Given their long friendship, and the fact that Touya looks up to Eiji as a role model, the former is understandably shocked to discover that Eiji actually has some romantic feelings towards him, a fact that doesn’t get any easier to swallow considering the latter had been hiding it for years. On his third visit, however, Touya finds his world completely shaken when, during a regular evening walk together, Eiji blurs the nature of their relationship with a surprise kiss.įutaribocchi Kurisumasu is largely focused on the issue of toeing the precarious line between staying friends and becoming lovers, a problem that both Eiji and Touya struggled with for much of the story.

Touya is understandably put off by his best friend’s sudden departure, although he still looks forward to Eiji’s visit back home every winter holiday. Since then, the two boys grew to be very close friends, until one day, Eiji suddenly left Rokka-and Touya-behind to study in Tokyo. In comparison, Touya seems a rather plain boy-a “normal” high school student in every sense of the word, he became acquainted with Eiji as a young child, when his mother’s health problems led his father to temporarily leave him in the care of the Kamikawas, who were friends of the family. Eiji, 5 years Touya’s senior, is a the very picture of perfection-not only is he kind and well-liked by those around him, he’s also a skilled top-tier business student at a prestigious university in Tokyo, and the son of the owner of a popular patisserie in Rokka to boot. This episode, set around Christmas and New Year’s, covers the relationship between two long-time friends, Kamikawa Eiji (VA: Ono Yuuki) and Kokubo Touya (VA:Taku Yashiro).

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