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Suzuka 涼風 #1
Suzuka, Vol. 1
SHE’S SO COOL
Yamato is ready for a fresh start. So when his aunt invites him to stay rent-free in her big-city boarding house in hustling, bustling Tokyo, Yamato jumps at the chance. There’s just one teensy-weensy It’s an all-girl housing complex and spa! Things get even more nerve-racking when Yamato meets his neighbor Suzuka, a beautiful track-and-field star. She’s not just the cutest girl Yamato’s ever met, she’s also the coolest, the smartest, and the most intimidating. Can an ordinary guy like Yamato ever hope to win over a girl like Suzuka?
Includes in-depth translation notes and a preview of the next volume!
Yamato is ready for a fresh start. So when his aunt invites him to stay rent-free in her big-city boarding house in hustling, bustling Tokyo, Yamato jumps at the chance. There’s just one teensy-weensy It’s an all-girl housing complex and spa! Things get even more nerve-racking when Yamato meets his neighbor Suzuka, a beautiful track-and-field star. She’s not just the cutest girl Yamato’s ever met, she’s also the coolest, the smartest, and the most intimidating. Can an ordinary guy like Yamato ever hope to win over a girl like Suzuka?
Includes in-depth translation notes and a preview of the next volume!
208 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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About the author
Kouji Seo
350 books55 followersKoji Seo (瀬尾 公治) is a Japanese manga creator from Shobara, Hiroshima, Japan.
He debuted in 1996 with the one-shot HALF & HALF in Magazine Fresh. His two hits, Suzuka and Cross Over, both mixed the genres of sports with high school romance. Suzuka focused on track and field while Cross Over used basketball.
He was an assistant to Tsukasa Ōshima, and respects Fujiko F. Fujio and Masahito Soda.
In 2009 he designed the High School Girl Kimchi for Hokubi Construction food company.
He has stated in an interview that he was a member of his high school's track and field team and that he loves to watch baseball both emphasized in his hit manga Suzuka.
He debuted in 1996 with the one-shot HALF & HALF in Magazine Fresh. His two hits, Suzuka and Cross Over, both mixed the genres of sports with high school romance. Suzuka focused on track and field while Cross Over used basketball.
He was an assistant to Tsukasa Ōshima, and respects Fujiko F. Fujio and Masahito Soda.
In 2009 he designed the High School Girl Kimchi for Hokubi Construction food company.
He has stated in an interview that he was a member of his high school's track and field team and that he loves to watch baseball both emphasized in his hit manga Suzuka.
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July 23, 2019
This is good one of the Shojo manga. Protagonist is Yamato and Suzuka. This is their love story in high school. What do you think this situation that is your love lives next doors? It is good story. I recommend it!
December 21, 2012
Felt like an exact copy of the love hina plotline with track and field thrown in rather than todai.. Wasn't bad though
October 31, 2020
The first volume of an iconic 2000's romantic comedy manga!
Kouji Seo's "Suzuka" is an entertaining rom-com manga with all the right Japanese tropes fitting for the era it was released in. From the hilarious bickering between the main male and female character to the stylish Japanese cultural references, "Suzuka" is a refreshing blast from the past suited for those wanting to take a trip back to 2000's Japanese manga entertainment.
The story in this first volume follows a teenager named Yamato who moves in with his aunt in order to attend a new school located in Tokyo, which is very different from his original home in the mountain areas of Japan. He takes up an offer to work part-time as a cleaner/maintenance guy at her females-only spa business (hilarity ensues!), and eventually he ends up meeting a sporty girl student that he fancies named Suzuka. Both constantly argue with each other and Yamato finds himself constantly involved in awkward situations that make Suzuka misunderstand him. And yet, he feels that she somehow still likes when he is around her. Could this be the beginning of a sprouting love between the two?
In addition to Yamato and Suzuka, the manga contains wonderful side characters such as Yamato's girl cousin Miho, who is the daughter of his aunt and tries to keep Yamato company when she can, and two college girls that seem to get themselves in trouble with Yamato via reckless antics in his apartment and the spa. Later characters include another teenage boy who claims to be his friend, as well as a mysterious girl who is familiar with Yamato from the past. All characters connect with each other well and add to the comedy elements in the story.
