Honey and Clover (2008)

Romance as an ensemble piece. Takemoto, an art college student, shares a house with two older classmates, and Chica Umino follows a whole circle of friends through unrequited love, career doubt and the end of their student years. Nobody here gets the tidy pairing a genre reader might expect, and that is the point: few manga are this honest about loving someone who does not love you back. Choose it for bittersweet longing rather than heat. Ten volumes, complete in English from Viz.