Strawberry 100% 1

Ichigo 100% #1

by Mizuki Kawashita

Against all odds, Junpei starts dating the most gorgeous girl in school, Tsukasa, believing that she is the mysterious beauty. But could his strawberry muse actually be a bookworm named Aya? Soon a tense love triangle forms between the beauty, the boy and the geek!

Genres: Manga, Comics, Romance, Graphic Novels, Shonen, Comedy, Fiction

191 pages, Paperback

First published August 2, 2002

About the author

Japanese Name 河下水希 (Kawashita Mizuki).
Sometimes she uses too the pseudonym Mikan Momokuri.
Mizuki Kawashita is a female Japanese manga artist, best known for her work Strawberry 100%. During the early part of her career, she wrote and illustrated under the pen name Mikan Momokuri (桃栗 みかん Momokuri Mikan?). Her first public work was a doujinshi called Innocent in 1993. Kawashita's longest running manga series, Strawberry 100%, was adapted into a thirteen episode anime television series which premiered in Japan during 2005 and spawned five original video animation spin offs. One of her more recent manga series, Hatsukoi Limited, was adapted into a twelve episode anime television series which ran in 2009. Other works by Mizuki Kawashita include Lilim Kiss, Akane-chan overdrive and Ane Doki.

Reviews

[Zeta_comics · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like Kawashita's drawing... and that's about it. Someone told me this series starts to get good at volume 3 and it could be true because volume 1 wasn't that good, sadly I'm not about to find out because 200 pages should be enough to display some sort of hook and I didn't see that. What I saw was the settings of a very romantic "love triangle" (square, pentagone...) shonen, like a cheap Katsura with more playfull and pop fan service (from what I can see it turns into Love Hina further on). Every cliché and not a new idea or at least a more intense arrenge for that outline. I think that if I were to read the whole 19 volumes I would enjoy them, or most of it (while some parts I would probably role my eyes with a "been there read that" feeling) but I doubt anything would change if I were to pass on it. And so I will.

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5 A fun little Shonen romcom. Junpei has an girl fall on him and briefly sees her strawberry panties. After hearing from his friends he’s convinced the girl is a classmate named Tsukasa. Junpei with the aid of nerdy girl writer Toujo comes up with a ridiculous plan to ask Tsukasa out. Strangely enough the plan works and the 2 start dating just as Junpei is starting to realize that Toujo could be the girl he saw or it could be someone else entirely.

Some funny, cute, and awkward moments abound as the cast is mainly introduced in volume one.

Junpei surrounded by Tsukasa and Toujo on the cover of volume 1.

Read 4/18/2023

[Max · Rating 5 out of 5]

Strawberry 100% was about a boy who wanted to be a movie maker. He eventually goes up to the roof of his middle school to find a beautiful girl wearing strawberry panties. He falls in love with her instantly but didn't catch her name because she ran away. Luckily for the main character, she left her notebook behind. When he returns the notebook, it seems that the owner wasn't the beauty he saw; it belonged to a 4 eyed girl. So, the main character thought it was the prettiest girl in school and asked her out, and although that girl accepted, it wasn't the girl he was looking for.
The book focuses around Manaka Junpei and his dilemma where he has to choose between 3 girls as his lover. Each girl has her own personality and likes Manaka in her own way. In Japanese, Naka, in Manaka means middle, while each of the other girls' last names have north south west and east (I forgot which one was excluded). This story is interesting and was one of the best romance stories I've ever read.

[La Revistería Comics · Rating 3 out of 5]

Una de las premisas más idiotas del mundo de los mangas románticos da pie a una de las series más divertidas del género. Sí, ya sabemos que ninguna chica empieza a salir con un chico por que ese haga barra, pero las consecuencias son desternillantes.

[Nate · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series is a guilty pleasure of mine. I don't think America ever really released much in the way of a story whose main plot is an awkward romance for guys. Japan leans the opposite direction, and there's plenty of wish-fulfillment goodness. Is this series great? Nah. It doesn't do a whole lot different from the rest of the genre. Has a little more heart, a little more passion, maybe, but it's still incredibly archetypal. The art is unique but not great, there's a little too much reliance on physical gags. But it takes me home. Back to a time where my biggest worry, like the main character will have in the next volume, is whether a girl playing with her hair when I'm around means she likes me (the answer is no. Hair is just important to adolescents of either sex, and so is fidgeting, and this is a good way for them to meet in the middle).

Do I recommend it if you've never read it before. Yeah, actually. It comes from before the genre sold out like it seems to have now. I've been trying to read some newer manga, and this genre has gone waaaaay downhill. Most of the new stuff seems to either be pushing as close to porn/hentai as the magazines will allow, or is just so incredibly trope heavy I don't even finish the first chapter. There's also something to be said for a series as innocent as this one. Even if the nudity wasn't censored to skinsuit levels, it's still very much PG-13 at worst, and I can really appreciate the restraint involved in that.

Check it out, have a goofy fun time and enjoy the manga based around one of the single dumbest premises I've ever seen. (And yes, it's bad, I didn't finish the first chapter the first time I tried to read it, but a friend told me to go on, and I'm so glad i listened to him all those years ago. I think this will be my 3rd or 4th reread.)

[David Doel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think there are 19 volumes to this series. I read the first 11 and am not inclined to go find and read the other 8. The protagonist is a boy named Junpei. All other male characters are shells (a Greek chorus of sorts). There are too many girls; and the author keeps adding new ones.

