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“Childhood friends reunite in college; tomboy Matsuri becomes beautiful but retains her difficult personality.”
Osananajimi ni Najimitai
幼なじみになじみたい
7.11
7,872 rank · 20,095 readers · 101 favorites
Seinen
Comedy
Romance
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Synopsis
Childhood friends reunite in college; tomboy Matsuri becomes beautiful but retains her difficult personality.
Fujimino Daisuke was often pushed around by his tomboy childhood friend Hino Matsuri, but several years later, they meet each other again in college where Daisuke discovers that Matsuri has developed into quite a lovely young woman. But despite that, much to Daisuke's dismay, she has also retained most of the tomboy personality that made her a little difficult to get along with in the past. (Source: MU)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
6.8
/10
What 5 readers settled on.
80%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 7
σ 2.04
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.04 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.8 pts
Recommenders 7.8 · others 3.0
Yes
No
Score over time
↓ 0.20
Running avg · Sep 2020 → Jul 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “"A cute quickie" is how I would describe this manga in the simplest terms. The set up of the romance is quick and snappy, and the main characters are fleshed out quite well considering the manga's...”
- 8 “Osananajimi ni najimitai or I want to get along with my childhood friend could be described as a lighthearted comedy, romance of sorts consisting of main character Fujiminoo Daisuke and main girl...”
- 7 “For the most part, I think it's a pretty sweet story. It's relatively short, with 24 chapters in total, so it's a rather quick read. The story follows the two young adults, Daisuke and Matsuri....”
Verbosity
Short · 60%
Medium · 20%
Long · 20%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 24 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 3h 12m approx
- Published Jan 2018 – Dec 2019
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M47271 catalog