JAPANESE EDITION / VOLUME 01
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All
Sumiko Arai / 2023
BEFORE THE COLLECTION, THE STORY
What’s the story?
Rock-loving Aya develops a crush on a record shop employee she assumes is a boy. The mysterious figure is actually Mitsuki, the quiet classmate she has failed to recognize. A shared love of music draws two very different girls together through misunderstandings, awkwardness and feelings neither can easily express.
THE BOOK AT A GLANCE
The starting point.
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Front with dust jacket and obi
Back with dust jacket and obi — different copy
Book without dust jacket — Mitsuki
Book without dust jacket — Aya
Colophon
The back with obi shows a different copy. The two views without dust jacket and the unretouched colophon follow. The wording 初版発行 documents the first edition.
First edition · colophon
2023年4月19日 初版発行
- Author / creators
- Sumiko Arai · 新井すみこ
- Publisher
- KADOKAWA
- Imprint
- Kitora
- ISBN printed in the book
- 978-4-04-681732-7
- Printed price
- ¥1,100 + tax
- First-print obi
- With launch obi · 85万超
- Original title
- 気になってる人が男じゃなかった
- Format / pages
- A5 · 180 pages
FROM THE BLOG / THE STORY BEHIND THE BOOK
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All: the manga that won over the US
Sumiko Arai, rock music and a misunderstanding that became a phenomenon. US sales, the CloverWorks anime and Japan’s first volume with its 850,000-follower obi.