Himegasaki Sakurako Is a Hot Mess
Himegasaki Sakurako Is a Hot Mess is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kousuke Yasuda. It began serialization in Media Factory's Comic Cune magazine in March 2020, and has been compiled into six tankōbon volumes as of May 2025.
Plot
The series follows Sakurako Himegasaki, a classmate of her childhood friend Natsuki Mimori. She is in love with Natsuki and aims to catch his attention. However, due to her characteristics, such as being smart, beautiful, and a childhood friend, she becomes the designated "loser heroine". Their relationship is complicated when Setsuna Sasaki, a popular student in their school and Natsuki's relative, comes to live with him. The plot follows Sakurako as she repeatedly tries but often fails to overcome tropes associated with being a losing heroine.Characters
;Sakurako Himegasaki;Natsuki Mimori
;Setsuna Sasaki
;Honoka Ueda
;Aki Amamiya
;Himeno Rurigaki
Publication
The series is written and illustrated by Kousuke Yasuda. It began serialization in the May 2020 issue Media Factory's Comic Cune magazine, released on March 27, 2020. The first tankōbon volume was released on December 26, 2020. A voiced comic was released on Kadokawa's official YouTube channel on September 27, 2021, to commemorate the release of the series' second volume, with Ayasa Itō voicing Sakurako and Kana Ichinose voicing Setsuna. A second voice comic was posted on October 12, 2021. As of May 27, 2025, the series has been compiled into six tankōbon volumes.In November 2024, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they had licensed the series for English publication beginning in June 2025.