title: "Taku Kawamura’s Kawaii Kōhai ni Iwasaretai Will End in 2 Chapters" excerpt: "Taku Kawamura’s romcom manga is heading for its finale after growing from" an X/Twitter series into a serialized title with nine volumes. category: anime date: '2026-04-17T04:02:38+08:00' author: Aimirul tags:
- Taku Kawamura
- Kawaii Kōhai ni Iwasaretai
- manga
- romcom
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Taku Kawamura’s Kawaii Kōhai ni Iwasaretai is almost done, with the manga set to wrap up in two chapters.
If you have not come across it before, the series is a romance built around Yasu and Moriyama. Yasu is the senior between the two, and the whole relationship starts moving when he asks Moriyama for advice about a girl he likes. Moriyama does give him advice, but not in a straightforward sweet romcom way. Instead, she keeps nudging him toward confessing to her, using that passive-aggressive, deadpan energy that basically defines their dynamic. The punchline, of course, is that the “certain girl” Yasu is talking about really is Moriyama. From there, the story follows the two as a couple, with plenty of back-and-forth and Moriyama often getting the upper hand by bargaining hard with Yasu.
That setup is a big reason the manga has its own charm. It is not just a standard confession-chase romance. The appeal comes from the two leads already clearly liking each other, then watching how their personalities keep colliding in a funny, slightly petty, but still affectionate way.
Kawamura first started the manga on X/Twitter in March 2018, which is honestly a route a lot of online manga fans will recognise. It later made the jump to commercial serialization after Kawamura announced in June 2019 that the series would begin running on Akita Shoten’s Manga Cross in July 2019. The publisher released the manga’s ninth compiled volume in December 2025.
For Malaysian and wider SEA readers, this is the kind of series trajectory worth paying attention to. A lot of fans here discover romance manga through clips, reposts, recommendation threads, and social platforms before a title really blows up. So seeing a manga go from creator-posted content into a full serialized work feels very familiar. It is also another reminder that romcoms with a strong character gimmick still have plenty of staying power, especially when the chemistry actually lands.
Kawamura has been busy beyond this title too. The creator launched False Child (Uso no Kodomo) in Square Enix’s Monthly Gangan Joker in November 2022, and that series ended in March 2024. Its fourth and final compiled volume shipped in July 2024. That one is also more accessible for international readers, since it has been released digitally in English through Manga UP! Global, BookWalker Global Store, and Comikey.
Before that, Kawamura also worked on Kakegurui (Kakkokari), a four-panel comedy spinoff of Homura Kawamoto and Tōru Naomura’s Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler. That manga launched in December 2016 in Gangan Joker, ended in September 2022, and got its 10th and final volume in July 2023.
Kawamura is also still drawing My Clueless First Friend (Jijō o Shiranai Tenkōsei ga Guigui Kuru.), which began serialization in Gangan Joker in June 2018. Square Enix published the manga’s 23rd volume on March 21, while Square Enix Manga & Books handles the English omnibus release. Its eighth English volume came out in January 2025, and the ninth is scheduled for July 7. That series also received a TV anime adaptation that premiered in April 2023.
So yeah, if Kawaii Kōhai ni Iwasaretai has been on your reading list, now is probably the time to catch up before the finale hits. A romcom that started online back in 2018 is finally reaching the finish line, and for fans who like teasing-heavy relationship comedy, this is one ending worth noting.
Source: Anime News Network