From Me to You, by Karuho Shiina

A shy and gentle young teenage girl named Sawako Kuronuma is misunderstood by her classmates for her scary appearance. For this reason she is unpopular and tends to have a hard time making friends due to everyone being too afraid to even talk to her. Although she truly wants to make friends and tries her best to make herself more likable, everyone avoids her. Everything changes once she gains the interest of and befriends, Shota Kazehaya, the most popular boy in school. 

In my opinion, I think the main character of this book, Sawako, is much more relatable than protagonists of other girls manga.

Shy and introverted people can probably easily relate to Sawako. And although I don’t really read much of the romance genre, I really enjoyed this book. I believe it’s because of the easily likable characters and the actual, gradual romance development between Kazehaya and Sawako throughout the  From Me to You, by Karuho Shiina, series.

Reviewed by Anonymous, Grade 8

Grandview Library