The Girl I Saved on the Train Turned Out to be My Childhood Friend (Light Novel) - Recommendations

• Vol: 2+
• 2021 - ?

• Vol: 1
• 2020

• Vol: 4; Ch: 39
• 2020 - 2021

You're loved by such an honest girl, doesn't that make you even the slightest bit happy!? That such a flirty Kouhai would follow you around all the time!? Futahara Touka, a childhood friend's younger sister, and a self proclaimed annoying little devil-type kouhai who enrolled in the same highschool. Apparently, she's also a "Self-proclaimed Senpai-worshipping beauty". And that beautiful little devil kouhai yet again came to pick me up early in the morning. "Senpai! Let's hold hands! Warm me up!" Only I, however, know that she's actually the naive, shy type that blushes just from holding hands, and gets extremely flustered inside while teasing me.. The show she puts on as the little-devil-character is just an act in order to get closer to me. And that she doesn't like me-- yet.

• Vol: 1+
• 2021 - ?

• Vol: 4
• 2020 - 2021

Shiroki Tsubasa and Amami Nanato were your run-off-the-mill pair of childhood friends. But after their parents decided to declare them fiancées, they both grew more conscious of the other, and right as a sweet and heartwarming romcom would have awaited them—Nanato was forced to move away with his mother! Five years later, however, the two of them are reunited during their first year of high school. Tsubasa aims to tell Nanato of the feelings she had kept all these years, but Nanato’s new gal friend and rival Chiba Reina won’t let her! Once the both of them realize they each hold feelings for Nanato, they decide on a bet: The one who makes Nanato confess to them wins! But what happens when both girls have practically zero experience to show and fail at every attempt of seducing Nanato?! And will the old-fashioned promise of being fiancées triumph over everything after all?!

• Vol: 1+
• 2022 - ?

My childhood friend is also my girlfriend. A dream come true, right? Hell no. She insults me on a daily basis. She grinds my dignity into shreds and it takes a toll on my mental well-being. I can’t take it anymore. So I’m left with no choice, I’m going to break up with her. In order to maintain my sanity, it’s the only option. And thus, the story of my break up begins…

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2021

• Vol: 1
• 2017

• Vol: 1+
• 2022 - ?

One day, You Hazakura, who feels that going to school is pointless, witnesses Marin Akimi, one of the two most beautiful girls in school, lose out on her love. The look on Marin’s face as she walks away makes him pause for a moment, but then he follows her to the rooftop to talk with her. From there, You makes a promise to her. After this, the two started hanging out with each other. They started to be together at school. After the people around them heard the words that Marin threw at him, they misunderstood that the two are dating― And for some reason, the winning heroine of this time, Kasumi Nemoto, turns against Marin. Kasumi Nemoto― is a childhood friend of You.

• Vol: 2+
• 2021 - ?

At the end of a summer when Hayato was a child, he made a promise to his precious (male) friend. 7 years later, Hayato transferred to a high school in the city and met his childhood friend again, who had become a... neat and pretty girl! Haruki, known as The Takamine Flower of her class, smiles innocently at Hayato with the face of a brat when they are alone, trades lunches in empty classrooms, plays games together at home… But she turns red when he makes fun of her and treats her like a girl. It’s cute. The country and the city, the boy and the girl, the grown-up mind and body. If there are things that have changed while they were apart, there are also feelings and promises that have yet to be changed.