muse ✨'s manga / #brb crying(11)

This is long, so it's good for a cold day or spaced across a week. Childhood friends grow into something more over a period of years. Great female best friend character as well.

A short sequel to Hana no Mizo Shiru. So happy!

The first several chapters are sweet. The final is a sad, sad, sad, sad, sad but lovely story that had me crying.

I'm crying??? Set in a historical time period; childhood friends confess their love before one leaves for three years. Shoes as metaphor.

Two men who weren't close in high school meet again at their high school reunion. A one-shot with a hopeful ending by Asou Mitsuaki.

Hikaru and Rihito are my favorite, favorite couple. Their love is so pure and gentle. I love them. You have to read "Sora to Hara" before this, or the other couples in the story will not make sense. They're introduced in that work. I'm confused about the timeframe, since it seems to be about two years into Sajou's college career, but the model has gone five years since school...and I think he was younger than Kusakube and Sajou. So...not really sure how that works, since Sajou talks about age/time and we know he's 18 in this story.

When his lover wakes up from an accident without memory of him, a man takes the opportunity to let him go, believing he will be happier. Dubcon in the last chapter.

me in real life: I'd never get married again, not without a prenup. You never know what's going to happen in the future. me when my OTPs get engaged: OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

One afternoon, a boy finds a chocolate tin in his bag and begins to correspond through it with a boy he's never met. Childhood friends finally start dating. (The one where the older one is oblivious and thinks they're "practicing" and the love of his life is tall and blond with piercings, and everyone is scared of him. This is the story with the end comic where their parents have been in support of their relationship since they were small and had already looked into moving the families together and planning a wedding.) Ten years after his five-year-old friend proposes, a man has to decide if he wants to honor the promise that they'd one day marry. I skip this one on reread.

Iwaizumi and Oikawa elope in Bolivia. (this chapter is in the print version) The second chapter is about the only time they ever separated, at twenty, and Oikawa became ill as a result and had to be hospitalized. It's beautiful and I cried.