I wish there weren't any societies on this planet that would condone this sort of thing. Hakuron had a tragic past,and grew up not knowing how to love 2. Hakuron even questions his master about why he did not teach him how to love so,he thought that by having her body,he could keep her with him 3.
At one point in time,he felt an emptiness in his heart because he knew he could never get her heart 4. He'd go to the extent of letting his close friend have her instead of him to protect her, cuz the bad guys will think he was just using her so they won't target her.
These are all excuses ok? Someone explain to me how this series categorizes as romantic? Even for smut, the manga went too far. I am a little bit shocked myself despite the fact I probably knew from the start what I 'm about to see.
But indeed this is really harsh and what worries me the most is people how believe that abusing someone sexually until you drive this person to insanity is sexy and a token of love, because the male doesn't know another way to "show his love" and wants to keep the woman he loves, beside him.
If there are people here who believe stuff like that, they probably have a problem separating love from possession. View all 9 comments. My first words to this is: Don't read this unless you're prepared not only for mature content, but brutal and painful experiences for both female and male protagonists. This is the first manga I've read about mafia where for once there isn't a flowery cover or some pretence of morality.
This is bloody, gory, heartless. It is everything a mafia story is supposed to be about, and half the time I felt really uncomfortable reading it. But it's realistic, and of all of Shinjo Mayu's work I think it's My first words to this is: Don't read this unless you're prepared not only for mature content, but brutal and painful experiences for both female and male protagonists.
But it's realistic, and of all of Shinjo Mayu's work I think it's the most tragic. Kaikan Phrase, Vol. If you want something sweet and sexy, read Love Celeb. If you want something a little more hardcore, a little sexier, a little more dramatic, read Kaikan Phrase. But if you want something painful, almost bloody awful in the experiences that the characters go through, and by awful I mean dramatic and cruel then read this.
Plot I thought I should discuss this section first since it's the most important thing. Haou Airen is another perfect manga by Mayu Shinjo. Yes it is painful and uncomfortable a lot of the time. It's also ruthless and uncensored. Hakuron is the leading Mafia boss in Hong Kong, Kurumi is an innocent girl who just happened to save Hakuron's life when she bumps into him. They fall in love with each other, and to begin, they are going along great with each other.
Hakuron is the perfect guy to Kurumi, gently, kind, just like she expected, but he's protecting her. She knows nothing about his life and how he is a mafia.
And because of that when Hakuron's fiance comes into play, things change quickly, people get hurt, killed and murdered and everyone else knows what's happening, including Hakuron.
Only Kurumi is still naive, and thus the conflict starts. How do these two deal, it's only a matter of time before Hakuron breaks her, even if he loves her, and that's what he doesn't want.
The Characters Kurumi is a really sweet, endearing yet naive girl. She's easily tricked, easily fooled. She's too kind-hearted which is why she's tricked in the beginning and therefore creates the conflicts that lasts a few volumes. I guess her good points are that she is kind-hearted, naive, completely pure as well as honest to her feelings and herself. Her negative points in my opinion are well, she is a little weak to be in that position, to be in love with Hakuron.
Yet, at the same time, a good compliment. I really hate that she believed Hakuron's fiance over Hakuron.
It was so naive. But then again, without it, I guess there'd be no plot would there? Hakuron is the smexiest most dangerous male protag I've encountered yet in Mayu Shinjo's mangas. I liked Gin from Love Celeb because he was the kind of character that was conscious of his smexiness and who was also boyishly childish and a little wolfish.
Sakuya in Kaikan Phrase was hot in the musician kind of way. He puts Aine above everything else which makes him smexy. But Hakuron, Hakuron is dangerous. He's the leader of an extremely powerful mafia group and he's known to be colder than ice.
Yet he's in love with Kurumi. To only Kurumi, he's kind and gently, and he doesn't want to spoil her, until events take place and really, I don't want to go into details. But both characters are well formed, delectably defined and unique. They have power, fear, sadness, happiness, wants, needs, desires. Shinjo's characters always feel realistic to me. I never feel that I'm reading about some airhead who can't decide between her old love and her new love, and I never feel like I'm being pressured to accept their reasoning.
I understand and feel attached. That's why I love Shinjo's characters. They don't feel fake, except how sometimes they are a bit stupid. But in the grand scheme of things, as a whole, those little moments make up the big moments. Setting In Hong Kong, China this time, rather than a Japanese location, something which I thought was interesting even though they are still speaking Japanese, lol Writing And Artwork I think Shinjo's works have always been flawless. Like Rape or something.
It's written perfectly for a manga of this type and genre. As for Artwork. Since this is a book site, I don't really think artwork matters much, shouldn't this be about reading? And the experience of reading? Well if you want to know Shinjo's artwork has always been the easy to handle type, goodlooking and pretty. Though the guys always look like the ideal guy, tall broad shouldered with smexy long hair that almost dangles in his eyes. The females always look small, slender and cute.
