Manga of ze Week - Deep Love
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Image by Kouji
Image not from the series. I couldn't get an image from the manga, so this will have to do.
There's a bunch of series this week, because they're all Deep Love. Prequel, main story, sequel, side story, that kind of thing.
Also, do not read the series if:
- You are clinically depressed
- Seriously contemplating suicide
- On your way to the performance of your life
- Have a condition where you will die if you become depressed
- Under 16
Title: Deep Love - アユの物語 (Ayu's Story), - ホスト (Host), - レイナの運命 (Reina's Destiny), - REAL, - パオの物語 (Pao's Tale)
Author: YOSHI, Yoshii Yuu, Kurosawa Akiyo (art, Pao's Tale), TETSU (art, REAL)
Genre: Shoujou, Seinen, Drama, Romance, Tragedy
Serialized in: Kodansha Betsufure, Move!, Young Magazine
Total Volume Count:
- Ayu's Story: 2
- Host: 2
- Reina's Destiny: 1
- Real: 19 (ongoing)
- Pao's Tale: 2
From Kotonoha: (Ayu's Story)
Ayu, a 17-year-old high school student, believes neither in a future nor the happiness it could bring her. By selling herself, she tries to justify her existence, which is as bleak as her heart - it’s devoid of joy, sorrow, love. Not until her encounter with a kind-hearted old lady does Ayu begin to realize the true meaning of happiness…
From In The Water: (Host)
The continuation from Deep Love-Ayu no Monogatari. This revolves around Yoshiyuki, the lad who was in need of heart surgery in Ayu's Story. After Ayu's death, it seems that Yoshiyuki wants to learn anything, everything. And thus he tries out for a job as a host and says that he's willing to sell his body...
From In The Water: (Reina's Destiny)
The continuation from Deep Love - Ayu no Monogatari. This story is about Reina, a cheerful 19-year-old single mother. During Ayu's Story, Reina was raped in a Karaoke bar and eventually gave birth to a baby girl she named Ayu. Now, Reina has fallen in love, but when she told him she had a child, he dumps her! And what's worse is that her daughter, Ayu, accidentally falls down the stairs and during the surgery she becomes blind! What will happen to this once very cheerful mother?
From StarryHeavens: (REAL)
The man whose eyes are re-awakening, Yoshiyuki. At the age of 18 years old he lives a life of hopelessness, and thus visits the host club “Platinum” in Shibuya. They all thought it: “Yoshiyuki wouldn’t be suited to a become a host.” At that time, only the number one host Taku looked into his eyes and saw that they were different from those of ordinary men…
From RebelliousArt: (Pao's Tale)Kenn's Comment: Remind me to never do another manga feature as big as this. So much trouble. Oh well, it's almost done now. Ayu's story is the prequel. Host and Reina's Destiny are two direct sequels, while I'm not too sure about REAL. Pao's Tale is a spin off, but I think he might have met one of the characters in the other series. This is heavy stuff. Akin to one of the first series I put up for MoTW, Bitter Virgin. It has stuff children shouldn't see, so it's best if you don't read it if you're under 16. They're really sad. ;o;
Being abandoned by his owners, having his mother die of starvation, a puppy who suffered lifelong separation from his siblings wandered around the city. Meeting and parting with kind people, experiencing brutal treatment from unjust people. Pao, who learned to live within the harshness of reality, awaits even more ordeals...
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