Kuzu No Honkai|Brilliant or Garbage
To the outside world, Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya are the perfect couple. But in reality, they just share the same secret pain: they are both in love with other people they cannot be with.
Hanabi has loved her childhood friend and neighbor Narumi Kanai for as long as she can remember, so she is elated to discover that he is her new homeroom teacher. However, Narumi is soon noticed by the music teacher, Akane Minagawa, and a relationship begins to blossom between them, much to Hanabi's dismay.
Mugi was tutored by Akane in middle school, and has been in love with her since then. Through a chance meeting in the hallway, he encounters Hanabi. As these two lonely souls spend more time together, they decide to use each other as a substitute for the one they truly love, sharing physical intimacy with one another in order to stave off their loneliness.
クズの本懐
(Kuzu no Honkai)
Manga
Written by Mengo Yokoyari
Published by Square Enix
English publisher
NA
Yen Press
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Big Gangan
Original run. September 24, 2012 – March 25, 2017
Volumes. 8
Anime television series
Directed by Masaomi Ando
Produced by Naoyasu Fujiyama
Gō Wakabayashi
Shota Komatsu
Written by Makoto Uezu
Music by Masaru Yokoyama
Studio Lerche
Licensed by Amazon.com (streaming)
Original network Fuji TV (Noitamina)
Original run January 12, 2017 – March 30, 20