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明日ちゃんのセーラー服 [Akebi-chan no Sailor-fuku] #1
明日ちゃんのセーラー服 1 [Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku 1]
舞台は、田舎の名門女子中学・私立ロウ梅学園。この学園のセーラー服を着ることが「夢」だった明日小路。少女の「夢」の中学セーラー服ライフが始まる。広がる、緑豊かな田園風景。ゆっくり流れる青春時間。田舎×中学生×セーラー服「友達100人出来るかな?」 俊英・博が、柔らかなタッチで贈る優しい学園物語…入学です。
186 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2016
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August 20, 2023
5/5
And here we are with a full score because the art is so amazing that it deserves a million stars.
I thought about this a lot and the more time it passes the more I like it.
This will turn into a super cute slice of life, school manga full of feelings and first times.
In this volume we are following our protagonist with her first time in a new school, with her so wished school uniform, starting her school life and making her first school friendships.
We are seeing the preparation for the big day of presentation at school and her real first day at school.
Everything is so well detailed and described that I simply got lost reading but especially enjoying with the eyes. There are some scenes that didn't need any text, they spoke for themeselves.
There's a whole sequence, for example, of Akebi doing her ponytail. It was "shot" from the back and we follow step by step her hands movements with the elastic, it was fascinating.
There's a full two pages classroom presentation, full of portraits with ALL her classmates (16 in total).
And everytime a new classmate gets more "screen time" there's a full page full of details about them.
This is definitely going to be in my faves and it could turn into one of my faves of all time.
And here we are with a full score because the art is so amazing that it deserves a million stars.
I thought about this a lot and the more time it passes the more I like it.
This will turn into a super cute slice of life, school manga full of feelings and first times.
In this volume we are following our protagonist with her first time in a new school, with her so wished school uniform, starting her school life and making her first school friendships.
We are seeing the preparation for the big day of presentation at school and her real first day at school.
Everything is so well detailed and described that I simply got lost reading but especially enjoying with the eyes. There are some scenes that didn't need any text, they spoke for themeselves.
There's a whole sequence, for example, of Akebi doing her ponytail. It was "shot" from the back and we follow step by step her hands movements with the elastic, it was fascinating.
There's a full two pages classroom presentation, full of portraits with ALL her classmates (16 in total).
And everytime a new classmate gets more "screen time" there's a full page full of details about them.
This is definitely going to be in my faves and it could turn into one of my faves of all time.
February 16, 2024
I look down on cocomelon babies until I look up and realize I’ve been entertained by mid with pretty pictures for the last half hour
February 11, 2022
I forgot how I came across this series, even though it was only a day or two ago. I think I was just looking up anime studio CloverWorks because I was about to read Sono Bisque Doll, but eventually ending up reading this first.
I felt like I had to add a new "shelf" to my Goodreads, "Iyashikei," because of just how light this manga is. The premise is that Akebi-chan is starting middle school, and is obsessed with sailor fuku because of a popular new idol she saw on TV, and found out her mother wore a sailor fuku for her middle school, so Akebi applies to the same school. Her mother, a dress-maker, sews a brand new uniform for Komichi (the protagonist's given name), and she goes off to school. Unfortunately, the manga takes a turn to the dramatic when... it's revealed the school now uses blazers for uniforms!. Luckily, Komichi has special privileges from (ironically) having lesser privilege; she got a scholarship because her family's somewhat poor, but Komichi had great grades in elementary school. Because of her free spirit (or something), Komichi is allowed to wear her sailor fuku. Her big plan for middle school is to make friends with everyone, but she fears her mismatching uniform will make her stand out too much and bother her new peers. But everything seems to work out, as Komichi is able to make a handful of friends by the end of the volume. This volume ends after Komichi's first school day, so it seems the manga will move at a rather slow pace going forward, which works for how breezy it is.
I'm at risk of potentially being unable to truly enjoy this manga, as the degree to which it relies on "healing" can often come across as... "demeaning"(?), or something. Like, I watched the Senko-san anime some years back, and it was mostly quite nice, but there were times when it would just piss me off with how "pure" and "relaxing" some stuff was. I might have a bothersome day at work, with traffic to and from being annoying, and it would feel like the anime is rubbing it in my face that I don't have a magical fox-goddess daughter-wife to cook for me and shit. I guess, in Japan, salarymen like to have relaxing shit to watch/read when they get home after a busy day, but I'd rather blow off steam by watching G Gundam. So, in the case of Akebi-chan, I can mostly appreciate the naivete of Komichi's childhood purity/innocence/whatever as she's so easily pleased by making new friends and receiving compliments, and often thinks to herself about sharing with her little sister all the fun things that happened to her at school, but sometimes it just makes me remember how I didn't give a shit about anything at school and just spent the whole time waiting to get back home to watch Dragon Ball Z on Toonami, or whatever. What's silly is I love a lot of Hermann Hesse bildungsroman novels about youths in school, but I think that's mostly because the distant settings, a century or so in the past, make for an unrestricted/infinite source of Nostalgia, for a time I can never experience because I was born too late in the first place. There are still neat qualities, though; one thing I like about school-setting manga is the ubiquity of uniforms, which I respect as an adult, but would have hated if I had to wear a uniform when I was in school myself. I guess there are also regional differences, such that I think it would have been dope if American boys had something similar to gakuran when we were in school, but I can't imagine it too well in my head because, being white, I'd just look like a cosplaying weeb asshole.
