Star Student X Delinquent Yuri Romance Manga 'I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl' Licensed in English
On Saturday, Kodansha USA announced at its Anime Expo 2023 panel that it has licensed Kashikaze's I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl (Lonely Girl ni Sakaraenai) for English publication. The first volume of the school romance Yuri manga will be released in the spring of 2024.
I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl follows Ayaka Sakurai, a star student gifted in both academics and athletics. However, she gets nervous about exams, so has to settle for a lesser high school than she intended.
When her homeroom teacher recognizes Ayaka's struggle, she offers her a recommendation letter that could get her into any school of her choice, on one condition. She has to convince the delinquent girl, Sora Honda, to come to school. Thus the goody-goody Sakurai is thrust into a web of blackmail that might just lead to romance!
I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl was serialized in Comic Yuri Hime from 2019 until its conclusion in October 2022. Ichijinsha publishes six collected volumes of the manga in Japanese.
The manga received positive reviews from audiences and critics. Erica Friedman awarded the first Japanese volume an 8/10 score on Okazu, and the series won 12th place overall in Yuri Navi's fifth Yuri Manga Sousenkyo in 2021.
Kashikaze is a Japanese Yuri artist. She has contributed to multiple Yuri anthologies, including Canelé: Soeur, Shibuya Gyaru, and Chocolat: Shkaijin Yuri Anthology. She also released a side story doujinshi focusing on the side characters from I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl.
Look forward to the release of the first volume of I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl in the Spring of 2024.
Source: Kodansha USA Website, Kodansha Comics Twitter
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New Manga Day ends with the NEW series:
🎒I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl, Vol 1🎒
By Kashikaze
💘Sakurai pins down the transfer student Honda, but there are strings attached. Honda demands that Sakurai grant one wish every day. The first wish is a kiss
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Really cute manga; I'd been hearing good things about this from my friends for a while now, and so I was excited to see a physical release and picked it right up. Very fun start, really looking forward to learning more about the girls as they find out more about each other.
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Life hack: You can get lesbians from your local library
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SEASON 2 ROUND 3
NOTE: Can't Defy the Lonely Girl contains depictions of blackmail & parental abuse. I See You, Aizawa-san! contains some horror elements and suggestive scenes, as well as the suggestion of general heavy themes.
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