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Star and Hedgehog
Outgoing college student Ikumi heads home for the summer, where he meets Harukiyo, a shy gardener with a soft spot for house plants.
Despite seeming totally resistant to Ikumi's charms, Harukiyo eventually admits his attraction to Ikumi, and Ikumi is surprised to discover he feels the same way about Harukyo! At summer's end, the pair embark on their first long-distance relationship...
Once reunited, Ikumi and Harukiyo stumble together through the early stages of their newfound romance, tripping over the stark differences in their personalities. Can a blossoming love between a shining star and a prickly hedgehog go the distance?
Despite seeming totally resistant to Ikumi's charms, Harukiyo eventually admits his attraction to Ikumi, and Ikumi is surprised to discover he feels the same way about Harukyo! At summer's end, the pair embark on their first long-distance relationship...
Once reunited, Ikumi and Harukiyo stumble together through the early stages of their newfound romance, tripping over the stark differences in their personalities. Can a blossoming love between a shining star and a prickly hedgehog go the distance?
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January 3, 2026
so cute! i loved seeing ikumi and harukiyo’s relationship grow throughout the story. i feel like a lot of manga ends once the main characters become a couple, so i always appreciate when i stumble upon gems that show how the couple is doing months after becoming official!
January 6, 2021
So hot and cute at the same time! Updates, please!
December 2, 2019
Simple but cute story. Rounded up to 5.
November 23, 2024
Seriously this was such an cute and wholesome story! The couple! Was really adorable and I loved that they take consent seriously and communicated a lot.
December 4, 2021
[ ★★★★ / 5 ]
This is adorable too!
Nayuta-sensei really get the hang of making likeable characters. I really like sensei's style of storytelling. I like the pace, and the storylines flow naturally too!
Therefore, I officially declare Nayuta-sensei as my (another) go-to-author! Yeeeay~ 🙆🏻♀️
Off to the next works, go go! 🏃🏻♀️💨
p.s:
yo y'all need to listen to the drama cd because sheeesh— 🔥♨️
p.s.s:
their seiyuus did a really great job of portraying the characters 👍🏻
This is adorable too!
Nayuta-sensei really get the hang of making likeable characters. I really like sensei's style of storytelling. I like the pace, and the storylines flow naturally too!
Therefore, I officially declare Nayuta-sensei as my (another) go-to-author! Yeeeay~ 🙆🏻♀️
Off to the next works, go go! 🏃🏻♀️💨
p.s:
yo y'all need to listen to the drama cd because sheeesh— 🔥♨️
p.s.s:
their seiyuus did a really great job of portraying the characters 👍🏻
February 5, 2020
è stato adorabile!!!
November 26, 2025
This was cute and I loved the emphasis on consent, but it felt like it was missing something. I can’t quite put my finger on what exactly though. They’re a cute couple and I love how chill they were about liking each other although they clearly dated women before. Would love to get the brother’s story too 👀
January 11, 2026
A straightforward read with cute moments, minimal angst, and smut sprinkled in. I think this manga would’ve benefited from a few more chapters. It’s not bad, but definitely not up in my favourites. This bl was enjoyable nonetheless and was easy to read in one go. Introverted, shy characters have a special place in my heart.
September 15, 2024
it was sooo cute
August 6, 2025
Cute. Definitely an enjoyable read.
November 3, 2025
★★★★☆ (4.25)
they're so cute pls protect
they're so cute pls protect
January 10, 2026
Cute, adorable, fun, sexy, great chemistry, and I love it. Plus, so many bonuses. 😍
February 3, 2022
AAAAH I just wish it would have lasted a whileeee but it was absolutely amazinnnnng and smutty to add :)
October 25, 2025
Cute, although not much in the way of a substantial story.
As with Be My Buddy , the setup was the best part: a really promising idea that just didn't develop enough. The beginning was great. Handsome, popular, apparently Super Rich Ikumi goes home for summer break and is surprised to find that his mother has hired some gardeners (including a handsome guy in his age range) to redo their huge yard.
