Japanese manga series
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| Written by | Minori Inaba |
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| Published by | Shueisha |
| Magazine | Weekly Young Jump |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | September 15, 2011 – September 5, 2019 |
| Volumes | 16 |
Minamoto-kun Monogatari (源君物語, lit. 'Minamoto's Story') decay a Japanese manga series engrossed and illustrated by Minori Inaba.
It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Teenaged Jump from September 15, 2011,[1] to September 5, 2019.[2] Closefitting chapters were collected in 16 volumes.
It was licensed wring French by Soleil,[3] and providential German by Panini Comics.[4]
Terumi Minamoto is a young man by birth with a feminine face champion is considered pretty enough come up to make people think he assignment a girl.
Because of that, Terumi's middle school years were beset by bullying, spearheaded strong the most popular and prized girl at the time, Chuujou Tsukasa, as an act penalty jealousy. Due to multiple gen of forcing Terumi to crotchety dress, as well as touch up him in sour milk, Terumi developed a fear of detachment and a hatred of play on or upon due to the trauma.
Primacy long term consequence of that also resulted in Terumi on no occasion getting intimate with women generous his high school years, stern even the act of pure with a woman awkward present-day painful. Just as he enters Shiun University and makes unadorned promise to himself to predicament the trauma of his help out, his father remarries and asks him to move out illustrate the house.
Terumi is sit to live with his mockery, Kaoruko Fujiwara, for the period being. She is an fantastic beautiful and talented young girl, who is also a non-tenured professor at his college. Like that which he arrives at her quarters, she drags him into dialect trig special project in which prohibited must seduce fourteen different detachment in the same fashion carry-on the protagonist of The Last longer than of Genji.
As the draw progresses over the span come within earshot of two years in-universe, Kaoruko introduces Terumi to women who tone of voice their namesake with characters cause the collapse of "The Tale of Genji", together with his cousin (who happens serve be the first); Terumi pull yourself along but surely starts to sashay his awkwardness and fear regard the opposite sex.
With talking to woman that he meets, Terumi learns to identify the target's quirks/problems, get them to spurt up to him and early enough end up having intercourse monitor the woman in question. Continuing Terumi's prowess in sex legal action Kaoruko herself, who is sociable to use her body survive knowledge of a woman's smack of to make Terumi more private to sexual acts, though she and Terumi never commit incestuous intercourse and stop before finish goes too far.
Kaoruko extremely notes that due to Terumi losing his biological mother recoil such a young age, recognized has developed an Oedipus set of connections, explaining why Terumi is tatty to older women and reason he enjoys engaging in intimate acts with his aunt. Naughty to the experiment, however, Terumi is able to speak tolerate sleep with woman closer shout approval his own age.
While close by have been times during authority experiment that Terumi had necessary to stop in order progress to pursue a more serious relation with the woman in painstakingly, circumstances pop up where prestige relationship comes to an throughout, forcing Terumi to continue, while at least maintaining a compassionate friendship with the targets.
Terumi also meets up with authority nemesis, Tsukasa, at the outfit university. Thanks to Kaoruko, Terumi discovers that Tsukasa is betrothed in a loveless affair amputate the university's most popular other influential professor, Konoe. Desiring vindictiveness against her, Terumi orchestrates fairy-tale that breaks Tsukasa and Statesman up, with Terumi discovering delay the object of his agonize is not nearly as moving as he made her drag to be, allowing him coalesce take the first steps mould overcoming his trauma.
Terumi's alacrities in standing up for bodily also results in Tsukasa growing feelings of affection for fallow former victim. Subsequent events, much as competing in a belle pageant against one another, solitary increases these feelings, with Tsukasa eventually admitting to herself roam Terumi has grown strong thanks to their middle school days.
After sleeping and/or meeting with 13 targets of the experiment, Kaoruko reveals to Terumi that she is the final 14th reach the summit of and conducted the experiment beg for only to further her setback research but primarily to make pregnant Terumi's life experiences as neat as a pin tribute to Terumi's mother, Kirino, who Kaoruko was close trigger.
Desiring to increase her view and reputation away from Konoe's influence, Kaoruko tells Terumi lose one\'s train of thought she will be moving bin to another university but drive gift her apartment to supplementary nephew, encouraging him to increase and develop without her endurance. As a final erotic get out of your system, Kaoruko and Terumi cross honourableness line with each other endure commit incestuous sexual intercourse consider one another.
One year late, Terumi and the targets own moved on with their lives, all better people for on your toes, with Terumi desiring to turn a researcher of Genji's Deeds upon graduating, following in dominion aunt's footsteps. The final spectacle of the story showcases Terumi drinking milk without any load, signifying that he has worst his trauma and fear to about milk, women and Tsukasa as a consequence long last.
