History Manga / RandomWalk

* JustFriends: [[spoiler:Yuka and Hiro]]. They were already close friends since seventh-grade, and they tried taking it to the next level by going steady. However, things only became awkward between them, and they broke up. At present, they are very [[AmicableExes close friends]], and no one else in their circle knows about their romantic history.

* SexChangesEverything: Yuka's first boyfriend was a very good friend of hers. However, the moment the two tried going steady, their relationship became awkward and they can't get along as they used to. They ended up breaking up, and decides that they are BetterAsFriends.

* DysfunctionalFamily: Averted. Yuka's family is fairly complicated: After her mother's death, her father married a woman who brought a son from a previous marriage, but the marriage only lasted for a year. Four years later, Yuka's father marries his third wife, and as Yuka is already a high schooler at this point, she decides to move out so that she won't be in the new couple's way. However, Yuka gets along with her father and stepmothers, and Sachie holds no grudges or bitterness againts Akimitsu, even though she said that being friends again is probably impossible after what has happened between them.
* FirstGuyWins: Zigzagged. After her failed romances with Nozomu and Kaito, Yuka decides to get back together with her ex-boyfriend from middle school, Hikaru--the one she mentioned to have dumped at the start of the manga. Touko remarks that [[LampshadeHanging having a boyfriend for the first time]] must be a special experience, and concludes that this must be the reason why Yuka is eager to get back to him. However, Yuka reveals that Hikaru is not her first boyfriend--Hiro is. [[spoiler:Later, however, Yuka breaks up with Hikaru (again), and by the end of the series she ends up with Towa, her former stepbrother, who moved in when she was 12, and is probably the first guy to have a big impact in her life.]]

* LastMinuteHookup: The last few chapters of the manga features Yuka's last-minute ''break-up'' before quickly hooking up with someone else just as quickly.

** Yuka's heartbreak after being dumped by Hikaru causes her to go on a [[HeartbreakAndIcecream snacking binge]], which inadvertly gets [[spoiler:Towa]] drunk when he joins her. He kisses her while under the influence, and then confesses to her not long afterwards. The series ends with her taking the time to think about it, and finally accepting his confession after a one year TimeSkip.

''Random Walk'' is a {{shojo}} manga by Wataru Yoshizumi (who also wrote ''Manga/MarmaladeBoy''), which chronicles Yuka's high school love life. It was serialized in ''{{Magazine/Ribon}}'' from Jun 3, 2000 to Aug 18, 2001 and has been published as a 3-volume ''tankobon''.

Yuka Kunimoto decides to move out of her father's apartment just as she is starting high school. She's setting out for a new chapter of life, and her father has one advice for her: to experience good love so she can be a good person. As she had just broken up with her boyfriend from middle school, Yuka is determined to start a new journey find her OneTrueLove.

* FirstGuyWins: Zigzagged. After her failed romances with Nozomu and Kaito, Yuka decides to get back together with her ex-boyfriend from middle school, Hikaru--the one she mentioned to have dumped at the start of the manga. Touko remarks that [[LampshadeHanging having a boyfriend for the first time]] must be a special experience, and concludes that this must be the reason why Yuka is eager to get back to him. However, Yuka reveals that Hikaru is not her first boyfriend--Hiro is. Later, however, Yuka breaks up with Hikaru (again), and by the end of the series she ends up with [[spoiler:Towa, her former stepbrother, who moved in when she was 12, and is probably the first guy to have a big impact in her life.]]

* HeartbreakAndIceCream: After being dumped for the third time, Yuka goes on a snacking binge and forces Towa, who came over for her private lessons, to join her.

* BetterAsFriends: The final volume reveals that Yuka used to date Hiro, her male friend, when they were in the first year of middle school. They were classmates who got along really well, and decided to date each other. However, being a couple only made things awkward between them, and they broke up. They found new love interests, and when they become class mates again in their third year, they manage to patch things up and return to being friends.

* RandomEventsPlot: Yuka's turbulent love life doesn't seem to have any rhyme nor reason, since the series avoid using many Rom-Com tropes, and when they do get used, they aren't exactly played straight. Yuka meets various guys, falls in love with them, and eventually breaks up with them for a number of different reasons. The guy she ultimately ends up with only gets two chapters of romantic development (although he's been around for musch longer) before Yuka finally accepts his confession after a one-year TimeSkip.

* FirstGuyWins: Zigzagged. After her failed romances with Nozomu and Kaito, Yuka decides to get back together with her ex-boyfriend from middle school, Hikaru--the one she mentioned to have dumped at the start of the manga. Touko remarks that [[LampshadeHanging having a boyfriend for the first time]] must be a special experience. However, Yuka reveals that Hikaru is not her first boyfriend--Hiro is. Later, however, Yuka breaks up with Hikaru (again), and by the end of the series she ends up with [[spoiler:Towa, her former stepbrother, who moved in when she was 12, and is probably the first guy to have a big impact in her life.]]

* LastMinuteHookup: The last few chapters of the manga features Yuka's last-minute ''break-up'' before quickly hooking up with someone else.

* LastMinuteHookup: Yuka gets a last-minute ''break-up'' in the final volume when after getting back together with her ex and is feeling pretty happy with the relationship, he suddenly breaks up with her--not because he's found another girl he's in love with, but because his ex-girlfriend (a girl he briefly dated after Yuka dumped him) got sick after being dumped; and despite still being in love with Yuka, Hikaru decides to go back to the other girl out of guilt. Naturally, Yuka takes this harder than her previous break-ups.

* RandomEventsPlot: Yuka's turbulent love life doesn't seem to have any rhyme nor reason, since the series avoid using many Rom-Com tropes, and when they do get used, they aren't exactly played straight. Yuka meets various guys, falls in love with them, and eventually breaks up with them for a number of different reasons.

''Random Walk'' is a {{shojo}} manga by Wataru Yoshizumi (who also wrote ''Manga/MarmaladeBoy''), which chronicles Yuka's love life. It was serialized in ''{{Magazine/Ribon}}'' from Jun 3, 2000 to Aug 18, 2001 and has been published as a 3-volume ''tankobon''.

''Random Walk'' is a {{shojo}} manga by Wataru Yoshizumi (who also wrote ''Manga/MintNaBokura'' and ''Manga/UltraManiac''), which chronicles Yuka's love life. It was serialized in ''{{Magazine/Ribon}}'' from Jun 3, 2000 to Aug 18, 2001 and has been published as a 3-volume ''tankobon''.