Incidentally, the wealth difference never comes up as a plot point, which would've made things more interesting. Ikumi's college friends open the story by being jealous of his wealth and his gigantic house where he gets to spend his time lounging around and doing nothing (presumably not needing any part time jobs during school either), but the difference in his and his gardener boyfriend's societal status falls by the wayside. Even when Harukiyo mentions that he enjoyed being able to sit in on one of Ikumi's college classes, since he'd never had the opportunity to go himself, they never talk about it.
Or, at least, we don't really get to see any of the development of their relationship, where they might talk about important things. There's a 4 month time skip where they talk on the phone a ton, but about what? I wish more of that would've been shown.
Harukiyo is a few years older than Ikumi, 24 and shy and fortunately quite interested in plants, since that's his family business. Although they mostly do outdoor landscaping, he has a particular interest in house plants, which is how he and Ikumi finally have a real conversation, after a few awkward encounters where Harukiyo had seemed like he actively disliked Ikumi.
Turns out Harukiyo's just a fairly big introvert who found Ikumi so wildly attractive he had trouble interacting with him face to face. This...would've been helped by the art demonstrating that, honestly. Ikumi looked like a very ordinary dude. If he's supposed to be incredibly stunning, he should be drawn to be a lot more handsome than everyone around him...
Harukiyo is quite handsome himself, with his natural black hair but a ton of piercings, that he'd apparently (according to the author's notes) started adding to keep people away from him, but has been adding to over time just because he likes them. I did like the bonus comic of Ikumi imagining how intimidating he would've been for the short period where he had bleached blond hair, too.
His primary traits are that he's got an intimidating exterior that's juxtaposed intriguingly against his blushing, surprisingly chatty, awkward but sweet side. Ikumi...well, he's rich and good looking with a very friendly, outgoing personality. That's really as much as we learn about either of them, which is why I would've liked some more relationship building in the middle.
The two of them interact for maybe...three days? Four days? While Harukiyo is mostly outside working on Ikumi's family's garden while Ikumi sleeps until noon. They have a few decent interactions, where Ikumi learns more about Harukiyo's true personality and gets intrigued by how open and honest he can be, and also how attractive and built his body is. Mostly, Ikumi seems to be really drawn by Harukiyo's open interest in him: he's never had a guy tell him so earnestly and repeatedly how good looking he is.
It throws Ikumi off, but he starts to notice Harukiyo in turn, and eventually (...after like four days...) realizes he's attracted to Harukiyo, too. He kicks himself for not asking for Harukiyo's phone number before they finished up their work for the year (not returning again until spring), but when he runs into Harukiyo at a local festival, he's able to fix that error.
Well, first he runs off because he gets embarrassed when he sees Harukiyo with a girl. Harukiyo had never actually said he liked him, after all...he'd just expressed admiration for Ikumi's clothes and handsome face, which could just be a platonic admiration sort of thing. So Ikumi feels kind of humiliated by starting to think of him in a different way, and to expect more.
Except, of course, Harukiyo had meant it in an "I'm attracted to you" way, and they have a nice interaction and clarification before Ikumi goes off to Tokyo, and they start the first four months of their long distance relationship.
Everything's still in such early stages it's hard to really see it as a solid relationship just yet. I do like how much they talked about taking things at Harukiyo's speed, with Ikumi respecting him, even if they get in fights about some of their kinks later into their relationship. It's a decent story - could've had some additional depth, but overall pretty good.
I hadn't realized the book I keep skipping in preorders is a spinoff about Harukiyo's older brother, whom he visits in Tokyo when he has a misunderstanding with Ikumi. It makes some of that interaction a little weirder...I don't know if Nago had decided at that point that the brother would be gay, too? Although Harukiyo had the traditional BL route of dating a bunch of girls previously and then suddenly falling for this random dude. (I was a little disappointed that Ikumi was apparently his first male crush, because would he really have been that open about telling him he found him attractive?)
