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

After he accidentally sleeps with the company president's son's wife, a man is rejected from his project team and his apartment, but he's offered a job as the son's live-in servant.

Momo has been in love with Suzume for years and is heartbroken by the string of men Suzume sleeps with. So when he turns eighteen, he begs Suzume to give him a chance. This is very sweet and loving, with only a hint of BDSM. The focus is more on Suzume's internal changes and very little on the actual sex.

Chapters 1-5 are a great love story between longtime friends. Chapter six veers into abusive noncon territory but features an on-page wedding, only the second I can remember seeing (the other in Haru wo Diete Ita). The final chapter is two high school students with mutual crushes.

Shouji takes care of his neighbor and childhood friend, a needy and helpless mangaka, but pulls away when he thinks Niki has grown too dependent on him. But when Niki is accused of plagiarism, Shouji can't leave him alone.

After Haebom has spent his childhood believing he was hated by the boy who had been his closest friend, Taesung, they end up in the same class. Taesung - who has avoided him for years - begins to come to his rescue from bullies, sit with him in the lunch room, and walk with him to and from school. Slowly, they patch up their fractured friendship and realize they're in love with each other, find an apartment, and go away to college. But then a horrible stalker appears and messes things up for a few chapters. He's toast now, so I hope we get a bit more romance now.

Ten years after his confession was brushed off as a joke, Ichika is still in love with Shuu, who only sees him as a best friend. Shuu is constantly being dumped; the only constant relationship is with Ichika. He even envisions their families' future together. But after he sees Ichika go into a hotel with a man, Shuu begins to think differently about him. A nice take on the friends-to-lovers trope. A neat surprise was that Ichika had never had penetrative sex with anyone else, so they both had a first experience with each other.

Four stars for the first story about a delinquent and the boy he's loved since middle school. The other two stories are also sweet - a child actor and his stepbrother, a boy and the person he asked out on a whim.

Unrequited love between childhood friends. A playboy and the quiet boy at school who sweeps the courtyard.

A man finally comes to terms with his feelings for his childhood friend and then spends several chapters reassuring him of his love. Really really sweet.