Genres
Comedy Aims to entertain and amuse through humor, often using witty dialogue, slapstick, or exaggerated situations to provoke laughter.Romance Explores the development of romantic relationships between characters, often featuring emotional intimacy, courtship, and personal growth.Tags
School Partly or completely set in a primary or secondary educational institution.Tomboy Features a girl who exhibits characteristics or behaviors considered in many cultures to be typical of boys.Heterosexual Prominently features a romance between a man and a woman, not inherently sexual.Male Protagonist Main character is male.Primarily Teen Cast Main cast is mostly composed of teen characters.12cm Promise with a Cool Girl
カッコいい女の子と12センチの約束
As a child, Tomoaki admired his boyish childhood friend Ibuki Tachibana and promised to become cooler than her one day. Four years later, Ibuki has grown into an even more handsome girl, and the gap between them has not closed at all.
Tomoaki keeps chasing the image of coolness he once set for himself, while Ibuki, who has no idea how he sees her, is hopelessly in love with him. Neither of them finds the words to say what they feel, and the distance between them stays as stubborn as the twelve centimetres of height that separate them.
Their days go on like that, close enough to notice everything and far enough to miss it, with each of them waiting for the other to make a move and the same small gap still standing in the way.
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