Cupcakes and the Monster of Love
Alternative names: カップケーキと恋の怪物
Author(s): Amesaka Yo
Language: Japanese
Release Date: 2025
Publisher: N/A
Length:  N/A Pages
Weight: N/A

Book Overview:

Love that is too precious to even blink.
A heartbreaking and heartwarming girls’ love

Takane Reina, a high school freshman, is so beautiful that she is called Takane-chan, the flower of high school. However, perhaps due to her past of devoting herself to karate and studying, she is unable to fit in with the first-string group that she has just blended in with.

One day after the summer vacation, Hiraki Bon, an ordinary girl who was not particularly noticeable in class, starts making a fuss, saying that she is afraid to receive cupcakes made in home economics class. It seems that being liked = being afraid of being confessed to.

Juri, the leader of the first-string group, tries to tease her by making a false confession. However, she gets angry at being brushed off so abruptly, and Takane is dragged out by another lie, saying that Takane is the one who really likes Hira-san. As a result, she is accepted as a friend.

From then on, Takane and Taira deepen their friendship through relay races at the sports festival, studying at the library, and participating in a play at the school festival. Takane is attracted to Taira, who is kinder and more hardworking than anyone else, but at the same time, she begins to worry about the fact that she became close with him because of a false confession.

Amidst all of this, Juri, jealous of their relationship, reveals Reina’s mother’s past in the classroom…