I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #childhood friends(68)

A world where monsters and human exist on the same dimension, but are kept segregated by law.

Nonokawa, a salary man in the midst of burn out, hears that drought has dried up a reservoir that had been constructed to flood his old village, and returns to look at the elementary school which is now exposed. That was where he had a brief but traumatic encounter with his childhood friend, Kouya, who clearly shares his feelings, after which he ran to the city, sealing all those feelings away. A cute story about regret and repression.

Ogeretsu Tanaka's gorgeous drawings center around the good time party boy, Ryou, and his childhood friend, Kouji, who takes their random sex romps seriously, making love with all his heart. Is this enough to break through Ryou's frivolity?

Childhood friends: one's a doctor, the other's a host who visits him to get his booboos patched up. On one such occasion, the doctor casually mentions he has a girlfriend which sends the host off in a fit and the result is a formulaic romance story trope.

A boy with a tendency to burst into tears nurtures a love-at-first-sight crush on his rescuer all through their school years, but when they finally become adults, sees his beloved showing affection to another childhood friend.

Rivalry between a stepbrother, Mitsuya, and a childhood best friend, Satoru, for the affections of a rather clueless young fluff-head, Shin, rendered in Kanda Neko's appealing drawings and downy soft writing style.

Volume 4, Koi Ja nai Kedo "It Isn't Love" in Sakuragi Mei's extensive Warui series. Primary couple: Yukimura Shuji, Student Council Vice President x Shinonome Ryuuichi, delinquent.

Two stories by Konno Keiko. (1) Two childhood friends stay in touch long after leaving school, traveling long distances to stay with each other, brushing off their lovers in order to make time for each other and, yet, never realizing what this says about their true feelings. (2) A man plays at a relationship with a woman until he can make the gay man with whom he's in love commit with his full feelings. Slice-of-life stories, not necessarily sympathetic characters especially in the second story, but realistic.

Childhood friends who live under the same roof. One suffers from amnesia. The other from unrequited love toward the amnesiac.