High School Debut

   I am going to tell you about one of my favorite comic books, “High School Debut”. Do you know this book? It is girl’s romantic comedy manga by Kazune Kawahara. It collected 13 bound volumes. The series follows the relationship between Haruna Nagashima who is a high school student and she belonged to softball club and You Komiyama who is cool boy she convinces to coach her in romance. Haruna Nagashima gave her all to softball club in middle school so now that she has made her high school debut and she has decided to give her all for a new goal: getting a boyfriend and fall in love. However, she has one small problem; that is to say, she never has paid any attention to fashion or trends in middle school. One day, she meets You and she asks him to coach but one on condition: he must not fall in love with him. Eventually, she falls in love with him.

    Next, I am going to tell you about main characters of this story.

▼Haruna Nagashima

She is a main character and she is a high school student. She is lively. She belonged to softball club when she was a junior high school student. She accidentally meets You and she asks him to coach. However, she must not fall in love with You. She meets him and she makes friends with him, his friends and his sister. She fell in love with his friend, Fumiya. However, she failed. Eventually, she falls in love with You.

▼You Komiyama

He is cool guy and he is older than Haruna. He knows the ideas on how to impress the men from a woman’s point of view. Although a little shy and easily embarrassed, he represents a figure of cool demeanor, he was even once confessed to by most of the girls in his class. In the beginning when Haruna asked him to tutor her about profession in boyfriend-making he warned her not to fail in love with him or cry around him. Incidentally, I like You because he is kind and cool.

▼Asami Komiyama

She is You’s sister and she is as old as Haruna. Although she is pretty and admired by many boys, she often shows her conceited side. She has a serious brother complex. She wants Haruna and her elder brother, You to be together, but sometimes she tries to protect him when she thinks Haruna is trying to get to You sexually. Often, when Haruna is having a problem, Asami says it is going to be ‘funny’ but quickly replaces it with ‘trouble’. She likes Fumiya, but wanted to test him and see if he would wait forever in the snow for her. Haruna failed her love once because of Asami. I hate her because she has a selfish disposition.

▼Fumiya Tamura

He is You’s friend. He is called ‘Fumi’. He is so kind. Later, he will be Asami’s boyfriend. His personality and dense sense are similar to Haruna.

▼Yui Asaoka

He is You’s friend. He works a part-time job in a restaurant. He is also so kind like Fumiya. You says that ninety percent of what Asaoka says is out of kindness and that whoever goes out with him would be happy because of all the kind words he says. He once went on a date with Haruna to make You jealous. To tell the truth, he likes Haruna but he hides his true feeling in jokes. He confesses with simplicity to Haruna. However, she thinks ‘jokes’.

▼Mami Takahashi

She is Haruna’s best friend since they were junior high school students. She is notably calm and collected, being able to read Haruna like an open book. Their friendship is a close one and Haruna has described how Mami first became her friend by helping her with her pitching. She works a part-time job at a video rental shop and she was the softball captain of their team.

   Incidentally, this book became a movie in 2010. I wanted to watch it. If you are interested in it, please read it. Thank you for your reading.

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