Male Yanderes

The first story starts with Iori realizing that he is in love with his childhood friend, Remmy. Remmy starts to hang out with another girl named Rica a lot, going home with her and making Iori jealous. Iori ends up talking to Rica for a bit and after a while, Rica and Remmy break up. In the end Iori confesses his feelings for Remmy and seems to state that Rica actually had a crush on him the entire time. In the next chapter, we see Remmy's point of view instead. Here we see that Remmy actually started hanging out with Rica just to see Iori's reaction. We find out that Rica actually has a crush on Iori, which is why Remmy started to hang out with Rica so much. Remmy lies to Iori about having a crush on Rica, and Iori is pissed off. Remmy continues to talk to Rica about Iori and eventually when Iori does start talking to her, Remmy grows possessive over Iori. In the end, Iori rejects his confession to Rica and the two end up together, with Remmy watching Rica's face as the two friends embrace.

The second story starts with Kurokawa waking up and getting temporary amnesia, only knowing that he has to remember someone and never forget them. He ends up going to a school afterwards and later calls his mother about it. He remembers that his left arm has a sprain and can tell that his mother is keeping things from him. Later during school, another student named Usami comes to eat with him and seems interested in his memory recovery. While Kurokawa looks through his house for clues, he continues to talk to Usami about it. Usami reveals that his parents died in an accident and that someone promised to be with him. Usami pretty much almost kisses Kurokawa, wanting him to remember his promise quickly. Later, a teacher comes to him asking about Usami, though it seems that the two have never met before. Kurokawa starts piecing together what is going on, and finds out that Usami is actually his adopted brother. We find out this Usami is actually named Sone and that Kurokawa made a promise to him that he'd be by his side. Eventually the two end up falling in love, though Kurokawa's mother finds out and utterly disgusted, chases the two out. This is what causes Kurokawa to fall down the stairs next to Sone and how Kurokawa lost his memories. Kurokawa ends up visiting Sone in the hospital eventually waking him up. We see a flashback with Kurokawa listening in on his father talking about getting rid of Sone by shipping him off to another place so that he won't be a bad influence on Kurokawa. Later in the rain, Kurokawa ends up pushing and killing his father by pushing him down the stairs, thus causing everything in the first place. Kurokawa keeps this secret from Sone, happy that the two ill be together forever.

The next story follows two twins, Reizeru and Noizu, with Chris coming to greet Noizu. After hearing the rumors that the two can't be told apart, Chris comforts him as Reizeru goes to his class meeting. He is then told by other classmates to smile more like Reizuru. In the hallway, he sees Chris kiss Reizeru and afterwards starts taking to heart to act and behave more like his brother, to the point of Chris nearly mistaking him for Reizeru and where he was mistaken as Reizeru during the meeting. Reizeru confronts Noizu about taking his place in the meeting, and tells him to go back to being Noizu, but Noizu starts to argue with him, jealous that he has Chris and everyone's attention. This leads Noizu trying to kill himself with a knife only for Reizeru to try to stop him and the two to end up falling out of a window. Chris ends up coming during the last minute and sees the brothers fall. Reizeru wakes up in the hospital to finds Chris next to him and breaks the news that Noizu ended up dying. Chris confines to Reizeru that Noizu had been acting weirdly. During the funeral it becomes pretty obvious that Noizu was actually the survivor and that he will now pretend to be Reizeru to be with Chris.

The last story is actually really cute and not yandere at all, basically following a scary guy who is actually really sweet and hates that everyone is scared of him who meets a guy who makes manga. I honestly think that this might not even be the same artist who did the rest of them because the style looks so different.

Anyways, this anthology of stories all have at least one yandere in it (barring the last one) and have all twisted stories which I find entertaining. I always think there's something really fun about more twisted stories, especially those with yanderes since they can often go very far just for their love. The first story goes more for the both of them are yanderes, though in different ways with Iori being more jealous, destructive and possessive while Iori is far more manipulative. Seeing both sides of this does make me feel bad for the girl, Rica who just wanted help with confessing to Remmy though. Iori was just using Rica and even lies to Remmy just to see his reaction and Remmy pretends to be chummy with Rica for a bit just to get Iori jealous and this poor girl is just stuck in the middle.

The story about Kurokawa is kind of confusing, given that he is an unreliable narrator essentially seeing the ghost of his love, though I guess it makes sense given that he also doesn't really have his memories anymore. Seeing that he's the one who actually caused Sone to stay with him by killing his own father is pretty brutal, especially since it was his mother who caught them and eventually ended up leaving Kurokawa and Sone in a coma. But yeah, I'm sort of surprised that nobody ended up catching Kurokawa killing his father. Kurokawa is pretty possessive in this one and manipulative, not letting on to Sone that he was the one who sort of orchestrated the two to be together, and especially chilling given that he pretty much just realized after remembering and still continues on with his plan.

The final story of the twins is probably my favorite because of how vague the ending is. While it is pretty heavily implied that Noizu is the one who lived, its never outright stated and technically could just be Reizeru who lived (though that would defeat the entire plotline of Noizu wanting to become Reizeru). The tragic twins in BL is not a new idea, but I do think its done pretty well for an anthology story, with Noizu slowly realizing that he could become Reizeru and that Chris actually was not as good at telling the twins apart as he could have. It must have been really sad to realize that he just simply wasn't as notable as his twin brother and that everyone preferred his brother over him, even if they couldn't even tell the two apart, and that the only person who seemed to really be able to tell actually wasn't able to at the end. I think because its a tragic story, with the death of Reizeru being an accident, that Noizu is now forced to live as him. Though now he gets to be with Chris, as after all, that's why he threatened to kill himself and caused Reizeru's death.