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15-year-old Fukushima Yuuya has always wanted to live on her own, in an inn next to her school. This new dorm of hers, the Strawberry Tree Dorm, turns out to be a place with weird people--a girl that touches her chest out of the blue, a guy with one of the shortest tempers ever. But the good thing is, there's a really handsome and nice guy that she fell in love with instantly! Not to mention a crazy cat who adores him (looks can be deceiving...). Yuuya's life has just become much more interesting...

192 pages

First published February 15, 2006

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Nana Haruta

56 books105 followers
Japanese name: 春田なな. Her real name is Yuki Yamashita (山下由紀) She is a Japanese manga artist. Haruta made her professional manga debut while still in high school in the December 2000 issue of Ribon; at the age of 15, this makes her one of the youngest manga artists to enter the industry.
Her works are primarily serialized in Ribon Magazine, but she has also been featured in its sister magazine Margaret.

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16.2k reviews478 followers
February 16, 2014
God, that Nagisa is sooooo annoying, I just wanted to kick him. Also that other girl who keeps fondling with girls breasts without any respect or agreement.

The blurb sounded awesome, but sadly I couldn't like this manga. Too many characters that I just wanted to strangle. Yuuya was so-so, I can't imagine why anyone who stay after all that is happening to her.

The only thing that I liked was the flirting and chats between Yuuya and Azusa.
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286 reviews49 followers
May 20, 2020
So eine süße kleine Geschichte, ich fühle mich direkt wieder wie 15 😂
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154 reviews51 followers
January 10, 2013
Tipica historia de chica se muda, conoce a chico A, a chico B no le parece, comienzan emociones de chico A y B con la chica, chico A y B son amigos y tienen un secreto común del pasado, otras chicas molestan a nuestra chica, etc, etc, etc.
La chica es muy superficial y no aprecia a las personas solo porque actúan raro, no conoce que esas son las mejores personas y las mas sinceras. Con el tiempo aprende cosas, pero todo a base de golpes. Parece ir con el cartel de "Soy tonta, tengo que aprender de forma que me duela, porque si no se me va a olvidar"
Lo que salva al manga son los personajes secundarios. Dios bendiga a los hermosos personajes secundarios. Lo genial aqui, es que sus historias se desarrollan, no tanto, pero lo hacen, y aprendes cosas de ellos y porque son de esa forma.
Es una historia graciosa, y, como todo buena shoujo, diseñada para que el amor y la amistad sean lo más importante.
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3,693 reviews144 followers
September 13, 2012
When fifteen year old Fukushima Yuuya finally gets to live on her own it is not exactly what she expected. The Strawberry Tree Dorm is filled with odd people. With not left life is about to get a lot more interesting.

The story is very fast paced with Yuuya instantly finding people to connect with. Everyone had their own unique personalities that are different from that average sort of person. It was a light and enjoyable manga series to read with cute characters. The plot was easy to follow and the drawing was done well.
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200 reviews19 followers
April 25, 2022
3.5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✨Tropes✨

🍓High school romance
🍓Love triangle
🍓Grumpy x sunshine
🍓good guy male interest
🍓bad guy male interest

✨Synopsis✨

15-year-old Fukushima Yuuya has always wanted to live on her own, in an inn next to her school. This new dorm of hers, the Strawberry Tree Dorm, turns out to be a place with weird people--a girl that touches her chest out of the blue, a guy with one of the shortest tempers ever. But the good thing is, there's a really handsome and nice guy that she fell in love with instantly! Not to mention a crazy cat who adores him (looks can be deceiving...). Yuuya's life has just become much more interesting...

✨Review✨

I like it, it's a cute and short romance manga, it has some plots, but you really know how everything it's gonna go since chapter 1. It was cute.

I do recommend it if you want to read some manga romance and like short stories.📚💕
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255 reviews
October 15, 2017
FAVORITE AUTHOR and my favorite manga, thank you for making this manga!!😇😊😀😁😄😊😀
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318 reviews6 followers
January 5, 2021
Mimi ça le rappelle des souvenirs du collège
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Author 5 books78 followers
January 26, 2021
Após ter visto tantos animes de romance, tornei-me um pouco exigente, mas ainda assim, é querido.