The artwork is very well done, with attractive characters and very stylish backgrounds. Readers will appreciate the anime-esque character art style and feel that the characters are brought to life almost as if they were moving pictures. The background is detailed fairly realistically, so much so that the locales resemble real life parts of Japan.
The first volume of "Suzuka" is a great start for readers craving rom-com manga specifically from the 2000's. Fair warning though: This manga contains some nudity and adult situations, making it for mature readers only.
Kouji Seo's "Suzuka" is an entertaining rom-com manga with all the right Japanese tropes fitting for the era it was released in. From the hilarious bickering between the main male and female character to the stylish Japanese cultural references, "Suzuka" is a refreshing blast from the past suited for those wanting to take a trip back to 2000's Japanese manga entertainment.
The story in this first volume follows a teenager named Yamato who moves in with his aunt in order to attend a new school located in Tokyo, which is very different from his original home in the mountain areas of Japan. He takes up an offer to work part-time as a cleaner/maintenance guy at her females-only spa business (hilarity ensues!), and eventually he ends up meeting a sporty girl student that he fancies named Suzuka. Both constantly argue with each other and Yamato finds himself constantly involved in awkward situations that make Suzuka misunderstand him. And yet, he feels that she somehow still likes when he is around her. Could this be the beginning of a sprouting love between the two?
In addition to Yamato and Suzuka, the manga contains wonderful side characters such as Yamato's girl cousin Miho, who is the daughter of his aunt and tries to keep Yamato company when she can, and two college girls that seem to get themselves in trouble with Yamato via reckless antics in his apartment and the spa. Later characters include another teenage boy who claims to be his friend, as well as a mysterious girl who is familiar with Yamato from the past. All characters connect with each other well and add to the comedy elements in the story.
The artwork is very well done, with attractive characters and very stylish backgrounds. Readers will appreciate the anime-esque character art style and feel that the characters are brought to life almost as if they were moving pictures. The background is detailed fairly realistically, so much so that the locales resemble real life parts of Japan.
The first volume of "Suzuka" is a great start for readers craving rom-com manga specifically from the 2000's. Fair warning though: This manga contains some nudity and adult situations, making it for mature readers only.
January 29, 2018
Anh bảo mình đọc vì hay, thế là đọc. Anh còn đọc đi đọc lại 2 hay 3 lần mà vẫn thấy hay, vì cảm xúc chân thực.
Mình thì cũng thấy khá hay, nhưng chắc không đến nỗi như anh. Có lẽ vì không yêu đương gì thời đi học lẫn đại học nên không cảm được :))
Nói chung thì truyện nói về tình yêu thời học sinh, trong sáng và vô tư, đơn giản. Và cũng chính vì vậy nên hậu quả đến khi còn quá trẻ và chưa hiểu về đời. Nhưng cuối cùng vẫn dám đối mặt và đối diện với nó. Truyện happy ending quá nên cảm giác không thực mấy. Thứ nhất là tình yêu học trò thường dang dở, chẳng mấy khi mà đi được đến cùng. Thứ nữa là vấn đề trong truyện xảy ra ngoài đời nhiều, nhưng chẳng mấy được êm xuôi như thế.
Thôi, dù sao nó cũng chỉ là truyện, mà lại còn manga. Không nên xét nét nhiều quá.
Mình thì cũng thấy khá hay, nhưng chắc không đến nỗi như anh. Có lẽ vì không yêu đương gì thời đi học lẫn đại học nên không cảm được :))
Nói chung thì truyện nói về tình yêu thời học sinh, trong sáng và vô tư, đơn giản. Và cũng chính vì vậy nên hậu quả đến khi còn quá trẻ và chưa hiểu về đời. Nhưng cuối cùng vẫn dám đối mặt và đối diện với nó. Truyện happy ending quá nên cảm giác không thực mấy. Thứ nhất là tình yêu học trò thường dang dở, chẳng mấy khi mà đi được đến cùng. Thứ nữa là vấn đề trong truyện xảy ra ngoài đời nhiều, nhưng chẳng mấy được êm xuôi như thế.
Thôi, dù sao nó cũng chỉ là truyện, mà lại còn manga. Không nên xét nét nhiều quá.
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April 17, 2023Yeah, that was rough, the style of comedy is not my favorite because it’s very broad, and based off misunderstandings, which makes me grimace and not laugh. It’s comedy very much of a time which I don’t like. Well the art in this book is good and if you enjoy fan service, then you probably would like this book but I would rather just not have that.
