Tomodachi (manga)

Tomodachi (トモダチ) is a Japanese shōjo manga by Hara Asumi. The story is about Sakura Yamato, a girl trying to revive a friendship with her childhood friend. After being overseas for five years, 16-year-old Yamato comes back to Japan to find that her geeky best friend, Ai, has turned into a delinquent, and wants nothing to do with her! Yamato tries to revive her relationship with Ai while finding out about her troubled past without Yamato, and why she changed.

Characters
Sakura Yamato
 * The series main character. She was born on July 7. Her zodiac sign is cancer. Yamato is a cheerful and energetic girl. When she was in elementary school, she was often alone and being bullied by her classmates and was called "man girl". After becoming friends with Ai she became much more cheerful. Before moving to Switzerland, Ai gave her a doll which looked liked her and that whenever she felt lonely, she can always talk to the doll. Five years later, she came back to see that her geeky best friend Ai has become a delinquent. Now she tries to revive her friendship with Ai and find out what has changed her during her living in Switzerland.

Kirishima Ai
 * She was Yamato's best friend in elementary school. She gave a doll to Yamato which looked like her while she kept a doll which looked like Yamato before Yamato moved to Switzerland. When Yamato was gone, she was being bullied in school because she looked geeky. She changed her geeky look to a much more pretty girl during high school. She is one of the most popular girls in school because of her cool and tough nature and bullies others. Her lover relationship with Retsu is fake. Her exboyfriend was Mizuki, but later they broke up. She once again has a crush on Mizuki. She and Yamato make up on Chapter 8.

Igarashi Retsu
 * He is one of the most popular boys in school. He is also known as a playboy but puts Ai as his first priority. After Yamato slapped him, he developed a crush for Yamato. His lover relationship with Ai is fake as he wants to protect her from being bullied.He often gets annoyed with Yamato when she spends too much time around Manabe. Yamato is, however, unaware of his affections at the beginning. Ai had noticed his crush on Yamato, and after she and Yamato make up, she "breaks up" with him.

Manabe Mizuki
 * He is known as the prince of his class and many people don't approach him. Yamato called him "Ghost-san" because of his ability to disappear very fast. He once again maybe has a crush on Ai. He even helped her when Ai is being bullied. He used to be Ai's ex-boyfriend, but as of chapter 10, the reason they broke up is not known,probably the reason why is because Ai was bullied at the gym at the same time when he had surgery. Mizuki didn't tell Ai about the surgery since he thinks that Ai will blame herself.

Mizutani Nanako
 * A shy girl who Yamato made friends with and Kurumi blames her for the attack. She is shy and looks a little like Ai when younger. When Yamato was trying to save Kurumi from a group of boys, Nanako overheard Mizuki and Retsu talking about it and went to find Ai to tell her about it. At first Ai didn't want to go until Nanako told Ai about how she changed because of what she said.

Morita Kurumi
 * She is Yamato's friend. She thinks Yamato is cool and she goes to cram school. She was the one who plotted the Bullying to Ai but instead blame it to her another classmate, Mizutani Nanako. Kurumi seems to be a gentle and sweet girl at first, but throughout the story she isn't. When she was done using a group of boys,at chapter 12, the same group went to find Kurumi and almost raped her, it isn't said but it seemed to be the case. At the same time Yamato was trying to find Ai, Kurumi desperately called out to Yamato to help her.

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