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Fragtime
A time-freezing yuri love story–now with an anime!
Moritani Misuzu is a quiet high school girl with a very unusual power: for three minutes a day she can freeze time. When Moritani uses her ability to peek up a classmate’s skirt, she gets the shock of her life when she’s caught in the act! It turns out her classmate–the beautiful Murakami Haruka–is the only person immune to Moritani’s power! Bound together by this strange fact, the two girls grow closer. Can they make the most of their stolen moments together?
Moritani Misuzu is a quiet high school girl with a very unusual power: for three minutes a day she can freeze time. When Moritani uses her ability to peek up a classmate’s skirt, she gets the shock of her life when she’s caught in the act! It turns out her classmate–the beautiful Murakami Haruka–is the only person immune to Moritani’s power! Bound together by this strange fact, the two girls grow closer. Can they make the most of their stolen moments together?
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First published March 7, 2014
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September 14, 2025
A teen romance that would have us sympathize with the shy girl who uses her time freezing power to become the school peeping tom whenever she isn't using her ability to just avoid awkward conversations.
She becomes involved with another girl who is immune to the time freezing, initially presenting as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl before revealing her own deep emotional issues.
The characters and story simply aren't strong enough -- so much angst and wallowing around -- to overcome the ick factor.
Meh.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contains material originally published in manga form as Fragtime Vols. 1-2.
Contents: 1. What Would You Do If You Could Stop Time? -- 2. I Know You Like Me -- 3. We're on a Date -- 4. You're Such a Prude -- 5. Wanna Go Out with Me? -- 6. I Want You to Watch Me -- 7. I Can't Stop Having Thoughts I Shouldn't -- 8. Wanna Do It? -- 0. Even I -- 9. I'll Do Anything You Want Me To -- 10. Prove It -- 11. I'm Gonna Buy Panties Like Murakami-san's -- 12. Why Didn't You Say Something? -- 13. How Do You Feel About Me? -- 14. You Want to Get to Know Me, Right? -- 15. What Murakami-san Wants -- 16. What Do You Know About How I Feel? -- Final. I Love You
She becomes involved with another girl who is immune to the time freezing, initially presenting as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl before revealing her own deep emotional issues.
The characters and story simply aren't strong enough -- so much angst and wallowing around -- to overcome the ick factor.
Meh.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contains material originally published in manga form as Fragtime Vols. 1-2.
Contents: 1. What Would You Do If You Could Stop Time? -- 2. I Know You Like Me -- 3. We're on a Date -- 4. You're Such a Prude -- 5. Wanna Go Out with Me? -- 6. I Want You to Watch Me -- 7. I Can't Stop Having Thoughts I Shouldn't -- 8. Wanna Do It? -- 0. Even I -- 9. I'll Do Anything You Want Me To -- 10. Prove It -- 11. I'm Gonna Buy Panties Like Murakami-san's -- 12. Why Didn't You Say Something? -- 13. How Do You Feel About Me? -- 14. You Want to Get to Know Me, Right? -- 15. What Murakami-san Wants -- 16. What Do You Know About How I Feel? -- Final. I Love You
April 18, 2020
This was perilously close to getting a 1-star review out of me. I think this is one of the most dire love stories I’ve ever read, marred by two protagonists who are incredibly unlikable.
When your shy lead, Misuzu, has the power to stop time and uses it to violate somebody’s privacy in the opening chapter... yikes. Then it turns out her victim, Haruka, doesn’t get frozen like everybody else and immediately pressures Misuzu to use her ability by lying outright about being sexually harassed and then trying to use it to cheat on exams.
There’s a lot of potential in using that power (and they show Misuzu using it to escape from her social anxiety which they should have plumbed a lot more of because what they DO explore is awful) and there are so many ways you could make a romance out of those stolen moments. Naturally none of those occur here - too busy being codependent and awful. Haruka is borderline emotionally abusive to Misuzu in the way she strings her along.