March 6, 2020
This is an utterly generic harem manga about an unremarkable guy pursuing a talented and beautiful classmate, but I found it compelling enough to continue with the second volume. I enjoy the art (the texture on some characters' hair, for instance, is glorious) and the story has yet to do any anime crimes against humanity. So I will stick with it.
August 11, 2025
I think I see a harem manga coming with competition on both sides. Yamato is a nice boy; his rival is a complete jerk. Suzuka is tough and her rival is sweet. Since I just finished Fruits Basket, this is a bit of a come down. One volume down and fourteen to go.
July 4, 2018
Best romantic comedy manga with a sports theme ever. Sometimes hate the clumsiness of Akitsuki. But he was lucky to finally be with Suzuka, after numerous fails.
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September 12, 2020
Pretty good and cute Shoujo, slice of life manga! Really cute story and art! 👌😁❤️
October 6, 2020
The short and sweet of it is this: Read Kimi no iru Machi. If you like it, you will probably like Suzuka.
The extended version: it's a romance story that tracks a couple from their school days to early adulthood. I liked it as a teenager, if you're a teenager you'll probably like it too. If you're an adult, you might but there's a big chance you might just scoff here and there along the read.
The extended version: it's a romance story that tracks a couple from their school days to early adulthood. I liked it as a teenager, if you're a teenager you'll probably like it too. If you're an adult, you might but there's a big chance you might just scoff here and there along the read.
April 29, 2015
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La couverture est digne d’un manga Shôjo mais s’en n’est pas un. Les couleurs sont chatoyantes et donnent envie de nous plonger dans ce manga.
Dès le commencement, nous voyions que les dessins sont très bien réalisés ce qui nous donne encore plus envie de nous plonger dans l’histoire.
Nous rencontrons un jeune homme un peu empoté et pas très débrouillard. Nous l’appréciions tout de même malgré son air un peu simplet. Nous comprenons très vite que c’est juste sa timidité et sa façon de faire les choses qui le rendent comme ça. Les filles qui habitent le bâtiment où il réside ne l’aident pas à s’améliorer bien au contraire.
Celles-ci sont très énervantes dès le départ et aussi très obsédées et sous l’emprise de l’alcool.
Outre ces jeunes filles, nous rencontrons une jeune femme qui est plutôt sur la réserve et assez méfiante quant à la gent masculine. Nous comprenons bien plus tard qu’elle a un gros manque de confiance en elle, ce qui est le cas pour notre personnage principal, Yamato. Nous les sentons proches, mais n’osant pas se rapprocher. Ils sont timides et peu sûrs d’eux.
Une chose va chambouler le cour de l’histoire. Et de ce fait, elle va prendre un tournant tout à fait différent.
La fin est bien amenée et nous sentons qu’une magie opère, mais pour cela, nous devrons attendre le prochain tome pour savoir ce qu’il va se dérouler par la suite.
Est-ce que j’ai aimé ce livre ?
J’ai beaucoup apprécié ce manga même si les deux filles sont très pénibles.
À cause d’elles, ma note va baisser, mais j’ai hâte de lire la suite.
La couverture est digne d’un manga Shôjo mais s’en n’est pas un. Les couleurs sont chatoyantes et donnent envie de nous plonger dans ce manga.
Dès le commencement, nous voyions que les dessins sont très bien réalisés ce qui nous donne encore plus envie de nous plonger dans l’histoire.
Nous rencontrons un jeune homme un peu empoté et pas très débrouillard. Nous l’appréciions tout de même malgré son air un peu simplet. Nous comprenons très vite que c’est juste sa timidité et sa façon de faire les choses qui le rendent comme ça. Les filles qui habitent le bâtiment où il réside ne l’aident pas à s’améliorer bien au contraire.
Celles-ci sont très énervantes dès le départ et aussi très obsédées et sous l’emprise de l’alcool.
Outre ces jeunes filles, nous rencontrons une jeune femme qui est plutôt sur la réserve et assez méfiante quant à la gent masculine. Nous comprenons bien plus tard qu’elle a un gros manque de confiance en elle, ce qui est le cas pour notre personnage principal, Yamato. Nous les sentons proches, mais n’osant pas se rapprocher. Ils sont timides et peu sûrs d’eux.
