paleprosperity's manga / #childhood friends(27)

Shunpei and Fumi are best friends and neighbours. One day, Fumi tells Shunpei he might be gay and has agreed to go out with another guy in school. Shocked at this sudden confession (but very accepting), Shunpei questions Fumi about all sorts of things regarding his newly-discovered homosexuality - subtly aware that he's disappointed that Fumi picked someone else over him - and, upon meeting the boyfriend, cannot take that Fumi chose someone who was more or less normal... like Shunpei!

Apart from the fact he’s in the student council and has quite strange tastes, Shima is an average, low-profile, quiet high schooler. Therefore, he doesn't understand why Ryuunosuke, a sports student, always glares at him every time they cross paths. Shima doesn't want to draw the punk’s attention, but the instinctive hostility of Ryuunosuke towards him troubles him, and he wants to know why the other boy hates him…

Kirishima “Maa-chan” Masao and Kurokawa “Tai-chan” Taisuke have been friends since they were little—both looking out for each other, but when Maa-chan catches his friend being assaulted by a teacher, he can’t help but blame himself for always thinking and never acting on his desire to protect his friend.

'Once noticed, it was...'From the 1st year of middle school to the 2nd year of high school, Makihara Kai and Mizushiro Ren have been in the same class. But in the last year of their high school lives they are placed into different classes. A small ripple is born in the unchanging days that pass by... that makes the feelings they were unaware of start to bloom. Wanting to tell him, but unable to say it. The answer deep, deep within their hearts is...The path of youth and high school boys unable to voice their love.

Katsumi, a University student, hates doing troublesome things like cooking, cleaning and washing. He even finds falling in love troublesome and hates things like this. He's someone who insists that one should find a prostitute to fulfil their sexual urges. Akira, Katsumi's childhood friend and flatmate, is the one who does the cleaning and cooking. blurted 'Then I'll do it' in anger when he found out that Katsumi brought a call lady into his room.

Out of the blue, childhood friend Takaoka confesses to Iwami! When popular playboy and ladies man Takaoka says "I love you", he doesn't believe it one bit. Is he making fun of the virgin!? A modern high-school boys' adolescent love development!

"There's no way, I will marry you Ryuuji", were the bitter words handed back at Ryuuji, after his marriage propsal to his grilfriend. Heart broken and pissed off at the way he was dumped by his grilfriend, Ryuuji visits his best friend, Tomoya, to look for some comfort. However, Tomoya's inderect confession of,"I am glad you didn't marry her," evokes new feelings and desires in Ryuuji, he never knew he had.