Trope: childhood friends

300 New Days With You

Wasureru Kimi to no 300-nichi

Sai Asai

Every day Rihito confesses to Arata, and every night Arata forgets.

A Demon's Underling

Otubokunomi

In a world where demons and humans live side by side, demons hold abilities no human can match.

A Long & Short Love Story

Kei Ichikawa

Two next-door neighbors have done everything together since they were small, until one of them kisses the other.

A Marriage of Kings

Toko

To end a plague, divine decree orders the King of the East and the King of the West to marry each other.

Anti-Romance

アンチロマンス (Anti-Romance)

Shoko Hidaka

Two childhood friends have shared an apartment for six years without ever saying what they are to each other.

Baby, We Need to Talk

bokssung

One badly timed rut turns a decade of bickering friendship between an alpha and an omega into something neither can take back.

Can't Get Caught! XXX

Lee

A BL artist put his real first love into his hit series, then moves back to his hometown and runs straight into him.

Cherry Blossoms After Winter

겨울 지나 벚꽃

Bamwoo (밤우)

Seo Haebom moved in with childhood friend Jo Taesung's family after his parents died, and Taesung has been cold to him ever since.

Childhood Boyfriend

소꿉남자친구

story and art: 오노루

A beta signs on as manager for his alpha best friend turned actor, then presents as a rare omega after moving in with him.

Chivalry Impregnation

Kureha Izumi

A yakuza heir who can bear children learns his father is taking applications for a husband.

Coins of Destiny

六爻 (Liu Yao)

priest

A broken-down cultivation sect is revived by five misfit disciples who would mostly rather be doing something else.

Everyone Loves the Cannon Fodder

穿成万人迷的炮灰竹马

Qie Zai Shan Yang

A reader lands inside a novel as the hero's sickly childhood friend and sets out to save him from the tragedy he knows is coming.

Forest of the Rabbits

Usagi no Mori

Enjo

Shunta sees his cheerful friend Tamaki crying, and what he feels in that moment frightens him.

Friends, Engaged

Warabi Mochi

He was sure his straight best friend would never love him back. Somehow they are now living as newlyweds.

Heesu in Class 2

Lily Zuzu

Lee Heesu is happy staying invisible next to his best friend Chanyoung, until classmates start coming to him for dating advice.

Homerun Hearts

Ha TaeJin (story), Magoo (art)

Two lifelong fans of the same losing baseball team find their friendship cracking in the season everything starts going right.

I Can Hear My Childhood Friend's Thoughts?!

Gomouriki

Saku and Azusa were born in the same minute and have never been apart. College is about to change that.

I Cannot Reach You

君には届かない。 (Kimi ni wa Todokanai.)

Mika

Two childhood best friends each believe the other is out of reach.

I Can’t Stand Being Your Childhood Friend

幼馴染じゃ我慢できない (Osananajimi ja Gaman Dekinai)

An Momose

Lifelong best friends move in together for college and find that friendship no longer covers it.

Intimate Hunter

iReader

Bai Mu used to be a skilled hunter. Now he is a minor celebrity held by a childhood friend who turns out to be a vampire.

King's Maker: Triple Crown

킹스메이커 ~Triple Crown~

story: Haga

Wolfgang has the crown he fought for, but Soohyuk, the man he loves, still treats their bond like spoils of war.

Lion Hearts

ライオンハーツ (Lionhearts)

Mita Ori

Shishimaru proposed to his best friend Leo when they were small, and ten years later they meet again.

Liquor & Cigarettes

酒と煙草 (Liquor & Cigarettes)

Ranmaru Zariya

A liquor store owner who cannot hold his drink agrees to a trial run at dating his best friend from the shop across the street.

Living With Him

Toworu Miyata

Ryota Natsukawa starts university and learns his new roommate is his childhood friend, Kazuhito Tanaka.

Long Period

ロングピリオド

Nagisa Furuya

Yusei tells himself he hates his gifted best friend, because the alternative is harder to admit.

Longing to Be With Him

Amatoi

A huge box arrives at college student Momo's flat. Inside is an android identical to Chitose, the childhood friend he loves.

Love in Lyrics

Yan Jiu

A lonely young man who lives for music runs into Gao Hang, a friend from childhood, and the two find their way back to each other.

Love is an Illusion! - Superstar

사랑은 환상! ~슈퍼스타~

story & art: Fargo

A former idol trainee and high school alpha gets a baby brother out of nowhere, while his alpha childhood friend hides years of feelings.

