Ultra Cute (うるきゅー, Urukyū, romanized as Ultra Cute) is a manga series written and illustrated Nami Akimoto. Originally serialized in Japan in Nakayoshi, the individual chapters were collected and published in nine tankōbon volumes by Kodansha between January 2000 and October 2003. The series focus on friends Ami Uzuki and Noa Kurosawa, who compete with each other over the same potential boyfriends, usually scaring them away.