Love So Life

Love So Life, also titled Rabu sō raifu (ラブ・ソー・ライフ) or Rabusora (ラブソラ)[2] is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Kaede Kochi. The series was serialized in Hana to Yume from 2008 to 2015. It follows the everyday life of high schooler Shiharu Nakamura as she babysits the twin niece and nephew of local TV announcer Seiji Matsunaga. In April 2016, Kochi launched a sequel titled Life So Happy which follows the twins as they go into the fifth grade.[3]

Love So Life
ラブ ソー ライフ
(Rabu sō raifu)
Manga
Written byKaede Kōchi
Published byHakusensha
MagazineHana to Yume
DemographicShōjo
Original runApril 14, 2008 – September 18, 2015
Volumes17
Manga
Life So Happy
Written byKaede Kōchi
Published byHakusensha
MagazineHana to Yume
The Hana to Yume
DemographicShōjo
Original runApril 5, 2016[1] – present
Volumes3

Premise

Shiharu Nakamura is a high school girl who works at a daycare where twins Aoi and Akane Matsunaga go. The twins are in custody of their uncle, Seiji, because their father abandoned them after his wife suddenly died. One day when Seiji goes to pick up the twins from day care, he notices that they are particularly attached to Shiharu in comparison to the other workers. He hires Shiharu as their personal babysitter as he is very busy with work.

Characters
Shiharu Nakamura (中村 詩春, Nakamura Shiharu)
Shiharu is a high school student who works at The Sunflower House daycare. She becomes acquainted with Akane and Aoi Matsunaga and begins babysitting them later. She is hired to babysit them by their uncle Seiji Matsunaga, who pays her double of what she makes at the daycare. Shiharu shows aspirations to be self-sufficient and is hard working. She eventually falls in love with Seiji, but keeps it to herself, as there is a large age gap between them. At the end of the manga, she gets together with Seiji after he kisses her at the park.
Seiji Matsunaga (松永 政二, Matsunaga Seiji)
Seiji works at JX Television as a TV announcer, and thus as a busy schedule with unpredictable hours. He becomes the guardian of Akane and Aoi Matsunaga, his young niece and nephew, after they are abandoned by their father, who is Seiji's brother. It is revealed that Seiji's family as a youth was troubling, and he was often by himself. His parents divorce by the time he begins college. Because he comes from a dysfunctional family, he wishes to someday have a family of his own and to not make the same mistakes his family did. He confesses his love to Shiharu but asks to wait to hear her response until she is as old as he is.
Akane Matsunaga (松永 茜, Matsunaga Akane) and Aoi Matsunaga (松永 葵, Matsunaga Aoi)
Akane and Aoi are fraternal twins who are two years old at the start of the series. They live with their uncle Seiji, whom they call Sei-tan, after the death of their mother and abandonment of their father. At the end of the series they go to live with their maternal grandparents and their father. It is hinted that Aoi has a crush on Shiharu. Aoi and Akane treat Shiharu as their 'mother '
Rio Yoshi
Shiharu's best friend and classmate. She ends up dating Seiji's neighbor and friend Takeru Miyagawa.
Takeru Miyagawa (宮川健, Miyagawa Takeru)
A childhood friend of Seiji's who is a university student. He is very easygoing and childish, making him get along with the twins well. He dates Shiharu's friend Rio.
Kouichi Matsunaga (松永浩一, Matsunaga Kouichi)
Seiji's older brother and the father of Akane and Aoi. After the sudden death of his wife, Misaki, he is grief stricken and abandons his children. At the end of the series, he has recomposed himself and decides to live with Akane and Aoi again with the help of Misaki's parents.
Misaki Matsunaga (松永美咲, Matsunaga Misaki)
Kouichi's wife who dies in a car accident.

Manga sales

Volumes of the series have ranked in listings of top selling manga in Japan:

Oricon Japanese comic rankings
Volume
No.		 Peak
rank		 Notes
and refs
4 23 [4]
5 13 [5]
6 6 [6]
7 13 [7]
8 15 [8]
9 10 [9][10]
11 12 [11][12]
12 12 [13][14]
13 18 [15][16]
14 16 [17][18]
15 16 [19][20]
16 6 [21][22]
17 15 [23][24]
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gollark: Drives, caches, and a potato.
gollark: Really, not actual drives?
gollark: My drive and cache systems actually work on the storage-bus/interface principle though.
gollark: Interface/storage bus no, P2P yes.

References
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  13. "Japanese Comic Ranking, April 15–21". Anime News Network. April 24, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  14. "Japanese Comic Ranking, April 22–28". Anime News Network. May 1, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  15. "Japanese Comic Ranking, October 14–20". Anime News Network. October 23, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
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  20. "Japanese Comic Ranking, November 24–30". Anime News Network. December 3, 2014. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  21. "Japanese Comic Ranking, May 18–24". Anime News Network. May 27, 2015. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  22. "Japanese Comic Ranking, May 25–31". Anime News Network. June 3, 2015. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
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  24. "Japanese Comic Ranking, September 21–27". Anime News Network. October 1, 2015. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
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