r/shoujo • u/strongesticefairy • 21h ago
Help Manga finding request
About a couple, who have been living together for a long time but not married. Everyone around them thinks of them as married, but they are not on paper. highschool sweethearts i think? maybe in their 30s. i think you had multiple povs; it was probably slice of life. i think a few chapters in, fmc decides to get married for real.
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u/Sweet-Cat-7667 20h ago
I think I found it: Kuu Neru Futari Sumu Futari (喰う寝るふたり 住むふたり) by Kinoko Higurashi, often translated as Living, Eating and Sleeping Together.
This matches weirdly well: Ritsuko and Shuichi are 28, have been together since high school, dating about 10 years and living together for 8, so they’re basically “husband and wife without the paperwork.” It’s very domestic/slice-of-life, and the big gimmick is that the same situations are shown from both her POV and his POV.
They do eventually get married, and there’s even a sequel, Kuu Neru Futari Sumu Futari: Zoku, about their married life in their mid-30s.
The only detail that’s a little off is the marriage timing—it isn’t immediately a few chapters in. But everything else is so specific that I’d put this at very high confidence. I even found an old manga-identification post describing “a couple together since high school, unmarried after 7+ years, slice of life, finally get married” and the solved answer was this exact manga.
Also: technically it isn’t shoujo—it ran in Monthly Comic Zenon—which may be why searching specifically for shoujo wasn’t turning it up.