Anyway, the spinoff just sounds a whole lot more angsty, and the summary has tropes I'm super not into, like a whole casual friends with benefits deal with the brother sleeping with other people. So I'll probably keep skipping it, and will leave this classed as a one-shot. Even if I am a little curious if Harukiyo and Ikumi would show up in the sequel.
As with Be My Buddy , the setup was the best part: a really promising idea that just didn't develop enough. The beginning was great. Handsome, popular, apparently Super Rich Ikumi goes home for summer break and is surprised to find that his mother has hired some gardeners (including a handsome guy in his age range) to redo their huge yard.
Incidentally, the wealth difference never comes up as a plot point, which would've made things more interesting. Ikumi's college friends open the story by being jealous of his wealth and his gigantic house where he gets to spend his time lounging around and doing nothing (presumably not needing any part time jobs during school either), but the difference in his and his gardener boyfriend's societal status falls by the wayside. Even when Harukiyo mentions that he enjoyed being able to sit in on one of Ikumi's college classes, since he'd never had the opportunity to go himself, they never talk about it.
Or, at least, we don't really get to see any of the development of their relationship, where they might talk about important things. There's a 4 month time skip where they talk on the phone a ton, but about what? I wish more of that would've been shown.
Harukiyo is a few years older than Ikumi, 24 and shy and fortunately quite interested in plants, since that's his family business. Although they mostly do outdoor landscaping, he has a particular interest in house plants, which is how he and Ikumi finally have a real conversation, after a few awkward encounters where Harukiyo had seemed like he actively disliked Ikumi.
Turns out Harukiyo's just a fairly big introvert who found Ikumi so wildly attractive he had trouble interacting with him face to face. This...would've been helped by the art demonstrating that, honestly. Ikumi looked like a very ordinary dude. If he's supposed to be incredibly stunning, he should be drawn to be a lot more handsome than everyone around him...
Harukiyo is quite handsome himself, with his natural black hair but a ton of piercings, that he'd apparently (according to the author's notes) started adding to keep people away from him, but has been adding to over time just because he likes them. I did like the bonus comic of Ikumi imagining how intimidating he would've been for the short period where he had bleached blond hair, too.
His primary traits are that he's got an intimidating exterior that's juxtaposed intriguingly against his blushing, surprisingly chatty, awkward but sweet side. Ikumi...well, he's rich and good looking with a very friendly, outgoing personality. That's really as much as we learn about either of them, which is why I would've liked some more relationship building in the middle.
The two of them interact for maybe...three days? Four days? While Harukiyo is mostly outside working on Ikumi's family's garden while Ikumi sleeps until noon. They have a few decent interactions, where Ikumi learns more about Harukiyo's true personality and gets intrigued by how open and honest he can be, and also how attractive and built his body is. Mostly, Ikumi seems to be really drawn by Harukiyo's open interest in him: he's never had a guy tell him so earnestly and repeatedly how good looking he is.
It throws Ikumi off, but he starts to notice Harukiyo in turn, and eventually (...after like four days...) realizes he's attracted to Harukiyo, too. He kicks himself for not asking for Harukiyo's phone number before they finished up their work for the year (not returning again until spring), but when he runs into Harukiyo at a local festival, he's able to fix that error.
Well, first he runs off because he gets embarrassed when he sees Harukiyo with a girl. Harukiyo had never actually said he liked him, after all...he'd just expressed admiration for Ikumi's clothes and handsome face, which could just be a platonic admiration sort of thing. So Ikumi feels kind of humiliated by starting to think of him in a different way, and to expect more.
Except, of course, Harukiyo had meant it in an "I'm attracted to you" way, and they have a nice interaction and clarification before Ikumi goes off to Tokyo, and they start the first four months of their long distance relationship.
Everything's still in such early stages it's hard to really see it as a solid relationship just yet. I do like how much they talked about taking things at Harukiyo's speed, with Ikumi respecting him, even if they get in fights about some of their kinks later into their relationship. It's a decent story - could've had some additional depth, but overall pretty good.
