[3] Special A has been licensed for English-language release in North America by Viz Media and in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment.

[citation needed] In 2013, Hana to Yume released a single volume sequel called Special A - Street Fight.

Ever since that fateful incident, Hikari swore to beat Kei in everything - school grades, sporting events and all competitions.

Now she attends Hakusenkan, an ultra elite school for the wealthy, that costs her carpenter father a lot of money.

The story follows Hikari and Kei as they become closer and explores the friendships, relationships, and competition between the other S.A. members: Jun, Megumi, Tadashi, Akira, and Ryuu.

A third drama CD was released in August 2008, focusing on the girls of the S.A class and includes more tracks of the background music from the anime.

The anime has been picked up for release in North America by Sentai Filmworks; it is distributed by Section23 Films.

Katherine Dacey compared the central two characters as "a gender reversed Frank Butler and Annie Oakley", and noted that Kei comes off as "rather sexist".

[7] Jennifer Dunbar enjoyed the wish-fulfilment of seeing rich kids "getting to do whatever they want" without being conceited about this, but felt the complications in the last volume were boring.