The last 100 or so pages actually take a turn for the marginally better, offering new perspective on what’s been going on, but you’ve had to slog through 300 mopey pages of misery to get there. It would be like reading Murder on the Orient Express and the first 3/4’s of the book were about how the train was built.
There are (much) better manga romances and (much) better yuri titles out there and this is a waste of a premise on two characters who aren’t worth the time when you could be reading something better.
When your shy lead, Misuzu, has the power to stop time and uses it to violate somebody’s privacy in the opening chapter... yikes. Then it turns out her victim, Haruka, doesn’t get frozen like everybody else and immediately pressures Misuzu to use her ability by lying outright about being sexually harassed and then trying to use it to cheat on exams.
There’s a lot of potential in using that power (and they show Misuzu using it to escape from her social anxiety which they should have plumbed a lot more of because what they DO explore is awful) and there are so many ways you could make a romance out of those stolen moments. Naturally none of those occur here - too busy being codependent and awful. Haruka is borderline emotionally abusive to Misuzu in the way she strings her along.
The last 100 or so pages actually take a turn for the marginally better, offering new perspective on what’s been going on, but you’ve had to slog through 300 mopey pages of misery to get there. It would be like reading Murder on the Orient Express and the first 3/4’s of the book were about how the train was built.
There are (much) better manga romances and (much) better yuri titles out there and this is a waste of a premise on two characters who aren’t worth the time when you could be reading something better.
November 12, 2021
Eh, 1 star feels a bit harsh, it wasn't quite that bad but two stars is "it was okay" with Goodreads standards and I wouldn't call it okay either. I was frustrated with both leads most of the time and while I get why they were acting the way they were, I did not like the execution. Murakami comes across quite mean because it feels like she's toying with Moritani, and Moritani manifests her social anxiety in pretty creepy way when you start to think about it, so it's hard to cheer for her to get over her troubles.
Very disappointing read.
Very disappointing read.
July 24, 2020
Moritani has the ability to freeze time once a day for three minutes. She typically uses her power to get out of awkward situations, but one day decides to use it to check out what underwear one of her classmates is wearing. That's when she discovers that classmate, Murakami, is immune to her power. With Murakami's discovery of her power, the two grow closer in the frozen three minute periods of the day.
The inciting incident that brings the two together is difficult to get past in this book. Moritani, thinking that Murakami is frozen, decides to lift her skirt up to check out her underwear. That's a huge violation. She is thankfully not in the habit of using her ability to strip people, but she does also use her power to go around finding people in intimate moments so she can look at them, so Moritani is not great at boundaries in this book. I can completely understand how this would turn anyone off the book. Moritani's actions are particularly strange because they don't match up with how the manga sets her up for everything else - someone with a strong moral compass who does the right thing even though it's impossible for anyone to catch her since time is frozen. That's not really someone I would expect to violate someone by looking in their skirt when they couldn't move or by secretly watching them while they were having sex.
In addition, Murakami lies about a teacher molesting her to get Moritani to use her powers to help her with something else. The teacher does appear to be a creep, which makes it frustrating that Murakami lied at the beginning of the book about being sexually assaulted just to get something and then nothing else is addressed about the teacher after that even though the manga keeps implying that he does touch Murakami too much.
The story gets better as Moritani begins to break out of her shell. Since she's using her power to get closer with Murakami, she is forced to actually interact with her fellow classmates and figure out how to work through awkward situations, forcing her to grow. She also pushes Murakami to open up to her. So once the book is focusing on character development and not on panty shots (and there are a number of those throughout the book), things get better.
Ultimately, it's not the best yuri out there. I'd recommend checking out other yuri manga over this. Bloom into You, Vol. 1, Kase-san and Morning Glories, Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl, Vol. 1, Girl Friends ガールフレンズ , Volume 1, or I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up are all ones I've liked.
