I don't know how many of you have been waiting for the Touch By Your Kiss finale, but personally, I'm more intrigued by the 3L debut Changing Seat Game, not only for the Namida Usagi vibes (if you squint), but more for the...innocence of the cover, something I don't expect from (mostly sm*t) manga-ka Yumachi Shin.
Sekigae Game © Yumachi Shin/Shogakukan [First serialized in Cheese!] · Kimi no Kiss de Furete. © KAORI/Shogakukan [First serialized in Cheese!]. Published in Indonesia as Changing Seat Game and Touch By Your Kiss by Tiga Lancar Semesta/3L Comic
Freshman year, high school. September. The seat change after summer lands me smack beside Mitsui, the guy who, rumor has it, likes me. Me? Slow me? It's just not possible!
So that's our Clumsy Protagonist
with Low Self-Esteem
Tamami agonizing over whether Mitsui-kun needs glasses likes her. (Thanks, Baka-Updates, for giving our heroine a name.) But Tamami really should ditch her issues, especially when we have it on good authority that Cool Male Lead
Mitsui-kun falls in love first.
Gotten sugar shock yet? :) Changing Seat Game, originally Sekigae Game ex-Cheese!, is (still) safe for Teens, just like the other two Yumachi Shin shoujo manga 3L has published (which I passed up on), Colour of Love and Love at First Sight.
Scroll down if you want to know why I deemed Changing Seat Game somewhat a rarity among Yumachi Shin titles. For nau —
Touch by Your Kiss vol 2 of 2
By KAORI
My search for a soul mate ended when I entered senior high and met this uber kewl and hawt senpai. So now, everyday is an exercise in telling my racing heart to calm down because, you know, he actually reciprocates my feelings! I want to grow closer to him—or is that being too greedy? It must be, because why else would a trouble maker show up NOW to ruin everything?
The second and last Touch by Your Kiss, rated for a Mature or [DEWASA] audience, also contains two extra one-shots, Ai o shirane no?
and Senpai no kanojo to, kōhai to.
☞ BTW, if you missed Takada Rie's Heart and Ikeyamada Go's Moe Kare!! the first time around, 3L is reprinting both series. Heart- and Moe Kare!! volume 2 street this week (the first volumes were reissued late March).
3L shoujo manga (2012.04.10)
- [Premiere] Changing Seat Game (Sekigae Game) by Yumachi Shin
- Touch by Your Kiss (Kimi no Kiss de Furete.) vol 2 of 2 by KAORI [Finale]
Kimi no Kiss de Furete. 「きみのキスで触れて。」 by KAORI
Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo
Volume 2 first published in Japan 2007.12
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Reprints (2012.04.10)
- Heart vol 2 of 10 by Takada Rie
- Moe Kare!! vol 2 of 7 by Ikeyamada Go
Sekigae Game 「席替えゲーム」 by Yumachi Shin
Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo
This volume first published in Japan 2010.11