Street date: 1 August 2012
Aishiterutte Itte mo Iiyo © Oda Aya
Shogakukan [First serialized in Petit Comic]
Published in Indonesia as It's OK to Say I Love You
by PT Tiga Lancar Semesta/Tiga Lancar Comic (3L)
Oozeki Natsumi, a track and field athlete forced to retire after a career-ending injury, works for a small recording company even if she knows nothing about music (other than she likes what she likes). Natsumi's got a not so hidden agenda: to get close to her senpai idol, Kamishiro Shinobu.
One day, Kamishiro-san tells Natsumi that she is now genius musician Suzuhara Taki's manager, on Taki's own request. How will Natsumi fare when her charge is such a slacker?!
It's OK to Say I Love You, original mouthful of a title Aishiterutte Itte mo Iiyo (even manga-ka Oda Aya avers in the Judul yang Panjang
quarter-column free-talk), first serialized in the shoujo slash josei mangazine Petit Comic. Five Flower Comics Alpha tankou were released in Japan between January 2011 and June 2012.
The first volume of It's OK to Say I Love You compiles Tracks 1 to 4: One More Dream,
Physical Attraction,
You're My Nerve
and I'm Getting Confused.
An unrelated PuchiComi one-shot, Because I Believe in Love
—about an idealistic wedding planner and her cynical boss—closes the tank.
Suzuhara Taki (him on the cover) is undoubtedly TDF on any bisei front, but this Ideal Prince is NOT the (main) reason I gave the first It's OK to Say I Love You a 7.75 of 10 or B+. That score is largely the (hard) work of Here be depths... Kamishiro-san. As for Because I Believe in Love,
that's a 7/10 (B), a full score band of which comes from heroine Izutsu Yui yobisute'ing love interest Director Kaneshiro Masaki, “Masaki-shachou,” lawlz!
It's OK to Say I Love You 1 is rated for [DEWASA] or Mature audiences only.
Other Oda Aya manga
Before It's OK to Say I Love You or Aishiterutte Itte mo Iiyo AKA Love Music, 3L published Oda Aya's Lovey Dovey. (Shin × Saika♡!) Oda Aya-sensei's shoujo manga, however, tended to get shopped around the Indonesian comics publishers. m&c! (I think) published Heaven, Boys' Kingdom, M.T. Pass (as Magic Tower Pass) and Prince Collection (Locker 1999). Elex, meanwhile, published Tennen Hachimitsu Ryou or Natural Honey Dormitory. Level released Koakuma Café or Little Devil Café. All these titles are ex-Sho-Comi. [Continued...]
3L josei manga (2012.08.01)
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Aishiterutte Itte mo Iiyo 「愛してるって言ってもいいよ」 by Oda Aya
AKA Love Music
Shogakukan Petit Comic, shoujo/josei
Volume 1 first published in Japan 2011.01
Other languages
French (Soleil Productions: Avoues que tu m'aimes!, Tome 1 shipped 2012.06 • Tome 2 street date: 2012.08.22), traditional Chinese (Ever Glory Publishing Taiwan: 放膽說愛我吧 4 released 2012.05.23)