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Strobe Edge

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Colorless Dreamer
Japanese: ストロボ・エッジ
English: Strobe Edge
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Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 10
Chapters: 43
Status: Finished
Published: Jun 13, 2007 to Aug 11, 2010
Genre: Romance Romance
Themes: Love Polygon Love Polygon, School School
Demographic: Shoujo Shoujo
Serialization: Bessatsu Margaret
Authors: Sakisaka, Io (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 7.961 (scored by 3117531,175 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #8302
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #249
Members: 66,330
Favorites: 2,190

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Volumes: /10
Chapters: /43

Synopsis

Through the eyes of Ninako Kinoshita, it seems as if everyone knows what love is. Even when it comes to her own feelings for her childhood friend Daiki Korenaga, it is her friends who attest she is in love. However, a drop of doubt forms in her heart when Ren Ichinose, an attractive idol of the school, accidentally breaks Ninako's phone charm on the train. His earnest promise to compensate for it touches Ninako and she wonders if this is what real love feels like.

Love is like an apple: its outer appearance may look sweet, but its taste can be deceiving. For Ninako, she meets the bitterness of unrequited love as her very first. But as her knowing friends go through different experiences with love, Ninako struggles to understand its complex flavor and fails to notice the way a certain someone looks at only her.

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Included one-shot:
Volume 6: Colorless Dreamer

Background

Strobe Edge was published in English by VIZ Media under the Shojo Beat imprint from November 6, 2012 to May 6, 2014. The manga received two drama CD adaptations on August 25 and September 22, 2010, respectively, and a live-action film adaptation that was screened on March 14, 2015. It was also published in Spanish by Ivrea from March 2012 to February 2014.

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Reviews

Mar 21, 2023
TL;DR An adorable, heartwarming read with some slight character issues.

REVIEW:

After completing Ao Haru Ride I dove right into this manga. I honestly expected something similar, but not to the same degree as the previous. But boy was I wrong.

Strobe Edge is more or less about the tides of having a crush. Waves of emotion coming and going, some stronger than others. I was blown away by how well Sakisaka is able to flesh out this story and its main characters so well with a seemingly simple premise.

One reason why I may have liked this manga SO MUCH is because I feel a bit too related ...
Oct 4, 2020
Mixed Feelings
*Review contains spoilers*

Story 5/10
So, I do not want to call the story boring, but...nothing really interesting happens. There are no "wow" moments or any storyline that keeps you interested for long. With that being said, there were a couple of things that prevented me from giving story a lower rating:
1-nice twist having the love interest of main character have a girlfriend and initially rejecting main character. This sort of thing usually happens near the end of the story for climax.
2-even though they tried, no love triangles really start! the main character's feelings remained loyal to her initial love interest and she never led on Andou, ...
Aug 15, 2024
Dont waste your time.
The main character is so annoying and silly ... it makes the story so long because she keeps changing her mind and the ending its obvious from the beginning, it could definitely be a story with only 5 chapters.... no need to be that long. Literally just rereading the same thing over and over again. By chapter 30 i was so bored that i just went to the last one and i was not surprised to see the end was obvious. I stayed too long reading it expecting a change, like a shock ending but nope....
The female main character... I cant ...

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