My Childhood Friends... with Benefits！？ Vol.2

by Hiro Nanabishi

Kei and Shou are childhood friends attending the same high school, and Shou always ends up helping Kei whenever he's in need. They're always hanging out, at home or at school, but Kei has a secret he can't even tell his best friend... He's desperately in love with Shou, and he's now friends with benefits with the basketball team's captain named Sasaki in order to divert that desire somewhere else. Every time they have sex, Kei imagines Sasaki is Shou...One day, though, Shou catches a glimpse of the two of them having sex in the club room. Kei is devastated, and just as the thought of losing his childhood friend enters his mind, Shou says, "I'll have sex with you."Kei's dreams were coming true, but for some reason, as he straddled Shou's body and let Shou enter him, he felt... wrong. This is a story of unrequited love between two young men...

Genres: Manga

66 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 15, 2017

Reviews

[Tuna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Vol 2 provides an amazing conclusion to the story of Kei and how he deals with both Shou and Sasaki. Sasaki ends up playing a surprising role here as usually in these types of stories he would provide some type of extra harsh drama that can sometimes break the immersion of a series as it becomes a turn off when they do the genre usual abuse. But Saski is handled differently and pleasantly here. Shou ends up providing a ton of drama and stress for Kei and I loved all of it. The deep emotions he harbored finally having a chance to come to light and Kei dealing with his inner demon to bring them both towards the (expected and not surprising) happy ending was fantastic.

I actually couldnt take my eyes off the screen reading this and enjoyed it immensely. Really good addition.

~no extras or afterword or etc were included. Typesetting was wonderful and there were no glaring or obvious typos. Sound effects are written in ENG small font underneath the JPN text.

[R E · Rating 2 out of 5]

Trashy story, effective art

In preparation for teaching a university course on queer manga, I've been reading quite a bit of it recently. Unfortunately that means reading manga such as this one. This trashy, simpering manga gets two stars only because the visual story telling is strong. It's not overly sophisticated artwork, but uses string page design, effective pacing and zoom, and a sensitive balancing of values (whites, grays and blacks) with the line work. Were that the story were sensitive or even sensible. It's couched in half-baked, cockamamie psychoanalytic mumbo-jumbo and brings a disturbing simple-mindedness to graphic, adult content that is clearly aimed at teens. Extraordinarily disturbing. (This review applies to both volumes).

[Alexandra Sanchez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute

I wanted a break from the books I usually read, and this was a good choice. I picked it randomly, didn’t think I was going to like it but I did.

[Hailey · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was good.

A bit short, but the artwork and the storyline were alright. It was very jumbled though and hard to figure out what was going on at times.

[Dominique Michel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

I loved the book, I am hoping good things come Kei and Shou way in the future because they deserve it.