The inciting incident that brings the two together is difficult to get past in this book. Moritani, thinking that Murakami is frozen, decides to lift her skirt up to check out her underwear. That's a huge violation. She is thankfully not in the habit of using her ability to strip people, but she does also use her power to go around finding people in intimate moments so she can look at them, so Moritani is not great at boundaries in this book. I can completely understand how this would turn anyone off the book. Moritani's actions are particularly strange because they don't match up with how the manga sets her up for everything else - someone with a strong moral compass who does the right thing even though it's impossible for anyone to catch her since time is frozen. That's not really someone I would expect to violate someone by looking in their skirt when they couldn't move or by secretly watching them while they were having sex.
In addition, Murakami lies about a teacher molesting her to get Moritani to use her powers to help her with something else. The teacher does appear to be a creep, which makes it frustrating that Murakami lied at the beginning of the book about being sexually assaulted just to get something and then nothing else is addressed about the teacher after that even though the manga keeps implying that he does touch Murakami too much.
The story gets better as Moritani begins to break out of her shell. Since she's using her power to get closer with Murakami, she is forced to actually interact with her fellow classmates and figure out how to work through awkward situations, forcing her to grow. She also pushes Murakami to open up to her. So once the book is focusing on character development and not on panty shots (and there are a number of those throughout the book), things get better.
Ultimately, it's not the best yuri out there. I'd recommend checking out other yuri manga over this. Bloom into You, Vol. 1, Kase-san and Morning Glories, Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl, Vol. 1, Girl Friends ガールフレンズ , Volume 1, or I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up are all ones I've liked.
March 17, 2022
If I could stop time I too would use it to be extra gay.
October 15, 2020
Of import here is the liminal reality birthed from a potential romance, whereupon the relationship is not yet consummated but nevertheless carries enormous, valid emotional weight. How does one define a romantic encounter in the absence of a well-defined romance? How does one articulate intimacy when all notable instances thereof are manufactured or merely convenient? How does one begin to understand the roles and obligations of love if love refuses to leave the liminal realm where it first emerged?
FRAGTIME is a long, sometimes unsteady, but ultimately rewarding tickling of adolescent uncertainty. Misuzu Moritani is a prototypical high-school nobody; she is plain, has no friends, often spends her free time reading or keeping to herself, and like all others, pines for the pretty girl who sits at the front of class. Haruka Murakami is the pretty girl who sits at the front of class. The two girls occupy different social strata and thus adhere to the differing intuitions native to those strata.
Misuzu's life isn't entirely boring, however, as she has the ability to stop time for a few minutes every day, with no apparent consequences. She peeps on fellow students making out in the volleyball locker room and she snoops through other people's cell phones. All in all, Misuzu's freeze-framing lasts but a moment and is largely harmless. Until, that is, she discovers Haruka can move around in this frozen and fragmented world as well.
The two girls develop and odd symbiosis. And while FRAGTIME doesn't necessarily exercise its narrative muscles in the best (or clearest) way possible, it's evident the girls are using this frozen time to chat, snoop, dare, laugh, and argue in ways they know they cannot when the world hums in real time. Haruka is not an expressive girl, and so her fascination with Misuzu is frustrating at best. Misuzu is the opposite, constantly blushing and constantly flubbing her words. The odd couple only hits its rhythm when, funnily enough, it appears Misuzu's unique ability to stop time begins to wane.
FRAGTIME is an interesting manga in how it relies on the low-key subversion of reader expectations to maintain and then propel the story's drama forward. Is Haruka demanding and narcissistic, in the way she requires Misuzu to do what she says, or is she subsisting on another person's affection for the first time in her young life? Reading the manga, in the moment, it's difficult to tell. Is Misuzu wan and frivolous, considering she only gains courage after failing to find a way out a situation, or is she a nestling only now breaking out of her shell? It's hard to tell. And it's these kinds of subtleties that make the manga a frustrating and sometimes emotional read.
Further, the book's cast is small and the variation in story structure is minimal. The lack of story elements competing for readers' attention necessarily compounds how much the author relies on the whims and worries of Misuzu and Haruka. The lack of close friends and parental characters, for example, leaves readers stewing with internal dialogue on almost every page. The art, however, is solid, and likely papers over many of the manga's less glamorous faults.
