Liar × Liar
Plot. The story revolves around two distant step-siblings who are secretly in love with each other. Minato Takatsuki goes to help her friend move house and afterward her friend Maki forces her to wear extravagant makeup and her high school clothes and go to Shibuya. In Shibuya she meets her younger brother Tooru who at first asks why she is in Shibuya dressed like that when she lies and says that she is not his sister but a girl called Noguichi Mina. Tooru is instantly attracted to her and gives her his phone number to meet  again. At first hesitant, in order to stop Tooru's playboy lifestyle she goes on a date with him where he gifts her a phone. Seeing how clingy he is she assumes he is acting this way to just mess around with her and scare her possibly knowing her true identity. However, soon after he buys her an expensive purse at which time she realises that this is not a prank. She tries to reveal to him her true identity but each time he presents her with giving her expensive clothes. She then tries to be a jealous and obsessive  girl in order to force him to break up with her, but he happens to like her obsessiveness—much to her dismay. Soon Minato in her true identity tries to date her childhood friend Shinji after being reunited after eight years. Meanwhile, Maki advises her to tell Tooru as Mina that she is moving away. Tooru tells Minato that he would move anywhere in Japan for his girlfriend, so Mina tells Tooru that she is moving to Ecuador. Tooru falls into a depression, stops attending his classes, and becomes a home shut-in. After Minato sees what state Tooru is  in. The protagonist of the story. Twenty-year-old university student, a clean freak and a lover of old Japanese castles. Her friend convinces her to go out dressed as a highschool girl, and she ends up accidentally bumping into her stepbrother Tooru. Minato succeeds in convincing Tooru that she is in fact not his sister, but a highschool girl named Mina Noguichi. Tooru starts to pursue her and Minato ends up dating him under this false identity. Her reason for dating him was to obtain vengeance for all the troubles Tooru caused her in middle and high school. However , she quickly starts to regret her decision and tries to find a way to break up with him, but the circumstances seem to never be in her favor. Things get particularly dicey for her when she finds her popularity increasing and gets into sticky situations because of it. The stepbrother of the main character. He's a handsome young man with an expressionless face who has been sleeping with numerous girls ever since middle school. Tooru's active love life brought trouble upon Minato as she was being targeted by his ex-girlfriends and girls who had a crush on  Tooru. When he meets Minato dressed as a highschool girl he ends up pursuing her and dating her. He gets serious about her, which worries his sister. The best friend of the main character. She was the one who convinced Minato to go out dressed in her old school uniform. Later she helps Minato by lending her clothes to wear as Mina, giving her advice and teaching her to do gyaru style makeup. She's the person Minato goes to for advice on all issues related to romance. Maki goes so far as to help Minato get out of a  love-triangle, that she finds herself unwittingly caught in. A member of the neighboring universities' Japanese history appreciation club and an architecture student. He is reunited with Minato at a club meeting after being apart for eight years. They originally met at a private evening school when they were still grade-schoolers. The feelings that he has for Minato complicates situations in hilarious or painful ways. Media. Manga. The manga began its serialization on February 24, 2010, and ended its serialization on June 24, 2017. Live-action film. In June 2020, Kodansha announced that the series will be adapted into  a live-action film. The film will be directed by Saiji Yakumo, with scripts handled by Yuichi Tokunaga. Reception. Volume 4 reached the 17th place on the weekly Oricon manga charts and, as of February 17, 2013, has sold 33,969 copies; volume 5 reached the 35th place and, as of December 22, 2013, has sold 51,073 copies; volume 6 reached the 19th place and, as of August 17, 2014, has sold 42,008 copies. It was nominated for Best Shōjo Manga at the 39th Kodansha Manga Awards.