I hadn't realized the book I keep skipping in preorders is a spinoff about Harukiyo's older brother, whom he visits in Tokyo when he has a misunderstanding with Ikumi. It makes some of that interaction a little weirder...I don't know if Nago had decided at that point that the brother would be gay, too? Although Harukiyo had the traditional BL route of dating a bunch of girls previously and then suddenly falling for this random dude. (I was a little disappointed that Ikumi was apparently his first male crush, because would he really have been that open about telling him he found him attractive?)
Anyway, the spinoff just sounds a whole lot more angsty, and the summary has tropes I'm super not into, like a whole casual friends with benefits deal with the brother sleeping with other people. So I'll probably keep skipping it, and will leave this classed as a one-shot. Even if I am a little curious if Harukiyo and Ikumi would show up in the sequel.
December 10, 2019
College student Ikemi heads home on break and meets the son of the gardener. Straight forward story, a little angst. Nice art over all.
October 11, 2025
Not quite a 3-star read, but I rounded up. There's nothing terrible about it; I just found that there's nothing really to it. It starts out cute and sweet, but ultimately the characters are kind of forgettable because they're pretty superficial (i.e. we never learn anything about them besides one is a gardener and the other is a student living in Tokyo). When Harukiyo gets mad, that was kind of a perfect place to learn something more about these two, but it didn't happen.
June 13, 2021
Such a beautiful story. I ship them so hard.❤☺
Me being a Leo living in countryside can understand how people in countryside react when you dress a little flashy. But they are actually admiring your style the just tend to be shy to tell you.
Me being a Leo living in countryside can understand how people in countryside react when you dress a little flashy. But they are actually admiring your style the just tend to be shy to tell you.
May 10, 2022
reread : this one is still so cute! i enjoyed the plot and the romance aspect, and of course the art style is rlly nice. i specifically like how at the beginning of the relationship between the mc and the love interest, they set positive boundaries. it’s refreshing!
5 ⭐️’s !!
5 ⭐️’s !!
June 3, 2023
BL molt fluixet i meh entre un noi i el seu jardiner... l'única cosa mig especial que té és que el jardiner té pinta de macarra, però en realitat és molt tímid i és l'uke + que mantenen la relació a distància. M'he quedat bastant igual ^^'
November 11, 2025
I first read "Star and Hedgehog" years ago online and I finally get to hold a physical English copy!!! 💕
Story is so sweet, the art is stunning, and the characters still make me melt. Absolutely deserving to be on the shelf.
Story is so sweet, the art is stunning, and the characters still make me melt. Absolutely deserving to be on the shelf.
December 28, 2025
Pretty cute. I like the art as well. I did not like the sequel to this story at all but this one was not bad to me. The couple like and respect each other. It just doesn’t have that overall charm to be fluffy and it’s not angsty.
January 26, 2026
🌧️🎇📱- more of a 4.75
love that it was love at first site
ikumi and harukiyo are super cute
hated the chapter where ikumi tries to force harukiyo into doing smth he doesn’t
thought it was gonna be cute bc of the cover, but I liked the ending of it.
love that it was love at first site
ikumi and harukiyo are super cute
hated the chapter where ikumi tries to force harukiyo into doing smth he doesn’t
thought it was gonna be cute bc of the cover, but I liked the ending of it.
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May 5, 2020
It's good enough even if the art isn't that great tbh.....
May 17, 2020
This manga was cute, the main characters were funny and adorable and I like their relationship.
April 30, 2021
So cute and I love the art
June 2, 2021
Loved it! They are so cute!
September 16, 2021
Entretenido y con una pareja verdaderamente tierna. Fue un buen comienzo, lento pero preciso. Mientras continuaba la historia, cada vez mas quería a los personajes.
Cantidad de capítulos: Adecuada.
Cantidad de capítulos: Adecuada.
October 17, 2021
I adored this! I loved the characters and I really liked the story. Worth the read!
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