{"status":200,"data":{"id":21568,"state":"active","merged_with":null,"canonical_url":"https://mangabaka.org/manga/21568/Secret-Love","authors":["Jin Takemiya"],"artists":["Jin Takemiya"],"description":"Ah-chan and Ryouko, childhood friends eight years apart, are now teacher and student. Though Ryouko wants to rush into things, Ah-chan can’t take one step beyond her role as a teacher. After receiving a matching cellphone charm as a present, Ah-chan buys paired rings for a return gift, only to realise that she’s lost the charm…!? \n\nThe distance between them shrinks away in “STEP UP”; a girl in love with Ryouko appears in “STEP FORWARD”; and then “step by step” calls for tears of joy with wedding dress x wedding dress… The road to love between Ryouko and Ah-chan is bountiful. \n\nAlso included are “Leave Hickey?”, about the radiant proof of love school girl Kimu carves into the body of the art teacher Miyano-sensei; and “Secret Love”, not previously published in a commercial magazine!","published":{"start_date":"2011-08-14","end_date":"2013-01-18","start_date_is_estimated":false,"end_date_is_estimated":false},"status":"completed","is_licensed":false,"content_rating":"safe","type":"manga","rating":68.74,"popularity":{"global":{"current":17447,"history":{"1d":17414,"1w":17231,"1mo":16794,"3mo":23818,"6mo":22843,"1y":20648}},"type":{"current":11927,"history":{"1d":11907,"1w":11828,"1mo":11658,"3mo":17700,"6mo":17028,"1y":16567}}},"publishers":[{"name":"Ichijinsha","type":"Original","note":""}],"last_updated_at":"2026-09-03T17:30:12.706Z","source":{"anilist":{"id":89109,"rating":6.6,"rating_normalized":66},"anime_planet":{"id":"steps","rating":3.7,"rating_normalized":74},"anime_news_network":{"id":null,"rating":null,"rating_normalized":null},"kitsu":{"id":27475,"rating":7.204000000000001,"rating_normalized":72},"manga_updates":{"id":"idtrhcr","rating":6.44,"rating_normalized":64},"my_anime_list":{"id":60831,"rating":6.79,"rating_normalized":68},"shikimori":{"id":60831,"rating":6.81,"rating_normalized":68}},"rating_count":936,"final_volume":1,"total_chapters":7,"titles":[{"language":"en","traits":[],"title":"Secret Love","is_primary":true},{"language":"ja-Latn","traits":["native"],"title":"Steps","is_primary":true},{"language":"ja","traits":["native"],"title":"steps [ステップス]","is_primary":true},{"language":"ru","traits":[],"title":"Шаги","is_primary":true}],"cover":{"raw":"https://s4.anilist.co/file/anilistcdn/media/manga/cover/large/bx89109-zT9Qz601bLu5.png","x150":"https://cdn.mangabaka.dev/imgproxy/plain/x150@1/aHR0cHM6Ly9zNC5hbmlsaXN0LmNvL2ZpbGUvYW5pbGlzdGNkbi9tZWRpYS9tYW5nYS9jb3Zlci9sYXJnZS9ieDg5MTA5LXpUOVF6NjAxYkx1NS5wbmc","x250":"https://cdn.mangabaka.dev/imgproxy/plain/x250@1/aHR0cHM6Ly9zNC5hbmlsaXN0LmNvL2ZpbGUvYW5pbGlzdGNkbi9tZWRpYS9tYW5nYS9jb3Zlci9sYXJnZS9ieDg5MTA5LXpUOVF6NjAxYkx1NS5wbmc","x350":"https://cdn.mangabaka.dev/imgproxy/plain/x350@1/aHR0cHM6Ly9zNC5hbmlsaXN0LmNvL2ZpbGUvYW5pbGlzdGNkbi9tZWRpYS9tYW5nYS9jb3Zlci9sYXJnZS9ieDg5MTA5LXpUOVF6NjAxYkx1NS5wbmc","blurhash":"|IQJG$~W%2IUxukDROoft7$yxvRkM{xEt8Rjofog~CIURPxuW=V?oMbHRko~IUtRogS2adt7s:aKbcM{%MIoIoxua#ayofxuadRk%Ls.R-ogM{a}%LR*Io%LWCNGs:R+ozM|xuodIoSOs,t7a#V@D%oft7WXs.flR*adWB","width":460,"height":663},"anime":{"exists":false,"start":null,"end":null}}}