Haruka Nogizaka's Secret

Yuuto learns from his best friend, Nobunaga that the anime magazine, “Innocent Smile”, has arrived at the school library. Yuuto isn’t interested in anime, but he has some understanding of it from being friends with Nobunaga for so long. Requested by Nobunaga, Yuuto goes to the library to return the 6th issue of “Innocent Smile”. There, he sees “Silver Star of the Night (Nuit-Étoile)”, the sch...

After learning that Haruka is actually an Akiba-kei and a little far from perfect in her true self, Yuuto begins to feel much closer to her. For Haruka, who fears people finding out about her secret liking for Akiba-kei things, Yuuto becomes the first person to truly understand her, and they become close. However, because of that, Yuuto receives an attack of jealousy at school. One day, Yuuto...

Yuuto and Haruka decide to study together for the final exam at Haruka’s house. As he arrives, Yuuto is shocked by the Nogizaka’s luxurious mansion. The lead maid, Hazuki takes him to Haruka’s room, which fits the word “gorgeous” perfectly. After a short period of the two studying together, Haruka’s little sister, Mika and her caretaker, Nanami, intrude on them. They are super curious about t...

"Lately, Haruka has been worried that there might be something wrong with Hazuki. Yuuto thinks she is reading into things too much, but Mika and Nanami also agrees with Haruka that something is different about Hazuki. It was coincidently right after that, Hazuki took her personal time off. Following Mika’s idea, everyone decides to follow her. Yuuto can’t help but be stunned by the gap betw...

Right before summer vacation, a beauty named Amamiya Shiina transfers into Yuuto’s class. Yuuto and Shiina have had several fortuitous encounters before. They are surprised at how many times they've bumped into each other. Shiina plays the piano as well, and the genius-pianist, Haruka, is her idol. Being active, and successful in both academics and martial arts, Shiina quickly finds her plac...

"Summer vacation has begun and finally, it’s time for what Haruka has been waiting for, Comike! Of course Nobunaga is all ready to go, and says he’ll head over there on the earliest train. It’s a huge difference compared to Yuuto and Haruka, who plan to leave at 9 am. On the day of the event, Yuuto is completely blown away by the crowd, way worse than rush hour traffic, and the insanely lon...

"Haruka appears at Yuuto’s door, in tears. She tells him how her father, Gentou, has returned home and has thrown away all the otaku-goods that she had been treasuring. Gentou has his mind set, and would not budge that manga and anime are an inferior form of entertainment. Haruka have been trying her best to hide her Akiba-kei hobby, but she’s had enough of her father’s unreasonable attitud...

"With Haruka’s run-away incident solved, the relationship between Yuuto and Haruka has officially been acknowledged by the Nogizaka parents. Yet, this doesn’t change anything in the relationship, and they still just sit together in a room, sipping away on tea, chatting. Mika, frustrated by the slow pace of things, concludes that the main cause is Yuuto’s lack of skill to take the lead in the...

It's the second semester and it's almost time for the school festival, "Hakuhou Festival". Yuuto's class activity representatives are Shiina and Yuuto, and their class decides to host a Cosplay Cafe. Haruka is a little jealous because Yuuto is always with Shiina, working on the festival. It's then that Haruka is asked for advice on how to make a cosplay costume by Yuuto. Yuuto learns from Har...

"It’s the day before the school festival. Shiina and Yuuto run into an accident while they are working hard to finalize things, and it turns out looking like Yuuto pushed Shiina over onto the floor. Haruka, by mere chance, walks in on them right at that moment. Yuuto runs after Haruka, who had run away red-faced, and tries to explain that what she just saw was just an accident and that there’...

Yuuto has been invited to Haruka’s birthday party. He goes to Akihabara by himself to get a present for Haruka, a figurine of the heroine of her favorite anime. With some help and advice from Nobunaga, who he runs into, he is able to get the figurine of Dojikko Aki-chan. The party hall that the supersonic jet takes him to is the Nogizaka Family’s private resort island, directly on top of the...

The party has started and Yūto is dragged inside the party hall by Mika. While waiting for Yūto's turn to present his gift, he again bumps into one of the guests and his gift is ridiculed. Yūto becomes insecure and is about to leave the party hall when an old man, who happens to be Haruka’s grandfather, helps Yūto regain back his confidence....

Shiina has invited Yuto, Haruka, and the others to a hot spring trip. Haruka jumps at the chance as this is her first time going on a trip with Friends. While at the springs Yuto springs a surprise on Haruko with the chance of making this trip the best trip ever.