Back The One I Love (Manga) German Watashi no Suki na Hito Spanish Celui que j'aime French L'uomo per me Italian わたしのすきなひと Japanese Watashi no suki na hito Polish Watashi no Suki no Hito Ukrainian
| The One I Love | |
&sq=Albert Einstein&lang=en&file=File:Watashi_cover.jpg) Cover of the English-language translation as published by Tokyopop (2004) | |
| わたしのすきなひと (Watashi no Sukinahito) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Romance, Slice of life |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Clamp |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Monthly Young Rose |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Original run | December 1993 – June 1995 |
| Volumes | 1 |
The One I Love (Japanese: わたしのすきなひと, Hepburn: Watashi no Sukinahito) is a romantic, slice-of-life shōjo (targeted towards girls) manga by Clamp, an all-female, manga artist team consisting of Satsuki Igarashi, Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi, and Nanase Ohkawa. Appearing as a monthly serial in the Japanese manga magazine Monthly Young Rose from December 1993 to June 1995, the twelve stories were collected into a bound volume by Kadokawa Shoten and published in July 1995. The One I Love contains twelve independent manga stories, each focusing on an aspect of love and accompanied by an essay. Ohkawa wrote the essays while Nekoi illustrated the manga; it was the first time she primarily illustrated a manga by Clamp. Some of the stories draw on the life experiences of the women while others take inspiration from conversations they had with friends.
In 2003, Tokyopop licensed The One I Love for an English-language translation in North America, and published it in October 2004. Viz Media republished the manga in February 2015. The manga has also been translated into other languages. Reviewers have identified a few themes in the collection. They had a range of reactions to The One I Love: some considered it heartfelt entertainment, while others reviewed it less positively, as a badly done take on romance.