Shortcake Cake

Shortcake Cake (ショートケーキケーキ, Shōtokēki Kēki) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Suu Morishita. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōjo manga magazine Margaret from November 2015 to March 2019.

Shortcake Cake
First tankōbon volume cover
ショートケーキケーキ (Shōtokēki Kēki)
Genre	Coming-of-age[1] Romantic drama[2]
Manga
Written by	Suu Morishita
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA: Viz Media
Imprint	Margaret Comics
Magazine	Margaret
Original run	November 5, 2015 – March 5, 2019
Volumes	12

Publication

Written and illustrated by Suu Morishita, Shortcake Cake was serialized in Shueisha's shōjo manga magazine Margaret from November 5, 2015 to March 5, 2019.^[1][3] Its chapters were collected into twelve tankōbon volumes released from January 25, 2016 to July 25, 2019.^[4][5] The series is licensed in English by Viz Media.^[6]

Plot

Ten Serizawa has to take a two hour bus ride everyday to her high school, giving her little time to socialise with her peers. She decides to move into a boarding house to remedy this problem, but is oblivious when she gets the romantic attention from some of male housemates.

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	North American release date	North American ISBN
1	January 25, 2016[4]	978-4-08-845513-6	August 7, 2018[7]	978-1-9747-0061-5
2	May 25, 2016[8]	978-4-08-845574-7	November 6, 2018[9]	978-1-9747-0062-2
3	August 25, 2016[10]	978-4-08-845621-8	February 5, 2019[11]	978-1-9747-0063-9
4	November 25, 2016[12]	978-4-08-845667-6	May 7, 2019[13]	978-1-9747-0064-6
5	March 24, 2017[14]	978-4-08-845731-4	August 6, 2019[15]	978-1-9747-0065-3
6	July 25, 2017[16]	978-4-08-845786-4	November 5, 2019[17]	978-1-9747-0066-0
7	November 24, 2017[18]	978-4-08-845851-9	February 4, 2020[19]	978-1-9747-0824-6
8	February 23, 2018[20]	978-4-08-845889-2	May 5, 2020[21]	978-1-9747-0825-3
9	June 25, 2018[22]	978-4-08-844050-7	August 4, 2020[23]	978-1-9747-0826-0
10	October 25, 2018[24]	978-4-08-844105-4	November 3, 2020[25]	978-1-9747-1550-3
11	February 25, 2019[26]	978-4-08-844166-5	February 2, 2021[27]	978-1-9747-1551-0
12	July 25, 2019[5]	978-4-08-844222-8	May 4, 2021[28]	978-1-9747-1721-7

Reception

The series had over 1.1 million copies in circulation by October 2018.^[29]

See also

• A Sign of Affection, another manga series by Suu Morishita
• Like a Butterfly, another manga series by Suu Morishita