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I'm Here! is a Japanese Shojo manga series by Ema Toyama. The manga was serialized in the shojo manga magazine Nakayoshi. The series ended with five volumes released by Kodansha under the imprint Kodansha Comics.

The series centers on a girl named Hikage who describes herself as "plain". She is a very shy and insecure child. Because of her unassertive attitude and unappreciated beauty, she finds herself constantly ignored by her classmates and has a difficult time making friends at school. This leads to her starting her own blog, though there isn't much traffic, she winds up taking lifetime advice from her followers, that are actually nice people, there.

Tropes used in I'm Here! include:

• Abusive Parent: Teru comes from a pretty rough home life. His mother gives him a good hard slap and tells him she can't get a divorce because of him.
• After-School Cleaning Duty: Hikage uses this as her first opportunity to make friends and join a group. Unfortunately it doesn't go well as she ends up getting locked in a closet.
• Alpha Bitch: Aya. Though as it turns out, she is just as lonely as Hikage is. It even leads Hikage to better understand Aya's motivations for bullying her.
• Character Blog: Hikage has one.
• Cooldown Hug: Performed by Hikage to Aya in one of the final chapters.
• Childhood Friends: Teru and Hinata.
• Cross-Popping Veins: Teru occasionally gets these when watching Hikage and/or Hinata.
• Fan Girl: The female population of the class is split almost perfectly even between Teru and Hinata fans.
• Emoticon: Many of Hikage's posts, as well as the replies by Black Rabbit and Mega Pig feature these.
• Extreme Doormat: Hikage
• Festival Episode
• Free-Range Children: The only character whose parents are even mentioned are Teru's.
• Freudian Excuse: Aya is also lonely and has trouble fitting in.
• Gang of Bullies: A group of Hinata fangirls, led by Aya.
• Happy Place: The hill with the sunset view for Hikage, as well as her sunflower at school.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Hikage and Teru, when he was a child.
• In-Series Nickname: Hikage Sumino is known as Suminon by one of her classmates. She is also known as Sunflower online. The same goes for Mega Pig (Aoi Nanjo) and Black Rabbit who is Teru, from an instance when Hinata compared him to the popular but lonely black rabbit kept at their elementary school.
• It's a Small Net After All: The only explanation as to how Black Rabbit and Mega Pig found Hikage's tiny picture blog.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Teru.
• Kansai Regional Accent: Mega Pig is noted for having one, both in real life and online.
• Kendo: Hinata is part of the kendo club.
• Last-Name Basis: Hinata always refers to Hikage by her last name Sumino, even after they start dating.
• Lonely Rich Kid: Teru.
• Love Triangle: Between Hikage, Hinata, and Teru naturally.
• My Name Is Not Durwood: Due to her absolute lack of a presence, on the occasions when characters actually notice Hikage they usually get her name wrong.
• Nice Guy: Hinata.
• Omake
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Teru is red and Hinata is blue.
• Series Mascot: MahiMahi, the sunflower... creature that Hikage adores.
• Sitting on the Roof: One of the chapter artworks features Hikage and her friend Arisa doing this.
• Shoujo Demographic
• Shrinking Violet: Hikage. Aoi Nanjo, aka Mega Pig is one in real life.
• Slice of Life
• Super-Deformed: Scattered around the more flaily parts.
• Stalker with a Crush: Don't you dare try to get close to Hinata, or Aya and her friends will make your life hell.
• The Idiot From Osaka: Mega Pig acts like one online. Subverted when you find out he's more of a Shrinking Violet.
• The Rival: Teru is Hinata's love rival for Hikage's affection.
• Three Amigos: Hinata, Teru, and Hikage. Online, it's Sunflower (Hikage), Black Rabbit (Teru), and Mega Pig (Aoi Nanjo).