The award-winning series kwn as Bokura ga Ita in Nanami Takahashi falls for Motoharu Ya, the most popular, carefree boy in class. For Nanami, it's first love, but Ya is still grieving the death of his girlfriend who died the year before. More than anything else... ...you must have wanted... ...to live up to Nanami's expectations. Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for teen plus audiences.
Yuuki Obata's debut manga, Raindrops, won the Shogakukan Shinjin Comics Taisho Kasaku Award in 1998. Her current series, We Were There (Bokura ga Ita), won the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award and was adapted into an animated television series.