History Manga / KissHimNotMe

* {{Bishounen}}: Shinomiya.

* SenpaiKohai:
** Mutsumi is Kae's senpai, and Shinomiya is her kouhai. She enjoys shipping both using this dynamic.
** Nishina is Kae's kouhai and treats her with respect.

* ShoutOut: Due to Serinuma being an {{Otaku}}, she often talks about real life animes such as ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'', ''Manga/OnePiece'', ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', ''LightNovel/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'', etc.

* LoveYouAndEverybody: Mutsumi, initially.
* LovableJock: Igarashi.

* SenpaiKouhai: Mutsumi is Kae's senpai, and Shinomiya is her kouhai. She enjoys shipping both using this dynamic.

[[caption-width-right:326: Our unlikely heroine and her four suitors. Clockwise, starting top left: [[TallDarkAndHandsome Mutsumi]], [[LovableJock Igarashi]], [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Nanashima]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Shinomiya]]. Center: [[{{Otaku}} Kae]]. Not pictured: [[{{Bifauxnen}} Nishina]].]]

The series has been greenlighted for an {{anime}} adaptation by Creator/BrainsBase and Creator/GroupZen[[labelnote:*]]with further assistance from Creator/StudioComet, Lapin Track and Creator/NakamuraProductions[[/labelnote]]. Website/{{Crunchyroll}} streamed the subtitled version as it aired in Japan as part of the Fall2016Anime season, while Funimation created a [=SimulDub=] (formerly known as Broadcast dubs) for the series during the same simulcast season. Furthermore, a live-action film of the series was released in July 2020.

* HollywoodNerd: What Kae becomes after losing weight, and Nishina on a daily basis.

''Watashi ga Motete Dousunda'' (lit. What Should I do if I'm Popular), also known as "Boys, Kiss Him Instead of Me", is the first [[ShoujoDemographic shoujo]] manga by the popular BL mangaka Junko. It's been serialized on ''Bessatsu Friend'' since April 2013, and ended with 14 volumes in 2018. It's been licensed in the USA by Kodansha Comics USA under the title ''Kiss Him, Not Me''.

* BeautyMark: Kazuma has one under his left eye.

** Nishina is a mangaka, and Igarashi her supervising editor. Through all the deadlines and TeethGritTeamwork their first manga ends up becoming a hit.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Not all the way, but you do hear what happens to the cast after they finish high school.
** Kae starts making anime and manga merchandise, joins Mutsumi in college, and gets married. Mutsumi has one child by her and becomes a teacher.
** Nishina becomes a mangaka, with Igarashi abandoning his economics idea to become her supervising editor. The manga ends up a hit.
** A-chan gets married offscreen with child.
** Nanashima and Shinomiya room together. The former becomes a cook, and the latter a cross-dressing model.
** Kazuma quits his job and becomes a backpacker.

However, when her favourite anime character is killed off, she locks herself in her room for seven straight days and rapidly loses weight from grief and starvation. When she finally emerges, Kae discovers that her body has transformed into that of a conventionally attractive young woman, drawing the sudden attention of five classmates: the sporty Yuusuke, the surly Nozomu, the timid Hayato, the laid-back Asuma and {{Bifauxnen}} geek-girl Shima.

* LastNameBasis: Kae with everyone except A-chan, to the point that pretty much no-one in the fandom actually knows that it's their last names.

** [[spoiler:Mutsumi catches his friend and Kae walking together during a ''Kachuu Ranbu'' event in Chapter 47. While they do explain the situation (they just happened to meet at the event), it does stress him out enough to bleed.]]
** [[spoiler:And then again in Chapter 49, where Mutsumi and his friend on on the roof and Kae catches them in a pose that makes it look like they're kissing.]]

** Nishina becomes a mangaka, with Igarashi abandoning his economics idea to become her assistant. The manga ends up a hit.

** Nanashima and Shinomiya room together. The former becomes a cook, and the latter a model.

* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: At the very end of the series, we find that A-chan has a husband and child, while Kae and Mutsumi have a little boy named Shion.]]

* TheCameo: The members of Girls2, who performed the theme song to the live-action movie, make cameo appearances in the film.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Mitsuboshi was friends with Kae when they were younger, and is specifically trying to invoke this trope by [[spoiler:kidnapping her and marrying her against her will]].

** Oddly enough, RealityEnsues when it comes to the soccer team; Kae realizes she has very little muscle tone, because she was an indoor person, much less the amount needed to play soccer.

--> '''Kae:''' Things like [[http://mahoushoujyotaisen.com/ prefectures,]] or [[Videogame/KantaiCollection war]][[Manga/ArpeggioOfBlueSteel ships]], or [[Videogame/ToukenRanbu swords]], or anniversaries, or [[Anime/MiracleTrain trains]], or...
** ''Kacchu Ranbu'' seems to be a thinly veiled shout-out to ''Videogame/ToukenRanbu'', right down to the "[X] Love" nickname and shrine visits.

The series has been greenlighted for an {{anime}} adaptation by Creator/BrainsBase and Creator/GroupZen[[labelnote:*]]with further assistance from Creator/StudioComet, Lapin Track and Creator/NakamuraProductions[[/labelnote]]. Website/{{Crunchyroll}} streamed the subtitled version as it aired in Japan as part of the Fall2016Anime season, while Funimation created a [=SimulDub=] (formerly known as Broadcast dubs) for the series during the same simulcast season.

** In the LiveActionAdaptation, posters of [[Manga/AttackOnTitan Levi]] can be seen in Kae's room. She also has manga of [[CreatorCameo Junko's]] YaoiGenre works (such as ''Kimi Note'' and ''Abarenbo Kareshi'') as well as ''Manga/LoveStage''.

** In the LiveActionAdaptation, posters of [[AttackOnTitan Levi]] can be seen in Kae's room. She also has manga of [[CreatorCameo Junko's]] YaoiGenre works (such as ''Kimi Note'' and ''Abarenbo Kareshi'') as well as ''Manga/LoveStage''.

* SecondYearProtagonist: Kae.

* BiTheWay: Kazuma claims that "gender it's not a big deal" and assumes one of the members of Kae's group must be Mutsumi's partner, regardless of their gender, and claims he wants to hit on all of them.

** A figurine of [[[[Franchise/SailorMoon Sailor Moon]] can be seen in one shot of Nishina's model roon during Episode 4.