| Girl Friends | |
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 The cover of volume 1 of the Girl Friends manga. |
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| ガールフレンズ | |
| Genre | Romance, Yuri |
| Manga | |
| Author | Milk Morinaga |
| Publisher |  Futabasha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Comic High! |
| Original run | October 21, 2006 – ongoing |
| Volumes | 4 |
Girl Friends (ガールフレンズ) is a yuri manga series by Milk Morinaga. It has been serialized bimonthly by Futabasha in the seinen manga magazine Comic High! since October 21, 2006, and collected in three bound volumes as of September 2009.[1] The manga is licensed in Taiwan by Sharp Point Press.[2]
According to the author's afterword to volume one, she based the story on her own experience in high school (and based the school on the school she attended) but had to update it with such details as ubiquitous cell phones.
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The story revolves around the quiet Mari Kumakura whose only noticeable quality is her top of the class grades, enter the cute and friendly Akko Oohashi whose goal is to get to know Mari and become best friends with her. With Akko's help she quickly transforms into one of the prettiest girls in school and becomes good friends with Akko, Sugi and Tamami. The group get into all kinds of situations; boys, diets, fashion, friends and studies.
However as the plot develops Mari and later Akko realize both have deeper feelings for each other, feelings that eclipse friendship.
Mariko Kumakura
The protagonist, whose nickname is Mari. She is a shy and polite person who always sits during lunch breaks and read books by herself, when Akko makes friends with her Mari starts to change and her personality starts to develop. She has recently become less shy and more socially-aware. In an effort to distance her feelings for her friend she has also gained a boyfriend despite having growing feelings approaching love for Akko. Her subsequent break-up and resolve to remain 'just friends' with Akko conceal her true desires.
Akiko Oohashi
Second protagonist, known to her friends as Akko. A confident and popular girl that befriends Mari at the start of the story. She displays many attributes of a stereotypical teenage girl, such as being knowledgeable about boys, fashion and diets. She seems to be popular with boys despite little of her being shown interacting with them. Recently she had started to develop feelings for her best friend Mari, although it is at first arguable whether or not she is aware of them despite being increasingly jealous of Mari's boyfriend. In point of fact she is deeply in love with Mari.
Satoko Sugiyama An outgoing playgirl who makes lots of boyfriends and dates them all at the same time, she likes to go to mixers and drink a lot. It has been mentioned that she has kissed Tamami more than once although the two seem to be simply best friends. She often is seen as the most promiscuous and party-loving of the group and tends to strip her clothes off when she is drunk. She is surprisingly a light-weight when it comes to drinking.
Tamami Sekine A cute and funny girl who is best friends with Satoko. She is a massively big fan of manga which she often buys or talks about. She likes nightclubs, drinking, food, and manga. When the original group is split up, Tamami and Satoko grow apart despite promising to stay in touch and be good friends but with help from Mari and Akko they are reunited and it is implied that they have since remained best friends.
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