muse ✨'s manga / #unrequited love(80)

For a decade, Rikuro has harbored feelings for Yasutaka, but has given up on the possibility of a relationship - that is until Yasutaka admits he slept with a male coworker, which makes Rikuro both hopeful and angry. Unlike Kou's "Soredemo" (which you should read if you have not; it's my favorite!) where Onoda seriously considers a relationship out of respect for Deguchi's feelings, this is frustrating since Yasutaka is indecisive. An ultimately happy ending, but it will not be everyone's cup of tea.

On a rainy afternoon, Mio is caught borrowing an umbrella hanging on a doorknob and befriends Yugi, an alluring but standoffish college student that Mio comes to love. But Yugi is hung up on love for his friend Tachibana, who has been his partner for four years, with the understanding that after college, he'll go home to marry his girlfriend. Mio begs for Yugi's attention but is rejected. Four years later, they're reunited through work. Mio wonders if this is his second chance but discovers that Yugi is still being strung along by Tachibana. Junko understands the human heart: how it can continue to love even in the wake of tremendous pain, how it cannot be told who to love - or when to stop.

Two high-school students realize their feelings are mutual. A man reconnects with his high school's idol on the set of a gay porn video.

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.

"Haru has been in love with Soudai, his elder brother’s best friend, since he was a child. More than his brother, Haru chases after Soudai and even gets into the same club as him. He can’t be with him all the time, and if Soudai doesn’t look at him, he will feel worried but he can’t be honest at all. Eventually, when Soudai becomes a university student, he leaves his hometown and he hasn’t contacted Haru once after that. He wants to forget Soudai but he can’t"

When Kawachi discovers that the senpai he's admired since middle school isn't as kind and considerate as he thought, he panics and blackmails him with sex - and has to live with the guilt. To atone, he apologizes and acts the part of doting boyfriend, walking senpai to and from school, carrying his bag, taking him out for pancakes. And while senpai is confused by Kawachi's sudden chivalrous behavior, he accepts it and the feelings that come with it. Features my favorite moment: "I AM his boyfriend."

A selfish boss and his subordinate end up in a hotel because the trains have stopped running. The boss, too drunk to recognize his coworker, comes onto him and asks his subordinate to film the encounter, giving him the perfect weapon for revenge. Only the more they get to really properly know one another, little by little, their relationship begins to change. I almost skipped this and am so happy I didn't. This was a fantastic love story, well paced and believable. I agree with other commenters who said this has the best confession scene they've ever read!

From DMP: What would you do if your crush of many years suddenly got married?! After attending his beloved Saitoh's wedding, broken-hearted Nagai gets a little too drunk for his own good and lands himself in a hotel room with the bride's guest, Honda. To top things off, just when he thought he was getting over things he finds out that newlywed Saitoh's bride has run away. What will become of this developing love-triangle?