Future Lovers by KUNIEDA Saika

[epistasthai]

I like to read manga, and some just catch your attention straight off the bat. One such is KUNIEDA Saika's "Future Lovers". This manga features a favourite couple of mine: Kento and Akira. It is alternately hilarious, sweet, and tear-jerking, but very satisfying. I often re-read it when I want something with a realistic feel to it, but which has a happy ending.

Having lost his parents as a young child, school teacher Kento lives with his grandparents. He wants nothing more than the usual: to have a happy family, which to his mind involves a loving wife, happy children and his kind grandparents. Kento is steady, dependable and kinda shy. Somehow he meets Akira (how he does this is one of the hilarious points of the story), and Akira couldn’t be more different. Wild, smart, beautiful, and definitely NOT shy, Akira ends up (to Kento’s horror) becoming the art teacher at Kento’s school. They keep ending up together, and as Akira puts it, “You can blame it on the alcohol or the spur of the moment if it happens once, but if there’s a second time that can’t be the case anymore, right?” There’s a third time, a fourth time, and well, you get the picture. Kento (dark hair) and Akira (light hair):

 

I think Kento’s grandparents are hilarious and they are a major part of the reason this manga is so great. I enjoy every scene they’re in. I’m gonna even put in a pic of them, because they add so much to the story. On the surface they are really annoyed at Akira ‘cuz he’s a man, but then they also give Kento lots of very good advice. When Kento and Akira are having arguments, Kento’s grandma has some really good advice. And they’re always there for Kento (and Akira).


 

This manga is just so good that I often find myself re-reading it when I need to be cheered up.
(images from 'Future Lovers' v1 chapter 1, cropped pp78 and 80.)

Comments

[epistasthai.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I couldn't decide who to pick and then I realized that I somehow seem to reread this all the time. Yes, I think you're correct - these two are definitely the 'opposites attract' kind of guys. This is what makes it so funny. But they really love each other and that is what makes this manga so very good.