they agree not to see each other until then. She picks up voice work, although her popularity comes mostly because of her looks, and not because of her poor singing. When her agent urges her to participate in a gravure idol photo book, she struggles with the idea of showing her body to the public, but with Mashiro's support, she declines the offer. She and Mashiro communicate mainly through text messages and sometimes through phone calls, but rarely meet except by chance or under special circumstances. During Mashiro's hospitalization, Miho reveals that she has liked him since the fourth grade. After Mashiro is released, they have been talking with each other much more than before. Kaya Miyoshi is Azuki's best friend and Takagi's girlfriend. She has rather poor self-esteem when it comes to her looks, believing others are lying when they complement her looks. Kaya used to practice martial arts in junior high, making her stronger than most girls; she also has a temper, which only gets worse when she gets drunk. Because her friends have high aspirations, she begins to feel left out, and decides to become a cell phone novelist. For her first story, she wants to depict the romance between Mashiro and Azuki; however, Takagi ends up writing it for her. She then changes her dream to support Mashiro and Takagi, with hopes of marrying Takagi; she starts by helping them read and watch through a pile of mystery-themed books and anime. She helps out in inking the manga and generally maintaining a positive atmosphere in the studio. Mashiro and Takagi find that her optimistic presence in the studio helps cheer up what is otherwise a very stressful working environment, and feel she is part of "the team". She is the one who came up with the "Muto Ashirogi" pen name. Her favorite manga is One Piece. Supporting characters Other manga creators Eiji Nizuma Portrayed by: Shota Sometani (film), Shohei Hashimoto (play) is a manga creator prodigy who won the Tezuka Award at age 15. He moves from Aomori to Tokyo to work on the serialization of his manga Crow on the condition that he gets the right to cancel any series in Weekly Shōnen Jump after becoming the magazine's most popular author. He later is drafted to illustrate Aiko Iwase's scripts in the form of +Natural, which he is able to effortlessly balance with Crow. After