Standoffish, reclusive Shizuku Mizutani cares far more about earning stellar grades than cultivating friendships. But her opinions on friendship and relationships begin to change when she meets habitual truant Haru Yoshida, who happens to have a rather fearsome reputation. Like Shizuku, Haru’s reputation has made it difficult to make friends. And yet through their budding friendship and stirrings of attraction the unlikely pair learns to understand one another, the world around them, and the tenor of their own emotions.
 
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

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Birth name: Nozomi (望) Sasaki (佐々木)     About:  Changed her name to all-hiragana form because the kanji of her birth name was exactly the same as voice actor Nozomu Sasaki's (望 can be pronounced either as "Nozomu" or "Nozomi").

Mizutani is a self-absorbed overachiever, concerned only with maintaining the highest grades in school. Haru is an impulsive short tempered brute, who scares everyone with his explosive bursts of violence. Haru gets suspended on the first day of school when he encounters some bullies harassing a student and dispatches the bullies with great bloody violence. Mizutani is tasked with delivering school materials to Haru who interprets this as an act of friendship and latches on to Mizutani, much to her dismay. And so begins a strange and potentially combustible relationship!
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)
 Note: Includes 17 bonus stories.

Saeko Ninomiya