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  • Published: 15 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9781612626024
  • Imprint: Kodansha
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $29.99

Say I Love You. 1



  • For older teens interested in a frank, moving depiction of high school romance. Fans of Sara Zarr and Stephanie Perkins.
  • Personal, character-driven storytelling recalls hit manga series like NANA and Kimi ni Todoke.
  • Fans of the recent anime series will want to read past where it leaves off to find out what happens to their favorite characters.
  • Ongoing in Japan.

  • 16 & Up.

    FRIENDSHIP? FORGET IT!

    Mei Tachibana has no friends—and she doesn’t need them! Ever since her “friends” betrayed her in elementary school, she’s sworn off friendship entirely. All it leads to is betrayal and heartbreak, and she’s well enough on her own. But everything changes when she accidentally roundhouse kicks the most popular boy in school! However, Yamato Kurosawa isn’t angry in the slightest—in fact, he thinks his ordinary life could use an unusual girl like Mei! He won’t take no for an answer, and soon Mei and Yamato embark on an unwanted friendship that will change both of them forever.

    PRAISE FOR THE ANIME
    "Surprises with its honesty, its sensitivity, its quality. Always it is smarter, more poetic, more touching, just plain better than you think it is going to be." -Anime News Network

    • Published: 15 April 2014
    • ISBN: 9781612626024
    • Imprint: Kodansha
    • Format: Paperback
    • Pages: 176
    • RRP: $29.99

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    Praise for Say I Love You. 1

    Praise for the anime:
    "Again and again it approaches some deal-breaker of a shojo-romance cliché, and every time it surprises with its honesty, its sensitivity, its quality. Always it is smarter, more poetic, more touching, just plain better that you think it is going to be." - Anime News Network

    "This is pretty much what Kimi ni Todoke should have been." - Star Crossed Anime Blog