Chain-type love triangles with full awareness

[Oobaka-san]

This's a romantic conflict I've always liked. A guy likes a girl, who likes another guy. But the first guy being aware of the girl's crush and the girl being aware that the first guy likes her adds a lot more conflict. Especially if they're close enough that she can't just tell him to leave her alone or anything.

So yeah, I'm looking for that sort of story. Preferably where the girl explicitly recognizes and appreciates the first guy's feelings, or even in some way acknowledges his pursuit. Sort of a contest: can you make me yours before I make him mine sort of thing.

The closest I know is My Crush's Crush, which adds the complication that the first guy's crush is actually in love with a girl who is crushing after the guy, creating a full circle and even more drama, as the girl knows that the guy who likes her is really a great guy that any girl would be lucky to have, but that just makes her jealousy even stronger.

Another variant that interests me: the girl's crush is bad news and the first guy either tries to keep her away from him on that account or comforts her after. If he tries to keep her away this creates even more conflict as he's trying to protect her from a bad situation while she just sees a desperate, jealous move. And of course the latter just helps increase the odds of the new relationship starting. For instance, an old pseudo-hentai had the MC try to stop a kouhai from pursuing a senpai that he knew was a player, only for her to thank him for his concern but insist she could take care of herself... right up until she saw the guy banging a teacher and tried to drown herself (he saves her of course). Or one manga has a guy pine for his childhood friend for the longest time, only to see her doing it with their married college professor. He runs away, and she manages to figure enough out to follow him and confront him, give him one time under the pretense of "keeping his mouth shut". Then the professor disappears after one of his many other girls exposed his philandering, and the shock that the first man she'd even loved had been using her completely broke her for days before her childhood friend finally got through to her (resulting in them spending at least as many days locked in the bedroom together). This is one variant that works well with the Erotica and Mature setting (though far from necessary), since it allows some convenient forms of corruption and deception, like as mentioned the girl giving herself to a man who sees her as just one of many playthings.

 

[ezzhead]

This's a romantic conflict I've always liked. A guy likes a girl, who likes another guy. But the first guy being aware of the girl's crush and the girl being aware that the first guy likes her adds a lot more conflict. Especially if they're close enough that she can't just tell him to leave her alone or anything.

So yeah, I'm looking for that sort of story. Preferably where the girl explicitly recognizes and appreciates the first guy's feelings, or even in some way acknowledges his pursuit. Sort of a contest: can you make me yours before I make him mine sort of thing.

The closest I know is My Crush's Crush, which adds the complication that the first guy's crush is actually in love with a girl who is crushing after the guy, creating a full circle and even more drama, as the girl knows that the guy who likes her is really a great guy that any girl would be lucky to have, but that just makes her jealousy even stronger.

Another variant that interests me: the girl's crush is bad news and the first guy either tries to keep her away from him on that account or comforts her after. If he tries to keep her away this creates even more conflict as he's trying to protect her from a bad situation while she just sees a desperate, jealous move. And of course the latter just helps increase the odds of the new relationship starting. For instance, an old pseudo-hentai had the MC try to stop a kouhai from pursuing a senpai that he knew was a player, only for her to thank him for his concern but insist she could take care of herself... right up until she saw the guy banging a teacher and tried to drown herself (he saves her of course). Or one manga has a guy pine for his childhood friend for the longest time, only to see her doing it with their married college professor. He runs away, and she manages to figure enough out to follow him and confront him, give him one time under the pretense of "keeping his mouth shut". Then the professor disappears after one of his many other girls exposed his philandering, and the shock that the first man she'd even loved had been using her completely broke her for days before her childhood friend finally got through to her (resulting in them spending at least as many days locked in the bedroom together). This is one variant that works well with the Erotica and Mature setting (though far from necessary), since it allows some convenient forms of corruption and deception, like as mentioned the girl giving herself to a man who sees her as just one of many playthings.

That.... Is certainly a plot. Never read anything like any of those variations.

 

[Oobaka-san]

That.... Is certainly a plot. Never read anything like any of those variations.

Well, just to be upfront now that I remember, the pseudo-hentai (anime) was called Kakyuusei I believe (pretty sure second episode, if I remember right, with the first centered on a girl who might be voiced by Mika Kanai), while the one I mentioned where the girl was having an affair with her married professor is called My Doll House. No translations were done after the guy caught the girl with the professor, and it's a really weird one (I only really skimmed it to see where things would go) with the MC at first modeling in drag and later getting plastic surgery to make everything but his "son" as feminine as possible, including a boob job. I read the remainder through BW; it was bizarre, but technically fit to a degree with that bit.

Spoiler: untranslated bits

The professor apparently was having many affairs, and the girl passed out before locking herself away for days when it all came out. He went to talk to her, ended up talking a lot about his own pain over family issues, until she kissed him and apparently they didn't stop doing it for three days, and the girl's only regret was the sharp pains in her hips.

 

[ezzhead]

Well, just to be upfront now that I remember, the pseudo-hentai (anime) was called Kakyuusei I believe (pretty sure second episode, if I remember right, with the first centered on a girl who might be voiced by Mika Kanai), while the one I mentioned where the girl was having an affair with her married professor is called My Doll House. No translations were done after the guy caught the girl with the professor, and it's a really weird one (I only really skimmed it to see where things would go) with the MC at first modeling in drag and later getting plastic surgery to make everything but his "son" as feminine as possible, including a boob job. I read the remainder through BW; it was bizarre, but technically fit to a degree with that bit.

Spoiler: untranslated bits

The professor apparently was having many affairs, and the girl passed out before locking herself away for days when it all came out. He went to talk to her, ended up talking a lot about his own pain over family issues, until she kissed him and apparently they didn't stop doing it for three days, and the girl's only regret was the sharp pains in her hips.