87 Clockers: Overclocking in the Form of Manga
87 Clockers is a series written and illustrated by award-winning Japanese manga artist - Tomoko Ninomiya (best known for Nodame Cantabile). The series ran in Jump X (pronounced Jump Kai) magazines from 2011 to 2014. Then the series ran in its other magazine Weekly Young Jump from 2015.
Until recently you had to read 87 Clockers in Japanese. If Japanese is not your forte but you love to read manga, it's now in English! Check it out here.
Plot
Ichinose, a violin music student, is coming towards a crossroads in his life. He has to decide what to do with his future, but he doesn't feel pulled towards any one particular dream. In the absence of any ambition, he decides to work alongside his mother, who is a piano teacher, and teach violin. But one night, he sees a pretty, sad girl standing barefoot outside an apartment. A little investigation shows that she seems to share the apartment with a cat and a mysterious guy called Mike. Will meeting her be the trigger that can change his dull life?
