Honey Lemon Soda

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Japanese: ハニーレモンソーダ

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Dec 28, 2015 to ?

Genre: Romance

Theme: School

Demographic: Shoujo

Serialization: Ribon Magazine

Authors: Murata, Mayu (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #1890²

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For 15-year-old Uka Ishimori, middle school was the toughest experience she lived through. She was dubbed "Rocky" due to always freezing up in front of other people and was endlessly bullied as a result. Now in high school, she has a chance for a fresh start and to improve herself. But during her first week, she is accidentally soaked in juice by her classmate Kai Miura, a flashy guy with lemon-colored hair.

On paper, Kai is everything that Uka lacks—he is popular, aloof, and bold enough to speak his mind. Despite their contrasting personalities, Kai encourages her to slowly come out of her shell, offering a helping hand when others avoided to do so. Although Uka initially wanted to forge friendships, she has realized her true feelings—she has fallen in love with Kai. What started with a lemon soda is about to change Uka and Kai's lives forever.

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Honey Lemon Soda was nominated for the 45th Kodansha Manga Awards in the shoujo category in 2021. In the same year, the manga ranked 40th on Da Vinci magazine's "Book of the Year" list.

The series has been published in English by Yen Press since January 17, 2023.

Honey Lemon Soda was adapted into a Japanese live-action movie that premiered on July 9, 2021.

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Miura, Kai

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Ishimori, Uka

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Iwakawa, Nano

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Takizawa, Sora

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Kojima, Remi

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Kiryuu, Tsukasa

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Kurosawa, Reo

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Shiraishi, Moka

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Oikawa, Tao

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Seto, Satoru

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Oct 19, 2020

xyenne

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Edit: Y'all I thought I liked this manga and then I read the latest chapter (54) and I'm seriously starting to question my own taste. If you're a fan of Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, this manga is like that trash shoujo Let's Fall in Love that Nozaki pens. I could totally imagine that Murata Mayu is just the pen name of some degenerate bum high school dude who has no idea what romance is and just randomly inserts fluffy chapters and stupid devices that have no basis in plot and somehow manages to make a hit manga because clearly all it takes to make a hit ... manga is not storytelling capability but just some weekly trash with pretty art and a heart squeezing moment at the end and MURATA MAYU HAS THAT FORMULA DOWN PAT. I LITERALLY HATE HOW MUCH I LIKE THIS MANGA. I swear to y'all, I read chapter 54 and I had to sit down ask myself what I did to get to this point in my life. I'm playing limbo with the author right now, I lower the bar for what's acceptable and she just moves it lower. I'm playing a game of chicken with this manga.

This is probably the trashiest shoujo I'm absolutely in love with.

Let me explain. Honey Lemon Soda hits pretty much all the shoujo stereotypes. I mean, the premise is insanely cliche: unpopular average girl MC falls for her school's bad boy hottie. Execution wise, it also ticks all the boxes. Everything from her classmates' over the top reactions, the overdramatic reveal of exes and love interests; these are all things we regularly see in the genre.

But this stupid manga has warmed my little shoujo heart because while it's cliche beyond belief, it does the cliches right. There's a reason why these tropes were popular in the first place, and Honey Lemon Soda exploits that for all it's worth. The good moments are staged, unrealistic, and overdramatic, but they're SO CUTE. If you're looking for some guilty pleasure feel good romance, this is it. I actually hate how much I love it. I've been reading it pretty much since the scanlations first came out, and every time I hop on a manga site it's like the first title I check for updates.

I do also think the series has something to offer with its characters. These days I feel like I read shoujos more for the MCs than the guys, and Uka doesn't disappoint. Well, she does. She's very lightly useless, but the whole point is that she's someone who tries her best and it makes you want to root for her. In fact, Miura, the lead male, flashy as he is, always seems to take the background to Uka. He tends not to get too involved, and while everyone freaks out over him, it's clear that she's the real star. He's kind of just a catalyst to her development. Besides the main pair, the side characters tend to be... well, they don't stick out too much, but they're very sweet when noticed! Even the "villain" characters for some of the story arcs turn out to be nice people, which I guess is pretty typical of shoujo, but Honey Lemon Soda really does the resolutions the right way, and once the arcs of drama are resolved, the author doesn't forget about those characters. The "villain" characters actually make reappearances, which really helps you to like them more.

This kind of brings us to my next point: the story is stupidly overdone but the resolutions make you accept the unrealistic build ups for what they are. This isn't some cute super realistic relatable manga, it's a guilty pleasure reading built on hopes and dreams, okay? There's like 5000 things wrong with it but that's honestly what makes it so good. The kind of stupid plot helps spoon feed readers the cute romantic iconic shoujo moments we're looking for, so it's okay to look past the fact that Uka wasn't actually wearing her dress backwards and other stupid plot holes. I can accept the fact that everyone at their high school overreacts to everything and I can accept Miura's generic sad backstory because the author is so good at milking those end-of-chapter scenes for everything they're worth. The art isn't my favorite style, but it's pretty and really sparkly, and there's a lot of cute chibi inserts which lead to particularly cute and funny scenes, and let's be real, the whole backbone of this manga for me is particular scenes.

So yeah, check it out if you're looking for some escapist feels good content, and I'm gonna go reread.

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Aug 24, 2020

Aya_T

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Preliminary (48/? eps)

I love Honey Lemon Soda. It does sound like a typical shoujo manga where shy girls meet bad boy but what I like the most about this is how the characters grow and the nice balance between that having the light fluffiness of a usual shoujo would have.
The main girl character, Uka, is super shy that she doesn't talk much and gets bullied. Through this manga it is a gradual change for her to stand up for herself. Then there is also the main boy character, Kai. He is a not a 'bad boy' per say, I would say that he is someone that enjoys ...

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Oct 20, 2023

mendiolakrn

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (71/? eps)

reminds me of Kimi ni Todoke and Usui of Maid sama because of Kai. Would still prefer kimi ni todoke because of it's wholesomeness and I don't really enjoy the first few chapters of this manga but still kinda glad i kept through coz it do get better in the middle. however as for the latest? last few chapters, i kinda got tired reading it coz it still seems that their relationship is not moving and another character is added and it feels like i was reading the same chapters over and over again due to them celebrating culture fest and then after awhile they ...

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