personal faves

Two nerds get together to experience things they've never experienced before. About experimenting, first times, and understanding each other. Also glasses.

Picks up from 'Here and There and Us', expanding on the last chapter. I can't say much more lest I spoil the prequel.

Highly recommend as well.

The dynamic where two students who clearly like each other, and everyone knows it (except them). Feels like adolescence and first love. Characters are incredibly loveable.

Highly recommended reading "Here And There And Us (And Then And After)" after this one.

About leaving home, falling in love, and growing into yourself as a person. First volume set in the 1970s + timeskips.

Sequel to Rumspringa. Age gap.

Ridiculous premise that takes another direction into character exploration. Understanding love for the first time.

Grad student gets himself involved with an older grad student, who isn't like he initially seems.

Peak good girl/bad boy dynamic. Impressed by how they make a frustrating communication plot understandable. The panelling is immaculate---the art style, which I was initially on the fence about, I found ultimately endearing, even striking with how it heightens emotions.
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Note for dub con and communication issues.

Faking a crush on someone, so that *your* crush can hide *their* crush on that person. Characters navigating their youth, forming friendships and romantic entanglements.

Guy spontaneously invites the class oddball to the aquarium; he accepts. Touches on identity and loving as one is.

Two oddballs who uncomfortably get together, but are able to eventually genuinely bond over time. Harboring doubt over their futures/ambitions, they find themselves becoming vulnerable and loving to each other.

Game dev gets killed by his own protagonist and undergoes a death loop. He manages to break free from said loop...only to find himself stuck in his own game, looking after the protagonist who was hell-bent on destroying him.