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These two guys are nothing alike, but they've been friends since elementary school. Ren looks scary at first glance, but he's soft and mushy in front of Tadaomi! If only they knew about their feelings towards each other.... *Notes: Originally published on Twitter and Pixiv. Includes 14 extra chapters.*

High school student, Keiichi has been friends with the cool and popular Souta since childhood. Although he's always made to run around because of Souta's habit of doing things at his own pace, they're close enough to speak to each other about anything. However, one day, when Keiichi asked Souta why he had rejected a confession, he found his heart racing when Souta smilingly…

Meet Wataru, an open book who wears his heart on his sleeve, and Minato, a man who always comes across as cool, calm, and collected. Though they're polar opposites, their shared love of photography brings them together in high school, and they become such good friends that they decide to rent a place together in college. It's only when Minato moves across the country for work…

Sayama is a pessimistic guy who always wears a face mask to school. When the most popular boy in class, Saikawa, rips off the mask out of curiosity, Sayama flips out. Despite his harsh words, he's somehow captured Saikawa's interest, who offers to tutor him with a bizarre condition: to let him do as he pleases with what's under Sayama's mask. Sayama hates it when people touch…

Kota is a university student who runs into bad luck wherever he goes. One day, the super- lucky Naoya saves Kota from getting hit by an oncoming car... and through some miscommunication, they start dating?! It turns out Kota's bad luck gets better around Naoya, so if having to kiss him sometimes is all it takes for his bad luck to disappear, then that's not a bad deal at all!…

Includes the Stories: 1 - "Our Ever After" (ふたりぼっちのエバーアフター) (2019) 2 - "The Frog Prince" (蛙の王子様) (2019) High school story loosely based on the Brothers Grimm's "The Frog Prince". 3 - "Vacationing at World's End" (果ての荒野でバカンスを) (2020) 4 - "End Roll" (エンドロール) Story 3 & 4 - Shin, who is on a solo mission to cultivate a planet, regularly reports to engineer Rukiya, an engineer…

Twenty-nine-year-old Kiichi Sakuraba is totally burnt out. After his best friend, who he vowed to remain single with, gets married, Kiichi is done with romance in general. On his way back from his friend's wedding, he gets blackout drunk at one of his usual haunts. When he comes to, the handsome twenty-year-old university student Nao Kijima is right there waiting for him!…

Recently transferred to a new school, Sumire meets Toujou, a boy they all call, “The school’s solitary Madonna.” After stepping between a fight with Toujou and some others, he takes a liking to Sumire and they begin to spend their school days together. Although beautiful on the outside, Toujou is surprisingly brusque. Despite not making any effort to interact with others, he’s…

"We're not related by blood, but we're real parents." Now that same-sex marriage has been legalized Nao and Ai, who have been lovers since college, decide to register their marriage and adopt a baby boy named Hiro. Nao is sensitive and cries easily, while Ai has a 'going my own way' attitude. The two polar opposites begin child-rearing while dealing with the ups-and-downs such…

Ebihara gets mugged by Tashiro, his junior in college. They somehow end up hanging out together after that, and Ebihara slowly begins to realise that Tashiro may not be as frightening or as weird as he appears at first glance. Original: Pixiv | Renta JP Official English: Link Tree | Animate International (print) Original Audio Drama (Renta JP): Vol1 | Vol2