I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl

I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl (ロンリーガールに逆らえない) is a Japanese yuri manga written and illustrated by Kashikaze. It was serialized in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime magazine from October 2019 to October 2022. It is licensed for an English-language release by Kodansha USA.

Plot
Ayaka Sakurai, while being an excellent student, is bad at taking exams and thus was not accepted to the high school of her choice. When her homeroom teacher promises to give her a recommendation for a school of her choice in exchange for persuading Sora Honda, a student who had been skipping class, to come to school, Ayaka accepts. However, after Sora finds out about Ayaka's deal she agrees to only come back to school if Ayaka does her one favor every day.

Publication
Written and illustrated by Kashikaze, I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl was serialized in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime from October 18, 2019, to October 18, 2022. The series' chapters were collected in six tankōbon volumes from April 16, 2020, to December 16, 2022.

The series is licensed for an English release in North America by Kodansha USA.

Reception
Erica Friedman of Yuricon praised the series, noting in her review of volume 2 "despite the goofy premise, that initially veered a little closer than I like to something that could have gone into boundary breaking and unhealthy relationships, this series has been actually quite gentle and sweet."