Yuna is a super shy girl who loses her best friend when the friend moves to another town. On that same day, though, she meets Akari, an outgoing and boisterous girl and her brother Rio, who looks just like a prince from Yuna's favorite old story. Yuna develops feelings for Rio, but Rio has a bit of a reputation, and Akaro doesn't think he's right for her new friend. There there's Inu, Yuna's childhood friend who Akari may or may not have feelings for, but who she also kind of thinks should be with Yuna. But is it also possible the brother and sister may have a secret that could make Yuna's feelings impossible?

Reading this made me feel like I was in highschool again. IT WAS SOOO CUTE!
I LOVE ALL OF THE CHARACTERS. /squeals/
I used to be a big fan of Io Sakisaka. Strobe Edge & Ao Haru Ride used to be my ultimate favourite mangas!
Sakisaka has a distinctive writing style which sets her apart from others. After finishing this, it made me realise that I miss shoujo mangas so...freaking...much. I'm so glad that I requested this from Netgalley.

Thank you Netgalley and publisher for the eArc in exchange for an honest review.
I can't wait for the other books to be translated.

Akari believes in putting yourself out there to find love. Yuna thinks her Prince Charming will magically appear and they’ll just fall in love.

Inui is Yuna’s lifelong friend. Rio is Akari’s brother. Yuna cannot help but see the Prince she dreams of in Rio. Akari, however, thinks her brother is just too much for her new friend and maybe Yuna should have been looking at who has been right in front of her the whole time. But then Yuna and Inui both agree, they’ve been friends too long to ever be anything more.

The book ends on a cliffhanger, which I’m not a fan of generally speaking. Aside from that, I really liked it. It’s well paced. The cliffhanger was a twist I somehow didn’t see coming. The art is cute. The book also includes the occasional cute little sidebar message from the author. I’ll likely read more because now I gotta know who ends up with who.

I truly enjoyed the advanced copy of Love Me, Love Me Not. Unlike many manga, the characters and their conversations were believable. Each had a distinct personality and I appreciated that the appearance of each character was different enough that I was easily able to keep track of them from the first page.

The only negative I have was how distracting the watermark was on each page; it obscured some of the words in addition to the art,

I look forward to reading future volumes.

Thanks to NetGalley and to VIZMedia for sending me an e-galley of this manga in exchange for an honest review!

Yuna is an idealist, she longs to find her true love and finds comfort in manga and the idea that her prince will one day come for her. Akari is more of a realist, she believes that if you want to find love you need to make a move. When Yuna finds Rio, a boy that seems to be the prince that she had always hoped for Akari is quick to bring her back to earth. Rio is her step brother and not the type of guy that Akari thinks that Yuna should be pining for.

I felt the first volume of this manga really set an amazing stage for the future issues. We learn a lot about the type of person Yuna is. She only met Akari because Akari ran up to Yuna and asked to borrow money for the train. Yuna was kind enough to offer her money in exchange for Akari's bracelet as collateral. Turns out Akari and Yuna live in the same building.

I liked how they both became fast friends and how Akari has become kind of a big sister for Yuna, she's concerned about Yuna's notions on love and worried that she's going to give her heart to the wrong guy. Namely, Rio, her brother who has a lot of lady drama. I don't know if it's a thing for girls to write random guys notes that they want to date, but that was cute. It might be a cultural thing or those girls are a lot braver than I was in high school.

Love Me, Love Me Not so far is a very sweet story and I want to know what happens. All the characters are generally good and easy to relate to.

Yuna and Akari meet by chance on the day Yuna’s best friend moves away and Akari is also saying goodbye to someone very dear to her. An act of kindness at the train station quickly evolves into a wonderful friendship between two girls who are very different people. Akari is outgoing, direct and believes people fall in love by getting out there and meeting all sorts of people till they find someone who they can fall in love with. Yuna is a quiet, shy girl who rarely looks people in the eyes and believes love is something romantic that just comes over you, like in the shojo mangas she loves to read.

Together they embark on the journey that is the first year of high school. There are classic miscommunications and misunderstandings, rumors and reactions, well, you get the picture. It’s a pretty standard shojo itself.