3,35*
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2,075 reviews74 followers
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June 24, 2015
see full review @ Katie's Corner

I’m having another work by Nana Haruta. Well, the first one was Stardust Wink and if you’re interested you can read it on my blog.

This story is your normal shoujo manga with lots of romance. It surely is fun, as the story takes place in a house full of school kids. We get to see a lot of different people thrown to leave together. Do you think it is fun? Then this story is for you! Get to know all of the people living in the dorm, but be careful most of them are eccentric, and some are just plain weird. But there are some, which will make your heart beat, and not only yours to say the truth.

Will we have a happy ending or not so much? Will the choice be the one who we were rooting for or not? There’s a weird Love Triangle. Grab your copy now and have fun reading! Enjoy it to its fullest and don’t forget to share your thoughts below! Stay tuned for more reviews as well as promos. Don’t miss your next favourite book or manga! Happy reading!

XOXO

Katie
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45 reviews
June 28, 2016
7/10
Este manga es el segundo que leo después de mi gran gran parón.
Trata la historia de una chica que entra a una nueva escuela-internado. Su residencia es una residencia mixta, y se enamora de el delegado superinteligente y se lleva a rabiar con el mejor amigo de este, un rubito sexy bandalista. ¿Qué pasará?

SPOILERS SPOIERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOIERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOIERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

No me ha emocionado mucho. Es decir, estaba todo el rato estresada porque quería que acabara con el otro chico, el rubito y no con el listo y cuando al fina la historia da un giro de 360º me quedé con cara de: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?
Pero me gusta con quien acaba ;)

FIN SPOILERS FIN SPOILERS FIN SPOILERS FIN SPOILERS FIN SPOILERS FIN SPOILERS
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972 reviews90 followers
May 9, 2023
2.5/5

Found this series at a super good price on vinted so being a shojo I had to check it out.
As a first volume it was okay. It's a classic scholastic rom-com slice of life with a different setting, we are in dormitory and not a classic one but like a mixed one where all students for various reasons are not well seen at the "standard" ones, and it's honestly the part that so far I enjoyed the most.

I very liked the art and and the style used, it looks very good and it's super duper detailed.
The set of characters is great and each one of them is super recognizable.

Plot speaking it's very basic and nothing too exeptional happens, so two n half stars it stays.
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1,738 reviews127 followers
September 30, 2012
What keeps possessing me to read these things?! Can't I catch a break?! Maybe if I continued with the story I would come to like it, maybe even enjoy. But I almost hated this. It is odd and cliché. That should say a lot since I will use alternative phrase for cliché without actually saying it outright. New girl falls in love with popular boy. New girl gets picked on. New girl meets and eventually comes to appreciate her freakishly odd peers. I think I need a break from this stuff.
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7,578 reviews141 followers
August 9, 2018
Urca, son passati dieci anni anche qua.

Tra Nana Haruta e Mayu Sakai non so chi scegliere. Entrambe scrivono degli shojo scacciapensieri che fanno bene all'anima.

Questo era addirittura l'esordio italiano della Haruta. Non ricordo assolutamente nulla della trama, però mi aveva lasciato una buona impressione tanto che poi ho sempre letto tutte le sue opere.
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1,146 reviews12 followers
September 29, 2011
This review is for the Italian edition.


My favorite manga by Nana Haruta.
112 reviews
February 4, 2015
was man nicht alles auf einer Zugfahrt lesen kann ,ich hab den ganzen Manga gelesen haha voll stolz auf mich :D ich finde die geschichte gut vlt etwas standart mädchen im internat trifft auf einen jungen und verliebt sich aber ich finds meeega toll
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115 reviews
October 4, 2014
soooooooooo funn <3 i want to live in the rasberry dorm too <3 <3 <3
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532 reviews36 followers
October 7, 2014
Honestamente, no se me hace una historia interesante y la protagonista no tiene nada que la haga resaltar pero continuaré leyéndolo para ver si mejora.
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October 11, 2014
IT WAS AWESOME! I RECOMMEND THIS TO ALL MANGA LOVERS...
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November 12, 2017
How do I open this? how can I read it? please help me... when I'm pressing read it only show All about adding to shelves or remove book from shelves... please help me.
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