Title: A Condition Called Love

Volume: 01

Mangaka: Megumi Morino

US Publisher: Kodansha

Age Relevance: High School

How Essential Is It?: Nice to Have

Curricular Connections?: SEL

Reader’s Advisory Tags: Romance, School Setting, Slow Burn

Anime: Crunchyroll

Content Warnings: N/A

Publisher Synopsis:

Hotaru is a 16-year-old high school first-year who has always been ambivalent about love, preferring instead to have a lively life with her family and friends. So when she sees her schoolmate, Hananoi-kun, sitting in the snow after a messy, public breakup, she thinks nothing of offering to share her umbrella. But when he asks her out in the middle of her classroom the next day, she can’t help but feel that her life is about to change in a big way…

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