A cute story about two childhood friends that everyone knows are in love with each other except them. The art is cute and the characters amusing.

Dekoboko sugar days tells us the story of two childhood friends, Rui and Yuujirou, who one day find out that they have feelings for each other. With a great character design and a very cute art style, this is a funny and tender story about first love (and first relationship). It is a yaoi that presents his sex scenes delicately and more than anything I liked how they are with each other, always taking into account what the other wants and having mutual respect.

A very lovely standalone story: the art style is charming and the development of the relationship between the characters was both sweet and sincere.

Do you enjoy reading about a good mutual pining between two friends? If you do, Deko-boko Sugar Days would be the perfect light read for you!

Yuujirou Matsukaze has been close friends with Rui Hanamine since the two of them were little. He's s been Rui's protector since the beginning. How will he deal with his growing feelings for Rui who is now much taller for him to protect?

I love that the couple settled their issues through honesty and vulnerability. Their friends were also very supportive, pushing them towards each other. Communication is the key, always!

Another thing I love the most about this book is its lack of the traditional yaoi's dub-con elements. It also promoted proper preparation and safe sex, unlike some yaoi manga I've read years ago. They didn't just shove the D up the A.

Another volume of this manga would be lovely, but this is perfect on its own. Definitely worth reading!

I'm not sure why I expected more, but the plot of this was very, very thin, and didn't hang together very well. The personalities of the two main characters were sometimes expressed well and the art was sometimes very, very cute, but overall it just wasn't worth the time investment.

This was so dang sweet! Rui and Yuyu are perfect together. The art is absolutely stunning(especially the glamour style shots of the boys)

This is a cute BL manga following Yuujirou and Rui. When they were younger, Yuujirou saved Rui from a storm drain and they have been best friends ever since. I really liked the art style and the will they/won't they of their feelings. This BL manga has the trope of both boys feeling like their love is unrequited by the other. There was no big non-consent issue that other BL mangas that I've read have.
I did expect a one-volume BL manga to have steamy scenes; however, for it being both of their first time, the actual sex they had was very mature and a bit much. These characters were so cute and loving at the beginning of the volume, but as soon as it was time to get steamy, they knew way more about it than they should have. It was just not believable and took me out of the story.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for providing the E-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is such a lovely friends to lovers story with great artwork. I enjoyed reading this. It is a great mix of love and humour with well developed characters. If you enjoy manga you will definitely enjoy this one.

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It has been so long since I have read a manga!!! I enjoyed it a lot and it was so cute and sweet! I don't get the name though...

Now, although I like it, I want to mention the perpetuation of the Male Gay stereotype, the extremely feminine character who is "wife material" and the extremely masculine jock, now on top of that the roles... I think it is too predictive and boring. I like the thought of the hight as a factor of insecurities but it is not the same time I have seen it. One of the reasons the jock like the other guy has to do with this "cuteness", his clumsiness, his weakness, and his need of constant protection... a alpha male...

I honestly was not expecting it to get so steamy into the "room" and the assignation of the "roles" was again a stereotype... I might be reading too much into it but I like enjoyed it :) They were characters that made me laugh and the whole style of the manga with its jokes was such an expected touch n.n

I found this book to be sweet but very sexual. I wasn't too familiar with manga so I did not know what to anticipate. That being said, it's a cute story about two childhood friends who fall in love and start to date.

This was a pretty adorable manga about two childhood best friends falling in love. It starts out with them both feeling awkward about the changes in their feelings for one another, and then shows their relationship progressing as they navigate the insecurity and worries of having their first serious partner. Both boys are nicely detailed characters, though I perhaps would have liked a little less of Rui being referred to as 'girly' or comments that he would make a good 'wife'. I appreciate that this may be a difference in cultural attitude.

I wasn't expecting the story to get as sexual as it did. I think it's really important for teens to be shown positive, healthy sexual relationships, and for the most part it was done really well, from the nerves to the awkwardness, and there is a good depiction of the importance of continuous enthusiastic consent (although there is one throwaway line that feels a bit iffy in terms of consent, it happens later in their relationship when their sexual relationship is established and isn't actually anything worrying in context). I would, however, be concerned that the first half of the story definitely feels aimed at a younger age range than the second half. Perhaps an age rating might be worth thinking about (though obviously I wasn't able to see the back cover).

