History Manga / TheTyrantFallsInLove

A SpinOff of ''Manga/{{Challengers}}'', which had [[BetaCouple side characters]] Souichi Tatsumi, Tomoe's homophobic and tyrannical older brother, and Tetsuhiro Morinaga, his lab assistant and [[SenpaiKohai kohai]] who harbors a longtime crush on him. Despite Souichi's homophobia, Morinaga managed to confess his love for him without Souichi promptly beating the living daylights out of him or getting as far away from him as possible. Souichi, however, did kiss Morinaga in exchange for them [[ThatDidntHappen forgetting that anything ever happened to compromise their friendship]].

* SenpaiKohai

** Happens again in the latest chapter. Once again, he doesn't use the word "love," but it's getting closer.

* ShowerOfAngst: Souichi, immediately after having sex with Morinaga. Happens every time.
* StoicSpectacles: Subverted in that Souichi looks the part, but is far, ''far'' more emotional tsundere than emotionless [[TheStoic stoic]]. Morinaga's older brother, Kunihiro, is a bit more of a straight example, at least until [[spoiler: Masaki corners and rapes him. We don't know how Kunihiro's disposition has been affected in the long run yet]].

* {{Tsundere}}: Souichi to an amazing degree. This exchange in volume 1 sums it up:
-->'''Souichi:''' (concluding a long rant about how Morinaga's a bastard for disappearing from his life to use that as emotional blackmail) It's the exact same thing you did a year ago! You just go off and try to bear every fucking thing by yourself! You think if you threaten me that I'll just fold and give in to you, don't you!\\
'''Morinaga:''' Sempai, stop! Do you mean that my being gone actually makes you feel that bad? Like I'm blackmailing you?\\
'''Souichi:''' (turns red and suddenly becomes tongue-tied) So...so what...if it did... you got a problem with that...?\\
'''Morinaga:''' Huh?\\
'''Souichi:''' (snaps) I'm asking what the big freaking problem is if it ''did'' make me feel bad!\\
'''Morinaga:''' No. Nothing. No problem at all.\\
'''Souichi:''' And who the hell has bad timing?! I've been coming here every single day! This is actually the ''second fucking time'' I've come today! There was no way you could come back here without me knowing it! Did you think you could just get away... get away with disappearing like that? Did you think that I... that I would just accept it?! That I wouldn't feel anything at all? Is that what you thought?! Do you have any idea how worried I've been... (breaks down in tears)\\
'''Morinaga:''' No.. I just never even imagined that you would cry over me...\\
'''Souichi:''' Fuck you! This is just... this is nothing more than some saline that's leaking out of my glands because I'm so angry!

* BreakoutCharacter: Tatsumi Souichi was intended to be a villain of another manga and nothing else. But in a character popularity poll by the mangaka, Souichi garnered a shockingly massive amount of votes in the fandom ''despite his personality being intentionally written to be everything the mangaka would have disliked in a person''. Needless to say, fans were happy that he was going to be the protagonist in a new manga

* WillTheyOrWontThey: [[spoiler: After eight volumes, it's confirmed that [[TheyDo they will]]. And the fangirls rejoiced.]]

A SpinOff of ''Manga/{{Challengers}}'', which had [[BetaCouple side characters]] Souichi Tatsumi, Tomoe's homophobic and tyrannical older brother, and Tetsuhiro Morinaga, his lab assistant and [[SempaiKohai kohai]] who harbors a longtime crush on him. Despite Souichi's homophobia, Morinaga managed to confess his love for him without Souichi promptly beating the living daylights out of him or getting as far away from him as possible. Souichi, however, did kiss Morinaga in exchange for them [[ThatDidntHappen forgetting that anything ever happened to compromise their friendship]].

* SempaiKohai

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Souichi has whacked Morinaga with a broken beer bottle for raping him, punched him ''really'' hard for his weeks-long disappearance from his life, dumped hot coffee on his head for him implying that they're more than friends, given him a boot to the head for accusing him of having a sexual relationship with another man...the list goes on. In Volume 10, he gives one to Morinaga's family jewels

* HotScientist: Both leads.

Since this isn't exactly typical BL fare, the morning after has Souichi attempt to murder Morinaga. When that fails, Morinaga decides to remove himself from Souichi's life before he causes any more trouble...something which Souichi oddly doesn't take well to. But Souichi's a self-professed homophobe, so just because he doesn't like Morinaga leaving his side doesn't mean that a romantic relationship could ever form between the two, no matter how much Morinaga pursues Souichi, no matter how [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday overly defensive]] Souichi becomes of his heterosexuality as if he's got [[TransparentCloset something to hide]], no matter how furiously he [[LuminescentBlush blushes]] even when telling Morinaga not to misinterpret his words...

* BreakoutCharacter: Tatsumi Souichi was intended to be a villain of another manga and nothing else. But in a character popularity poll by the mangakan, Souichi garnered a shockingly massive amount of votes in the fandom ''despite his personality being intentionally written to be everything the mangakan would have disliked in a person''. Needless to say, fans were happy that he was going to be the protagonist in a new manga

* HypocriticalHumor: The tyrant is a homophobe who lets a homosexual have sex with him. He's absolutely, positively not a homosexual or in love with one. ''Sure...'' Well, it was rape at first, then consensual. But he still protests.In the later chapters, the amount of protests gradually decrease.

