Hachimitsu ni Hatsukoi

Hachimitsu ni Hatsukoi (ハチミツにはつこい) is a Japanese slice of life romance shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Ai Minase and serialized on Shogakukan's Shōjo Comic magazine.^[1] Volume 1 was released on November 2012 and the final volume was released on August 26, 2015.^[2] 12 volumes were published.^[3] It's published in French by Panini.^[4]

Characters

• Koharu Shiina^[4]
• Natsuki Sugiura^[4]
• Aki Saionji^[4]

Volumes

• 1 (November 26, 2012)^[3]
• 2 (December 26, 2012)^[3]
• 3 (March 26, 2013)^[3]
• 4 (June 26, 2013)^[3]
• 5 (September 26, 2013)^[3]
• 6 (January 24, 2014)^[3]
• 7 (March 26, 2014)^[3]
• 8 (July 25, 2014)^[3]
• 9 (September 26, 2014)^[3]
• 10 (December 26, 2014)^[3]
• 11 (March 26, 2015)^[3]
• 12 (August 26, 2015)^[3]

Reception

Volume 1 reached the 35th place on the weekly Oricon manga chart and, as of December 2, 2012, has sold 25,522 copies;^[2] volume 2 reached the 41st place and, as of December 30, 2012, has sold 27,923 copies;^[5] volume 5 reached the 16th place^[6] and, as of October 6, 2013, has sold 71,993 copies;^[7] volume 6 reached the 11th place and, as of February 2, 2014, has sold 76,972 copies;^[8] volume 7 reached the 12th place^[9] and, as of April 6, 2014, has sold 92,459 copies;^[10] volume 8 reached the 20th place and, as of August 3, 2014, has sold 76,089 copies;^[11] volume 9 reached the 26th place^[12] and, as of October 5, 2014, has sold 73,490 copies;^[13] volume 11 reached the 17th place^[14] and, as of April 5, 2015, had sold 81,481 copies.^[15]

The staff at manga-news.com gave the French edition a grade of 16 out of 20.^[4] On Manga Sanctuary, one of the staff members gave it a grade of 5 out of 10.^[16]

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