Nounai Renai no Susume
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Title : 脳内恋愛のススメ (Nounai Renai no Susume). |
A dead end love comedy series. There're 2 chapters so far (much likely this series will have another chapter(s) in the future) and each can be considered as oneshot. The first chapter was published in Chara 8/'03 and the second one was published in Chara 2/'04. Below is the summary for each chapter and the scans (raw) can be found on the link above.
脳内恋愛のススメ 1 :
Igarashi Yuu, from outside he looks like a common person,
but inside he has two other personalities who have their own
life too though in public they still use Yuu' name. Yuu doesn't
really remember what the cause of his multiple personalities,
but what he remembers clearly is that his mother once said
that Yuu couldn't be loved by anyone, and since that Kaname
and Ryou appeared as the result of his wish to be loved. And
after that day, Yuu was raised by his mother's sister.
Yuu works part time in flower shop only 3 days a week, he
is the kind and cute one. Kaname is a lawyer, the calm and
matured one (but he's not when it come to his quarrel with
Ryou) and he takes almost all Yuu's time when he's not working
part time since he's the one who supports Yuu's cost of living.
And Ryou doesn't work, only paying around so his time is above
midnight when Yuu has asleep that's why usually Yuu doesn't
know what have Ryou done the night before. But Ryou is the
strongest one, so he's the one who can help Yuu when he's
in danger. Both Kaname and Ryou always say that the one who
love Yuu so much is him (themselves).
There's a man named Sugou Tetsuya who always bought the flowers
arranged by Yuu. One day, Sugou asked Yuu if he could go together
with him someday. Kaname and Ryou then said that they didn't
like him because Sugou clearly showed that he liked Yuu whom
they loved and wouldn't forgive Yuu if he met Sugou.
But when Yuu refused Sugou's invitation by lying that he must
helped his brother, Sugou changed his plan, he wanted to met
Yuu's older brothers.
The next Sunday, Kaname refused to change into Yuu and met
Sugou personally. Later, Kaname wondered and asked Yuu what
was Sugou's job since he couldn't read what was Sugou thingking.
But Yuu himself didn't know too since Sugou has never told
him.
The next Sunday again, Sugou came again and this time, it
was Ryou who came out. When Ryou asked why Sugou so persistent
about Yuu and was answered by Sugou that he wanted to have
a deeper relationship with Yuu, Ryou hit him.
Apparently, Sugou didn't back off, instead he asked Yuu to
be his lover and plan a date the next week which was received
by Yuu.
But, since the day after Sugou confessed to Yuu, Kaname and
Ryou didn't want to appear at all. At first, Yuu felt kinda
relieved because his date with Sugou wouldn't be disturbed.
But then, something crossed his mind that Kaname and Ryou
was born to love Yuu who hadn't been able to be loved, so
when he was finally able to be loved by other, there was a
possibility Kaname and Ryou would vanish.
When Yuu unintentionally said he felt lonely without Kaname
and Ryou' voices because they might have vanished, Sugou was
surprised and asked what was the cause. Yuu was more surprised
when Sugou said that he has known and became interested about
Yuu's condition because he was a psychiatrist in the hospital
where his aunt had been taken care. Yuu thought that Sugou
had lied about his feeling for Yuu and left Sugou alone. That's
when Yuu felt how he had never thought if Kaname and Ryou
who always said "I love you" to him weren't there
and how he had loved the two of them as well.
In his way home, a group of man threatened Yuu to give his
money. Yuu who was afraid called for Ryou and Kaname, and
suddenly Ryou and Kaname woke up and saved Yuu. Kaname then
said that Yuu's thought about them till the last time which
made them hadn't vanished.
After that, Yuu's life back to normal but there was only a
problem. Sugou who knew that Kaname and Ryou have come back,
came to Yuu's mansion everyday, and used Yuu's problem as
an excuse to be his lover which made Ryou irritated....
脳内恋愛のススメ 2 :
This time, it's about Kaname. He had lost in a session, about
a man who died after doing S&M play, against Amemiya-kenji
(attorney), which made him dislike Amemiya and has been in
a bad mood for some days.The situation became worse when Amemiya
found out Yuu (whom he thought Kaname) was kissing with Sugou
(who was his classmate back in the senior high school). He
took this opportunity to ask (or force?) Kaname to go on a
date with him if he doesn't want his secret revealed in public
and thus his career as a lawyer will be ended.
Kaname didn't have any other option than accepted it, even when Sugou told him that back then, there had been a rumour that Amemiya was a sadist. But at least Sugou and Ryou promised him they'll help him if he's in danger. So, Kaname went on a date with Amemiya. At first, they only went to an art exhibition (which Kaname thought they were going to a torturing museum) and then have a lunch, but then Amemiya made Kaname passed out using drug in the wine and take him somewhere.
When Kaname came, he found out that he was being chained
and his clothes was opened up. Kaname asked Amemiya if he's
really a saidst. Amemiya answered that actually he's not,
but their first meeting had been in S&M case and since
then he had always thought of Kaname in that way. Being chained
made Ryou can do nothing as Amemiya started to touch Kaname.
What made Yuu surprised was that the fact he wasn't the one
who felt Amemiya's touch, but Kaname. When Amemiya almost
took Kaname, Sugou came to rescue, saying that the Igarashi
Yuu Amemiya knew wasn't the same with Igarashi Yuu whom Sugou
knew and loved.
Ryou, who was finally free and disgusted with Amemiya, punched
him....and an unexpected thing happened, Amemiya asked to
be hit harder because he felt excited when he was hit.
Apparently, Amemiya wasn't a sadist but a masochist and it
shocked Sugou and Ryou so much, but Amemiya himself had never
known about it till then. So, the blackmail ended up evenly.
In the end, when Sugou asked Kaname what happened about his
relationship with Amemiya after that, Kaname went all red
and asked Sugou to never brought that topic again.Sugou wondered
if Kaname's reaction was because he remembered what happened
that time or because of any other reason. And Amemiya, he
came to Yuu's mansion everyday which always ended up with
Ryou hit him (of course Amemiya received the punch happily)
because Amemiya ignored his command to not come again....
That ends the second chapter of the series.
Looks like,the next story will be about Ryou. But if each of them finally has a person whom they love and vice versa,what about the fact that Yuu,Kaname,and Ryou are 3 personalities in one body? Especially Yuu, when he truly loves someone, Kaname and Ryou will disappeared and that's why he thinks of Sugou only as his temporary lover.
Hiiro' art in the second chapter is much more better than
the first one though there are some little errors (like Amemiya's
sweater color which has been white suddenly turned black near
the end and in the first chapter, Yuu had a tatto in his left
arm but in the second chapter, it vanished, or maybe it was
a temporary one?).
Hopefully, the next chapter won't take long to be released
since this parrot lover-mangaka has started a new series in
Chara Selection from the May edition (5/'04).
Reviewed by Kuya
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