I Want to End This Love Game (manga)

I Want to End This Love Game (Japanese愛してるゲームを終わらせたいHepburnAishiteru Gēmu O Owara Setai) is a Japanese web manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Domoto. It has been serialized on Shogakukan‘s online platform Sunday Webry  since December 2021.

Plot

Yukiya Asagi (浅葱 優希也) and Miku Sakura (桜 みく), who were childhood friends, started the love game when they were Grade 6. In the game, they have to say “I love you” to each other and the one who get flustered loses. The game has lasted for four years and not ended even they became high school students. They pretend that they say “I love you” to each other just for fun, but actually, they have feelings for each other. It however is too late for them to confess at this stage.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Yuki Domoto, I Want to End This Love Game started in Shogakukan‘s online platform Sunday Webry [ja] on December 24, 2021. Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on April 12, 2022.

In June 2023, Viz Media announced that they have licensed the manga for an English release in North America, starting in Q2 2024.

Volumes

No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 April 12, 2022 978-4-09-851047-4 February 13, 2024 978-1-9747-4276-9
2 August 12, 2022 978-4-09-851220-1 May 14, 2024 978-1-9747-4553-1
3 December 12, 2022 978-4-09-851525-7 August 13, 2024 978-1-9747-4627-9
4 May 12, 2023 978-4-09-852059-6 November 12, 2024 978-1-9747-4925-6
5 December 12, 2023 978-4-09-853053-3
6 April 10, 2024 978-4-09-853254-4

Reception

The series was nominated for the 2022 Next Manga Award in the web manga category; it ranked 12th in the 2023 edition in the same category.

 

I Want to End This Love Game

Cover of the first tankōbon volume
愛してるゲームを終わらせたい
(Aishiteru Gēmu O Owara Setai)
Genre Romantic comedy
Manga
Written by Yuki Domoto
Published by Shogakukan
English publisher
Imprint Shōnen Sunday Comics Special
Magazine Sunday Webry
Demographic Shōnen
Original run December 24, 2021 – present
Volumes 6

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