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Neighborhood Story, Vol. 1

by Ai Yazawa

Fashion ambitions and changing friendships

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Fashion ambitions and changing friendships

Mikako Koda enters Yazawa Arts Academy hoping to build a future as a fashion designer and promote her label, Happy Berry. Her childhood friendship with Tsutomu becomes more complicated when his new popularity and dating life prompt her to question her own feelings. Alongside this personal uncertainty, Mikako and her friends form a club to sell their creations at a local flea market, where tensions within the group emerge. Volume 1 brings together creative ambitions, shifting friendships, romantic uncertainty, and the challenges of collaborating with peers.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Manga readers interested in fashion design and aspiring creatives.
  • Readers who enjoy coming-of-age stories centered on friendship and romantic uncertainty.
  • Readers looking for a school setting with a group project involving handmade creations.

Themes

Fashion and creative ambitionComing of ageFriendship and jealousyGroup dynamics

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Book overview

Mikako aims to take the world of fashion by storm but stumbles when love comes into season in this coming-of-age tale from the creator of Nana!

Welcome to Happy Berry! No, this isn't a fruit stand, but the label dreamed up by aspiring fashion designer Mikako Koda. In her quest to make a name for herself in the fashion world, Mikako enters Yazawa Arts Academy, a prestigious art school, alongside her strictly platonic childhood friend Tsutomu. But there's one problem--Tsutomu's uncanny resemblance to a rock star skyrockets him to popularity and leads him to date the prettiest girl in school. Now Mikako can't help but wonder if what she feels is jealousy.

Peppy and creative teenager Mikako wants nothing more than to make it as a fashion designer. But when she enters art school alongside her lifelong friend Tsutomu, she finds herself distracted by his sudden popularity and subsequent love life. Despite her feelings, Mikako forms a club with Tsutomu and her friends to sell their creations at a local flea market. While the group is out scouting the flea market, however, discord arises between members in the group and what begins as an exciting day quickly turns sour.
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