Love and Lies (manga)

[3] The series follows a teenage boy who confesses to his long-time crush, despite the fact that he has been assigned a fiancée by the government in an alternate version of modern Japan.

It is published by Kodansha, and was serialized in DeNA's Manga Box app in multiple languages from August 2014 to January 2022.

In the near future, children who have turned 16 years old are assigned by the government to a partner based on compatibility calculation, in order to increase the country's birth rate.

Yukari Nejima finally confesses his love to schoolmate and long-time crush Misaki Takasaki and discovers she has liked him back.

The four-member rock band Frederic performed the opening theme song titled "Kanashii Ureshii" (かなしいうれしい, "Sad and Happy")[5] while three-member unit Roy performed the ending theme song titled "Can't You Say".

[55] The manga's compiled book volumes have frequently ranked on Oricon's weekly top 50 comic charts.