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Shortcake Cake Manga by Su Morishita

Shortcake Cake

Name: Shortcake Cake
Mangaka: suu Morishita

Volumes: 12 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz Shojo Beat
Licensed Volumes: V.12 (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary:  
Ten Serizawa has a two-hour commute through the mountains to high school every day, so she can’t spend much time hanging out with her friends in the afternoon. She decides to move into the local boardinghouse, where one of her friends and three other boys are living. Ten’s friends consider her to be as oblivious as a rock when it comes to noticing boys and falling in love, but will she be able to keep her calm and steady heart in her new living situation?

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Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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Defying Kurosaki-kun

Name: Defying Kurosaki-kun 
Mangaka: Makino

Volumes: 19 (Complete)
Licensed: Kodansha
Current Licensed Volumes: V.19 (Digital – Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Romance, Drama
Age Group: Mature

Summary: 
“I demand absolute obedience.” Yu Akabane has worked hard to reinvent herself for high school, and there’s only one step left in her plan to leave her plain Jane days behind: asking out her idol, the “White Prince” Shirakawa-kun. When circumstances lead to Yu moving into the school dorm where Shirakawa-kun boards, she thinks she’s found her lucky break. But unluckily for Yu, “Black Devil” Kurosaki-kun, the boy everyone at school (including the teachers!) is afraid of, lives there too—and when Yu defies him, he’s all too eager to punish her …

–Manga Updates

Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Hana Kimi // 100th Review!

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Name: Hana Kimi
Mangaka: Nakajo, Hisaya

Volumes: 23 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz (Complete)
Scanlations: V.23 Ch.145 (Complete)
Scanlator: Many
Type: Manga
Genre: Gender Bender/Comedy/Drama/School Life
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: Japanese-American Mizuki has gotten herself into a high school in Japan…but not just any school! To be close to her idol, high jumper Izumi Sano, she’s going to an all-guys’ high school…and disguising herself as a boy! But as fate would have it, they’re more than classmates…they’re roommates! Now, Mizuki must keep her secret in the classroom, the locker room, and her own bedroom. And her classmates–and the school doctor–must cope with a new transfer student who may make them question their own orientation…

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Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 5/5

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