Tomo-chan Is a Girl!
Japanese manga series
Tomo-chan Is a Girl! (Japanese: トモちゃんは女の子！, Hepburn: Tomo-chan wa Onnanoko!) is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Fumita Yanagida. It was serialized on the Twi4 Twitter account and Saizensen website, usually as a single-page four-panel strip, from April 2015 to July 2019. Kodansha published in eight tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation produced by Lay-duce aired from January to March 2023.
The manga follows the everyday life of a tomboy high school student who is in love with her childhood friend, who only treats her as a boy, and her attempts to make him reciprocate her unrequited love.
Plot
Tomo Aizawa is a tomboy who has been head-over-heels in love with her childhood best friend Junichiro Kubota for a long time, even though he only sees her as "one of the boys" and has no romantic feelings for her at all. Hilarity ensues when she tries many times in vain to win his heart, but almost always fails and even ends up getting physical at times.
Characters
Tomo Aizawa (相沢 智, Aizawa Tomo)
Voiced by: Rie Takahashi (Japanese); Lexi Nieto, Emi Lo (young) (English)
Tomo is a tomboy who excels in combat sports.
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