The only reason I made it as far as I did is because Junpei reminds me of my social awkwardness when I was in school. There were parts of the series that were charming, but these were too few and far between. I guess that's all you can expect from a series whose title is based upon the design on a girl's panties.

Another feature I hated was the frequency with which the author used extremely improbable events to frustrate the development of Junpei's relationships.

[Your Common House Bat · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this at the back of my book shelf from when I was going through a manga craze in middle school lol. Don't ask why an asexual has an ecchi manga. I'm guessing that I kind of just saw the cover was like neat and bought it??? Rather my grandma bought it for me because I had no money then lmao.

Life story aside, obviously this isn't the kind of material that I usually read. But it humored me enough for me to be able to enjoy it. The story line was just so absurd that I had to be faintly amused. Aya was adorable, I liked her and I related to her writing hobby. I liked Tsukasa too, she was spunky and fun.

I also liked Kawashita's art style. So I'll probably end up reading the other three that I have lol.

[Chris Samaniego · Rating 3 out of 5]

A middle school live triangle that develops into a harem genre manga, popular in early 2000s shonen. Volumes 1-14 are available in English print, though the series continues until volume 19 in Japanese (available in scanlation only).

[Eva Domínguez · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Tomo Danskay · Rating 3 out of 5]

why im cant read :(

[Kurtis Burkhardt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty decent manga besides the story being boring! Really love the art of this series 😁❤️

[Tonee · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a really good manga!

[Sarzen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Primer tomo de Mizuki Kawashita en publicarse en Argentina. Se terminaría de publicar casi tres años después en su tomo 19. A esta serie le siguieron dos más de la autora.

[Olly · Rating 4 out of 5]

sorprendentemente bello e divertente! trama interessante e personaggi ben scritti.

[Frahorus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Manaka si innamora di una ragazza dalle mutandine a fragole che gli cade dal cielo mentre sta uscendo sulla terrazza della scuola. La ragazza fugge via e dimentica il quaderno di matematica che viene recuperato da Manaka e scopre, leggendolo, che si tratta invece di appunti per un romanzo. Manaka si innamora di questa misteriosa ragazza e cerca in tutti i modi di riconoscerla a scuola, senza successo. Fino a che i suoi amici Komiyama e Okusa pensano che la ragazza dei suoi sogni possa essere certamente la più carina della scuola, ovvero la Nishino, in realtà scopriamo che la ragazza con le mutandine di fragole è la secchiona Tojo. Manaka diventa amico di entrambe, e si fidanza con la bionda Nishino, anche se, scopriremo, prova una forte attrazione per la Tojo.

[Destiny · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't think I'd like this manga as I'm not big into harem manga. But I bought it anyway. It's got a cute story and I'm curious to see how it goes. I do think Junpei is sort of stupid, because how can he not see that Aya is the girl with the strawberry panties? I mean they look exactly the same! Also I liked the little baby pictures of Aya and Tsukasa. Also it's very fanservicey with the showing of the panties, but I'm not complaining XD

The art is sort of so so though for me, I was bit put off by some of the characters looks, but I think Aya's character design is really adorable ^_^

Oh and the volume name is very cute!

[Kenny Nguyen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well I just finish the total 167 chapters of this manga. Overall, I think this manga is really awesome, it leave a great memory within me after I finish it. Awesome story about love, dream, and most of all, wonderful memory about school life. Even though the ending did really put an end to this series already however, I hope that the creator would make a second series to it though or at least a short story that take place after the ending.

[Fugo Feedback · Rating 2 out of 5]

Este tomo padece el mal de otros tantos del género: arranca muy pero muy tonto y la serie tarda bastante en ponerse interesante. El dibujo es bastante bonito pero todavía está lejos del nivel que alcanzaría después. Por todo eso, este tomo no bastó para engancharme en su momento pero tuvo la suficiente gracia como para que retomara la serie después, primero por curiosidad y después por obligación (y curiosamente, me gustó más cuando la seguí por obligación que por curiosidad).

[Supermomochan (PeachyFishyBooks) · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the art, but I thought the story was super boring. I like that it wasn't a story just about hunting down the girl with strawberry panties because she was pretty, but because he wanted to do something artistic with it. Yeah, it was also about the pants, but there was a teeny bit more to the story.

I thought the characters were kind of boring and I didn't like how they reacted to situations. This wasn't the manga for me and I won't be continuing on with the story.

[Cheyenne · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was alright. I read the whole series but I didn't particularly care about completing it except for the sake of finishing it. I didn't find it to be funny and I kinda disliked Junpei a little. I don't foresee reading this one again.

[Karl]

CLASSICS

[Lord · Rating 5 out of 5]

Harem manga at its best. I love this series!

[Pixie · Rating 1 out of 5]

The artwork if the best part of this book. Story suck, way too over dramatic. The art was good enough to get me to buy the second one though.

[Scott]

it's ok just need ALOT more comdey

[Elizabeth Rae · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't like the ending but..... I like the story
I'm still voting for Aya toujo and Junpei Manaka!!!

[Kimberly Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series is really cute! Worth the read :)

[Dony Grayman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Primer tomo de la autora publicado en Argentina.

[Serena · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lettura: da 1 a 8 (interrotta)

[Morbus Iff · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this would be absolutely horrible, and it kinda is stupid, but I'd read another.