Generally their chests are a reasonable size too. But meh, for me if the story is good, I can deal with the artwork. If the artwork is irritating then the story has to be really good from the get go. But Haou Airen is just fantastic as always the artwork I mean.
Overall I give this four stars. Just like the other Shinjo mangas, because it is good, but it's also dramatic if you can handle that kind of plotline, I'm sure if I hadn't been in the right mood when I read this, I might have hated this a lot. I love her romances, and this one, I like as well.
The end I can't tell you, it will ruin it, but you have to be prepared. It loses stars for rape. I don't condone it, and it did make me really uncomfortable. I won't be reading this again! Don't read this lightly, it's not a happy manga, even if there are happy moments. This is the mafia we're talking about. Shinjo is so far the only mangaka that I've read that could be so brutally honest about such an aspect of life.
This is no simple romance. I think you can almost think about it as a story about two people finding the strength to be stronger. Also rather than this focussing on the female protag, I'd rather like to think of this as Hakuron's story rather than Kurumi's. View all 6 comments. Jul 10, Rhapsody rated it really liked it Shelves: manga , manga-shoujo.
I'm pretty critical of Mayu's silly plotlines, but I can't deny that this one really, really entertained me a few years ago. It got licensed at one point, but then never came out. I think either the people thought that the market was saturated, or else that the market wasn't ready for a story quite this extreme. Kurumi, a very innocent Japanese high school girl who works nights to help support her younger brothers and ill mother, runs into a man who's been shot while on her way home from work.
Sh I'm pretty critical of Mayu's silly plotlines, but I can't deny that this one really, really entertained me a few years ago. She brings him home to tend his wounds and they flirt a bit before he leaves. Next day, she's basically kidnapped and it turns out the guy's a Mafia boss in Hong Kong and he's decided to repay her for her kindness by keeping her as his mistress.
Actually, his intentions aren't entirely clear. Typical of Mayu's stories, despite her attraction to him, he has so many emotional issues that he doesn't want to taint her with a relationship, but then later when her feelings wane, he becomes insanely possessive and forceful. Mayu's male leads are kind of a standing joke in the manga-reading community because of this behavior.
My biggest issue with this series was that Hakuron the lead was actually still in high school. Considering all the messed up stuff that goes on in this story plenty of rape, for starters , I don't think it would've shocked anyone if he'd been in his 20's.
Was Mayu seriously trying to make their screwed up relationship more palatable or something? A series worth reading for anyone who enjoys romance, is OK with graphic novels, and can suspend their disbelief a fair amount. But you'll have to go online for the English scans since it isn't on the shelves.
Before we begin, I will say that this is probably one of the grossest manga I've ever read because it features one of the most toxic and abusive relationships I've ever had the misfortune of seeing be portrayed as romantic. If you're considering this manga, please don't, it's bad. It glorifies rape, sexual assault, murder, organized crime, sex trafficking, kidnapping, exploitation, and just about every other nasty thing you can think of. Like with all my manga reviews, this is an overview of the Before we begin, I will say that this is probably one of the grossest manga I've ever read because it features one of the most toxic and abusive relationships I've ever had the misfortune of seeing be portrayed as romantic.
The title is, weirdly, not translated, but kept instead as the Japanese reading of the characters. I say this because the series is mostly set in Hong Kong, where Cantonese is widely spoken, and there's an overlap between Chinese and Japanese as a result of Japanese using Chinese hanzi in its writing system.
In either language, these four characters together aren't grammatically correct because they're missing a possessive particle, but that's neither here nor there. The story follows a young Japanese girl named Kurumi who finds herself in a wildly toxic, dangerous, abusive relationship with a young man named Hakuron who is the feared and powerful leader of a branch of the Hong Kong mafia.
Kurumi is 16 and Hakuron is Like with Love Celeb, Hakuron's age makes zero sense. It appears to just be tossed in so the author could add in some scenes at a high school why a mafia boss would want to or need to attend a high school when he clearly has the resources to get an education privately is beyond me , and I guess so we don't have an unhealthy age gap slapped on top of all the other gross shit.
Which, to be frank, if Hakuron had just been too old it would have been a far more mild issue compared to what we get in this horrific story, so if the author had stated his age as 18 despite him acting like a man easily 10 or 20 years older to avoid the criticism of "the lead was creepy because he was too old" she seriously has some warped priorities.
Especially since the inherit power balance Hakuron has over Kurumi in terms of money, social influence, connections, and life experience basically are a big part of why large age gaps are terrible. From the very start of this manga, things are bad. During their first meeting, Hakuto bumps into Kurumi on the street while fleeing some mafia people, drags her down on alley, tells her to be quiet Kurumi, of course, can't know that he's being chased and probably thinks she's about to be robbed or raped, so she makes noise , kisses her to shut her up, rips open her blouse, and then threatens her with rape.
