is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Minoru Toyoda. It was serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine from April 2002 to October 2005, and published in five volumes.
In the middle of class, Hoshino asks Negishi to go out with him. Negishi refuses, so they settle on walking home together, to the amusement of the class. The next day, Negishi asks Hoshino to go out with her.
Written and illustrated by , the series originated as a one-shot published in the June 2002 issue of Kodansha's manga magazine Monthly Afternoon, where it won the grand prize of the Spring 2002. A sequel to the one-shot was published seven months after in the January 2003 issue, and was later turned into a full series which began serialization in Monthly Afternoon on March 25, 2003. The series completed serialization on October 25, 2005. Its individual chapters were collected into five volumes. In 2012, Shogakukan began re-releasing the volumes.
In February 2005, Del Rey Manga announced that they licensed the series for English publication, with five volumes published between August 30, 2005 and February 27, 2007.
Carl Kimlinger of Anime News Network described it as a "warm, honest adolescent love story", while also stating that it can be repetitive at times. A reviewer for Publishers Weekly expressed similar opinions on the story as Kimlinger. They also compared the illustrations to those of John Porcellino and Jeffrey Brown. In ', Jason Thompson wrote that the artwork, which he felt was similar to indie comics, complemented the story well.