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“New cooking club member Wakatsuki tries to win her serious president's heart through cooking, risking driving her mad.”
Himitsu no Recipe
ひみつのレシピ
7.31
5,179 rank · 5,244 readers · 34 favorites
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Synopsis
New cooking club member Wakatsuki tries to win her serious president's heart through cooking, risking driving her mad.
The only first year of the cooking club has a problem. She is thinking about having a relationship with someone that is beyond her touch. But this "someone" seems to be very serious about cooking club activities since she is the president. However Wakatsuki, the new member, tries to win her heart by learning how to cook. What will happen when she overdoes things and drives her mad? (Source: Heterophobia Fansub)
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Derived from 3 sampled reviews
7.7
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 6
σ 1.25
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.25 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.33
Running avg · Oct 2014 → Mar 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “This is a yuri romance story about a third year high school student who suddenly becomes the cooking club president because she is the only sempai and a 1st year student who has no business being...”
- 9 “Himitsu no Recipe/The Secret Recipe has a lot of things other reviewers have had problems with. Its humour is farcical, some of the events are "ecchi" in a very light way. But mainly, one of the...”
- 6 “I'm a big fan of Morinaga Milk, but I think she kind of phoned it in with this series. The art remains easy on the eyes, but the character design here felt kind of derivative from Girl Friends. Not...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 67%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 17 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 16m approx
- Published Feb 2009 – Apr 2013
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M12440 catalog