Sasaki to Miyano

宮野と佐々木の偶然の出会いが、漫画を通じて新たな感情を芽生えさせる

A schoolyard fight leads to a chance encounter between Miyano and Sasaki. As their friendship blossoms and Miyano introduces Sasaki to Boys' Love manga, Sasaki wrestles with newfound and unfamiliar feelings. (Source: Funimation)

学年が進むにつれて佐々木と宮野の関係は深まり、周囲の友人たちもそれに気づき始める

The school year slowly marches forward. As Sasaki and Miyano's relationship deepens, the other guys at school take notice. Sasaki struggles with the intensity of his feelings. (Source: Funimation)

宮野はBL漫画を貸し与えながら佐々木の関係性を問う

As Miyano continues lending Sasaki BL manga, he worries he might be bringing Sasaki negative attention. Miyano begins to question the nature of Sasaki's relationship with him. (Source: Funimation)

ササキは感情を隠すのに苦戦し、ミヤノは二人の関係について問いかける。

Sasaki becomes less and less able to hide his feelings. Ogasawara gets fujoshi help from a fudanshi. Miyano continues to question his relationship with Sasaki. (Source: Funimation)

緊張のあまり失敗してしまうが、佐々木は宮野への想いを告白しようとする

Sasaki finally decides to tell Miyano how he feels. However, Sasaki's nerves get to him and make him say the wrong thing. Can he find a way to fix his mistake? (Source: Funimation)

宮野は佐々木の性的指向を問い、二人は友人として付き合うことで合意する

After Sasaki's confession, he and Miyano continue to spend time together as friends. As midterm exams approach, Miyano considers the best way to celebrate Sasaki's upcoming birthday given their current uncertain relationship. When the day arrives he ends up giving him a lollipop Tashiro offered him. One day while walking to school together, they note that a year has passed since they first met. On the last day of exams, Sasaki and Miyano share an umbrella while walking home. Miyano takes the opportunity to ask him outright if he is gay, and Sasaki responds that he was never attracted to other men before he met him. Miyano admits that he has never considered the possibility that he likes boys and still is unsure of his feelings, also suggesting that Sasaki's feelings may change as he does. However, Sasaki says he is happy that Miyano is giving his confession serious thought and declares that his feelings for him are unconditional. They agree to remain friends until Miyano is able give him a certain answer. (Source: Wikipedia)

宮野は女装の任に就き、佐々木は嫉妬と倉沢の過去の告白に直面する

The high school prepares for its upcoming cultural festival. Miyano's class nominates him as their representative in the cross-dressing competition, and he reluctantly agrees one the condition that his outfit isn't too feminine with Kuresawa standing in as his backup. While at a shopping center with Sasaki, Miyano bumps into Makimota, the girl he had a crush on in middle school, and they strike up a friendly conversation, but Sasaki pulls him away out of jealousy. Miyano admits to him that she was his former crush, but says his feelings for her have long since faded. Sasaki in turn apologizes for the way he pulled him away, saying he doesn't want to be rough with someone he cares for. While working, Sasaki frets over the idea of Miyano having a crush on someone else. He also encounters Kuresawa, who explains that he is in the area to visit his girlfriend who is in the hospital. He also formally thanks Sasaki for defending him months ago and admits that he was the person who instigated the fight that day. On the ride to school later that day, Sasaki and Miyano bond as they share headphones. (Source: Wikipedia)

佐々木が宮野をからかい、半沢が伝統衣装の準備を導く

At school, Sasaki continues to flirt with Miyano and tease him about his own crush on him. Chairman Hanzawa helps Miyano prepare for his role in the upcoming competition by having him fitted for a traditional outfit. During the fitting, Miyano asks him what he thinks it means to have feelings for someone and Hanzawa postulates that the biggest indicator of love is to be constantly thinking of someone. Sasaki visits Miyano while he is dressed in his costume and questions whether he actually wants to participate in the competition, but Miyano is reluctant to drop out after the hard work everyone else put in. Sasaki becomes overwhelmed by emotion and comes to close to kissing him, but hugs him instead. Miyano becomes aware of his own feelings for Sasaki. (Source: Wikipedia)