Erika's introduction seems to be a mild appeal to foot/smell fetishism, which is somewhat weird, but there are subtle hints at lewdness elsewhere to suggest the whole manga is meant to flirt slightly with eroticism. Maybe I'm a sicko, I don't know, but I feel a lot of the mention of e.g. sweat is meant to appeal to something beyond simple slice-of-life. I mean, the cover of this volume is Komichi squeezing her lips in a particular way, occurring in the main story at the end of a lengthy sequence of applying lipgloss and stuff while her new friends watch, blushing in a way that makes it seem like the scene is semi-scandalous. Oh, and, ya know, MangaDex tags the manga as "suggestive" as well, so I'm not alone in thinking so.
I felt like I had to add a new "shelf" to my Goodreads, "Iyashikei," because of just how light this manga is. The premise is that Akebi-chan is starting middle school, and is obsessed with sailor fuku because of a popular new idol she saw on TV, and found out her mother wore a sailor fuku for her middle school, so Akebi applies to the same school. Her mother, a dress-maker, sews a brand new uniform for Komichi (the protagonist's given name), and she goes off to school. Unfortunately, the manga takes a turn to the dramatic when... it's revealed the school now uses blazers for uniforms!. Luckily, Komichi has special privileges from (ironically) having lesser privilege; she got a scholarship because her family's somewhat poor, but Komichi had great grades in elementary school. Because of her free spirit (or something), Komichi is allowed to wear her sailor fuku. Her big plan for middle school is to make friends with everyone, but she fears her mismatching uniform will make her stand out too much and bother her new peers. But everything seems to work out, as Komichi is able to make a handful of friends by the end of the volume. This volume ends after Komichi's first school day, so it seems the manga will move at a rather slow pace going forward, which works for how breezy it is.
I'm at risk of potentially being unable to truly enjoy this manga, as the degree to which it relies on "healing" can often come across as... "demeaning"(?), or something. Like, I watched the Senko-san anime some years back, and it was mostly quite nice, but there were times when it would just piss me off with how "pure" and "relaxing" some stuff was. I might have a bothersome day at work, with traffic to and from being annoying, and it would feel like the anime is rubbing it in my face that I don't have a magical fox-goddess daughter-wife to cook for me and shit. I guess, in Japan, salarymen like to have relaxing shit to watch/read when they get home after a busy day, but I'd rather blow off steam by watching G Gundam. So, in the case of Akebi-chan, I can mostly appreciate the naivete of Komichi's childhood purity/innocence/whatever as she's so easily pleased by making new friends and receiving compliments, and often thinks to herself about sharing with her little sister all the fun things that happened to her at school, but sometimes it just makes me remember how I didn't give a shit about anything at school and just spent the whole time waiting to get back home to watch Dragon Ball Z on Toonami, or whatever. What's silly is I love a lot of Hermann Hesse bildungsroman novels about youths in school, but I think that's mostly because the distant settings, a century or so in the past, make for an unrestricted/infinite source of Nostalgia, for a time I can never experience because I was born too late in the first place. There are still neat qualities, though; one thing I like about school-setting manga is the ubiquity of uniforms, which I respect as an adult, but would have hated if I had to wear a uniform when I was in school myself. I guess there are also regional differences, such that I think it would have been dope if American boys had something similar to gakuran when we were in school, but I can't imagine it too well in my head because, being white, I'd just look like a cosplaying weeb asshole.
Erika's introduction seems to be a mild appeal to foot/smell fetishism, which is somewhat weird, but there are subtle hints at lewdness elsewhere to suggest the whole manga is meant to flirt slightly with eroticism. Maybe I'm a sicko, I don't know, but I feel a lot of the mention of e.g. sweat is meant to appeal to something beyond simple slice-of-life. I mean, the cover of this volume is Komichi squeezing her lips in a particular way, occurring in the main story at the end of a lengthy sequence of applying lipgloss and stuff while her new friends watch, blushing in a way that makes it seem like the scene is semi-scandalous. Oh, and, ya know, MangaDex tags the manga as "suggestive" as well, so I'm not alone in thinking so.