Ladies and gentlemen, our male lead. But, of course, the author hates her heroine and gave her no brain cells, so when Hakuron collapses from a wound and Kurumi has a chance to escape she feels sorry for him and takes him back to her house to treat his wound.
Hakuron then continues to be gross, telling her that as thanks he'll teach her how to kiss, proceeds to aggressively kiss her and in the process forces her to swallow a drug that makes her pass out, all so that he can leave her home in dramatic fashion.
To be honest, there are seldom few moments when Hakuron is nice to Kurumi, and when he is, it's really nothing that would at all balance out just how terrible he is on a daily basis for no good reason.
It should be self evident why he's terrible and why this manga is really gross. Which then brings us to Kurumi, who was done so dirty by the author. This isn't me attacking Kurumi and victim blaming, but rather attacking Mayu Shinjo for making women out to be this stupid and lacking in any sense of self-preseveration because Kurumi is a terribly written character that is horribly unrealistic and kind of offense to women as a whole because no woman would be fooled by this guy; he's not capable enough of being nice to cause a woman to have battered woman syndrome.
He's abusive and terrible from their very first meeting. Throughout the entire series, Kurumi is constantly going over the same pointless inner turmoil about the ethics of her relationship and every single time she very stupidly ignores the fact that Hakuron is a horrible person that she should in no way care for because he not only mistreats her, he's a crime boss who commits crimes against EVERYONE, but the author presumes that pure-hearted girls think with their pussies and that they are incapable of not empathizing with and forgiving even rapists and killers, so Kurumi generally is on board with being with a man who is described as using force to get what he wants and who she herself witnesses doing terrible things on multiple occasions.
Like, it's one thing if he's a criminal that does things you could arguably forgive or justify, but there's not really much about Hakuron that could be forgiven or justified, so Kurumi's turmoil over him comes across as her being brain dead and her concerns are often more about "does he love me?
I let vanity get the better of me! Like, in the very first chapter you knew he was terrible???? This isn't a surprise in the least because you admitted to knowing this already??? Guess she forgot she turned off her brain and let her pussy call the shots until the plot decided it needed cheap conflict.
The bulk of the manga is her whining about whether Hakuron loves her, getting very seriously hurt by him emotionally and physically, her going "despite everything, I still love him", her going back to him after a paltry attempt at leaving him, and then that whole cycle of events repeating itself again and again.
Kurumi even like, loses her memories at one point, which is the only way the author could have fathomed as a way to create enough sweet moments of bliss between her and Hakuron to make Kurumi not react as poorly to being raped and abused and all that when her memories returned.
Because, yeah, sure, some good memories after all your trauma surfaces definitely makes the trauma less traumatic. That makes total sense. God, why is this author so aggressively in favor in abuse and ignorant of the horribly damaging effects of trauma? Like, this poor girl has been battered to fucking death and was written too weak and stupid to have any semblance of self preservation because women in love are incapable of thinking straight I guess and somehow we're supposed to want her and Hakuron to be together after all this terrible stuff????
Also, the way Kurumi's rapes are depicted ultimately as these hot, salacious things that only serve to make her more attached and in love with Hakuron i. Like, she runs away, then immediately goes back to Hakuron to engage in more rapes and dubious consent sex because the author thinks that being raped by a skilled person means it just lights a fire in your loins and now you're addicted to being fucked by them and have to go to them or you'll lose your mind and be incapable of functioning. Like, the author treats it as if now that she's been "dirtied" in a violent gang rape that she's just, unaffected by men and sex and is now suddenly a highly skilled lover who knows exactly how to wield sex as a weapon when previously she was an inexperienced virginal sort of girl.
It's really unrealistic and also like way to like do her dirty as both a victim and as a villain. She's basically shown to be this horrible person willing to go to extremes purely to get back at a man who didn't return her feelings one of the most cliched reasons a woman becomes a villain and it's like, most of what's happened wasn't necessary and the way she's handled is supposed to like make you feel that Hakuron wasn't that bad of a man by comparison to the lengths she's willing to go to hurt him, but like, everyone in this series is fucking TERRIBLE and I hate them all.
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One day while walking home from her job, Kurumi Akino finds a wounded young man, and saves his life. It turns out she saved the life of the most infamous mobster in Hong Kong, and he w One day while walking home from her job, Kurumi Akino finds a wounded young man, and saves his life. It turns out she saved the life of the most infamous mobster in Hong Kong, and he wants her to stay with him.
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Nov 06, Aracne Mileto rated it it was ok. Jan 30, Sara Aouichi rated it it was amazing. Kurumi versorgt seine Wunde, und ehe sie sich versieht, hat sie sich auch schon ein wenig in den starken Fremden verliebt Doch so schnell er aufgetaucht ist, so schnell verschwindet er auch wieder. Man verschleppt sie nach Hongkong! Wer ist dieser Hakuron? Und was will er von ihr?
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