Namaiki Kareshi

Kashiwagi had everything planned out. He was ready to take the next significant step in his relationship and ask his girlfriend to marry him, envisioning a bright future together. However, his carefully laid plans shatter when he unexpectedly catches her being intimate with another man. The sudden betrayal leaves him completely stunned, plunging him into a deep state of emotional turmoil as the life he thought he knew unravels in an instant. Seeking refuge from his heartbreak, Kashiwagi turns to alcohol, drinking himself into oblivion at the small neighborhood pub he regularly frequents. He hopes to drown his sorrows and escape the crushing weight of his misfortune, but the night takes a wildly unpredictable turn. Instead of waking up alone with a heavy hangover, he finds himself stripped bare and tangled in the bedsheets beside someone entirely unexpected. To his absolute bewilderment, the person lying next to him is Izumi, the eighteen-year-old nephew of the pub’s owner. What began as a devastating evening of romantic ruin has now spiraled into a shocking and deeply complicated situation. Kashiwagi must navigate the bewildering aftermath of this drunken mistake, suddenly entangled with a young man who is far too young and entirely outside the realm of anything he ever anticipated.