is a Japanese '' shōjo''

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series written and illustrated by

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. The series was serialized in ''

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'' magazine from the September 2007 issue of the magazine until its final chapter in the November 2008 issue. The individual chapters were collected into four ''

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'' volumes by publisher

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; the first on December 14, 2007 and the final on November 14, 2008.

Plot

Sayuki Sakurai is a fifteen-year-old girl who is determined to find love. On a trip to the beach she meets a handsome man who smells like chocolate and falls in love with him immediately. He tells her that he goes to her school and she is left puzzled as she has never seen him before. When she returns to school she has a surprise in the form of Hagiwara, her Home Economics teacher.

Characters

; :Sayuki is a first-year at Shunei High School who hopes to find true love, but has a perpetual and innate grumpy look on her face, which causes people to mistake her as bully. She is romantic and has never had a boyfriend. She falls in love with her teacher, Hagiwara, without knowing his true identity. Although she claims to hate Yūshi, her actions prove otherwise. She always tries to impress her crush. ; :Mr. Hagiwara is the

Home Economics Home economics, also called domestic science or family and consumer sciences, is a subject concerning human development, personal and family finances, consumer issues, housing and interior design, nutrition and food preparation, as well as texti ...

teacher beginning his first year teaching at Shunei, he is young and handsome. Because of this, a good deal of students are infatuated with him to various degrees. He is an advisor for the

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

culinary Culinary arts are the cuisine arts of outline of food preparation, food preparation, cooking and food presentation, presentation of food, usually in the form of meals. People working in this field – especially in establishments such as res ...

club that Yūshi and Sayuki start. Though he was her teacher before then, he "meets" Sayuki at the beach during summer vacation, where he rescues her from a date. He never tells her his name, but says he goes to the same school as her. He is very kindhearted and outside of school is an average guy. He covertly looks after Sayuki. ; :Mina is Sayuki's outgoing friend who often tries to help her find a boyfriend. ; :Shiori is another one of Sayuki's friends, who acts very mysterious and quiet. She is observant and reluctantly supports helping Sayuki through dangerous and occult methods. ; :Yūshi is a boy in the same grade as Sayuki, and her life-long friend. He likes to read baseball manga, and tries to start a baseball club, which soon becomes a

Club. Yūshi has a crush on Sayuki and goes out of his way to impress her. ; : Kaji is Yūshi's

narcissistic Narcissism is a self-centered personality style characterized as having an excessive interest in one's physical appearance or image and an excessive preoccupation with one's own needs, often at the expense of others. Narcissism exists on a co ...

best friend, handsome, and slightly air-headed. He tries to help Yūshi catch Sayuki's eye, and encourages the idea of a baseball club.

Media

Manga

''Chocolate Cosmos'' is written and illustrated by

. It was serialized in the monthly magazine ''

'' from August 3, 2007 in the September issue to October 3, 2008 in the November issue. The chapters were later released in bound volumes by

for a total of 4 volumes under the Ribon Mascot Comics imprint.

Viz Media VIZ Media LLC is an American manga publisher, anime distributor and entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ M ...

licensed the manga in 2015 in English, with all four volumes published digitally under the Viz Select imprint.

Reception

The final volume of the series sold 31,326 copies in its first week, making it the 18th best-selling manga of the week.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chocolate Cosmos 2007 manga Shōjo manga Sharp Point Press titles Shueisha manga Viz Media manga