is a Japanese

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series written and illustrated by

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. It was serialized in

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's manga magazine ''

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'' from August 2015 to December 2019, the chapters were published in seven ''

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'' volumes. In 2020, ''Our Precious Conversations'' won the 44th

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in the '' shōjo'' category.

Plot

Nozomi Aizawa, a high school girl who attends Heiwadai High School, met and fell in love with Shiro Azuma, a boy in the same grade, when she was in her first year. After that, Nozomi was unable to talk to Shiro for a while, but after she advanced to the second grade, she talked to Shiro at the nearest station of the school and confessed. Shiro misunderstands her confession as a joke, but from this day on, the two of them start talking on the bench at the station on the way home from school.

Publication

''Our Precious Conversations'' is written and illustrated by

. It started serialization in

's magazine ''

'' on August 24, 2015. The first ''

'' volume was released on March 11, 2016. The series went on hiatus in the July 2016 issue of ''Dessert'', but returned in the January 2017 issue. The series concluded on December 24, 2019. The seventh and final volume was released on March 13, 2020, in both a standard and limited edition. In May 2017,

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started publishing the series digitally. They later started publishing the series' chapters simultaneously with the Japanese release on digital sites such as ''

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''.

Volume list

Reception

As of January 2019, the series has 700,000 copies in print. In the 2017 edition of

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's ''

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'' guidebook, the series ranked eighth on the top 20 manga for female audiences list. In 2019, the series was nominated for the 43rd

in the ''shōjo'' category. However, it lost to Rie Aruga's '' Perfect World''. In 2020, it won the 44th Kodansha Manga Award in the ''shōjo'' category.

References

External links

Official website
at ''