Lover Boy

사랑하는 소년

story & art: ZEC

Eunho has been in love with the man next door, Jaeha, since childhood, and now that Jaeha is divorced, he is done waiting.

My Boyfriend Is a Big Baby

Satsuki Yury

Ritsu is older, and hopeless. Ao is younger and has been looking after him for as long as either can remember.

My Childhood Friend's Inner Voice Is Overflowing with Love

Mika Kurisaka

Sota bumps heads with the childhood friend he thinks hates him and starts hearing what he really thinks.

My Darling is a Foreign Crybaby

Kanae Terashima

Eric returns to Japan after 13 years to find the childhood sweetheart he remembers as a girl is a scruffy, bearded man.

Nagahama to Be, or Not to Be

長浜To Be or Not to Be

Scarlet Beriko

Nagisa looks like a delinquent, and all it takes to turn his world over is the thought that his best friend has a girlfriend.

Non-refundable Alpha

oh doyeon

Lured home from abroad, Jaewon walks into a wedding that turns out to be his own.

Only Virgins Left Alive

Sanzang

Gyutae has hidden his feelings for six years because his best friend swore that only the pure deserve love.

Public Sex

Rihara

Two inseparable friends from high school become more than friends at college.

Salad Days

经久 (Jing Jiu)

Jing Shui Bian

A gentle boy who dances ballet and a stubborn boy who boxes grow up together and hold each other up.

Salt Society

솔트 소사이어티

art: 제스 (Jess)

Beta So Gi-hyeon finally confesses to the alpha he has loved since childhood, gets turned down hard, and still cannot get free of him.

Scarlet Thirst

深緋が渇くころ (Kokihi ga Kawaku Koro)

Tako Nonoshima

A young priest bound to a sealed-off village is urged to run by the childhood friend who comes back for him.

Searching for My Angel

나의 천사를 찾아서

M9

Eugene Kim once promised to marry the angel next door, and ten years later Morgan Riley moves back as a towering blond man.

Smoky Nectar

Akira Minazuki

Reporter Mitsuru Hasegawa is chasing an incident that may involve a vampire. His oldest friend tells him to drop it.

Someday I'll Fall for You

Itsuka Koi ni Naru made

Tomo Kurahashi

Two childhood friends raised like brothers slip into a physical arrangement, and one of them wants more.

Stories from the Shopping District

Sanba Maekawa

A pasta chef comes home from Italy to run the family restaurant and finds his childhood friend very much changed.

Subordination

Kangpucon

Framed for treason, a nobleman hides in his best friend's house disguised as his concubine.

Summertime

Iiromill, Minggur, Zeolgu

Eunho thinks he knows his lifelong friend Dohyeon completely and has missed the one thing that matters.

Sweet Dream Desires

Jinen

College student Fuyuki dreams that Umi, his childhood friend and roommate, is touching him. He assumes it was a dream.

The Truth Is...

Tamaki Kirishima

Noguchi thinks his crush on colleague and childhood friend Misaki is a secret. Misaki can read every bit of it.

Twin Jades of Jiangdong

江东双璧 (Jiangdong Shuangbi)

Fei Tian Ye Xiang

In the Three Kingdoms era, Zhou Yu pledges himself to his childhood friend Sun Ce and to the future Sun Ce might build.

Twinkling Secrets Told Us Tonight Is the Night

金銀ささめくひみつは夜 (Kin Gin Sasameku Himitsu Wa Yoru)

Nojiro Guri

A noble whose magic keeps his nation alive and the friend who has stood beside him since childhood are very different people in private.

We, Pitiful Yet Beloved

いとしいぼくら (Itoshii Bokura)

Aki Yukura

A bullied boy with a complex about his looks is approached by a beautiful classmate who says he owes him everything.

Wedding Blues

Bread

On the morning of Aki's wedding, his childhood friend Jun comes to the changing room.

Wouldn't It Be Nice

AM

After ten years of friendship, Hyobin catches his best friend kissing a guy and realizes he never knew him at all.

You Jin

Fujoking

A beautiful stranger claims to be You Jin's dying childhood friend, with one last wish to ask of him.

You Lied to Me

Bond Mitsuya

Ken's manga does not sell. He keeps drawing because he trusts his editor and childhood friend, Yuma, completely.

Yuki, I love you!

Sennen Aino

Haru and Yuki were childhood friends, then lovers, and now share a home.