muse ✨'s manga / #unrequited love(80)

The morning after a class reunion, Uichirou wakes up in bed with a stranger. He's told he clung to the man the night before, crying, and called him "senpai." The two form an arrangement as sex friends, but feelings begin to develop between them. Senpai was an absent character but everpresent throughout the story. I wondered if we would get to meet this person, but it didn't matter who he was or where he is now. Uichirou needed to move on from their past. I was a little frustrated with the late-game communication issues between the two main characters, but the reveal of the chief's wife (Mama) was delightful.

Two coworkers agree to become sleep partners, but then feelings start to develop. (Main story) Chapter 5 - A man's unrequited love for his best friend, who is getting married. Good news about chapter 5 - it has its own manga with a happy ending and new love! Plus the friend has a cameo and is a super great guy. Two men who have been dating a few months finally have sex.

If Junjou Romantica and Soredemo Yasashii Koi wo Suru hooked up and had a baby manga, it'd be this. Kirishima, a guy with a massive brother complex is the secret love interest of his gay best friend, Toudou, who accepts the love as unrequited and, for a time, appears to have taken an interest Kirishima's little brother Hokuto. But like Onoda in Soredemo, when Kirishima learns that Toudou has been in love with him for many years and wants to end their friendship, he refuses to let Toudou out of his life and insists they try to date. Sweet. Not my favorite but endearing, and it didn't make me cry.

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.

**This is marked complete but it's not finished!** Iwaizumi comes to realize his feelings for Oikawa, but rather than do anything about them, he devotes his energy to a fairy who has been with him since childhood that he's recently become able to see.

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.

Multiple stories, including one about a boy who had been in love with his best friend so did what he could to keep girls away from him in high school, and asks for one night together for memories.

Twelve years after he was taken in by distant relatives after his parents died, a man continues to struggle with feelings for his adopted older brother. This was an interesting and sensitive take on a delicate subject.

The one with the man who has been in love with his spacey novelist friend since high school