Doutei ni Ai Nante Sakebenai!
The bickering friendship dynamic was a lot of fun, but the plot progression was a little odd or stilted, but it was still cute. The uke’s POV for like a chapter? And healthy tho the uke does say no, stop etc bc the seme’s sex drive was too high.
Kokuhaku no Jikan
list - hidden gems oof this was a bit angsty but still sweet. two friends turned lovers, but one of them gets in an accident and can't form new memories (so every time he wakes up his memory resets to the last day before the accident). short but impactful and sad but it ends on a sweet and hopeful note.
Itsuka Tomodachi Ja Nakunaru To Shite Mo
list - masterlist, cotton candy, hidden Theeee ultimate best friends to lovers story!! Soooo sweet and wholesome!!!! Sprinkle of drama because unrequited feelings and all but so good and cute
Golden Sparkle
list - 9.5+ I love them!! Both cool and popular, but both had kind of an isolating middle school experience. Start out as friends and somehow the seme ends up teaching the uke how to relieve himself bc he's been having wet dreams. Seme is cool but gentle and uke is inexperienced but cool and blunt. Uke seems innocent, but really he is totally unaware of that world and has no experience, so everything is unknown and new to him. So he follows the seme's lead but eventually takes initiative for himself. It's not totally clear why the seme starting helping him in the first place, but he eventually realizes his feelings first, though I think they both develop and realize their feelings at roughly the same time. I'd like to see more of them bc they make a good couple with a refreshing dynamic, and I'd love to see their older selves like in college.
Bukiyo Na Bokura No Sukima
Eh why did I read this...I guess it was cute but also kind of messed up? Seme and uke are in love with read other but don't know it. Seme dates girls and then uke steals them, but whole time it's bc they have feelings for each other. Which is kind of rude to the girls...also how would you continue to be normal friends with someone like that? but since they didn't care about the girls it was fine... Anyways uke is the selfish cool bratty type, seme is like a puppy very friendly and outgoing. They also had the classic argument about who would top. Honestly I could see why it'd be cute but I guess I've outgrown this kind of thing.
Konosaki wa Futarikiride