Glasses with a Chance of Delinquent– tag –

Hiro Momose wants an unremarkable, uneventful high school life. That's not a small preference — it's the result of something specific. In middle school, she was bullied by delinquents, and since then she's built her entire way of moving through the world around avoiding a repeat: don't stand out, don't get close to anyone who looks like trouble, don't give anyone a reason to notice you. So when she learns that Dan Ichikura — the quiet, unremarkable classmate she barely reg...

Dark hair, glasses, quiet — Dan Ichikura's first impression is a boy who blends into the back of the classroom without trying. Underneath that, he's a former delinquent with a real fighting reputation from his middle school years. That kind of contrast isn't rare in shoujo manga. What sets Dan apart is that his real strength was never his fists — it's his head. Winning With Strategy, Not Strength Dan reads situations well ahead of everyone around him, and when it comes to ...

On April 23, 2026, Kodansha confirmed that Glasses with a Chance of Delinquent — the shoujo manga by Naruki serialized in Bessatsu Friend — is getting a TV anime adaptation. Official accounts followed immediately, with a website, X, Instagram, and TikTok all launching the same day. It's a milestone that's been a while coming. The manga didn't start out planned as a long-running series — it began as a short, limited serialization, and only returned for regular publication i...

Hiro Momose just wants a quiet, uneventful high school life. What she gets instead is the discovery that Dan Ichikura — the quiet, unremarkable boy with glasses sitting near the back of her class — used to be one of the most feared delinquents in his middle school. The gap between how Dan looks and who he actually was is the engine of this series, which has been running in Kodansha's Bessatsu Friend since 2021. It didn't start as a long-runner: the manga was originally a s...