FRAGTIME resolves with a surprisingly satisfying ending, with a kind, optimistic take on young romance that one might not have felt at all inevitable at the title's start.
FRAGTIME is a long, sometimes unsteady, but ultimately rewarding tickling of adolescent uncertainty. Misuzu Moritani is a prototypical high-school nobody; she is plain, has no friends, often spends her free time reading or keeping to herself, and like all others, pines for the pretty girl who sits at the front of class. Haruka Murakami is the pretty girl who sits at the front of class. The two girls occupy different social strata and thus adhere to the differing intuitions native to those strata.
Misuzu's life isn't entirely boring, however, as she has the ability to stop time for a few minutes every day, with no apparent consequences. She peeps on fellow students making out in the volleyball locker room and she snoops through other people's cell phones. All in all, Misuzu's freeze-framing lasts but a moment and is largely harmless. Until, that is, she discovers Haruka can move around in this frozen and fragmented world as well.
The two girls develop and odd symbiosis. And while FRAGTIME doesn't necessarily exercise its narrative muscles in the best (or clearest) way possible, it's evident the girls are using this frozen time to chat, snoop, dare, laugh, and argue in ways they know they cannot when the world hums in real time. Haruka is not an expressive girl, and so her fascination with Misuzu is frustrating at best. Misuzu is the opposite, constantly blushing and constantly flubbing her words. The odd couple only hits its rhythm when, funnily enough, it appears Misuzu's unique ability to stop time begins to wane.
FRAGTIME is an interesting manga in how it relies on the low-key subversion of reader expectations to maintain and then propel the story's drama forward. Is Haruka demanding and narcissistic, in the way she requires Misuzu to do what she says, or is she subsisting on another person's affection for the first time in her young life? Reading the manga, in the moment, it's difficult to tell. Is Misuzu wan and frivolous, considering she only gains courage after failing to find a way out a situation, or is she a nestling only now breaking out of her shell? It's hard to tell. And it's these kinds of subtleties that make the manga a frustrating and sometimes emotional read.
Further, the book's cast is small and the variation in story structure is minimal. The lack of story elements competing for readers' attention necessarily compounds how much the author relies on the whims and worries of Misuzu and Haruka. The lack of close friends and parental characters, for example, leaves readers stewing with internal dialogue on almost every page. The art, however, is solid, and likely papers over many of the manga's less glamorous faults.
FRAGTIME resolves with a surprisingly satisfying ending, with a kind, optimistic take on young romance that one might not have felt at all inevitable at the title's start.
September 6, 2020
Question one. Why did I read this manga? The premise was mildly interesting but not by much, and I had initially put it on my "not going to bother to read this so don't buy it" shelf in my mind. Then I saw it at B&N, there was nothing else new on the manga shelves that interested me, and I decided "well, whatever."
The premise is this: Moritani can stop time. For three minutes a day, she has the ability to freeze time for everyone else and do whatever she wants. She initially uses this only to get out of uncomfortable conversations, but at the beginning of the story, decides to peek up popular girl Murakami's skirt. As it turns out though, Murakami can move in stopped time too.
What follows is a very difficult to enjoy story about two very hard to like girls. Moritani is timid to the point of, as I said before, using her incredible ability to run away when people try to talk to her. Murakami is a people pleaser with little personality (this is not saying a lot, as Moritani doesn't have much either) who goes along with whatever anyone else wants. (This includes dating people who show any interest in her, and showing absolutely no negative feelings towards one of her teachers who touches her inappropriately.
Their love story is a mess. Honestly. Throughout the omnibus I was grimacing. Moritani is so convinced that Murakami is using her for her time power, she won't even tell her when she starts losing the ability. Murakami is about as interesting as a block of wood, and DOES appear for much of the story to be using the other girl. (Are you confused by their similar names yet? I had to keep reminding myself who was who.) A relationship of strife and doubt can be interesting, but this simply was not. I wanted it to end so I could put it on my 2020-manga list and throw it in the for-sale box.
