the character development was decent because there's obvious change and the author incorporated scenarios that would highlight that development which was nice. Overall, it was a good...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 61 × 14 ch × vol
- Total read 8h 08m approx
- Published Feb 2014 – Mar 2020
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M28295 catalog