Une chose va chambouler le cour de l’histoire. Et de ce fait, elle va prendre un tournant tout à fait différent.
La fin est bien amenée et nous sentons qu’une magie opère, mais pour cela, nous devrons attendre le prochain tome pour savoir ce qu’il va se dérouler par la suite.
Est-ce que j’ai aimé ce livre ?
J’ai beaucoup apprécié ce manga même si les deux filles sont très pénibles.
À cause d’elles, ma note va baisser, mais j’ai hâte de lire la suite.
February 23, 2024
A bit over the top with the fan service. That's the first comment I'd have to make on this book. I admit, I went into this manga expecting it because it has Ecchi as one of its genres, but it really overdid it with its beginning. I had to do a little bit of soldiering through for the sake of the story.
Fan service aside, I've actually found myself enjoying this series. I've gotten up to book five by now, and I'm enjoying the main characters and the direction that the story is taking. That's more than I can say for most manga sharing the same genre. I also love all the side characters and the fact that the manga has a sports element. I've always loved sports manga and anime - even though I usually have no interest in sports in real life. It must have something to do with how they set up the story... or the genre style. Who knows? This one focuses on track and field a lot - with the main female love interest being a bit of a prodigy at the high jump.
I'd recommend giving this series more of a chance than just its first book. This first volume made me feel kinda meh, but it's been getting so much better as it goes along. I've even noticed the fan service starting to chill out a little. (It's impossible to escape it entirely. He lives in an all-female apartment building/bathhouse. It does sound like the setting of a bad porno, doesn't it?)
Anyway, this manga isn't brilliant, but it is entertaining. It's worth more than just its way too many drawings of naked or near-naked females. When it focuses on the drama, the sports, or the romance, you can see the places where it shines. The potential. Maybe it'll get even better as it goes along.
Fan service aside, I've actually found myself enjoying this series. I've gotten up to book five by now, and I'm enjoying the main characters and the direction that the story is taking. That's more than I can say for most manga sharing the same genre. I also love all the side characters and the fact that the manga has a sports element. I've always loved sports manga and anime - even though I usually have no interest in sports in real life. It must have something to do with how they set up the story... or the genre style. Who knows? This one focuses on track and field a lot - with the main female love interest being a bit of a prodigy at the high jump.
I'd recommend giving this series more of a chance than just its first book. This first volume made me feel kinda meh, but it's been getting so much better as it goes along. I've even noticed the fan service starting to chill out a little. (It's impossible to escape it entirely. He lives in an all-female apartment building/bathhouse. It does sound like the setting of a bad porno, doesn't it?)
Anyway, this manga isn't brilliant, but it is entertaining. It's worth more than just its way too many drawings of naked or near-naked females. When it focuses on the drama, the sports, or the romance, you can see the places where it shines. The potential. Maybe it'll get even better as it goes along.
November 19, 2015
I originally read Suzuka: Volume 1 over a year ago. I initially struggled with the book because of the nudity and the sexual content. I decided not to review it at that time and let it sit. Now, having read it again, I found that I really enjoyed the book and took all of the provocative situations in the book in stride.
I usually donate all of the Del Rey Manga books to the high school I work for, but when the book becomes too sexual, I cannot. This one I definitely cannot give to them, but that is cool. This book is intended for adults, even though most of the main characters are teens.
The story by Kouji Seo is both fun and frisky while the artwork is wonderful. The translation and adaptation to English is very good, which is usually something I have a hard time with. I only know that if I was fifteen years old and I saw as much T & A as Yamato does, I would have been a very happy young man.
Overall, I found Suzuka: Volume 1 to be a great beginning to a long series and I cannot wait to find out what happens in Suzuka: Volume 2. I wonder who Yamato will get to see naked next. I'm sure it won't be Suzuka, though.
I rated this book an 8½ out of 10.
I usually donate all of the Del Rey Manga books to the high school I work for, but when the book becomes too sexual, I cannot. This one I definitely cannot give to them, but that is cool. This book is intended for adults, even though most of the main characters are teens.
The story by Kouji Seo is both fun and frisky while the artwork is wonderful. The translation and adaptation to English is very good, which is usually something I have a hard time with. I only know that if I was fifteen years old and I saw as much T & A as Yamato does, I would have been a very happy young man.