Would I read it again? No. Should you read it? Maybe if you're super into mediocre yuri, or time manipulation stories. Up to you. If I could go back in time, I would tell my past self to save a little money and not pick this one up.
I might try another of the author's works if it was interesting, but this one was not my cup of tea, nor my slice of cake, nor worth more than 3 minutes to me.
The premise is this: Moritani can stop time. For three minutes a day, she has the ability to freeze time for everyone else and do whatever she wants. She initially uses this only to get out of uncomfortable conversations, but at the beginning of the story, decides to peek up popular girl Murakami's skirt. As it turns out though, Murakami can move in stopped time too.
What follows is a very difficult to enjoy story about two very hard to like girls. Moritani is timid to the point of, as I said before, using her incredible ability to run away when people try to talk to her. Murakami is a people pleaser with little personality (this is not saying a lot, as Moritani doesn't have much either) who goes along with whatever anyone else wants. (This includes dating people who show any interest in her, and showing absolutely no negative feelings towards one of her teachers who touches her inappropriately.
Their love story is a mess. Honestly. Throughout the omnibus I was grimacing. Moritani is so convinced that Murakami is using her for her time power, she won't even tell her when she starts losing the ability. Murakami is about as interesting as a block of wood, and DOES appear for much of the story to be using the other girl. (Are you confused by their similar names yet? I had to keep reminding myself who was who.) A relationship of strife and doubt can be interesting, but this simply was not. I wanted it to end so I could put it on my 2020-manga list and throw it in the for-sale box.
Would I read it again? No. Should you read it? Maybe if you're super into mediocre yuri, or time manipulation stories. Up to you. If I could go back in time, I would tell my past self to save a little money and not pick this one up.
I might try another of the author's works if it was interesting, but this one was not my cup of tea, nor my slice of cake, nor worth more than 3 minutes to me.
September 12, 2020
Definitely not for me. Overall a story of loneliness and belonging wrapped around a science fiction premise, which all sounds good but not really right for me. It seemed like there was a mix of things going on at once like sex/sexuality, gossip, fitting in, extreme introvert sensibilities and some of it made sense but all together there was a lot that in the end could've been different or irrelevant and the story would be the same. Sometimes that's not a bad thing but in fragtime it seemed like it was there to hit all these markers that I don't think did much. For example, the two main characters have a what seems to be verging sexual relationship but their friendship could've been platonic and it would've still had the same outcome on the narrative. Also there is a lot of manipulation between the characters and it seems almost justified and I don't care for books that do that. In the end the arching premise is good and how the concept of controlling time but more importantly your life was a good idea but everything else was just whatever. I didn't particularly care about the characters or their story. I think I had higher expectations than what it was.
August 26, 2020
This is a cute Yuri Love Story (girl, girl love, if you aren't sure). I actually thought this was cute for the most part. It is a magical realism story I feel. It has the element of freezing time.
It is about a girl named, Moritani Misuzu, a quite high school girl with the unusual power of freezing time. She can only do this for 3 minutes a day. Then she decides to use her power to peek under a classmate's skirt, she gets a shock when she is caught in the act doing this by the popular girl, Murakami Haruka. Apparently she is the only person immune to her powers.
I do have to point out that it is a little creepy that she is peeking under a girl's skirt. It kind of is stalkerish. But other than that, I really enjoyed this book and the way it protrayed the two girl's relationship together. I feel like it shows how someone can be confused on their feelings.
It is about a girl named, Moritani Misuzu, a quite high school girl with the unusual power of freezing time. She can only do this for 3 minutes a day. Then she decides to use her power to peek under a classmate's skirt, she gets a shock when she is caught in the act doing this by the popular girl, Murakami Haruka. Apparently she is the only person immune to her powers.
I do have to point out that it is a little creepy that she is peeking under a girl's skirt. It kind of is stalkerish. But other than that, I really enjoyed this book and the way it protrayed the two girl's relationship together. I feel like it shows how someone can be confused on their feelings.
