Kimagure Orange Road (きまぐれオレンジ★ロード) was a popular
shounen romantic comedy
manga series from the late
1980s. Written by Matsumoto Izumi (まつもと泉), it was later adopted into
anime, and in the mid
1990s novelized. The series deals with a love triangle between the main character, an indecisive
ESPer named Kasuga Kyosuke (春日恭介), Ayukawa Madoka (鮎川まどか), a mercurial girl with a tough past, and Hiyama Hikaru (檜山ひかる), Madoka's ditzy best friend. Kyosuke falls in love with Madoka, and Madoka wants to return those feelings, but cannot because of Hikaru's involvement with Kyosuke.
The series consist of 18 volumes of manga (when first printed), 48 TV anime episodes, 8 OVAs, and 2 animated movies. Translations of the manga and novels exist in several languages, including Chinese and French.