Kimi to Tsuzuru Utakata
The Summer You Were There
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Japanese: 君と綴るうたかた
English: The Summer You Were There
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 6
Chapters: 32
Status: Finished
Published: May 18, 2020 to Jan 18, 2024
Genre: Girls Love Girls Love
Theme: School School
Serialization: Comic Yuri Hime
Authors: Yuama (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.681 (scored by 1058410,584 users)
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Ranked: #702
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Popularity: #687
Members: 29,954
Favorites: 1,549

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Synopsis

The self-conscious Shizuku Hoshikawa is on her way to dispose of her first and last novel. But before she can do so, the charismatic Kaori Asaka bumps into her and ends up taking the novel home. This turn of events greatly distresses Shizuku, as she does not want anyone to read the depressing story she wrote for her own satisfaction.

Initially expecting the worst, Shizuku finds herself in tears of joy when Kaori tells her the novel deeply moved her. Kaori wishes to read more of her stories, but as Shizuku did not plan on writing anything else, she has no idea what to write. As a result, Kaori comes up with a bizarre suggestion—their love.

Shizuku is skeptical of Kaori's intention and somewhat uneasy about what secrets she may be hiding behind her smile. Nevertheless, the two begin their odd summer vacation in pursuit of their own love story.

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Kimi to Tsuzuru Utakata was nominated twice in the Best Printed Manga category for the eighth and ninth Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards in 2022 and 2023.

The series was published in English as The Summer You Were There by Seven Seas Entertainment from October 4, 2022 to January 28, 2025.
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Characters

Hoshikawa, Shizuku
Hoshikawa, Shizuku
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Asaka, Kaori
Asaka, Kaori
Main
Hoshikawa, Shizuka
Hoshikawa, Shizuka
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Asaka, Shiori
Asaka, Shiori
Supporting
Ichinose, Ruri
Ichinose, Ruri
Supporting
Ichihara, Seri
Ichihara, Seri
Supporting

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24 Recommended
2 Mixed Feelings
1 Not Recommended
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Oct 14, 2025
Serralha06
Recommended
I just finished "The Summer You Were There" and I still don't know how to fully process it. I started reading expecting a standard yuri romance and ended up being hit with something much deeper and heavier than I imagined. It's honestly beautiful, moving, and very real in ways I didn't expect.

The relationship between Shizuku and Kaori starts out as a stereotypical one, a reserved writer and a popular outgoing classmate, but evolves into something much more raw and emotionally charged. There's so much unspoken pain, trauma, and guilt beneath the surface, especially for Shizuku, and the way the story slowly reveals these layers was ...
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Nov 15, 2025
snapchatbroccoli
Mixed Feelings
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Kimi to Tsuzuru Utakata is a manga that I truly wanted to love, but what started as a captivating look into Hoshikawa's internal struggle quickly became a romance that felt imbalanced in terms of depth. This manga genuinely hooked me from the very beginning and I really found myself relating to Hoshikawa and her dilemma with herself, those she's hurt, her future, and her place in a world where she can't quite forgive herself.

Where the series starts to lose me is with the introduction of Hoshikawa's lover, Kaori. Kaori's unyieldingness in her effort to plaster on a smile, after a while, starts to rub me ...
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Dec 6, 2025
vargind
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Imagine an incredibly generic shoujo romance where one of the pair is dying, i.e. a deliberate tear-jerker of a story. But wait, they're actually fake-dating, because the dying one read the story the not-dying one was trying to throw out and thought it was fantastic and wants them to write a romance story about the two of them so makes a deal they will just fake-date for that one summer holiday as material for the story.

Now sprinkle in some highly contrived parts where the dying person somehow manages to fix the not-dying person's relationship with their family and the kid they bullied in elementary ...
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