Yuyuko Takemiya – författare

Takasu Ryuuji has learned the hard way that appearances can be deceiving. For despite his inwardly sweet personality, his unintentionally sharp gaze and aggressive features give him the air of a delinquent thug, putting his chances at making new friends, let alone a girlfriend, next to zero.It’s Ryuuji’s first day of his second year of high school and it seems as if things are looking up. He gets to sit in between his only friend, Yuusaku, and more importantly, the girl he’s secretly crushing on, Kushieda Minori. But just when he thinks the stars are aligned in his favor, he unwittingly crosses the most feared girl in school, Aisaka Taiga, making her into his arch enemy. To top it off, Taiga has moved in right next door to Ryuuji and happens to be Minori’s best friend! Can this school year possibly get any worse?!

Kannami Rara is addicted to social media and idolizes Ariana Grande - in other words, she’s your typical modern college girl. Or, she was, anyway, until a traffic accident cuts her life short. But forget heaven or hell, Rara now finds herself stuck in a time loop, repeating her life up until that tragic day. She has another chance at her youth…and love with her boyfriend, Kengo. As time loops over and over, Rara finds herself scrambling to pull together the threads of her life. But can Rara prevent her death and create a world where she and Kengo can have a future together, or is she destined to repeat the past forever?

Yoshimatsu Hotaka has a dark past, although you'd never know it. As a second year high school student and president of the school's manga club, Yoshimatsu seems like your average, well-acclimated teenager, but a past surgery and a present handicap haunt him. Lacking the confidence to approach the radiant female ace of the swim club, Niki Awaya, Yoshimitsu can only admire her dazzling beauty from afar. So when a chance opportunity allows for a meeting between Yoshimatsu and Niki, what does the future hold for such disparate individuals? Could they possibly have more in common than meets the eye?

Golden Time has been adapted into an anime, which has been licensed and released on home video by Sentai Filmworks and made available to stream on Crunchyroll. Golden Time is an ongoing manga series that includes colour inserts in each volume. Life, love, and education! College freshman Tada Banri is looking forward to a new lease on life, starting with his ambitious journey and entry into a private law school in Tokyo. As luck would have it, during the opening ceremony for the freshman class, he happens across an unfortunate person from his past. Her name is Kaga Kouko, a buxom-beauty who slaps Banri's new friend, Mitsuo, across the face with a bouquet of roses. Just who is she and what's her beef with Mitsuo.