muse ✨'s manga / #childhood friends(173)

A fluffy, g-rated relationship between a boy who always sees the bright side and the person he loves: a serious, brilliant, bespectacled darling.

After Fujita is spectacularly dumped by a girl who calls him impotent, Kawasaki, who has loved him for a while, initiates a sexual relationship to cheer him up. It lasts a few months but ends abruptly when Fujita declares he'll find a girlfriend in college, leaving Kawasaki heartbroken. Years later, they've had no communication, and Kawasaki is shocked returning home from work one evening to find Fujita outside his door. Tie-in story to Oko-sama Star, the love story of their two friends.

After enduring relentless bullying by the same person throughout highschool, a literature professor is horrified to find the man is his new neighbor - and co-worker. But things aren't quite how they'd seemed. Note: While there is bullying in this, it's not done out of cruelty per se. The two had actually known each other when they were younger, and only one recognized the other when they met again. He fell in love and was aggressively affectionate.

A simple collection of happy stories. The yakuza + launderer was my favorite.

As children facing separation because of a move, Makoto promised to marry Mizuki when he eventually returned. But when he comes back as a teenager, he says nothing of the promise, and Mizuki - who has waited for him - worries he's forgotten.

The first story is about a man who has been mistaken as an otaku his entire life and then falls in love with one. Giving this five stars for the final story: two friends separated for six years because one accompanied his parents to America are reunited in high school. Haru is hopelessly in love and prepared to keep it secret, but then Genta asks to help him practice confessing. (Has Haru/Makoto vibes, which this mangaka has also drawn.)

me: Why is the guy with red hair so hot? He reminds me of someone. manga: *fanart of Rin from Free!* me: I just can't put my finger on it manga: *character has sharp teeth* me: this is a mystery manga: *the other guy is named Haruto* me: maybe I'm thinking of a Yakuza story manga: *more fanart of Rin* me: must be the piercings

Kyouya returns home from Tokyo to Karatsu to sell his late grandfather's house and reconnects with Motoharu, his childhood friend and the man he loves. (Yuri on Ice fans should recognize Karatsu as the town Hasetsu is based on.) Coworkers are actually dating; one reveals secrets to us about his lover (starting with an apron).

Kai and Ren have been in the same class for six years and are inseparable - to the point where their close friends egg them into staging BL moments between class, something which has become increasingly painful for Kai, who has been in love with Ren for a long time. When the new semester begins, Kai is disappointed to find that only Ren has been moved to another class, causing a newfound distance between them, and he prepares himself to let Ren go.