It was serialized in Square Enix's seinen manga magazine Big Gangan from September 2012 to March 2017, and has been collected in eight tankōbon volumes.

High school student Hanabi Yasuraoka has been in love with Narumi Kanai, her older childhood friend who is now her homeroom teacher.

Hanabi and Mugi make a pact and begin a fake relationship to satisfy each other's loneliness from their respective unrequited loves, both sexually and emotionally.

Scum's Wish, written and illustrated by Mengo Yokoyari began in Square Enix's Big Gangan magazine on September 25, 2012,[7] and finished on March 25, 2017.

[36] The opening song is titled "Uso no Hibana" (嘘の火花, "Spark of A Lie") and is sung by 96neko (who later voiced Anne Faulkner in Paradox Live).