Until she ran into Atobe Keigo on the street, the arrogant, flamboyant tennis club captain of Hyotei Academy.
Then something strange happened:
Her golden finger, [Seeing Three Bubbles of True Feelings Every Day], went completely haywire whenever she got close to Atobe. His unfiltered inner thoughts filled the air:
"Purple looks great on her today."
"Should I ask her out?"
"That guy Oshitari is watching again..."
Even more absurdly, the bubbles around everyone else started going out of control, too. The whole world became a noisy sea of scrolling comments.
She ran, he chased, and the bubbles followed wherever they went.
He wanted to give her a private corner in the library, but she thought Hyotei was too noisy;
He won the Kanto Tournament trophy and held it out to her, but she called him "over the top";
When he thought she was hurt, he shouted himself hoarse, while she watched bubbles burst across the sky like fireworks:
"Todo Sakura, you are my destiny!"
When her older cousin resolutely broke away from the family, when her childhood friends in F4 got tangled up in love and hate, when everyone started living out the melodramatic plot of her novel,
only the loudest boy, with his clumsy, heartfelt sincerity, could carve out a quiet place in her bubble-filled world, a place that belonged only to them.
- ◆ Atobe Keigo x Todo Sakura (original heroine)
- Combines the worlds of Prince of Tennis and Hana Yori Dango
- The heroine is no pushover: sharp-tongued, world-weary, but soft-hearted
- The hero, Atobe, is direct from start to finish: beneath his arrogance lies exquisite tenderness
- A lively ensemble cast, including F4 and Kudo Shinichi
- At its heart, a story about freedom, growing up, and making choices
Theme: Gather spring into a mirror