No mangaka, however great they may be, can churn out hits forever. Sometimes they're going to miss, or in the case make something that is decidedly mediocre.
AWKWARD SILENCE (Bukiyou na Silent), by Hinako Takanaga. First published in 2006 and first published in North America in 2012.
PLOT:
Satoru is not just you usual introverted teen. He's so shy and stone-faced that he's all but incapable of physically demonstrating his emotions. That makes it terribly hard for him to communicate just how badly he's crushing on the class baseball star Keigo. Amazingly, Keigo is able to see through Satoru's extreme shyness and confesses his own affections for Satoru. Everything seems to be hunky-dory for them...if not for the bouts of jealousy they feel when a bubbly new girl and one of Satoru's old friends join their class.