宮野は不確かな感情と迫る文化祭を乗り越えながら、佐々木を看病する。

Miyano struggles to define the nature of his attraction to Sasaki with certainty. Kuresawa takes notice of his troubles and invites him to go to the bookstore for him. Miyano later tells Sasaki he has decided to continue with the drag contest and they make plans to spend time together during the cultural festival. During class, Sasaki comes down with a cold and goes to the nurse's office to find to that she is absent. Outside he meets Miyano, who is there for a minor burn he received in his home economics class. They go inside and Miyano takes charge of caring for him, which Sasaki can't help but be captivated by. Miyano offers to walk him home and Sasaki questions why, but he's disappointed when Miyano claims to be motivated by obligation. The day of the cultural festival arrives and Miyano and Kuresawa visit Sasaki and Hirano's class, where they are hosting a delinquent-based cosplay café. (Source: Wikipedia)

祭りと映画の後の宮野は佐々木への愛を受け入れる

At the café, Hanzawa is telling fortunes and Miyano has a session with him. He asks for advice in feeling more confident in his desires and Hanzawa advises him to continue forward even if he is uncertain. As Sasaki watches from a distance, the drag competition is held and ends with Miyano being named runner-up. The festival ends and the two boys watch the fireworks together from the school. Miyano, abashed by Sasaki's open affection towards him and unwilling to risk hurting him, asks for more time to give him an answer. Sasaki agrees as he conceals his own anxiety and impatience. Sometime later at the mall, Miyano runs into Sasaki, who is there shopping with his older sister and Ogasawara. Ogasawara asks Miyano what he thinks of Sasaki, and Miyano sheepishly says he admires him. Sasaki intervenes before Ogasawara can push further and changes the subject. Sasaki and Miyano see a yaoi film together alongside a mostly-female audience and afterwards overhear two other moviegoers innocently speculating that they are on a date. Miyano finally accepts that he is in love with Sasaki. (Source: Wikipedia)

宮野は告白のタイミングに苦しみ、佐々木とのロマンスの瞬間が失敗する

Hanzawa sees Sasaki and Miyano at the movie theater and notices their mutual attraction. Miyano decides to tell Sasaki how he feels about him but struggles to work up the courage. He's persuaded to further postpone his confession after hearing a superstition that couples who get together right before Christmas will break up shortly after. During winter break, Miyano runs into Hanzawa and his older brother at the mall. Hanzawa recalls how his two older brothers came out to their mother in the presence of himself and their sister. The break ends, but Miyano is unable to find time alone with Sasaki to confess to him. Finally he is able to arrange to walk home with him after school. Sasaki asks why he always changes the arm he carries his schoolbag on when he sees him, and Miyano explains that it's a habit he developed so his bag won't knock into him when they walk together. Touched by the subtle gesture, Sasaki attempts to kiss him, but Miyano inadvertently pushes him away. Sasaki runs away in embarrassment and shame. (Source: Wikipedia)

宮野は佐々木を追跡し、公園で気持ちを告白する

Miyano chases after Sasaki but is unable to catch up with him. Outside the school, he meets Hanzawa and Hirano and asks for their help. Hanzawa tells him how his brothers have faced social stigma and argue with their partners, but says he believes he and Sasaki would be happy together and encourages Miyano to pursue him. Miyano leaves to see him at his house while Sasaki arrives home and chastises himself for violating his boundaries with Miyano. Hirano leaves a voicemail for Sasaki falsely claiming that he's forgotten some of his things in hopes that he'll run into Miyano on the way back to school. Sure enough, Sasaki ends up meeting Miyano at the train station and they go to an empty park to talk alone. Sasaki asks forgiveness for going over the line in his advances, but to his surprise Miyano tells him he reciprocates his feelings and they kiss. Afterwards, Miyano asks Sasaki to be his boyfriend and they finally exchange phone numbers. In the post-credits scene, Sasaki and Miyano tell their friends at school that they are now a couple. (Source: Wikipedia)

彼が心を知る前の小さな物語