I Want to End This Love Game

I Want to End This Love Game (Japanese: 愛してるゲームを終わらせたい, Hepburn: Aishiteru Gēmu O Owara Setai) is a Japanese web manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Domoto. It has been serialized on Shogakukan's online platform Sunday Webry [ja] since December 2021.

I Want to End This Love Game
Cover of the first tankōbon volume
愛してるゲームを終わらせたい (Aishiteru Gēmu O Owara Setai)
Genre	Romantic comedy[1]
Manga
Written by	Yuki Domoto
Published by	Shogakukan
English publisher	NA: Viz Media
Imprint	Shōnen Sunday Comics Special
Magazine	Sunday Webry [ja]
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	December 24, 2021 – present
Volumes	6

Plot

Yukiya Asagi (浅葱 優希也) and Miku Sakura (桜 みく) are childhood friends that began a game when they were in the sixth grade, in which they both must say "I love you" to each other, with the one who gets flustered losing. Four years later and the game has continued even in high school. Though they continuously say "I love you" to each other for fun, the two have secretly developed feelings for each other, but both fear it may be too late for them to confess.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Yuki Domoto, I Want to End This Love Game started in Shogakukan's online platform Sunday Webry [ja] on December 24, 2021.^[1] Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on April 12, 2022.^[2]

In June 2023, Viz Media announced that they have licensed the manga for an English release in North America, starting in Q2 2024.^[3]

Volumes

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	April 12, 2022[4]	978-4-09-851047-4	February 13, 2024[5]	978-1-9747-4276-9
2	August 12, 2022[6]	978-4-09-851220-1	May 14, 2024[7]	978-1-9747-4553-1
3	December 12, 2022[8]	978-4-09-851525-7	August 13, 2024[9]	978-1-9747-4627-9
4	May 12, 2023[10]	978-4-09-852059-6	November 12, 2024[11]	978-1-9747-4925-6
5	December 12, 2023[12]	978-4-09-853053-3	February 11, 2025[13]	978-1-9747-5184-6
6	April 10, 2024[14]	978-4-09-853254-4	May 13, 2025[15]	978-1-9747-5483-0

Reception

The series was nominated for the 2022 Next Manga Award in the web manga category;^[16] it ranked 12th in the 2023 edition in the same category.^[17]