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: In the Volume 5 extra. Only, Masaki really does end up [[spoiler:raping Kunihiro without interruption while telling him that he has absolutely no heart, that he cannot love, and how horrible of a person he was for hating his ex-best friend because of his sexuality. Oh, and that he's a filthy beast for orgasming when another man is touching him]]. Not entirely accuate, I am not sure the correct trope for this situation but as it is obvious that Masaki's choice of words are intended as a deliberate echo of the way Kunihiro had viciously screamed "You disgust me!" as his reaction to his discovery of Masaki and Tesuhiro's relationship, which is what led to Masaki's breakdown and suicide attempt..
* ImagineSpot: Dear lord, ''Morinaga''. Also, the Boukun Booklet Nurie is a colouring style book with a few pages dedicated to Morinaga's fantasies of Senpai... [[spoiler: there's even a wandering samurai, a highschool student, heck even a Chinese dress! And natsumatsuri senpai eating a chocolate banana]]

* SelectiveObliviousness: Souichi regarding his feelings for Morinaga. He even sort of admits this at one point, telling Morinaga that with their relationship upsetting his 5-year-long homophobia, the least he can do to try to straighten out his conflicted feelings is to protest when they're having sex.

'''Souichi:''' And who the hell has bad timing?! I've been coming here very single day! This is actually the ''second fucking time'' I've come today! There was no way you could come back here without me knowing it! Did you think you could just get away... get away with disappearing like that? Did you think that I... that I would just accept it?! That I wouldn't feel anything at all? Is that you thought?! Do you have any idea how worried I've been... (breaks down in tears)\\

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: After discovering the true nature of Morinaga and Souichi's relationship, Isogai blackmails Souichi into coming over to his hotel and...singing karaoke of the ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' theme tune with him. It was all just because he's bored, but it leads to a NotWhatItLooksLike moment when Morinaga begins to worry Souichi is cheating on him.

* BreakoutCharacter: Tatsumi Souichi was intended to be a villain of another manga and nothing else. But in a character popularity poll by the mangakan, Souichi garnered a shockingly massive amount of votes in the fandom ''despite Souichi's character being intentionally written to be everything the mangakan would have disliked in a person''. Needless to say, fans were happy that he was going to be the protagonist in a new manga

* HypocriticalHumor: The tyrant is a homophobe who lets a homosexual have sex with him. He's absolutely, positively not a homosexual or in love with one. ''Sure...'' Well, it was rape at first, then consensual. But he still protests.
In the later chapters, the amount of protests gradually decrease.

* MistakenForCheating: Applies to Morinaga and Souichi. Morinaga believes that he is having an affair with Isogai after he follows them to a hotel. What was actually happening was a week-long karaoke section Isogai forces Souichi into after catching them together. Later on, after an argument with Morinaga [[spoiler: that nearly tears them apart]], Souichi believes that he has left with Misaki while he was truly convincing Morinaga to go back to Souichi.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Desperate to keep Tomoe from getting married to Kurokawa, Souichi calls up his little brother and screams at him to not go to San Francisco. Tomoe, however, did ''not'' know about San Francisco legalizing gay marriage, and when he asks Kurokawa about it, Kurokawa gathers the courage to propose to him. While Souichi is still on the phone, no less!
And in Volume 8. Masaki was on their side this whole time when he overheard Souichi and Morinaga arguing. He tries to spur some jealousy in Souichi by claiming that Souichi is incapable of making Morinaga happy and that between the both of them, Masaki can definitely console Morinaga better. Souichi meets Morinaga the next day and brings up the conclusion that Morinaga must have been with Masaki the night before, Morinaga is disappointed that Souichi assumed that and yet he couldn't care less since from Morinaga's perspective, Souichi never came looking for Morinaga.

* ThatDidntHappen: Not quite a verbal agreement, but Souichi is extremely good at acting as if he and Morinaga have never crossed the line, to the point where Morinaga wonders if he only hallucinated having sex with him.
Also in Canada, Souichi gets frustrated that his body, being conditioned to such an extensive amount of stimuli by Morinaga, now cannot reach an orgasm. ''He tries to visualize how Morinaga does it to him and masturbates accordingly''. Then he denies having done any of those.

* SexualExtortion: Morinaga uses this on Souichi after he returns from his absence. Morinaga demands sex from Souichi and in return, he will not leave the university. Fearful of Morinaga leaving, Souichi agrees.

** In the later chapters, the amount of protests gradually decrease

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Morinaga has quite a few of these. Most notably in volume 1 [[spoiler: when he wakes up the morning after raping Souichi]] and again in volume 8 when Kunihiro gives him an impassioned speech about how difficult it is for the latter to be questioning his own sexuality after spending most of his life believing himself to be straight--making Morinaga realize he'd been pushing Souichi ''way'' too hard to come to grips with his own sexuality.