“Ichirou's secret summer fling with a boy resurfaces at school, sparking a complex love polygon.”
Awkward Apology; Engage
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Ichirou's secret summer fling with a boy resurfaces at school, sparking a complex love polygon.
Ichirou's best friend Naoto's noticed that he's been acting a bit unusual since summer vacation. With a bit of best-friend solidarity, Naoto squeezes out the tale of Ichirou's secret summer fling: a sexual encounter with a mysterious stranger fleeing from a rainstorm. Naoto is, naturally, scandalized, but not half as scandalized when he and Ichirou run into the summer fling again at a school festival... As if a guy falling in love with another guy wasn't complicated enough! How about when that boy's already got another guy after him? Throw a live-in cousin with an aggressive crush and the world's cutest lovestruck best friend into the mix and the situation gets rather convoluted, even by Koide-standards. Also includes the one-shot: Engage from -dokidoki
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A Manga Publication
- Format 5 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 40m approx
- Published Jan 1994 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M2822 catalog