Classmates: Dou kyu sei
同級生 (Doukyuusei)
Asumiko Nakamura
A carefree guitarist offers to coach the class honor student for the choir festival, and the lessons turn into first love.
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- 7 in English
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Track record The 2016 anime film opened ninth at the Japanese box office and grossed about 201 million yen in Japan. Source: Wikipedia
Our take
Two boys at a boys' school, a summer of choir practice, and a very good first kiss. Asumiko Nakamura's classic, drawn in a loose line nobody else has.
Synopsis
Hikaru has always written off Rihito as a stuck-up top student. Then he finds him alone in a classroom, quietly practicing a song he cannot get right. Hikaru starts tutoring him, the two grow close one lesson at a time, and Hikaru has to work out what to do about falling for a classmate.
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- Also adapted: Anime film.
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