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Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare (思い、思われ、ふり、ふられ, Love Me , Love Me Not) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Io Sakisaka.
Synopsis[]
Yuna Ichihara was painfully separated from her best friend Sacchan in the spring before her first year of high school. On her way to the train station, she is stopped by a random girl who asks her for money for her train fare. Although Yuna is somewhat afraid and reluctant, she gives the girl money, who in turns give Yuna her bracelet as a promise she will meet her tomorrow to pay her back. On the same day, Yuna runs twice into a boy who looks like the idolized prince of her childhood. After the girl, named Akari, returns Yuna's money, they head home together only to find out that they live in the same apartment building. The girls instantly become friends. However, they find that they explore love in completely different ways, and Yuna may be in love with Akari's brother and Akari in love with Yuna's childhood friend.
Characters[]
Yuna Ichihara[]
A shy girl who loves to read romance shōjo manga, but has never experienced love herself. Her best friend, Sacchan, moves away after they graduate middle school, and Yuna worries that she will be alone in high school. However, when she unexpectedly meets Akari at the train station and befriends her. Due to Yuna's wary and shy personality, she is initially suspicious of Akari following her home, when they are actually just neighbors in the same apartment building. She is in love with Rio, Akari's step-younger brother. She confesses the first time but is rejected due to Rio's love for Akari. Later on, however, she confesses a second time and Rio happily accepts her as his girlfriend.
Akari Yamamoto[]
Yuna's apartment neighbor who is also a first year in high school. She initially has a boyfriend at the beginning of the series, but he later breaks up with her. Her step-younger brother is Rio, whom Yuna is in love with. She thinks that Yuna's childhood friend, Inui, is a good guy and initially tries to push the two together but stops when she finds out that Yuna is in love with Rio.
She eventually grows closer to Inui and falls in love with him. Akari's mother married Rio's father recent to the series beginning, and hates that her mother doesn't trust her and Rio alone together. She pretends to not know that Rio loved her but actually has known since the beginning of the series.
Rio Yamamoto[]
Akari's step-younger brother and the boy of Yuna's affection. He is asked out by many girls but claims he only likes pretty faces, and rejects the girls. He knew Akari before his father married her mother and was in love with her. Akari's mother knows this and is suspicious of Rio spending time alone with Akari.
Rio develops a close friendship with Yuna early on in the series, often confiding in her when he found himself frustrated over Akari. He eventually falls for Yuna, but is hesitant to confess due to the fact that his friend has also fallen for Yuna.
Kazuomi Inui[]
Yuna's childhood friend. Akari describes him as a "good guy" and wishes that Yuna and him would get together. Inui has often been referred to as an "airhead" by Akari due to his carefree and sincere nature.
He and Akari both develop feelings for each other, but he rejects her confession out of consideration for Rio's feelings.
After he finds out Rio has moved on, he confesses to Akari.
Manga[]
It was serialized in Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret magazine from June 2015 to May 2019. It has been translated in English and published by VIZ Media, under their Shojo Beat imprint.
Each volume contains exactly 4 chapters, which are called pieces (e.g. piece 3 instead of chapter 3).
- volume - October 13, 2015
- volume - February 25, 2016
- volume - June 24, 2016
- volume - October 25, 2016
- volume - March 24, 2017
- volume - August 25, 2017
- volume - December 25, 2017
- volume - April 25, 2018
- volume - July 25, 2018
- volume - October 25, 2018
- volume - February 25, 2019
- volume - June 25, 2019
Other media[]
Anime film[]
On April 22, 2019, it was announced by Shueisha that the series would receive an anime film adaptation by A-1 Pictures. It was originally scheduled to premiere on May 29, 2020, but was delayed to September 18, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. The film is directed by Toshimasa Kuroyanagi. Marika Suzuki voices Yuna Ichihara and Nobunaga Shimazaki voices Rio Yamamoto, Kazuomi and Akari are voiced by Sōma Saitō and Megumi Han.
Live-action film[]
A live-action film directed by Takahiro Miki was released on August 14, 2020. It stars Eiji Akaso as Kazuomi Inui and Minami Hamabe as Akari Yamamoto. Riko Fukumoto plays Yuna Ichihara and Takumi Kitamura plays Rio Yamamoto. Official Hige Dandism performed the theme song with "115man Kilo no Film".
Trivia[]
- The original Japanese title was inspired by a tagline from an advertisement campaign for acne from the 1980s that became popular among schoolgirls; the tagline claimed certain locations of where acne appeared on the face foretold if the person or the person's admirer like or are ignoring each other.
- The main cast members from the live-action film also have cameo roles in the anime film.