I liked that this was a standalone manga rather an a series, and it's certainly a sweet read that captures the awkwardness of first love really well.

Dekoboko Sugar Days is a standalone manga about two childhood friends realizing their feelings for each other, dealing with/ accepting those feelings, and finally working up the courage to express those feelings to the other.
What I liked:
1. Childhood friends to lovers (again feel this is the better route to take since it takes away some of though maybe not all all of the insta love issues of strangers to lovers.
2. The art style was pretty good. Had no issue telling the characters apart, which is a big issue in some manga. I would have loved if there were some full colored pages thrown in but maybe they will be in the finished manga.
3 . Both have real worries about the other liking them even when dating there are issues that pop up that makes the other worry about how the other may feels about them and both actually bring these issues up and they talk about them instead of just burying the feelings.
4. Even though one character has more issues that he is attracted to another guy these feelings are dealt with in mostly good way for a manga. It thankfully never goes down the road of forcing the character to date a girl to try make himself straight or date a girl just to make the other jealous. In fact the one character turns down one girl because knows he is truly in love with his childhood friend.

What I didn't Like/wasn't a big fan of :
1. Dear authors for manga or anything else. Stop!..Please stop calling or having characters call another character wife if it is a m/m relationship. He had no issue calling the other his boyfriend so the wife bit just felt unneeded. Just is a personal pet peeve but is really annoying and not at all cute .
2. The sex scenes were a bit awkward and some of the dialogue during them was a bit on the cringe side.
3. Wished there was some or more time to talking about being nervous about possible affects on friendship after entering a relationship.
4. Some of the dialogue if said outside of manga would just be laughably bad. Since it is manga and is meant to be over the top at times will give it a pass.

Overall this is cute and sweet standalone manga . The relationship is pretty well done . It doesn't feel overly rushed and both characters do have some nerves at taking relationship further until both are ready to take it that far, which was nice to see. Some of the dialogue is a bit cheesy and the sex scenes are just sort of miss for me personally ,but they are a very small part of the story since this manga is far more interested in the relationship and getting to that relationship than the sex scenes.

So cute! I'm a huge fan of the friends turned lovers trope and this does that sound well. Their respective insecurities were interesting, and helped move the plot along rather than drag it down. The supportive best friends win Best Character as they were basically my proxy for the story.

A cute and self-contained high school romance between a somewhat stereotypically masculine boy (likes sports, bad at expressing his feelings, cast as the "protector" in his relationship) and his childhood friend, a somewhat stereotypically feminine boy (good at cooking, has female friends, clumsy) who has -- shock, horror -- grown to be much taller than he is. It's not groundbreaking, and in point of fact I know I've read this plot before (I went looking through my reviews and the book with a similar height-difference-childhood-sweethearts storyline is Stay Close to Me by Yaya Sakuragi), but it's relatively free of consent issues and the art is cute in a rough-edged sort of way. (I say "relatively" free of consent issues because there is a genre-typical "if you tell me to stop I won't be able to" throwaway comment and sex appears to initially be uncomfortable for one of the parties, but it is vocally consented to at all times.) I'm curious to see Tokyopop getting back into the Japanese to English market after that enormous collapse in the early 2000s; so far as I'm aware they've stuck with English-original works and translations from languages other than Japanese until very recently. I'll be keeping an eye out to see what else is forthcoming.

Dekoboko tells the story about two childhood friends who have crush on each other but never confessed to each other. Yuujirou had a height complex since he was a kid. His crush Rui is over six feet tall that certainly doesn't help. Out of all the yaoi I've read recently, Sugar Days were definitely my most favorite. I am a sucker for childhood friends trope and I just loved the way Atsuko Yusen made their relationship. Sure, it might've been a little bit of cliché, but I couldn't stop grinning. It was too cute.

Most of the story focuses on the relationship itself and on the slow path to confessing. It was my most favorite part of the whole story - I was rooting for both of them equeally. Everything's wrapped in a really nice art - author's artstyle is very clean and pleasant to look at. We get a little bit of sex scenes in the end - but that's just bonus and nothing too graphic!

Recommending to everyone looking for a cute BL romcom.