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“Eight male couples struggle to define their relationships, discovering unexpected connections beyond their shared romantic dilemmas.”
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7.51
3,221 rank · 8,014 readers · 70 favorites
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Synopsis
Eight male couples struggle to define their relationships, discovering unexpected connections beyond their shared romantic dilemmas.
Getting together is never easy, but even once two people are in a relationship, it can be impossible to describe what they mean to each other. Lovers do not always love each other, love and hate are not mutually exclusive, and friendship is akin to love but with ill-defined boundaries. For eight paired-off men—Ryou Shibata and Masahito Sekiya, Yahiko Tsubame and Akiha Niitsu, Aoi Kameda and Yuusei Ogikawa, Takaaki Sado and Shinobu Nakajou—the answer to what their partner thinks of them is frustratingly elusive. Apart from this common dilemma that unites them, it gradually becomes clear that the couples are linked in more ways than one.
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Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
5.5
/10
What 2 readers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 5.5
mode 2
σ 3.50
Agreement
Polarized
σ 3.50 · split reception
The polarity gap
7.0 pts
Recommenders 9.0 · others 2.0
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Score over time
↓ 3.50
Running avg · Aug 2016 → Oct 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Relationships are always complex, they never go smoothly, but so does life. As the title suggests, this manga’s story revolve around eight men all linked aka connected with each other through...”
- 2 “I am confushion. What is going on? Story - I have no clue, I will not lie. I remember an anime called Flavours of Youth doing something similar, having a bunch of stories connected and interweaving...”
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Short · 50%
Medium · 0%
Long · 50%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 9 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 12m approx
- Published Dec 2014 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M32625 catalog