I Hear the Sunspot
ひだまりが聴こえる (Hidamari ga Kikoeru)
Yuki Fumino
A hard-of-hearing student who keeps to himself meets a loud, hungry classmate who offers to take lecture notes for lunch.
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- manga
- Volumes
- 8 in English
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Track record The 2024 TV drama won the My Best TV Award at Japan's 62nd Galaxy Awards. A live-action film came out in 2017. Source: Wikipedia
Our take
A college student with hearing loss and the loud, cheerful classmate who starts taking notes for him. Thoughtful about disability and very slow to become a romance.
Synopsis
Kohei has pulled away from people since losing much of his hearing. Taichi is blunt, cheerful and always broke, and he tells Kohei the trouble is not his fault. Their friendship slowly becomes more. The story continues through the Theory of Happiness, Limit and Four Seasons volumes.
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- Next English release: Four Seasons vol 4, 17 Nov 2026.
- Also adapted: Live-action film and series.
- 1 more title from Yuki Fumino on the shelf, listed below.
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English publisher: One Peace Books.
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