Aya Nakahara (中原アヤ) is an award-winning Japanese comic book author who made her debut in 1995. She is most famous for her Kansai-dialect romantic comedy series Lovely Complex (also known as ラブ★コン or Love★Com) which as well as spawning a feature film and a 24-episode animated television series has been translated into many different languages and has been published across the world.
She primarily writes in the romance and romantic comedy genres. Her most recent work is Dame no Watashi Koishite kudasai R (ダメな私に恋してくださいR).
This is a collection of four short stories all centered around secrets (the title means "secret base"). All of these were really cute.
The first is about a 10th grade girl who likes this boy she sees at a cafe, and after hanging around for a while, asks him out. It's only after he says yes that she finds out that he's not in college like she thinks, but in 6th grade. XD
The second is about a boyish girl and a girlish boy. Her secret is that she has a crush on another boy at their school, but doesn't feel like she can tell him because she's such a tomboy no one would like her. I would have really, really liked this one except that it ended with the girl determined to learn to be more feminine from the boy, and him determined to learn to be more masculine from her. Ugh. They were cute how they were! And made an adorable couple! :(
The third is about a girl who is very plain but is really good at makeup and looks like a totally different person with it on. I liked this because in the end she decided to stop wearing makeup and just be herself.
The last one was about a boy who's embarrassed by his father, who is a really bad comedian.
No suelo leer historias cortas porque no llego a conectar del todo con los personajes y mi parece que no terminan pero estas han sido muy cute (excepto la primera que era más bien creepy y awkward de leer y creo que hay un manga/anime con la misma temática y es como ughhh ¿de verdad has cruzado esa línea? Really??? en fin y por eso no puedo darle cuatro estrellas porque fueron 40 y pico páginas de incomodidad)
Cerita yg pertama lucu. tokoh cowoknya dikira sudah mahasiswa ternyata masih SD heuhehe. keren ya, kelas 6 SD badannya sudah tinggi :v belum lagi sudah ngerti perhatian sama cewek dan dewasa, oaaah so sweet (:3
Three (or four) stories on one comic/manga and all of them is so interesting and light and touched. Have this comic for long time ago and just reviewed (?) it now :)