Love Bullet

Love Bullet
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Koharu
ラブ・バレット[a]
(Rabu Baretto)
Genre
Manga
Written byinee
Published byMedia Factory
English publisher
MagazineMonthly Comic Flapper
Original runOctober 5, 2023 – present
Volumes2

Love Bullet (Japanese: ラブ・バレット[a], Hepburn: Rabu Baretto; stylized as LOVE-BULLET) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by inee. It began serialization in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Flapper magazine in October 2023, with its chapters collected in two tankōbon volumes. It follows the story of Koharu, a teenage girl who is reborn as a Cupid, an immortal being whose job is to help humans fall in love. By completing missions and collecting karma, Koharu has a chance to return to her human life.

Synopsis

Setting

Cupids are immortal winged creatures. They coexist with physical world to help people to fall in love for the Goddess of Love. They are reincarnated humans who had died early without having experienced romance. While the former Cupids used bows and arrows, the present Cupids use guns, sniper rifles, and bombs to make people fall in love.

The Cupids work secretly among human beings and must first find the right pair for matchmaking before shooting because their bullets can only affect the right couples, and they only have a limited supply at a time. They can collect their matchmaking assignments from a central bulletin board, which lists all available assignments. The pigeons act as messengers for the Goddess of Love to pass information to the Cupids. This means the Cupids earn karma by solving humans' romantic struggles. Upon earning enough karma, a Cupid does not resume their new life in their current age or when they died. They resume their life in the current timeline at the same age they died. They need to spend their earned karma to cover operational costs such as Bullets, Gears, accessories, etc.

Cupids can hide their wings by folding them in and interact with humans. Used to influence love interest or reckons.

Plot

Koharu Sakurada is a 15-year-old high school student whose matchmaking skills are famous even though she does not have any romantic experience of her own. When Koharu sacrifices herself to save her best friend, Aki Tamaki, from falling metal pole at the construction site, She gets impaled by and passes away shortly. She is met by Goddess of Love, who offers her a second chance at a human life. Five years later, she is reborn as a Cupid – an immortal, winged sniper whose goal is to make humans fall in love with each other through special guns.

After her revival, Koharu takes on her first matchmaking duty, with Kanna watching over her. Kanna explains that Koharu's best friend whom she saved before dying – Aki – is in college, and remains committed to Koharu's memory. In this duty, Koharu successfully identifies a partner for Aki, namely, a fellow college student by the name of Sakura Kasuga. Unfortunately, her duty gets interrupted when Chiyo, a hyperactive Cupid who always looks for a gunfight with other kids, causes chaos which disrupts their mission. Kanna holds her back so that Koharu and defeats her so Koharu can continue the matchmaking

Later, Chiyo gives Koharu and Kanna a challenge Where due to her trickery, both and Koharu lose. Because of this, she orders them to accompany her in a village during a school field day to bring two students together – Ito Kitano and Touma Azuma. On getting there, they discover that the village is the exclusive property of Ena, another Cupid who jealously guards her territory. After some bickering, they agree to work together in the matchmaking. During the process, Koharu realizes that Ena was in the same school as her former classmates, who believed that she was in ICU in the hospital.

Characters

Cupids

Koharu Sakurada (桜田コハル, Sakurada Koharu)
Koharu is the main protagonist. She is a 15 year-old girl who is popular for her matchmaking ability, though she has never fallen in love herself. After saving her best friend from a construction site accident, Koharu is caught and impaled by a metal rod and passes away. After five years, the Goddess of Love offers Koharu a second chance at life by transforming her into a Cupid. With the help of three other Cupids, Koharu learns to select suitable matches for humans.
Kanna (カンナ)
Kanna is Koharu's primary mentor who welcomes Koharu into her new life as a Cupid. Though laid-back and borderline lazy, she is resolved to teach and protect Koharu as well as she can.
Chiyo (チヨ)
Chiyo is a combative, energetic Cupid who enjoys the thrill of completing assignments more than the act of matchmaking itself, often challenging her peers to gunfights.
Ena Hasumi (蓮見エナ, Hasumi Ena)
Ena is a logical, focused Cupid with a mysterious past. She is independent in her own territory, committed to her own missions. Chiyo, Koharu and Kanna stumble upon Ena in her domain on a mission to set up two high schoolers. Later on, it is revealed that she’s a fairly young Cupid.

