Japanese: キャットストリート
Synonyms: Ribbon Road
Type: Manga
Volumes: 8
Chapters: 36
Status: Completed
Published: Jul 13, 2004 to Sep 13, 2007
Genres: Drama, Romance, Shoujo, Slice of life
Mangaka: Kamio Yoko (Story & Art)
Serialization: Bessatsu Margaret
Synopsis: The story centers around Keito Aoyama, a former famous child actor. Due to a childhood incident, she retired from her career early and withdrew from normal society. Now 16, she passes her days in boredom and without purpose. But one day she runs into a stranger who takes her to El Liston—a free school for high school students like herself, who don't have a place where they belong. Though hesitant at first, Keito decides to enter El Liston and subsequently, she begins a new stage in her life. With the help of her only remaining childhood friend, Taiyou, and her new classmates Rei, Momiji, and Kouichi, Keito slowly finds the courage to open up to others and to accept their support. Will Keito return to acting? Will she find true friends? Love?
A Willful Muse
Condensation
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Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates
Side notes: I'm following now a thread from Pink to Gray and continuing it with two more manga.^-^ I could have probably picked up some other mangas instead but... today I's lead to this way. The manga has pretty strong reader's support so I's thinking why not... maybe it's something different and could be interesting to check out. And for some reason it made me think Alfred Hitchcock Three Investigators from the way way way in the past.XDDD But to be more serious... it kinda reflects to Nana and Orange in my mind so here it is and stays.^-^
Main characters
Kouichi Mine (峰 浩一)
A genius with an IQ of 200. He's usually seen with a laptop. He saves Keito's sister when she was in trouble with other girls. He's a computer geek. He's one of Keito's friends. Kouchi actually dropped out of school because he thinks it was boring to stay with too many idiots there.
Kouichi spends much of his time indoors at the computer lab of the Free School where he can create his computer programs for his job. Because he spends so much time indoors he is quite pale and skinny and doesn't talk much. Despite all this Keito, Rei and Momiji are friends with him and they look out for each other.
Keito Aoyama (青山 恵都)
Keito Aoyama was a child actress whose career ended after she froze on stage for 15 minutes and ended her career. Even though she is now 16, the incident between her and Nako and that fateful day on stage remain in her head and she is unable to move forward. But her life changes when she meets the principal of the "free school" where students can come and go as they wish. Keito begins to attend the school and befriends 3 of its students.
Momiji Noda (野田 紅葉)
A gothic lolita. She designs her own clothes and she came to El liston since she hated having to wear the same thing everyday and when she wore one of her gothic lolita clothes to school she was shunned by everybody else. She becomes really good friends with Keito. She fell in love with a guy named Yamaguchi, but when she confessed Yamaguchi told her to put on some decent clothes and confess again later.
When Momiji showed off her sketches to Rei and Kouichi they kindly complimented her and said that they don't know anything about fashion, however Keito sincerely complimented her which started their friendship. She spends much of her time sewing and sketching outrageous outfits with the assistance of Keito.
Rei Saeki (佐伯 玲)
A formerly famous soccer player. He said that he was a fan of Keito when she was acting back then and that he watched the incident which ended Keito's acting career. He is also the one that convinced her to attend the free school named El Liston. He becomes friends with Keito.
He helps guide Keito to forget about the incident when she was Sunny and to move forward. He introduces her to Kouichi and Momiji and all become good friends who look out for each other.
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