Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare

Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare
Cover of volume 1 featuring Yuna Ichihara and Akari Yamamoto
思い、思われ、ふり、ふられ
Genre	Romance, drama
Manga
Written by	Io Sakisaka
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Shōjo
Magazine	Bessatsu Margaret
Original run	June 13, 2015 – present
Volumes	9

Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare (思い、思われ、ふり、ふられ)^[1] is a Japanese shōjo manga written and illustrated by Io Sakisaka and serialized in Bessatsu Margaret starting in June 2015.

Plot

Yuna Ichihara is in the spring before her first year of high school and is pained to be separated from her best friend Sacchan who is moving away. On her way to the train station, she is stopped by a random girl who asks her for money for her train fare. Although Yuna is somewhat afraid and reluctant, she gives the girl money, who in turns give Yuna her bracelet as a promise she will meet her tomorrow to pay her back. On the same day, Yuna runs twice into a boy who looks like the idolized prince of her childhood. After the girl, named Akari, returns Yuna's money, they head home together only to find out that they live in the same apartment building. The girls instantly become friends. However, they find that they explore love in completely different ways, and Yuna may be in love with Akari's brother and Akari in love with Yuna's childhood friend.

Characters

Yuna Ichihara (市原 由奈, Ichihara Yuna)

A shy girl who loves to read romance shōjo manga,^[2] but has never experienced love herself. Her best friend, Sacchan, moves away after they graduate middle school, and Yuna worries that she will be alone in high school.^[3] However, when she unexpectedly meets Akari at the train station and befriends her. Due to Yuna's wary and shy personality, she is initially suspicious of Akari following her home, when they are actually just neighbors in the same apartment building. She is in love with Rio, Akari's step-brother.

Akari Yamamoto (山本 朱里, Yamamoto Akari)

Yuna's apartment neighbor who is also a first year in high school. She initially has a boyfriend at the beginning of the series,^[4] but he later breaks up with her. Her step-brother is Rio,^[5] whom Yuna is in love with. She thinks that Yuna's childhood friend, Inui, is a good guy and initially tries to push the two together but stops when she finds out that Yuna is in love with Rio. She eventually grows closer to Inui and falls in love with him. Akari's mother married Rio's father recent to the series beginning, and hates that her mother doesn't trust and Rio alone together.^[6] She does not know that Rio loved her.

Rio Yamamoto (山本 理央, Yamamoto Rio)

Akari's step-brother and the boy of Yuna's affection. He is asked out by many girls but claims he only likes pretty faces, and rejects the girls.^[7] He knew Akari before his father married her mother and was in love with her.^[8] Akari's mother knows this and is suspicious of Rio spending time alone with Akari.^[9] Rio develops a close friendship with Yuna early on in the series, often confiding in her when he found himself frustrated over Akari. He eventually falls for Yuna, but is hesitant to confess.

Kazuomi Inui (乾 和臣, Inui Kazuomi)

Yuna's childhood friend. Akari describes him as a "good guy" and wishes that Yuna and him would get together. Inui has often been referred to as an "airhead" by Akari due to his carefree and sincere nature. He and Akari both develop feelings for each other, but he rejects her confession out of consideration for Rio's feelings.

Production

The series was announced in Bessatsu Margaret's June 2015 issue.^[10] Sakisaka reflected on plot lines in her previous series, Ao Haru Ride and wanted to display love experiences in a different way.^[11]

Reception

Volume 3 debuted at #4 on Oricon's Japanese Comic Ranking^[12] and peaked at #2^[13] and sold an estimated 325,010 copies in Japan.^[14] Volume 4 debuted at #1 and sold an estimated 168,863 copies in its first week alone.^[15] It sold an estimated 293,419 copies in a month and consistently ranked from October to November.^[16] Volume 4 debuted with 168,863 copies.^[17] Volume 5 debuted at #6, selling 110,175 copies^[18] in its first week and peaking at #1 in its second week with 121,903 additional copies sold.^[19]

References

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia