“Two inexperienced manga artists fake-date to improve their romance stories, clashing ideals and reality.”
Now That We Draw
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Synopsis
Two inexperienced manga artists fake-date to improve their romance stories, clashing ideals and reality.
Dweeby high schooler Yuuki Uehara has created the perfect romantic comedy heroine—she's bashful, airheaded, and completely chaste. When an editor at Uehara's dream publisher coldly dismisses his manga story as trite and lacking realism, it sends Uehara into a spiral of despair that pushes him into the path of his bubbly, gorgeous classmate, Niina Miyamoto—an aspiring manga artist herself! Having gotten similar feedback on her own manga, Miyamoto proposes she and Uehara engage in a fake relationship, since neither of them have any romantic experience. But Miyamoto is far from the perfect heroine Uehara's concocted, and he certainly isn't the cocky hero from her story either. Can their wacky relationship turn their manga dreams into reality, or will it lead to even more comic disasters? (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
What 9 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.23 · split reception
4.3 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 3.8
↓ 0.89
Running avg · Sep 2023 → Dec 2025
- 9 “What a great manga! I really enjoy the story involving two people who aspire to be manga artists and how they motivate each other to improve, while a romance develops as they both realize their...”
- 9 “Well at first glance this might seem like some guilty pleasure manga but the more you read it you realised it is a very cute little wholesome romance with a like bit of ecchi on it but if I have to...”
- 7 “Wow. This manga has one of the cutest couplings ever. With a Shoto MC who is taller than her love interest, and a shy boy expereinceing love for the first time. The situations escliate from basic...”
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A Manga Publication
- Published Feb 2023 – ongoing
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- Ref. BS-M67681 catalog