History Manga / LittleButterfly

* TeensAreShort: Heck, even when they're supposed to be in college neither of the main couple are tall. This manga also provides an aversion of the OneHeadTaller rule - although Nakahara is taller than Kojima, it's not by very much.

* GenericCuteness: It's a shoujo manga series, what do you expect?

* LegalJailbait: Kojima looks pretty young for his age. It gets better later on in the manga, when he's canonically supposed to be starting college, but he still looks like he's in his early teens. His height is about right for a short guy of his age, but he has the face of a child.

Kojima sees Nakahara sitting in the rain one night, crying and alone and offers him his umbrella. The two end up in the same class years later and Kojima asks Nakahara to be in his group during a school trip. Nakahara begrudgingy accepts but disappears. Kojima finds him about to get onto a bus and chases him. Nakahara reveals that he has a [[AbusiveParents horrible life at home]] and wants to cross the sea, like some butterflies he saw on the TV who flew over the sea for miles and flourished in a far-off land. They form a friendship but Nakahara grows attracted to Kojima, who stuggles to cope with this.

* AManIsNotAVirgin: [[spoiler: Kojima's friends are amazed when they find out Nakahara has had sex before, and admire him because of it. Nakahara himself is less pleased; he barely remembers the incident, which was a barely-consensual encounter with an older woman who offered him a bed for the night after he'd ran away.]]
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Shortly after Kojima and Nakahara become friends, Nakahara realises that his feelings have grown into more than friendship. Kojima is a little weirded out, but allows him to remain friends on the condition he doesn't do anything "weird".
* AsleepInClass: Nakahara.
* BigNo: Happens the first few times Nakahara comes on to Kojima.
* CoolUncle: Nakahara's only sane, loving family member.
* {{Determinator}}: It is revealed that Kojima has tried time and time again to become Nakahara's friend, but was always knocked back or not even noticed. Nakahara doesn't even remember all the times Kojima had tried to initiate conversation before the school trip, but he perservered.

* LonersAreFreaks: Every classmember except Kojima treats Nakahara like this.

* TheQuietOne: Nakahara.
* TheRunaway: Nakahara right at the start of the first volume. He is revealed to have tried this many times before.

* OralFixationFixation: Nakahara with pens, while he's studying and thinking hard.

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[[caption-width-right:200:Kojima and Nakahara]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Kojima and Nakahara]]

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Kojima sees Nakahara sitting in the rain one night, crying and alone and offers him his umbrella. The two end up in the same class years later and Kojima asks Nakahara to be in his group during a school trip. Nakahara begrudgingy accepts but disappears. Kojima finds him about to get onto a bus and chases him. Nakahara reveals that he has a [[AbusiveParents horrible life at home]] and wants to cross the sea, like somme butterflies he saw on the TV who flew over the sea for miles and flourished in a far-off land. They form a friendship but Nakahara grows attracted to Kojima, who stuggles to cope with this.

''Little Butterfly'' is a three-volume BoysLove manga by Hinako Takanaga (who is also the author of ''Manga/{{Challengers}}'', ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'' and ''Manga/AwkwardSilence'') about the relationship between reclusive student [[{{Seme}} Nakahara]] and the cheerful - almost {{Keet}} [[{{Uke}} Kojima]].

Kojima sees Nakahara sitting in the rain one night, crying and alone and offers him his umbrella. The two end up in the same class years later and Kojima asks Nakahara to be in his group during a school trip. Nakahara begrudgingy accepts but disappears. Kojima finds him about to get onto a bus and chases him. Nakahara reveals that he has a [[AbusiveParents horrible life at home]] and wants to cross the sea, like somme butterflies he saw on the TV who flew over the sea for miles and flourished in a far-off land.
They form a friendship but Nakahara grows attracted to Kojima, who stuggles to cope with this.

Possibly the cutest, most heartfelt Yaoi in existence, it has been described very accurately as "so sweet it hurts". It has less focus on the sexual side (although that does play a part in the development of the romance).

''Little Butterfly'' is a three-volume BoysLove manga by Hinako Takanaga (who is also the author of ''Manga/{{Challengers}}'', ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'' and ''Manga/AwkwardSilence'') about the relationship between reclusive student [[{{Seme}} Nakahara]] and the cheerful - almost {{Keet}} [[{{Uke}} Kojima]]. Kojima sees Nakahara sitting in the rain, crying and alone and offers him his umbrella. The two end up in the same class years later and Kojima asks Nakahara to be in his group during a school trip. Nakahara begrudgingy accepts but disappears. Kojima finds him about to get onto a bus and chases him. Nakahara reveals that he has a [[AbusiveParents horrible life at home]] and wants to run away to a far-off country.

''Little Butterfly'' is a three-volume BoysLove manga by Hinako Takanaga (who is also the author of ''Manga/{{Challengers}}'', ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'' and ''Manga/AwkwardSilence'') about the relationship between reclusive student [[{{Seme}} Nakahara]] and the cheerful - almost {{Keet}} [[{{Uke}} Kojima]], starting from when Nakahara starts to run away from home on a school trip and the pair become friends.

''Little Butterfly'' is a three-volume BoysLove manga by Hinako Takanaga (author of ''Manga/{{Challengers}}'', ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'' and ''Manga/AwkwardSilence'') about the relationship between reclusive student [[{{Seme}} Nakahara]] and the cheerful - almost {{Keet}} [[{{Uke}} Kojima]], starting from when Nakahara starts to run away from home on a school trip and the pair become friends.

''Little Butterfly'' is a three-volume BoysLove manga by Hinako Takanaga, author of ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'' and ''Manga/AwkwardSilence'' about the relationship between reclusive student [[{{Seme}} Nakahara]] and the cheerful - almost {{Keet}} [[{{Uke}} Kojima]], starting from when Nakahara starts to run away from home on a school trip and the pair become friends.

* [[BigNo Big NO!]]: Happens the first few times Nakahara comes on to Kojima.
* BoysLoveGenre

* [[WillTheyOrWontThey Will They Or Won't They?]]: [[spoiler: They did.]]

* Single-TargetSexuality: Kojima.

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* TroubledButCute: Nakahara definitely qualifies as this - his parents were abusive and he tried to run away from home several times when he was younger.