March 22, 2025
i wouldn't consider myself a prudish person in any real sense. lots of time spent with exploitation cinema and penis-brained comic books for teenage boys has dulled my sensitivity at worst, and at best gifted me with an aptitude for appreciating thematic honesty, even in the skeeviest material. bearing that in mind: reading this manga makes me feel criminally complicit in the author's perversion.
Akebi-chan employs truly remarkable character art; at once effortlessly emotive and obsessively detailed, standing out stylistically well beyond its life-slicing contemporaries... exclusively in the interest of rendering the sweaty underwear of middle school girls. with every new chapter comes a new fixation on their young bodies: the smell of their feet, the moisture of their lips; a veritable fetish database for the all-range sicko.
Akebi-chan employs truly remarkable character art; at once effortlessly emotive and obsessively detailed, standing out stylistically well beyond its life-slicing contemporaries... exclusively in the interest of rendering the sweaty underwear of middle school girls. with every new chapter comes a new fixation on their young bodies: the smell of their feet, the moisture of their lips; a veritable fetish database for the all-range sicko.
November 7, 2021
4.5/5
just so so good, im curious to see how this will go, the story and the art style are promising, i love the cute interaction between the girls!
im a little overwhelmed rn coz i went in blind and turned out really enjoying the volume a lot, the series is definitely underrated, i hope more people will read the manga when the anime come out next year!
just so so good, im curious to see how this will go, the story and the art style are promising, i love the cute interaction between the girls!
im a little overwhelmed rn coz i went in blind and turned out really enjoying the volume a lot, the series is definitely underrated, i hope more people will read the manga when the anime come out next year!
August 31, 2024
La storia è esile esile e sa di già visto e anche se i disegni sono molto belli, c'è così tanto fanservice che alla fine mi ha davvero infastidita. Ti lascia una sensazione di vago disgusto. Non continuerò di certo questa serie.
February 26, 2024
Made in Abyss con le scolarette
February 27, 2025
I didn't know anything about this, found it on a yuri fanpage and therefore thought I'd be getting into another GL. But no – this is the other side of yuri, the CGDCT, kinda bait type. Which I don't mind for this story though, cause it plays in middle school and the characters are fairly young (around 12 I'm guessing).
It's very heavy on the slice of life, which I don't mind either, cause I'm a slice of life fan. Volume 1 spanned through around 3 days only, focusing on the slow life, enjoying every second basically.
The artstyle is quite unique with distinctive features – quite detailed, without being too detailed, still giving the characters a typical CGDCT flair. Although the characters appear quite elegant due to the style sometimes, that I was honestly a bit surprised to find this to be CGDCT. It's not like K-On or YuruCamp.
I especially love the colored pages with the watercolor technique – fits the sailor 'theme'.
(The cover is a bit of an odd choice though, also might be why I didn't think this was CGDCT at first.)
Due to it being so slow life, you can focus a lot on the characters. I like most of them so far, and want to know more about them. Akebi's lovely relationship with her younger sister is really cute, they've got each other's backs, while still teasing one another on a regular basis.
One of her classmates and her first friend in class, Kizaki Erica, might have developed a crush on Akebi, as she's often getting jealous. Perhaps it's a platonic crush, or it'll go into the GL direction after all?
I'm not fond of her father though. He's the typical, old-fashioned father who's not really aware of having kids, works far from home and only visits for short amount of times, and because kids grow so fast, he doesn't know how to act around them, is awkward about it and spends more time smoking outside, while the mother takes care of the household and also has a job. Too old-fashioned for my style, but as long as he doesn't appear much (proper yuri stories don't have male characters after all), I won't mind it.
Interested in where the story is gonna go, probably focusing on Akebi becoming the popular girl in school.
-27.02.25
It's very heavy on the slice of life, which I don't mind either, cause I'm a slice of life fan. Volume 1 spanned through around 3 days only, focusing on the slow life, enjoying every second basically.
The artstyle is quite unique with distinctive features – quite detailed, without being too detailed, still giving the characters a typical CGDCT flair. Although the characters appear quite elegant due to the style sometimes, that I was honestly a bit surprised to find this to be CGDCT. It's not like K-On or YuruCamp.
I especially love the colored pages with the watercolor technique – fits the sailor 'theme'.
(The cover is a bit of an odd choice though, also might be why I didn't think this was CGDCT at first.)
Due to it being so slow life, you can focus a lot on the characters. I like most of them so far, and want to know more about them. Akebi's lovely relationship with her younger sister is really cute, they've got each other's backs, while still teasing one another on a regular basis.
