Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!

Kazuhiko Nukumizu, a first-year high schooler who doesn’t claim to understand the ups and downs of teen romance, is perfectly content living as a self-described “background character”—quiet, introverted, and mostly unnoticed. That changes when he accidentally witnesses a painful moment: his popular classmate Anna Yanami being turned down by her childhood friend at a family restaurant.

Hoping to leave the incident behind, Nukumizu instead becomes Anna’s reluctant confidant as she vents about being the childhood friend destined to lose. Before long, he’s pulled into the romantic fallout surrounding other girls as well—Lemon Yakishio, a bright and outgoing track-and-field club member, and Chika Komari, a timid student from the literature club—pushing him out of his comfort zone and into the middle of one “losing heroine” story after another.