Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All, Vol. 1

Aya Osawa is a cheerful, fashionable high schooler who loves rock music. None of her classmates share the taste, so she goes looking elsewhere and starts visiting a record store. There she falls for a cool, stylish clerk.

The clerk is Mitsuki Koga, a quiet and reserved girl from Aya's own class, working in disguise. Aya has no idea.

Mitsuki sits right beside Aya at school, so she sees up close how Aya's feelings for her secret self keep growing. She grows more afraid of what will happen if the truth comes out.

The two keep meeting over the music they both love, and their bond deepens in a direction neither expected. This is a yuri romance, told with a light, school-life tone.

This first volume collects the early chapters of Sumiko Arai's series, which first ran on the author's Twitter account before Media Factory printed it in Japan. Ajani Oloye translates the English edition, published by Yen Press. The question driving it is how long a disguise can hold when the person in front of it keeps getting closer.