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Times Two
When you're in love, life feels like it's multiplied Times Two!
These five short stories of budding high school romance explore the confusion and exhilaration of falling from someone new!
Love at First Sight: Love is in the air at Field Day, and Eric can't figure out what draws her to Kohei!
Expiration Date 2001: Miwa's secret crush Kenta gives her a soda, and she decides that the date on the bottom of the can must be symbolic. Could this love taste sweet, or will it go sour?
Second impression: When delinquent Naoki turns out to be an attentive gardener, will he and Haruka sow the seeds of romance together?
Frequency: What happens when rascally loudmouth Kaori gains the ability to tune in to the private thoughts of model student Morihiro?
Baby Universe: Can Kengo convince Saki that she's not too grown up to recapture the innocent excitement they felt while searching the sky for UFOs as kids?
These five short stories of budding high school romance explore the confusion and exhilaration of falling from someone new!
Love at First Sight: Love is in the air at Field Day, and Eric can't figure out what draws her to Kohei!
Expiration Date 2001: Miwa's secret crush Kenta gives her a soda, and she decides that the date on the bottom of the can must be symbolic. Could this love taste sweet, or will it go sour?
Second impression: When delinquent Naoki turns out to be an attentive gardener, will he and Haruka sow the seeds of romance together?
Frequency: What happens when rascally loudmouth Kaori gains the ability to tune in to the private thoughts of model student Morihiro?
Baby Universe: Can Kengo convince Saki that she's not too grown up to recapture the innocent excitement they felt while searching the sky for UFOs as kids?
200 pages, Paperback
First published April 24, 2002
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November 11, 2023
Oh my goodness, I LOVED this!
I haven't read anything by this manga creator previously, but I definitely want to now because outside of the story "Frequency," I really really enjoyed each one of these short stories! They were fun, engaging, and all had a beautiful touch of sweetness that left me grinning!
If I HAD to choose one favorite I would say "Baby Universe," but for two close contenders, I would also say "Love at First Touch" and "Second Impression." "Expiration Date 2001" was also sweet, but it didn't quite leave me grinning and wanting to kick my feet the same way the other ones did. (Still a good one though!)
Overall, this is definitely staying in my collection, and am very glad a friend recommended it to me as well as another friend helping me get my hands on a good copy! It's definitely a very great collection of stories and hope I can read Monkey High soon as a result of loving this one so much!
I haven't read anything by this manga creator previously, but I definitely want to now because outside of the story "Frequency," I really really enjoyed each one of these short stories! They were fun, engaging, and all had a beautiful touch of sweetness that left me grinning!
If I HAD to choose one favorite I would say "Baby Universe," but for two close contenders, I would also say "Love at First Touch" and "Second Impression." "Expiration Date 2001" was also sweet, but it didn't quite leave me grinning and wanting to kick my feet the same way the other ones did. (Still a good one though!)
Overall, this is definitely staying in my collection, and am very glad a friend recommended it to me as well as another friend helping me get my hands on a good copy! It's definitely a very great collection of stories and hope I can read Monkey High soon as a result of loving this one so much!
April 13, 2021
I bought a used manga series and this volume came as a present. I was surprised, especially because I really like Shōko Akira as a mangaka.
After reading it, I was extremely grateful for this present: it's one of the best one-shot I've read lately. It's very sweet and the story are soooo cute! They are all love stories, of course, but they treat the topic from different angles.
The first story is probably the weakest of the lot. Still cute but I didn't like the main character that much.
In the second story, there's a girl who is dead set on confessing her love to a classmate before the expiration date on a can he had given her as a present.
The third one revolves around sunflowers and a guy who takes care of them during the summer.
The fourth one is kind of funny because there's a girl who suddenly can reads the thoughts of the perfect class president, and she finds out that maybe he's more than meets the eye.
And the fifth one... the fifth one is perfect to close this volume. Two childhood friends looking for UFOs on Christmas's Eve...
Well, so gooood!!!!
After reading it, I was extremely grateful for this present: it's one of the best one-shot I've read lately. It's very sweet and the story are soooo cute! They are all love stories, of course, but they treat the topic from different angles.
The first story is probably the weakest of the lot. Still cute but I didn't like the main character that much.
In the second story, there's a girl who is dead set on confessing her love to a classmate before the expiration date on a can he had given her as a present.
The third one revolves around sunflowers and a guy who takes care of them during the summer.
The fourth one is kind of funny because there's a girl who suddenly can reads the thoughts of the perfect class president, and she finds out that maybe he's more than meets the eye.
And the fifth one... the fifth one is perfect to close this volume. Two childhood friends looking for UFOs on Christmas's Eve...
Well, so gooood!!!!
March 24, 2024
Such sweet and adorable short stories! I wanted to read this since I read Monkey High by the same mangaka and I don’t regret it!!!!
November 9, 2017
I'd read this before and didn't remember it being so cute. Basically a series of 5 unconnected stories about the agony of falling in love in high school. I especially enjoyed the story "Second Impression". There's something about ESP in shoujo manga that I absolutely love. Maybe because it's an easy way for one of the characters to really find out how the other feels and removes that annoying 'trope' of tension created through miscommunication. If you like innocent pure love shoujo, or are a fan of the authors other title, Monkey High, you should consider giving this a try.
March 16, 2024
what a cute collection of short stories!
May 27, 2008
[Series Length: 1 volume / Read: volume 1]
An anthology of 5 high school romance short-stories, with premises ranging from the conventional (sports festival, summer school) to the unique (soda expiration date) to the more unconventional (telepathy, UFOs). Although your impression from story to story may fluctuate (they're all a little different from each other), overall the writing is pretty good and the artwork is warm & friendly. In fact, this is a fairly light-hearted book but with some substance.
An anthology of 5 high school romance short-stories, with premises ranging from the conventional (sports festival, summer school) to the unique (soda expiration date) to the more unconventional (telepathy, UFOs). Although your impression from story to story may fluctuate (they're all a little different from each other), overall the writing is pretty good and the artwork is warm & friendly. In fact, this is a fairly light-hearted book but with some substance.
June 11, 2015
Generally a lot of the same old same old for shoujo, it felt like. Meh.
I liked Frequency the most, prolly just because I like it when we find out that characters aren't what they seem. Morihiro's thoughts were fun to sift through, considering his façade. Also the supernatural tidbit to it, but hey.
Second Impression was my second favorite. :3
Overall not my favorite set of shorties, but not bad.
I liked Frequency the most, prolly just because I like it when we find out that characters aren't what they seem. Morihiro's thoughts were fun to sift through, considering his façade. Also the supernatural tidbit to it, but hey.
Second Impression was my second favorite. :3
Overall not my favorite set of shorties, but not bad.
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