Love Roma

• Ja Kanji — ラブロマ • Ja Romaji — Rabu Roma • Genre — Romantic comedy

• Type — manga • Author — Minoru Toyoda • Publisher — * Kodansha (former) • Shogakukan • Imprint — Afternoon KC • Magazine — Monthly Afternoon • First — April 25, 2002 • Last — October 25, 2005 • Volumes — 5

• Portal — yes Love Roma is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Minoru Toyoda. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from April 2002 to October 2005, and published in five tankōbon volumes.

In the middle of class, Hoshino asks Negishi to go out with him. Negishi refuses, so they settle on walking home together, to the amusement of the class. The next day, Negishi asks Hoshino to go out with her.

• Hajime Hoshino • An honest guy who always says what he thinks. He has loved Negishi since the first moment he saw her, but he did not have the courage to act upon according to his feelings; from that moment on, he decided he would always be honest. • Yumiko Negishi • The girl Hoshino loves; she has more common sense than he does, and thus she often slaps or punches him out of embarrassment. She gets embarrassed when their relationship is put on display to the high school public. Negishi is a horrible cook who can barely make any edible food. • Yoko Meguro • Negishi's best friend. She often thinks of absurd plans for Hoshino. Despite this, she supports their relationship. • Toshio Tsukahara • Hoshino's best friend. Unlike Hoshino, he tends to be rational in his decision-making. Although he generally sees through Yoko's pranks he stays silent, preferring to be the onlooker. • Wada • A member of the Occult Research Club. Often referred to as "Wada-san". • Yoshitsune Mizumoto • A member of Tsukahara's band and Hoshino's classmate.

Written and illustrated by Minoru Toyoda, the series originated as a one-shot published in the June 2002 issue of Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon, after it won the Grand Prize of the Spring 2002 'Afternoon Four Seasons Award'. A sequel to the one-shot was published seven months after in the January 2003 issue, and was later turned into a full series which began serialization in Monthly Afternoon on March 25, 2003. The series completed serialization on October 25, 2005. Its chapters, referred to as "tracks", were collected into five tankōbon volumes. In 2012, Shogakukan began re-releasing the volumes in shinsōban format. In February 2005, Del Rey Manga announced that they licensed the series for English publication, with five volumes published between August 30, 2005 and February 27, 2007.