The art is of good quality and consistent throughout, though I must say I didn’t find anything about it that truly attracted my eyes. You know how some manga has particular pieces that you just have to stare at with envy because someone can draw THAT well. I didn’t see one of those in this book, but again, the art in general was of good quality.

The storyline was, well it was there, and it was alright. I was hoping there would be a little more something going on than there was, and I found that the pacing was a bit slow in the middle, but that ending!!! Of course, there is a massive cliffhanger/plot twist at the end that is totally going to get me to read the next volume just so I know the answer! Ugh. Volume two, I shall wait for you!

A good manga for anyone wanting a more classic shojo with a OMG ending (I secretly hope it’s true cause that would be different, awesome, and slightly scandalous)!

In high school, I read a ton of Manga! All the time! So when I heard about Love Me, Love Me Not, I decided to embrace my high school self and give it a shot! Sometimes you forget how much you used to enjoy doing something!

Love Me, Love Me Not was a really cute story. It had characters that were both likeable and relatable and the way that Sakisaka wrote them, will allow for a lot of depth and growth to be introduced as the story continues! There were the beginnings of typical high school drama and a bunch of teenage angst, but it wasn’t overwhelming, and let's face it, who doesn't love a little drama?!

I’d recommend the story to any Manga fans! It was a quick read with amazingly detailed drawings. The themes could be considered adult, but they were well written from a teen perspective, so safe for any age! If you’re a fan of cutesy romance stories, you’ll love reading Love Me, Love Me Not. As for me, I’ve added a new Manga series tracker page to my reading journal, so it’s time to dive back in!

*This review is based on an arc*

This is a cute slice of life manga about Yuna and her friend Akari as they find love in high school. It's very predictable, which isn't bad!, and it's also very realistic.
I loved the friendship between the two girls and how there's no love triangle involving them. They both love different boys and they both truly want happiness for the other. Girl friendships for the win!

And as always I love Io Sakisaka's art style.

<i>arc provided by the publisher and netgalley in exchange for an honest review</i>

This was just an okay read for me. There really wasn’t anything special in this that made me fall in love with it, everything was just pretty mediocre.

The characters didn’t seem to have a lot of dimension, at least not until the last few pages. I didn’t really like the insta love aspects to it either.

I probably won’t be continuing on with this series.

2/5 ⭐️

Thank you to NetGalley and VIZ Media LLC for the ebook provided.

Love it, love it, love it!!! Manga has been always brings me to express pure joy while reading it. It’s so natural, so pure, its everyone stories too.

Yuna, a girl who has lack of confidence, always looked down everytime she talked to someone else, made friends with Akari, the attractive girl, so confident and positive, they’re totally different but that’s how they complete each other.

They’re friendships bring them to continue learned about each other weakness’ and support each other. They found love, they expressed each other’s feelings though it wasn’t easy at the beginning. They’re bring the real
value of what is best friends for. I really loved the part when Yuna had to defend Akari for her untrue story and put Akari as as bad person.

Story ike this along with sweet illustration will always stuck in my mind. I’ve been reading manga since middle school, their stories about friendships, loves, real world problems still impressed me until this day.

Love this manga!!!

So I definitely went into this book with the wrong impression. For some reason, I thought it was a girl’s love manga! However, I’m pleasantly surprised by the focus on female friendship.

The art is fresh, and the writing is really good. It left on a cliffhanger that had me wanting to read more!

Super psyched to have received an arc of this now that we’re getting English translations! Thank you to the publisher!

Ao Haru Ride has remained on my favorites list for as long as I’ve been reading manga, so I’m very excited that this work by Io Sakisaka is finally here!

The artwork is beautiful as always, her style is so iconic and it’s refreshing seeing it again.

The story centers around two heroines, polar opposites in their ideals of love. Innocent Yuna, who still hasn’t had a relationship because she’s waiting for her prince. Headstrong Akari, who believes you can convince yourself to fall in love with whoever you choose. Yuna and Akari are adorable, I love their instant friendship and the way they’re already growing. Throw in a childhood best friend and a prince look alike with a surprising amount of baggage, and I just know we’re in for a ride.

The little twist was a little predictable but I can’t wait to continue the series and find out how this little love square goes!

*Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for supplying me with an Arc of this manga*

Enjoyable art style, very cute and easy to read.

Thank you so much for Netgalley for providing an arc for me to review honestly.

This is a pretty basic shojo manga and there were few problems with it. One of them being a problem with the arc file itself. 40 percent of the pages are blank so there isn't much concept to grasp. The art is great but then again, the broken arc file and the plain storyline doesn't make me astonished by it.

I was so excited when I found out that we were getting a new series from the amazing Io Sakisaka. I feel very blessed to be an early reviewer on this first volume.

Let me start of by saying that I am interested to see how readers feel at the trope that is introduced at the end of this volume. But first, let me back up.

We initally meet 2 young women who are polar opposites, but become fast friends over a shared experience. Yuna and Akari are a very unlikely friendship, but enter high school as friends. Yuna discovers that the beautiful blonde boy she has been crushing on for a portion of the summer is no other than Akari's step brother, Rio. Kazuomi, Yuna's life long friend enters the picture and catches Akari's eye.

From here, things start to get messy. There are lots of feelings between these 4 friends. This first volume lays the ground work for how these relationships all interconnect, and then drop the trope bomb on you in the last chapter.

I am very intrigued by the concept of this story, and am definitely looking forward to the next volume. At this point, I feel the series is going to fall into something like Strobe Edge, and end up being complicated, but fun and interesting, and always wrapped up in the beautiful art from Sakisaka.

Ah I loved this! This was so great! I loved so many things about this manga.

This story follows our two heroines, Yuna and Akari who become unlikely fast friends.

I really loved the friendships in this story! Yuna and Akari have a sweet supportive friendship and it’s my favourite part of the story.

I enjoyed the starting of the relationships between the love interests. I’m excited to see where the relationships go.

I’d like to see more of the friendship between Yuna and Kazuomi because it mentioned they were childhood best friends and I’d like to see more of the relationship the two have. I feel like we only got a glimpse of it.

The ending left me shook and I’m excited to pick up the next one!

Love Me, Love Me Not is a warm and sweet manga. It follows two heroines, Yuna⁠—a sweet, shy girl who dreams of a first pure love and Akari, a thoughtful and outgoing girl with more realistic views on love. Despite being opposites of each other with different perspectives on love, the two form a friendship. I appreciate how this manga not only focuses on romance but a positive female friendship as well.

The art is beautiful and clean, which adds on to the excellent story-telling. This manga ends on a cliff hanger which leaves you wanting more. Overall, I enjoyed this manga and I'll definitely continue this series. I'd highly recommend this manga to anyone who enjoys romance and shoujo manga fans.

Thank you to NetGalley and Viz Media for a copy of this manga in exchange for an honest review.

I am cautiously optimistic about this one. The way I see it, it could either be a really cute love square coming of age story, or it could be Domestic Girlfriend without the pretense. Yuna is a little too naive, but I like that the other characters point that out. And Rio isnt as big a jerk as i initially thought he would be.

This manga is a very sweet and cute story about friendship and romance. It’s just the beginning of the series, but already I’m hooked and can see myself wanting to read more about these characters and their relationships. Also, the art is very soft to go with the soft feel of the plot. Would recommend for people who need a little pick me up about two very different girls navigating friendship and the different ways they approach crushes.

Thank you to NetGalley and VIZ Media for the free copy of this manga in exchange for an honest review. My thoughts were not affected by the free copy.

This is a nice start to what looks to be a very cute and sweet manga. I wasn't sure I wanted to request it because I worried this would develop into a love triangle, so I sincerely hope the story doesn't go in that direction. I'm hoping it'll only go as far as misunderstandings and the girls trying to cheer each other on while also protecting each other from being hurt by the boys they like. As long as the female friendship keeps developing and they work through whatever goes on, I'll be happy.

The artwork is very nice and the story so far is good. I relate most to Yuna out of the two girls. I feel like her insecurity and shyness was portrayed very well. I have thought and felt similar things and it's nice seeing a girl like me represented, and I like even more that she isn't teased or forced into situations that make her uncomfortable. All of the characters feel fleshed out with interesting layers. I can't wait to see how they develop from here.

I will absolutely be picking up more of these volumes when they come out.