Old school shoujo where the female leads are simple minded, airheaded, and easily fooled, or at least takes the baits and gets tricked. The first male lead differs a bit from the rest but he's still grouchy and suspicion. The other male leads are one dubious and stalkerish, and too forward and too tsundere for my tastes.
A collection of Oneshots 1. Fiancee Inn: "Sanae has a fiance. Moreover, he is the young owner of a big Japanese Inn. Is she marrying into money?" Sanae quickly begins her training to become a proprietress, but will she become more interested in the manag
1. Fiancé Inn "Sanae has a fiance? Moreover, he is the young owner of a big Japanese Inn. Is she marrying into money?" Sanae quickly begins her training to become a proprietress, but will she become more interested in the manager than the owner...?!
2. Secret Housemate This story was the first one in the anthology Chokotto H na Koi Monogatari. Sweet short story of a middle school boy in love with a high school girl. She is meticulous about wanting to know everything about the person she is dating. Her emotion conflict when she meets this middle school boy, who challenges her way of thinking about relationship. The author diligently places the character in a muddled, flustered, and distraught air of insecure emotions. She feels baffled because she can't comprehend why she likes him, even though she knows nothing about him.
You don't normally think of love and subterfuge going together, but in these stories we have elements of both and they worked quite well to reach surprisingly happy endings. Liked the first; loved the last; ignoring the middle. Good art too!