Overall, I found Suzuka: Volume 1 to be a great beginning to a long series and I cannot wait to find out what happens in Suzuka: Volume 2. I wonder who Yamato will get to see naked next. I'm sure it won't be Suzuka, though.
I rated this book an 8½ out of 10.
December 17, 2009
This book is about a boy named Yamoto.He meets this girl named Suzuka she is a long jumper she is so atheletic. Yamoto then suddenly falls in love with this girl Suzuka. She likes him also because she looks like her old boyfriend but she doesn't wanna go out with him because her old boyfriend died from a bus crash. She used to go visit his grave stone every friday but now that he met Yamoto she has stopped because she now knows that she needs to learn of how to let go of things. After she stopped visiting her old boyfriends gravestone and now she started going out with Yamoto this really made a change in her life and in Yamoto's life. A lot of things happen during the way of their relationship. I would reccomend this book to anyone that likes love stories and like a lot of trouble along the way like fights and stuff.
February 7, 2010
Another bad foray into a more mature manga on my part. Main character Yamato finds himself staying with relatives in an all-women, city boarding house. I thought this had the potential to be funny awkward, but most of the story in volume one involved Yamato getting into sexually awkward situations with lusty, loose women. The one exception being his actual love interest - Suzuka - a track and field star his own age. Suzuka is (commendably) a driven, focused young woman with goals and integrity and a little self control. But I want no part of a story that constantly has women thrusting their (sometimes bare) breasts into a young man's face. No more of this one for me.
August 11, 2010
For at one point or the other, I really like this manga. Characters are constructed carefully in the sense that you don't easily recognize them and categorize them in the extent of realizing or even guessing right what that character would do as the story progresses..
Story is also interesting since it is indeed unpredictable.
All characters help out and the story coming from the male lead's perspective, he also helps out the other characters in developing.
I can certainly say that this is one of my 'must read' mangas. ^^
Story is also interesting since it is indeed unpredictable.
All characters help out and the story coming from the male lead's perspective, he also helps out the other characters in developing.
I can certainly say that this is one of my 'must read' mangas. ^^
May 27, 2008
[Series Length: 18 volumes / Read: volumes 1-5]
A solid teen romance manga, marred only by the frequent and puzzling use of fan-service and nudity that serve little purpose to advance the story or tone of the series.
A solid teen romance manga, marred only by the frequent and puzzling use of fan-service and nudity that serve little purpose to advance the story or tone of the series.
June 11, 2011
I actually saw the anime first and it was a good story, so I thought I would pick up the manga and I was rather disappointed. Too much T & A that really had absolutely no place in the story as far as I was concerned and reading it was just not as good as the anime.
March 13, 2011
If you've read manga or watched anime for a long time, then this plot will most likely not be new to you. Standard romantic comedy setup with a theme around the high jump. Still, even with alot of the tired old tropes, it seems Suzuka stands to be an interesting series.
January 4, 2015
I enjoyed it so much .it's really different I guess a public bath haha .the art was wonderful and it was really funny and enjoyable . I really did like the characters poor Yamato he is always being bossed by women. I am defenately reading the second book right this moment.
August 21, 2008
This manga is good exactly to the point when anime ends. From then the story goes downward towards the ridiculous ending of the series.
March 1, 2016
The fist volume was okay enough.
June 17, 2012
This manga is not for me. But the art is so good. The story is typical to anime/manga fan service. There is a love story but I don't like harem. And it is ecchi so...
did-not-finish
February 16, 2013Uuuuugh... Soooo boring!
January 17, 2016
I hated this one. It wasn't as annoying as Love Hina, but for harems, every single plot device was transparent.
July 12, 2016
Personaggi carini e abbastanza delineati, bei disegni, ma anche qui la trama scarseggia.
Sono tutti siparietti ed equivoci amorosi più o meno comici, e anche lo sport è poco presente.
Sono tutti siparietti ed equivoci amorosi più o meno comici, e anche lo sport è poco presente.
April 5, 2017
2,5 C'est très Ken Akamastu-esque, mais moins drôle que ce j'espérais. J'ai pris le tome 2 en même temps, on verra à l'issu de celui-là si je continue ou pas.
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