Backstage Prince (Japanese: 極付 楽屋裏王子, Hepburn: Kiwametsuke Gakuya Ura Ōji) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Kanoko Sakurakoji.

[2][3][4] Shogakukan later collected the individual chapters into two bound volumes under the Flower Comics imprint.

Akari happens to run into Ryusei and accidentally ends up bruising him in the stomach with her bookbag.

Later, by chance, Akari ends up following a cat all the way to a kabuki theatre and runs into Ryusei once again.

The reclusive and socially inept Ryusei accepts only because Akari gets along with his pet cat, the very one she followed all the way to the theatre.