I'm hoping to find a romance manga where the protagonists don't use honourfics with each other when everyone else around them does. I like the intimacy it seems to give the characters (or the hostility I suppose depending on why they aren't using the honourfics) Or perhaps even a manga where they start off formal and as the relationship builds the honourfics are dropped. (oh and please none of the apprehensive, blush all the time heroines, I like shoujo, in fact most of what I read is shoujo but those girls get annoying, case in point Arakure - I just picked it up and I'm not sure if I'll finish it cause Sachie kinda bugs me. I started it because I had really liked Grand Sun and was hoping for similar themes)

I was going to give examples but the only thing I can really think of right now is Cardcaptor Sakura, when Syaoran starts calling her Sakura and she starts calling him Syaoran-kun. And also Touya calling Yukito Yuki just warms my heart a lot for some reason.

However, given my example I would request something a bit more mature than CCS, much as I love it 🙂

Thanks so much.

Well, there's Miriam, but I'm not sure if that counts since the setting is a cowboy-Wild-West kind of place so the names are all English and there are no Japanese suffixes at all. It's still a really good romance, though, and the two protagonists have great trust and intimacy with one another. 🙂

Also, Venus Capriccio and another one by the same author, Sweet Black, which both involve childhood friends and therefore have an element of closeness and no honorifics.

Thanks, actually I had meant to read Venus Capriccio and never got around to it 😀

Ghost Hunt - characters get familiar with each other and give each other nicknames, but only has romantic hints, nothing much more.

Dear or Watashi no Ookami-san - characters also get familiar with each other. Chiruha gives everyone cute nicknames XD

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I think MAX Lovely!