Again!! Manga

Imamura Kinichiro has just graduated high school without ever really having talked to anyone or making any friends, and wonders what his life would have been like if he had listened to a certain girl that asked him to join the cheering club (which is different from a cheer-leading squad). While Fujieda Aki is graduating with a boyfriend and a bunch of friends and wishes it would last forever. Their paths cross and in an accident where they both fall off the stairs they are transported to their freshman year for a chance to do it all again. He joins the club only to find out that the captain, the super-strict, manly, total stick in the mud Usami Yoshiko is the only remaining member, so begins the trials of Imamura as he tries to make a change.

I really truly recommend this manga. Imamura is probably my favorite protagonist ever with the way he's so cynical and unmotivated, yet desperately clinging to any chance to make a change in his life, he says things like they are, has no respect for his sempais and looks like a downright delinquent. The characters are all well developed and it's so much fun to watch them interact. The manga kind of reminds me of Chihayafuru in the way that they're trying to save a club from going the way of the dodo bird, and how it takes the time to properly develop each of the main characters, but of course with less shoujo and more dark comedy.

Once more I may have the novelty goggles on and am probably being biased because i like it so much, but i really enjoy it and i think a lot of people out there might too, as it fundamentally raises the question of what you would do if you had a chance to do your high school all over again with the knowledge you have now.