Nagareboshi Lens

Nagareboshi Lens (流れ星レンズ, Nagareboshi Renzu, Shooting star lens) is a Japanese slice of life romance shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Mayu Murata.^[1] It began serialization in Shueisha's Ribon manga magazine in 2011^[2] and ended on July 3, 2014;^[3] a total of 10 volumes were published.^[1] It's published in French by Panini.^[1] An original video animation adaptation was released in 2012.^[4]

Characters

• Risa^[2] is the main female protagonist. She is a girl who has no experience in love. Once when her best friend, Yuko, tells Risa about her boyfriend and herself (and about how she saw her boyfriend sparkle and she knew he was her 'first' love), Risa starts to get interested in love and wants to experience and know about it. She then meets Yugure, the grade's most charming, handsome, and popular boy. She saw him sparkle and fell in love with him at first sight. When she confesses to him, he returns her feelings and they start going out with each other. Risa is a girl who really cares at others and wants to make them smile. She also loves bears a lot and has no fashion sense. She really admires Yugure and he is her 'first boyfriend and first love'. And also risa is the only child in her family.
• Yūgure^[2] is the most popular boy in his grade. He is usually seen playing football with his friends which is hinted to be his favorite sport. He seems to be nice and kind to everyone. He has no experience in love. When he first saw risa he stated that she is "cute" and then they started dating.

Volumes

• 1 (August 11, 2011)^[5]
• 2 (December 15, 2011)^[6]
• 3 (March 15, 2012)^[7]
• 4 (August 10, 2012)^[8]
• 5 (December 14, 2012)^[9]
• 6 (April 15, 2013)^[10]
• 7 (August 9, 2013)^[11]
• 8 (December 13, 2013)^[12]
• 9 (April 15, 2014)^[13]
• 10 (September 12, 2014)^[14]

Reception

Volume 6 reached the 41st place on the weekly Oricon manga chart and, as of April 20, 2013, has sold 28,249 copies;^[15] volume 9 reached the 25th place and, as of April 20, 2014, has sold 34,763 copies;^[16] volume 10 reached the 35th place^[17] and, as of September 21, 2014, has sold 52,454 copies.^[18]

It was nominated for Best Children's Manga at the 38th Kodansha Manga Awards.^[19]

References

External links

• Nagareboshi Lens (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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Films	Eureka Seven: Pocketful of Rainbows (2009) Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road (2013)
OVAs/ONAs	.hack//Quantum (2010–2011) Busou Shinki (2011–2012) The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (2011–2012) Nagareboshi Lens (2012) Under the Dog (2016) Yuyushiki (2017)
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