Other characters

Aki Tamaki (珠城 秋, Tamaki Aki)
Aki is Koharu's best friend from school. She confesses her feelings to Koharu, but the moment is interrupted when a pole falls from a construction site overhead. Koharu pushes her out of the way, saving her life. Tamaki carries her feelings for Koharu for five years, until the now-turned-Cupid Koharu helps her find a new match.
Sakura Kasuga (春日 さくら, Kasuga Sakura)
A college student that attends to the same university as Aki Tamaki. She has a romantic interest on Aki and she becomes matched with Aki by Koharu when Koharu during her first first mission.
Ito Kitano (北野 いと, Kitano Ito)
A high school girl who comes from a village setting. She is the object of affection for an mission that Chiyo, Koharu, and Kanna arrange during a field day activity in Ena's domain.
Touma Azuma (東 斗真, Azuma Tōma)
A high school student who is a classmate of Ito Kitano. They are match-made by Ito with the help of Koharu, Kanna, Chiyo, and Ena.

Publication

Written and illustrated by inee, the series began serialization in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Flapper magazine on October 5, 2023.[1] Its chapters have been collected into two tankōbon volumes as of June 2026.[2]

During their panel at MCM Comic Con London 2025, Yen Press announced that they had licensed the manga adaptation for English publication, beginning November 2025.[3] As of June 2026, one English-language volume has been released.[4]

Volumes

No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1July 22, 2024[5]978-4-04-683627-4December 9, 2025[4]979-8-8554-3030-1
  • Chapter 0: "A Cupid's Solution to a Love Triangle"
  • Chapter 1: "To Fall in Love with Love..."
  • Chapter 2: "The Modern-Day Cupid (Part One)"
  • Chapter 3: "The Modern-Day Cupid (Part Two)"
  • Chapter 4: "Cupid vs. Cupid (Part One)"
  • Chapter 5: "Cupid vs. Cupid (Part Two)"
  • Chapter 6: "See You Later"
  • Bonus: "The Daily Life of Cupids ➀"
2November 21, 2025[2]978-4-04-684926-7October 27, 2026[6]979-8-8554-4149-9
  • Chapter 7: "Cupid's Promise"
  • Chapter 8: "Shootout!!"
  • Chapter 9: "Field Trip"
  • Chapter 10: "Friction"
  • Chapter 11: "Compatibility"
  • Chapter 12: "A Cupid's Territory"
  • Chapter 13: "Cowardice and Courage"
  • Chapter 14: "Hasumi"
  • Bonus: "The Daily Life of Cupids ②"

Reception

On September 17, 2024, the Love Bullet author posted a comic on Twitter explaining that volume one sales were low, implying that the series could face cancellation.[7] Following this announcement, volume one sold out at multiple retailers, including Manga Republic[8] and CDJapan.[9][10]

The series was ranked tenth in AnimeJapan's "Manga We Want to See Animated" poll in 2025.[11] The series has been nominated for the 11th Next Manga Awards in the print category in 2025.[12]

Notes

  1. 1 2 stylized as ラブ♡バレット

References

  1. ↑ @inee (October 5, 2023). 本日発売の月刊コミックフラッパー11月号より、 ついに『#ラブ・バレット』の連載がスタートします！ [The serialization of "#Love Bullet" finally starts in the November issue of Monthly Comic Flapper, which goes on sale today!] (Tweet) (in Japanese). Retrieved September 25, 2024 – via X (formerly Twitter).
  2. 1 2 ラブ・バレット 2 (in Japanese). Kadokawa Future Publishing. Retrieved June 8, 2026.
  3. ↑ Mateo, Alex (May 23, 2025). "Yen Press Licenses Love Bullet, The Girl Past the Filters, The Terrifying Students at Ghoul School! Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 23, 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Love Bullet, Vol. 1". Yen Press. Retrieved June 8, 2026.
  5. ↑ ラブ・バレット 1 (in Japanese). Kadokawa Future Publishing. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Love Bullet, Vol. 2". Yen Press. Retrieved June 8, 2026.
  7. ↑ @inee (September 17, 2024). お知らせ [Announcement] (Tweet) (in Japanese). Retrieved September 25, 2024 – via X (formerly Twitter).
  8. ↑ Reyna, Leo (September 20, 2024). "Girls' Love Author in Tears After Struggling Manga Sells Out Thanks to Fans Worldwide". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
  9. ↑ "Love Bullet 1 (MFC)". CDJapan. Archived from the original on September 25, 2024. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
  10. ↑ Wood, Austin (September 20, 2024). "Yuri manga fans rally to save a series they can't officially read, pushing it up sales charts and stunning its creator: "There are no words to describe how moved I am"". GamesRadar+. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
  11. ↑ Iikura-Gross, Ken (March 13, 2025). "Nue's Exorcist Tops AnimeJapan's 'Manga We Want to See Animated' Poll". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 13, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Next Manga Award 2025 Reveals 100 Nominees: Full List Including War of the Adults". Oricon. Oricon. June 19, 2025. Retrieved June 24, 2025.
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