High School Debut

High School Debut

2011 · 93 min · ★ 6.1 · Comedy, Romance

Based on the best selling manga, Haruna Nagashima (Ito Ono) devoted herself to softball while in middle school. Now that she is in high school, Haruna believes its time find a boyfriend. Unfortunately for Haruna, she didn't pay attention to trends and is now clueless on how to attract a boy. Through a fortuitous event, Haruna encounters popular upperclassman You Komiyama (Junpei Mizobata) Haruna asks You to teach her how to become attractive to boys. You agrees but with one catch. She can't fall in love with him ...

Directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa · Written by Yuichi Fukuda

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Junpei Mizobata Yo Komiyama
Ito Ohno Haruna Nagashima
Masaki Suda Fumiya Tamura
Yuki Furukawa Yui Asaoka
Rin Aizawa Asami Komiyama
Yuka Masuda Reona Matsuzaka
Elaiza Ikeda Takemoto

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