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Empty Heart ~Itsuwari no Koi Dakara~ (Manga)

I actually just realized this after I finished Empty Heart. The approach to each story is different, but the way they unfold and carry on are quite similar. Both seme's in the story are named 'Usami' (though that isn't the half of it). Takumi (the story's uke) is in love with his teacher, Jun Usami. Takumi has an older brother named Ryuuta., who Usami is in love with (mirrored to Usami being in love with Misaki's brother Takahiro in Junjo). (I'll refer to Junjo's 'Usami' as Usagi now to avoid confusion.) The approach to both are different. Takumi looks exactly like his brother and seduces Usami into sleeping with him, while Misaki only starts going out with Usagi after an incident with Takahiro (which I'll explain). Both Usami and Usagi fall in love with Takumi and Misaki after events subside. The other similarity is that Ryuuta has no idea that Usami was in love with him and gets married later on, as does Takahiro without knowing how Usagi felt. Both older brothers are protective of their younger brother.

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Both series contain a character who starts out in love with someone, but ultimately ends up falling for that someone's younger brother. They also both take place in high school, where the main pairing is a student and a teacher. Kusatta Kyoushi no Houteishiki is longer, and more oriented towards the emotional aspect of the relationship--there is little physical intimacy between the main pairing until the last two of ten volumes; Empty Heart, on the other hand, has the main pairing jumping straight into the "physical" and only sorting out the "emotional" at the end of the story.

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