Reborn as a JK, I'm Not Going to Be Your Heroine

[Gender-Bender Romance] [Pure Love] [Period] [School Life] [Dreams]

In Japan in 2014, digital manga sales officially surpassed print manga sales. The digital manga business was expanding rapidly, challenging the dominance of traditional print media. Shueisha's online manga platform, Shonen Jump+, had just launched, and countless new manga artists were beginning to make a name for themselves.

Meanwhile, in Yokosuka, the sudden arrival of Kantai Collection, the precursor to later works like Girls' Frontline, Azur Lane, and Senkan Shoujo R, added a spark of enthusiasm for fan creations to this small naval port city.

Suzutani Fuyutsuki, a former game company artist in her previous life, entered her first year of high school in Yokosuka. She was determined to seize the moment and achieve her old dream of becoming an outstanding independent manga artist, even if it meant giving up the joys of her high school years.

Then she met Takino Kohei, a sunny, cheerful boy with dreams of becoming a light novel author.

After he unexpectedly caught a glimpse of her bare feet, he invited her to make a doujinshi together and sell it at Summer Comiket.

The gears of youth began to turn, slowly.

Her high school days began to bloom with color.

Years later, in an online interview, independent manga artist Takino Fuyutsuki would recall that distant afternoon when someone had seen her bare feet.