One of her classmates and her first friend in class, Kizaki Erica, might have developed a crush on Akebi, as she's often getting jealous. Perhaps it's a platonic crush, or it'll go into the GL direction after all?
I'm not fond of her father though. He's the typical, old-fashioned father who's not really aware of having kids, works far from home and only visits for short amount of times, and because kids grow so fast, he doesn't know how to act around them, is awkward about it and spends more time smoking outside, while the mother takes care of the household and also has a job. Too old-fashioned for my style, but as long as he doesn't appear much (proper yuri stories don't have male characters after all), I won't mind it.
Interested in where the story is gonna go, probably focusing on Akebi becoming the popular girl in school.
-27.02.25
August 8, 2020
Come al solito, una versione estesa, meglio argomentata e condita di immagini, a questo giro, ve lo assicuro, condizione assolutamente doverosa per parlare come si deve di questo manga, si troverà sul mio spazio privato: chi vuole può seguirla su
Il Covo d’Iriza
Siate i benvenuti, viaggiatori!
A tutti gli altri…
La divisa scolastica di Akebi è un manga portato in Italia da Jpop a cui vale la pena dare un'occhiata se si vuole leggere qualcosa di diverso e rilassante. E' una gioia per gli occhi, un balsamo per il cuore, una storia tenera che non ha bisogno di tenere il lettore avvinto alle pagine con drammi crescenti stile telenovela argentina, con una trama cervellotica o con personaggi macchiettistici.
E’ una ventata di dolcezza e ottimismo.
E mutande.
In cui non succede praticamente niente, ma è un niente che vale la pena leggere.
Siate i benvenuti, viaggiatori!
A tutti gli altri…
La divisa scolastica di Akebi è un manga portato in Italia da Jpop a cui vale la pena dare un'occhiata se si vuole leggere qualcosa di diverso e rilassante. E' una gioia per gli occhi, un balsamo per il cuore, una storia tenera che non ha bisogno di tenere il lettore avvinto alle pagine con drammi crescenti stile telenovela argentina, con una trama cervellotica o con personaggi macchiettistici.
E’ una ventata di dolcezza e ottimismo.
E mutande.
In cui non succede praticamente niente, ma è un niente che vale la pena leggere.
December 27, 2022
The art is incredibly good, this might be the most well drawn slice of life manga out there.
I read this manga in Japanese as a treat in my Japanese learning, and it's beginner friendly since the story is about the everyday life of Akebi, a girl making new friends at her desired highschool. She worked hard to get into this specific girl's only highschool because of their cute sailor uniform, which unfortunately got replaced by blazers at the time she is attending school. This is a circumstance she clearly doesn't know until the first day at school, because she already got her sailor uniform done by her mother, who works as a trailor. Luckily the school principal allows both uniform due to nostalgic reasons, so that Akebi ended as the only girl at school wearing the sailor version.
I read this manga in Japanese as a treat in my Japanese learning, and it's beginner friendly since the story is about the everyday life of Akebi, a girl making new friends at her desired highschool. She worked hard to get into this specific girl's only highschool because of their cute sailor uniform, which unfortunately got replaced by blazers at the time she is attending school. This is a circumstance she clearly doesn't know until the first day at school, because she already got her sailor uniform done by her mother, who works as a trailor. Luckily the school principal allows both uniform due to nostalgic reasons, so that Akebi ended as the only girl at school wearing the sailor version.
March 22, 2025
Misleading. A seinen for people with a foot fetish hidden under the guise of a wholesome slice of life. Which is a shame, since the art style is gorgeous (and the only reason I gave this two stars instead of one). But when I got to the scene when a fourteen years old is clipping her nails in the middle of class and then proceeds to sniff the nail clipper "to check if her feet smell' I nearly gagged. Disgusting.
September 5, 2019
Cute japanese girls doing cute things!
February 9, 2020
Carino e piacevole come lettura
September 17, 2020
Disegni stupendi. L’adolescenza e le prime amicizie descritte benissimo. Molto bello.
June 10, 2022
JK好香，咦什麼是JC
(FBI不要過來我沒點麥當勞...)
是說爸爸抽菸大扣分!
(FBI不要過來我沒點麥當勞...)
是說爸爸抽菸大扣分!
May 30, 2023
Amazing art and storytelling. Funny and cheeky.
November 17, 2023
Bellissime tavole! Continuo molto volentieri la serie!
April 4, 2025
Lovely art that feels classical but still modern. So cozy.
October 29, 2025
I'm currently caught up with the series, and I can safely say this is the most beautiful manga both in terms of art and story I've read in well over a decade. I'm speechless.
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