Zense Coupling is a recent shoujo manga by Kakitsubata Waka that ran from 2018 to 2020, as it’s so new and wrapped up fairly quickly it doesn’t have much of a following however it’s really really good!

A fluffy and sweet romance that never brought me too far down, a soothing balm for the soul.

The plot is this: Once upon a time, cruel fate led four couples to never meet their happy ends. But now, years later, all eight people have been reincarnated, and some retain memories of their previous lives! 

Even reincarnation is not able to stop their love, be it between a princess and her butler, a master and his cat, a hot-headed man and his equally hot-headed arranged fiancée, or a devoted man and his sickly lover. 

But that doesn’t mean it’s all smooth sailing, even though they’re in the modern era there are still obstacles, for example one of the characters was born significantly younger than his love this time and she doesn’t remember him so views him as a cute little child, for another, she struggles with the wall between them as both of them remember their past lives and the person she likes continues to treat him as if she outranks him and he’s subordinate to her despite being classmates now. Personally my favourite was the one with the girl who was a cat in her last life falling in love with her old owner romantically, it was definitely the funniest and I enjoyed him rationalising that she was just acting like a pet so there was no reason to worry about her having feelings for him for real... up until there was!

An enjoyable tale featuring more than one romance where the characters in the couples sometimes overlap and interact with each other, similar to how manga like Horimiya and Dear Only You Don’t Know work but in 4 koma style like Tsurezure children!

This manga’s relatively short especially with the 4 koma format and it’s really very fun.