Sumire♡17-sai!!

Sumire is a seventeen-year-old high school girl with one simple, heartfelt dream: to make friends with her new classmates and find her place among them. Like any student hoping for a fresh start, she looks forward to laughter, companionship, and the ordinary joys of school life. Instead, she is met with nothing but cold shoulders and open disdain. Her classmates seem to despise her, recoiling at her presence and hurling cruel labels her way—pervert, dirty old man, creep, weirdo. For a girl whose only wish is friendship, the unrelenting rejection is crushing, and she cannot fathom what she could possibly have done to earn such scorn. The truth, however, is stranger than anyone imagines: Sumire is a life-sized puppet. Armed with nothing but earnest determination, this most unlikely of schoolgirls must navigate the unforgiving social currents of adolescence in a world that seems determined to keep her at arm's length. Can she ever win the acceptance she so desperately craves, or is this cruel world simply no place for a puppet who dreams of friendship?