Top 5 Manga Like At First Glance, Shinoda-San Seems Cool but Is Actually Adorable! (Ikken Cool dakedo Futsuu Kawaii Shinoda-san) [2026 List]

Ikken Cool dakedo Futsuu Kawaii Shinoda-san

A story about a girl named Shinoda-san who is not what she seems, and the only guy in school who seems to get her!

Note: A digital volume got published by the editorial Number Nine on February 21, 2020.

At First Glance, Shinoda-San Seems Cool but Is Actually Adorable! has finished publishing and it has 10 Chapters. It is also Known as: 一見クールだけど普通可愛い篠田さん, 乍一看很酷但其实很可爱的篠田同学

Genres: School Life , Slice of Life , Romance , School Clubs , Comedy

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Top 5 Manga Like At First Glance, Shinoda-San Seems Cool but Is Actually Adorable! (Ikken Cool dakedo Futsuu Kawaii Shinoda-san) [2026 List]

5. Fruits Basket

Fruits Basket

Tohru Honda is a high school freshman who is having a serious bout of misfortune. Not only was she recently orphaned with the tragedy of her mother's death, but she also has no where to live and is currently residing in a tent! However, when her luck to seems to be at its worse, she meets the Sohma family - and is invited to stay with them in exchange for taking care of the household chores.
But it isn't long before Tohru discovers the Sohmas have deep a secret. The family is cursed by the spirits of the Chinese Zodiac, and some of the children born into the Sohma family are possessed by these spirits. When possessed, they cannot be "huggled" by the opposite sex, or they transform into their respective Zodiac animal!
However, this doesn't phase Tohru, who promises to keep their secret. She continues living with them, and her grave humbleness and thankfulness never wanes. As a result, they come to be very important people in her life, and the Sohmas begin to realize how very lucky they are to have her.

Fruits Basket has finished publishing and it has 136 Chapters. It is also Known as: フルーツバスケット, Furuba

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4. ReLIFE

ReLIFE

The story follows Kaizaki Arata, a 27-year-old jobless man, who fails at every job interview he had after quitting his last company. His life changes after he met Yoake Ryou of the ReLife Research Institute, who offered him a drug that can change his appearance to 17-years-old and to become a subject in an experiment for one year. Thus, he begins his life as a high school student once more.

ReLIFE has finished publishing and it has 222 Chapters. It is also Known as: リライフ, 重返17歲

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3. Ao Haru Ride

Ao Haru Ride

Yoshioka Futaba has a few reasons why she wants to "reset" her image & life as a new high school student. Because she's cute, she was ostracized by her female friends in junior high, and because of a misunderstanding, she couldn't get her feeling across to the one boy she has ever liked, Tanaka-kun.

Now in high school, she is determined to be as unladylike as possible so that her friends won't be jealous of her. While living her life this way contentedly, she meets Tanaka-kun again, but he now goes under the name of Mabuchi Kou. He tells her that he felt the same way as she did when they were younger, but now things can never be the same again. Will Futaba be able to continue her love that never even started from three years ago?



Included one-shots:
Volume 8: Sono Omokage wo Shitteru
Volume 13: Strobe Edge Tokubetsu-hen

has finished publishing and it has 53 Chapters. It is also Known as: アオハライド AO―HARU―RIDE, Blue Spring Ride, Aoharaido, Strobe Edge, Sono Omokage wo Shitteru

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2. Something About Us

Something About Us

They consider themselves the best of friends. Others seem to think otherwise. There's something about their relationship that's hard to describe. What will become of these two "friends"?



Note: Chapter count includes the prologue, epilogue and side story chapters.

Something About Us has finished publishing and it has 117 Chapters. It is also Known as: 우리사이느은, Our Relationship Is..., Woori, Our Relationship Is

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1. Horimiya

Horimiya

At school, Kyouko Hori is known for being smart, attractive, and popular. On the other hand, her classmate, the boring, gloomy Izumi Miyamura tends to get painted as a "loser fanboy." But when a liberally pierced and tattooed (not to mention downright gorgeous) Miyamura appears unexpectedly on the doorstep of secretly plain-Jane homebody Hori, these two similarly dissimilar teenagers discover that there are multiple sides to every story...and person!



Notes:
-Includes 20 extra chapters.
-The 17th volume got released on July 18, 2023. This was 2 years after its original ending. This new volume included 10 extra chapters.

Note: Chapter count includes 20 extra chapters.

Horimiya has finished publishing and it has 152 Chapters. It is also Known as: ホリミヤ, Horimiya

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