Last Game

ラストゲーム

(Rasuto Gēmu)

Manga
Written by Shinobu Amano
Published by Hakusensha
Magazine LaLa
Demographic Shōjo
Original run August 24, 2011

– June 24, 2016

Volumes 11
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Last Game ( japanese : ラストゲーム, Hepburn : Rasuto Gēmu ) is a japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Shinobu Amano. It ran in LaLa from 2011 to 2016. The series follows Naoto Yanagi and Mikoto Kujō from the clock they meet in elementary school until their second class in college, where most of the series takes rate .

plot [edit ]

Born into a affluent family with high social status, Naoto Yanagi is not only fat and blighted, but besides healthy, gentlemanlike, fine-looking, and has never lost to anyone earlier, until Mikoto Kūjo transfers into his class. The two are complete opposites as Mikoto is hapless and very practical, having near to no cognition about emotions. They develop a unilateral competition where Naoto battles against her in all areas but constantly suffers defeat, much to his humiliate. Vowing to win against her at least once, he follows Mikoto through in-between school, high school, and last to college, where he requests a “ last game ” against her to decide which of them is better. Remembering how all the girls in his schools fawned over him, Naoto is determined to do the like with Mikoto and then break her heart mercilessly. however, with all his efforts and Mikoto ‘s dullness and ignorance of human emotions, Naoto unexpectedly finds himself falling in love with her ! The fib follows their kinship as it progresses, the initiation of events that place their relationship in hazard, and each of their own emergence as a person .

Characters [edit ]

Naoto Yanagi (

柳 尚人

, Yanagi Naoto )

Naoto comes from a rich family, so he is used to getting what he wants and excels in every area, be it sports or grades. He meets Mikoto in elementary school when she transfers and hates her at first because she is his competition for the top of the class. Due to his family background, he is arrogant and spoilt, although he doesn’t show that in front of the girls in his class. Although he originally hates Mikoto, he begins to care about her and eventually falls in love with her. In college, he joins the Astronomy Club with Mikoto. At the end of the manga, he marries Mikoto after the time skip.
Mikoto Kujō (

九条 美琴

, Kujō Mikoto )

Mikoto comes from a poor family, mainly due to the fact that her father died when she was young and they have to depend solely on her mother. She likes to study and is relatively quiet and keeps to herself. She has a hard time understanding her own feelings and is therefore initially confused when she begins to realize she likes Yanagi. In college, she is a member of the Astronomy Club. At the end of the manga, she marries Naoto and changes her last name to Yanagi which became ‘Yanagi Mikoto’.
Kei Sōma (

相馬 蛍

, Sōma Kei )

Kei is a member of the Astronomy Club with Yanagi and Mikoto. He is often jealous of Yanagi and wishes to be more popular than him. He tries to claim Mikoto to make Yanagi jealous, but then honestly falls in love with her. He is from the country and tries to hide it. He decided to go to college in Tokyo to escape a broken heart. At the end of the manga, he works at an elite company but is still having trouble getting a girlfriend.
Shiori Fujimoto
Mikoto’s closest friend. She is cheerful and outgoing and often teases Mikoto. Shiori is the one who convinces Mikoto to join the Astronomy Club after they meet in a lecture. She is dating the president of the Astronomy club.
Momoka Tachibana
A student at the same college as Yanagi’s sister. She has a crush on Yanagi. She was fat in elementary school and was bullied because of it, so she eventually decided to completely change her looks. At the end of the manga, she became a popular announcer.

reception [edit ]

It was ranked # 6 on the Top Manga Ranked by Kono Manga gallium Sugoi in 2013 by female readers. [ 1 ]

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