Tomo Kurahashi

*This book was given to me in exchange for an honest review and is rated 18+.

Now that all the feelings have been revealed, Chiaki and Kazuma are dating in secret and Kazuma wonders if it’s time to take things further in their relationship, navigates how to be a couple when they’re still pretending to be friends, and what their future will be after high school.

While there’s plenty of smut in this volume, the rest is just delightful and sweet. Chiaki is a little bean who’s just so damn in love and Kazuma earnestly wants to be happy. They’re adorable and despite how I kinda wish the characters were older, I can acknowledge the differing consent ages and how it’s not really made for me. It’s for older teens to relate to. I’d like to see their story continue into adulthood to see how their relationship is in the future but this will probably just stick with the high school stuff. 4 out of 5.

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*This book was given to me in exchange for an honest review and is rated 18+

Kazuma, Chiaki, and Tomoe have all been friends since childhood. Kazuma and Chiaki were raised like brothers but the feelings between them are more than just siblings.

This manga wastes no time getting to the smut. It appears in this case they’re intimate with each other but Chiaki has caught feels while Kazuma dates girls. Now, these boys are third-year students which can me 18 years old so Imma stick with that despite feeling like that’s still gross for me to be reading (that’s why I’m partial to the ones with older characters like My Dearest Patrolman, Don’t Call Me Daddy, or Old Fashioned Cupcake). My tastes in romance in general have sorta aged as I have so, this gives me a bit of the ick even though the general trope and romance in this are cute. At that age, this would have been awesome for me. The art is breezy and calm which is nice for this low angst love story. 3.7 out of 5.

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