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I don’t read “normal” BL, so I can’t tell exactly what’s the genre’s cliche. But as I read Kocchi Muite, I felt like it had a bunch of cliches. However, that didn’t make the story any less interesting or enjoyable.

Kocchi Muite isn’t a groundbreaking story nor it is deep, but it does its job of entertaining.

We practically only have two characters. Tsukasa, our cute otokonoko, and Kaname, the regular good-looking seme.

The story starts with Tsukasa getting a love confession from a guy. He rejects, saying he likes everyone the same. However, once the rejected guy leaves, he seems pleased with it. Why you ask? It’s because he has a plan; he wants to get a confession from every guy in the school (or the class, I don’t remember now)

He was already popular with girls, receiving chocolate from all of them, but he wanted more. He wanted to be the school idol. During a school festival, he was cross-dressing for a cafe and got a lot. Since then, he’s been attending school wearing the girl’s uniform, getting more and more attention, now from the boys as well. So he made his plan.

However, his plan has a fatal flaw. Kaname.

A certain normal day, Tsukasa dropped the eraser on purpose and asks Kaname to pick it up, hoping it would start something. However, Kaname isn’t interested in him at all, so much he didn’t even know Tsukasa was a guy. He ignores our cutie and that was it.

Tsukasa was so upset because his plan of getting confessed by every guy had a boulder on the way he ends up falling asleep after lunch. Who finds him?

Kaname, of course. And at that moment, we find out Tsukasa doesn’t wear panties. (A crime, I know. Every otokonoko should wear girl’s underwear. Including bras!)

That’s when Kaname shows interested in our cutie for the first time.

So what Tsukasa do? He invites Kaname to go with him to buy panties. A nice and well thought out plan. And it works. They go to a lingerie shop and after that, they had fun hanging out together.

 

Tsukasa noticed he’s been too focused on his plan it’s been too long since he hung out with a guy without a hidden agenda. That’s was when he realized Kaname could be different from the other guys.

But the friendship moment is “ruined” when Kaname says he wants to see if the panties looked good.

Our cross-dressing cutie is too embarrassed but he shows it anyway, since they’re both guys and there shouldn’t be anything embarrassing, right? Right?

After that, Tsukasa still wanted to “conquer” him, however, as they hang out, he realizes he doesn’t want Kaname to be the same as the others. He wants to be friends with him.

But Tsukasa tells him that, Kaname’s eyes became cold and he drags Tsukasa to the bathroom and masturbates him, saying he wasn’t a nice guy, that he knew Tsukasa wanted to get a confession from every guy and that he was a bad kid who deserved punished.

As it turned out, Kaname had developed feelings for Tsukasa, but he thought that if he confessed, Tsukasa would consider as just part of his goal.

But Tsukasa isn’t just after attention just because he likes it. When he was a kid, his parents got divorced, and his mom said if Tsukasa was a good kid, everyone would love him. He has a major fear of being hated, and when Kaname became cold, he thought Kaname hated him.

I liked this because, despite how he looks, Kaname isn’t simply the cool-looking seme who knows everything. He’s just as awkward as Tsukasa when it comes to love. It’s the story of two teenagers figuring things out. It wasn’t just a misunderstanding like in many shoujo mangas.

After they talked (and a moment of Kaname being jealous when a guy tried to confess to Tsukasa), they both understand each other’s feelings. However, that’s not the end of the story.

We have the school festival, and Tsukasa is excited. Not only is his day to shine even more, he wants Kaname to say he looks super cute. But then Tsukasa sees Kaname smiling at two girls and gets jealous. Kaname finds him and explains he was smiling because he was talking about Tsukasa to the girls.

In the end, though the author couldn’t put in a one-volume manga, he showed us where their relationship was heading. While Kaname is super smart and was sure to go to a great college, Tsukasa isn’t like that, so he wants to study so they can go to the same university and be together.

By the way, unlike “Senpai is not a girl”, this manga showed them doing it. No doujinshi, but still.

In the end, it was a fun manga with good lewd moments and a nice development. Hope someone translates it.

Ah, another thing. As I said, I don’t read normal BL, so it could be normal and I simply don’t know, but in Kocchi Muite, the other characters simply accepted the fact that Tsukasa seemed to be dating Kaname. Even the guys didn’t mind the fact Tsukasa was a boy too.