If Her Flag Breaks
If Her Flag Breaks, also known as Gaworare, is a Japanese light novel series written by Tōka Takei, with illustrations by Cuteg. Kodansha has published 16 volumes from December 2011 to September 2016. A manga adaptation and two spin-off series have been serialized in Kodansha's magazines. An anime adaptation produced by Hoods Entertainment aired in Japan from April to June 2014, and is licensed in North America by NIS America.
Plot
Souta Hatate, a new transfer student to the Hatagaya School, has the ability to see the futures of those around him in the form of flags. He is able to affect those flags based on his interactions with the person in question. He ends up living in a small dorm with many beautiful girls. When he finds a flag of death on himself, Souta learns that in order to be able to change his fate, he has to find and bring together four people: a princess knight, a magician, a cleric, and a shinobi.Media
Light novels
If Her Flag Breaks began as a light novel series written by Tōka Takei, with illustrations by Cuteg. The first volume was published on December 2, 2011, under Kodansha's Kodansha Ranobe Bunko. Kodansha has published 16 volumes.Manga
A manga adaptation illustrated by Nagian began serialization in the December 2011 issue of Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Rival magazine, published on November 4, 2011. It was serialized in the magazine until the April 2014 issue, published on February 26, 2014, and the manga was transferred to Monthly Shōnen Sirius, being published from the May 2014 issue, on March 25, 2014. The manga finished in the April 2015 issue of Monthly Shōnen Sirius, released on February 26, 2015. Kodansha compiled the series into ten tankōbon volumes, published from March 2, 2012, to April 2, 2015. A second series, titled Atarashii Kanojo ga Flag o Oraretara, was serialized in Monthly Shōnen Sirius from April 25, 2015, to February 26, 2016. It was later transferred to Suiyōbi no Sirius website, where it ran from March 23 to June 22, 2016. Kodansha compiled its chapters into four tankōbon volumes, released from July 31, 2015, to September 2, 2016.A spin-off series is titled Kanojo ga Flag o Oraretara: Ō Yūsha yo, Flag o Tateteshimau to wa Nanigoto da!?, or Gawoyū for short, was published in Monthly Shōnen Rival from the June 2013 issue, published on May 2, 2013, to the March 2014 issue, published on February 4, 2014. It was also published on Magazine Lab website. The series shows Souta and the girls as characters in a fantasy role-playing game world. Kodansha released a tankōbon volume on May 30, 2014.
A second spin-off series, titled Kanojo ga Flag o Oraretara: Root Love, or Gaworabu, by Kazuki Ayasaki, was serialized on Suiyōbi no Sirius and Niconico's Niconico Seiga web services from July 26, 2013, to June 11, 2014. Its chapters were compiled into two tankōbon volumes, published on April 2 and July 2, 2014.