Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms


Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ran Kuze. The series began serialization in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in May 2021, with its chapters collected in 22 tankōbon volumes as of January 2026. The series is licensed in English by Kodansha USA. An anime television series adaptation produced by SynergySP aired from January to March 2025. A second season has been announced.
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Plot

Mona Kawai, a popular queen bee, is happy that everyone at her high school adores her, except for the new transfer student Medaka Kuroiwa, who looks angry all the time, and will not even look at her. Mona then makes it her mission to make him fall in love with her, but the more she tries, and the more Medaka resists, the more she finds herself falling in love with him. It turns out that Medaka is a monk-in-training who is forbidden by his temple masters from falling in love, but he finds it difficult to resist Mona's advances. Other girls join in either as Mona's rivals or supportive friends, much to Medaka's frustration, as he tries in vain to avoid more romantic advances.

Characters

; Medaka Kuroiwa
; Mona Kawai
; Tsubomi Haruno
; Asahi Shonan
; Tomo Namba
; Minami Shirahama
; Shou Kobayakawa
; Yuzuru Kido
; Anri Shinagawa

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Ran Kuze, Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms was originally published as a one-shot in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine on December 23, 2020, before beginning serialization in the same magazine on May 26, 2021. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on August 17, 2021. As of January 16, 2026, twenty-two volumes have been released.
The series is licensed in English by Kodansha USA; the first English volume was released in digital on March 8, 2022. During their panel at Anime Expo 2022, Kodnasha USA announced that they would begin publishing the manga in print in Q2 2023.

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced on May 13, 2024. It is produced by SynergySP and directed by Yoshiaki Okumura, with scripts written by Kazuyuki Fudeyasu, characters designed by Mayumi Watanabe, and music composed by Akiyuki Tateyama. The series aired from January 7 to March 25, 2025, on TV Tokyo and its affiliates. The opening theme song is "Ame Tokimeki Koi Moyō" performed by AyaFubuMi, while the first ending theme song is "Kyunapi", performed by Kaori Maeda, and the second ending theme song is "Is this love?", performed by Rikako Aida. Crunchyroll streamed the series.
Following the airing of the final episode, a second season has been announced.

Reception

In January 2022, Kodansha reported that the series had over 150,000 copies in circulation. In August 2023, it was announced to have reached 1 million copies in circulation.

Works cited

  • "Ch." and "Vol." is shortened form for chapter and volume of the Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms manga.