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“Shun joins the Going-Home Club with Naoki-chan in a rom-com about detours and finding life's purpose.”
Houkago Kitaku Biyori
放課後帰宅びより
8.43
218 rank · 11,652 readers · 315 favorites
Seinen
Love Status Quo
School
Romance
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Synopsis
Shun joins the Going-Home Club with Naoki-chan in a rom-com about detours and finding life's purpose.
Shun is invited to join the Going-Home Club by Naoki Satou (aka Naoki-chan). Despite trying to refuse, he is strong-armed into accepting the invitation! This is a romantic comedy about a girl who can't help but take detours and a boy looking for purpose in life. (Source: Futabasha, translated)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 11 sampled reviews
8.6
/10
What 11 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 10
σ 1.49
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.49 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 2.64
Running avg · Jan 2024 → Oct 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “10/10 I have only ever reviewed something when I truly love and adore it. This manga is one of such things. It's a slow-paced romance that centers its plot around building a relationship between a...”
- 8 “Pretty solid. The main characters are pretty likable. I don't think they are THAT realistic, but just entertaining and charming. The romance doesn't feel forced. The story itself is pretty much...”
- 8 “Houkago Kitaku Biyori is a fluffy low-stakes romance, which shares it's likeness to other episodic "gimmik" romcoms like Komi-chan or Takagi-san. Follwing the daily adventures a Senpai and Her...”
Verbosity
Short · 18%
Medium · 73%
Long · 9%
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A Manga Publication
- Published Aug 2023 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M72799 catalog