Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms

Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms (黒岩メダカに私の可愛いが通じない) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ran Kuze. The series began serialization in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in May 2021, with its chapters collected in 23 tankōbon volumes as of March 2026. The series is licensed in English by Kodansha USA. An anime television series adaptation produced by SynergySP aired from January to March 2025. A second season has been announced.

Plot

Mona Kawai, a popular queen bee, is happy that everyone at her high school adores her, except for the new transfer student Medaka Kuroiwa, who looks angry all the time, and will not even look at her. Mona then makes it her mission to make him fall in love with her, but the more she tries, and the more Medaka resists, the more she finds herself falling in love with him. It turns out that Medaka is a monk-in-training who is forbidden by his temple masters from falling in love, but he finds it difficult to resist Mona's advances. Other girls join in either as Mona's rivals or supportive friends, much to Medaka's frustration, as he tries in vain to avoid more romantic advances.

Characters

• Medaka Kuroiwa (黒岩 メダカ)
• The titular protagonist of the series. Medaka is a second-year high school boy who is a monk-in-training at his family's temple. He is instructed not to fall in love with any girls, so he finds it rather frustrating that these city girls give him so much attention. At the start of the series, he is the only one in school who does not show any romantic feelings for Mona at all. However, his frustrations only grow more as he realizes he is genuinely in love with her.
• Mona Kawai (川井 モナ)
• The main heroine of the series. Mona is a beautiful and friendly second-year high school girl who is originally from Osaka Prefecture and had only moved to Tokyo the year prior. She prides herself on being the queen bee of the school, charming all the boys, until she meets Medaka. She then tries to win him over but ends up falling in love with him, although she denies the latter part. She occasionally reverts to her Kansai dialect when flustered. She is easily jealous of other girls who vie for Medaka's attention. Most of the story is told from her perspective. Issue 2021 No. 29 of Weekly Shonen Magazine has pictures of Enako cosplaying Mona as well as characters in other series.[3]
• Tsubomi Haruno (春野 つぼみ)
• Medaka and Mona's classmate greatly admires Mona, and has a collection of phone photos of her. Mona initially thinks of her as her love rival. After seeing Mona's interacting with Medaka, Tsubomi easily figures out that Mona likes him, and tries to push Mona towards the relationship.
• Asahi Shonan (湘南 旭)
• A first-year student and star basketball player, she falls head over heels in love with Medaka at first sight, and declares she is Mona's love rival. Medaka does not reciprocate her feelings at all, and has constantly rejected her, finding her unappealing and very annoying. For this reason, Asahi grows to resent Mona with a passion.
• Tomo Namba (難波 朋)
• Mona's childhood friend from Osaka who transfers to her class. She is outwardly friendly and flirtatious. She later feels conflicted for also developing a romantic interest in Medaka. She is from a single-parent household and moved to Tokyo to be with her father, who works as a writer. She was initially disapproving of Mona's crush on Medaka, but later develops feelings for him as well.
• Minami Shirahama (白浜 美波)
• Asahi's classmate and best friend who supports her in her pursuit of Medaka. She has dark shoulder-length hair.
• Shou Kobayakawa (小早川 翔)
• Medaka's classmate and friend with the glasses.
• Yuzuru Kido (木戸 譲)
• Medaka's classmate and friend with light-colored short hair.
• Anri Shinagawa (品川 杏莉)
• A girl from an affluent household who takes an interest in Medaka. She has a rebellious streak stemming from her love of playing the guitar.

Media

Reception

In January 2022, Kodansha reported that the series had over 150,000 copies in circulation.[73] In August 2023, it was announced to have reached 1 million copies in circulation.[74]

Works cited

• "Ch." and "Vol." is shortened form for chapter and volume of the Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms manga.

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