October 19, 2020
I guess I was a bit spoiled with how cute and awesome Girl Friends by Milk Moringa was, this was just a bit quick and lackluster for Yuri vibes! Like it could’ve just been them trying to be friends and it would be the same book, maybe minus the strange obsession with underwear(??), and it was just almost random at times where the story felt like it was missing structure in general... the art was cute, and a nice concept but ultimately not something I would read a second time!
January 19, 2021
A really lovely story about two young girls getting closer romantically through the awkward and tentative connection that is time manipulation. The characters feel very realistic if not always morally right. They're teenagers. And so they're cowardly and horny and hurt eachother's feelings but there is a strong love that you can see growing throughout, changing from selfish to selfless, and it's very fun to see their journey with it.
September 20, 2020
I thought it had potential, someone being able to stop time for three minutes everyday, but I thought it a bit disappointing: another bad love story. I think when authors run out of ideas, they're like: let's make this basically a traditional love story to give the outlandish idea closure, which I feel is creatively lazy.
October 8, 2020
2020 Read #635
Hoo, boy, this was a weird one. While I liked the idea of Moritani and Murakami finding each other and reveling in this discordant union they have when time was stopped, I never really liked either of them and found them far too selfish to put each other first by the end. The premise was a good one, but the characters just weren’t endearing to me.
Hoo, boy, this was a weird one. While I liked the idea of Moritani and Murakami finding each other and reveling in this discordant union they have when time was stopped, I never really liked either of them and found them far too selfish to put each other first by the end. The premise was a good one, but the characters just weren’t endearing to me.
January 14, 2021
Pretty interesting concept that was executed fairy well and realisticly, but besides that the book is bland. The love interest in bland and uninteresting, but the main character is pretty cute. The art is very bland, repetitive, and not very expressive or dynamic. The romance itself is very boring. But the ending is pretty good.
December 17, 2020
Cute art, an interesting premise, as well as relevant themes about loneliness and human connection, and ethnocentrism aside, there are still some problematic and toxic elements to the narrative.
December 20, 2020
Definitely interesting. I'm still sort of at a loss on how I feel - I didn't dislike it but defining how much I liked it feels harder.
January 25, 2022
ehhhh this was not for me.
February 9, 2022
This was an odd little codependent relationship between a shy pervert and a sociopath. Still not quite sure how I feel about things.
March 18, 2022
This is a rather unusual yuri story. It was silly at the start but became more serious towards the end.
June 1, 2022
I love it how it had more substance then just two school girls in love, and it showed the internal conflict some might face while questioning their identity and sexuality.
October 21, 2022
the love story was way to forced pushed and the action was not that interesting
December 9, 2022
I have waited a long time to read this. The premise is good but I don't feel like the execution was a good as it could have been.
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August 19, 2023Hi. I’m looking for this manga on the internet on UK amazon, and i cant find it. Does anyone know if i can find a copy of Fragtime in English that ships to my location?
March 3, 2024
I thought this one was cute, honestly
September 27, 2022
I like the dynamic of the main characters and what they could’ve been for one another, but the way the story actually went is kinda disturbing. There are things about Misuzu that I would’ve liked to watch her overcome (ex: her inability to stand up for herself or those around her without using her powers.) Instead she becomes kind of codependent on Haruka and how Haruka is feeling. We do get an explanation more towards the end, but nothing comes out of that either.
Edit: I don’t like how pervy Misuku and Haruka are. The whole story just feels really odd because there isn’t any real depth outside of teenage horniness, and it makes for an uncomfortable read.
Edit: I don’t like how pervy Misuku and Haruka are. The whole story just feels really odd because there isn’t any real depth outside of teenage horniness, and it makes for an uncomfortable read.
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June 11, 2021
I really enjoyed this, and I'm glad I got the whole collection in one manga. It did feel like it dragged on a little bit but it wasn't unbearable. I loved the two characters and the theme that went on throughout.
July 3, 2021
I really love how this book is and the plot is really good
December 26, 2021
the first half was just silly and mildly horny but THE SECOND HALF? HIT ME IN THE GUT
September 24, 2022
Intro had me concerned, but it came together well after that
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