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3''Sweet Black'' is a 2007 {{shojo}} manga series by Mai Nishikata.
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5[[HugeGuyTinyGirl Haru Myojin and Sagiri Tachikawa]] are childhood friends, but once Haru [[LoveEpiphany realizes her feelings]] for Sagiri, his job and popularity as a model is slowly distancing them apart. Will Haru be able to properly confess her feelings for Sagiri, or will she end up losing her childhood friend to his new colorful life?
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8!This series contains the following tropes:
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10%% * BeachEpisode: Chapter 4.
11* BridalCarry: Sagiri does this to Haru to help her carry a box for her part-time job.
12* CannotSpitItOut: The reason why Haru can't admit her feelings to Sagiri--who has already confessed his feelings for her--is because she feels too inferior to him and out of fear that if she confesses, Sagiri might lose interest in her.
13%% * ClingyJealousGirl: Reina.
14* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Haru is 143 cm. Sagiri is 183 cm.
15* {{Fangirl}}: Haru is a big fan of the model Jay. This is what led Sagiri to become a model as well.
16* GreenEyedMonster: Sagiri gets jealous when Haru agrees to talk about Jay's relationship woes with him and starts spending time with Jay.
17* HiddenDepths: It turns out that Jay's character and appearance are drastically different, as he looks like an attractive and cool model on the surface, but secretly has relationship woes that he confides to Haru.
18* LapPillow: At one point, Sagiri uses Haru's lap to rest on.
19* TheReveal: The reason why Sagiri became a model was because Haru liked the model Jay and he wanted to be model too and surprise her.
20* SatelliteLoveInterest: Reina Notani, a fellow model and Sagiri's girlfriend. She is [[ClingyJealousGirl jealous]] of the close relationship Haru shares with Sagiri and doesn't like it when Sagiri does things that don't follow his "image" like putting sugar in black coffee or playing video games all night long--things Sagiri loves to do with Haru--and it turns out the only reason Reina dated Sagiri was ''because'' she found someone that "match" herself well.
21%% * ShoujoDemographic
22%% * VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Haru and Sagiri.

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