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

When he realizes his strange attraction to his best friend's throat, Kashiwaya worries he might be a vampire. Funny, charming, sweet, and romantic. This is a delight.

The original story from Dear Green

Kuroo has watched Kenma go through man after man, until he meets a tattoo artist and has a swallowtail butterfly tattooed on his lower back. This author is fantastic.

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.

Katsura struggles with anxiety he can only overcome by hugging Sou, his older brother's friend he's known since childhood. But after Katsura is kissed by his best friend Kouichi, Sou becomes jealous and refuses to help him anymore, leaving Katsura to juggle his anxiety and the feelings of two people very close to him. This was a sweet story. I especially liked the first part, which dealt with Sou and Katsura realizing their feelings for one another. I thought the second part, which needlessly introduced another love interest, was unnecessary. Katsura's anxiety is described as having been caused by Sou when they were younger, when he'd consoled him after an accident and repeated that Katsura would be okay as long as Sou was with him. That's not how my anxiety worked, so it threw up a bit of a flag for me in terms of plausibility - anxiety, for me, isn't something I can get over, it just is - but I'm glad Katsura was able to overcome his. If I were to re-read this, I'd stick to part one and not bother with the second book.

A sweet and rather dense young man realizes he's in love with his best friend thanks to the help of his younger brother.

A guy's best friend becomes possessive and demanding every time he has a girlfriend. Gee, I wonder why.

After his best friend loses his memories, a young man struggles to contain the feelings he's always had for him. Two coworkers with mutual crushes end up babysitting for a week and finally hook up. :-D