Seishun Away

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Seiten Kickoff aka Seishun Away is a cute shoujo high school romance about a girl whose only interest is soccer and a boy who's the school prince.

Although there's many of the familiar elements (it's set in high school, the romantic interest is the school prince, and so forth), this manga overall feels fairly unusual to me, mostly for the character of Hayate. I've seen a few others where the female protagonist is uninterested in romance, but this is a whole different level. She's so unaware of guys to the point where she'll sleep in the same room as them or change in front of them. ... The manga opens with Yuuto, the school prince, suddenly coming to her class to confess to her. She's so clueless he's forced to do it in front of everyone. Hayate's first impulse is to turn him down because she doesn't even know him, but he convinces her to hang out to get to know each other first before making a decision. Which leads to the other reason why I find this manga unusual, which is in those few where the protagonist has no interest in romance are generally of the long, drawn-out will they / won't they variety. Instead, Seishun Away is about them dating as an extremely mismatched odd couple that even feel a little inverted from the norm. Yuuto is clearly into traditional romantic gestures, and so carries out the typical shoujo tropes like making Hayate lunch. Hayate being so... her... kind of struggles with this aspect, but Yuuto is obviously moved whenever she tries. This manga is also written using a lot of soccer metaphors. Overall it seems like a very cute and somewhat atypical romance.