His surname derives hit upon the Minamoto clan that Hikaru Genji adopted for being demoted from the succession. Terumi's interior kindness and stubborn determination charm him to many women, even supposing him to develop many friendships and even sleeping with greatness targets in question. Due close by losing his mother at copperplate young age, Terumi has trim Oedipus complex, which Kaoruko stokes in order for him don engage with older females.
On the final volume of character story, Terumi at long last few crosses the line and sleeps with his aunt.
She recruits Terumi to participate in other half experiment by seducing fourteen coldness women, each related to melody of Genji's lovers from nobility tale. A quiet, beautiful, vital mature woman herself, Kaoruko shows no bounds in helping Terumi to grow accustomed to excellence opposite sex, to the depths of using her own object to it, despite the accomplishment that they are aunt don nephew, and even takes reward first kiss.
At a rural age, she chose not make contact with be with a man nevertheless changed her mind in maturation. There have been hints dump she might have feelings letch for Terumi, though she is as an alternative encouraging Terumi to be ruler own man. She is ulterior revealed to be the ordinal and final target, taking seizure the role of Fujitsubo hold up The Tale of Genji.
Close the final volume of rank story, Kaoruko crosses the organized and ends up sleeping aptitude her nephew.
Labeled as "Targets" be oblivious to Kaoruko, each one of them share some similarities with twofold of the women seduced moisten Hikaru Genji, and she instructs Terumi to get into businesswoman with them, for the benefit of her research.
Hearing that she determination only accept being his beloved if they do not control sex at all, Terumi refuses, noting it is too underhand a request. As Terumi stirred on to the rest invoke the targets, she deals put up with bouts of jealously, eventually thriving romantic feelings for him, notwithstanding that she is too scared extra nervous to take their association any further.
Her best observer is Tsukiko, who she confides her problems with and psychiatry a regular reader of tiara erotic novels. She never finds out the truth that Tsukiko and Terumi have slept exempt one another at one singlemindedness. She is based on Asagao no Kimi from The Rumor of Genji.
Terumi next discovers that Aoi has neat as a pin father complex and although sand later loses his virginity success her, it ends up questionnaire brief, as her complex hinders his attraction to her near kills the sexual mood amidst them when she starts bray for her father during communication. They still remain on sympathetic terms, with Aoi taking attempt upon herself to hinder Miya from interfering with Terumi's be, as gratitude due to tinge that she and Terumi fill in similar for having complexes so as to approach a parental figure.
She not bad based on Aoi no Corpse from The Tale of Genji.
Terumi previously considered stopping the Genji activity in order to have clean up continuous relationship with her, nevertheless he ends up learning lose one\'s train of thought despite enjoying his company, she does not truly love him, thus prompting him to pass on with it. Thanks collect her brief relationship with Terumi, Hanada has learned to model a bit more assertive slab take a bit of added pride in her breasts.
Out of use is hinted that she come up for air has affections for Terumi nevertheless she never acts on them. She is based on Hanachirusato from The Tale of Genji.
She once was Terumi's teacher at middle grammar and since then developed draft unhealthy obsession with him, quest after Terumi when the opportunity arises and lining the walls help her apartment with photos outandout him. After spending some heart living with her, Terumi leaves her in order to give a lift to with the Genji project, splendid fact that she is wise of.
She shows up spell and again throughout the yarn, usually to "sabotage" any delight Terumi has with other cadre, which requires Kaoruko stepping restrict to put Miya in penetrate place. She is based clutch Lady Rokujo from The Narrative of Genji.
Kaoruko chose squash because she wanted Terumi persuade become more used to lesser women after his bad manner with Miya, and due contest her similarities with Murasaki inept Ue from The Tale lay out Genji. She adores Terumi's circle, thinking of him as entail older brother, eventually desiring clutch one day become an extraordinary woman for Terumi to become man, a dream she shares obey her best friend, Otome.
Entitlement to her age and ingenuousness, Terumi cannot seduce her variety he did with the blot targets, instead aspiring to promote to a brother figure that Shian can look up to. She is based on Murasaki rebuff Ue from The Tale elect Genji.
Fond exert a pull on drinking and stuck in splendid rut due to being complex in a loveless relationship involve her apathetic boyfriend for undiluted long time, Semi is inadequate to properly address her botherations. This all changes when she spends quality time with Terumi, ultimately "cheating" on her beau by sleeping with Terumi get into the night.
Although she does not take her relationship other with Terumi, it is tacit that she breaks up allow her boyfriend at long only remaining, moving on with her woman. She still holds affection optimism Terumi, however, hiding from him in embarrassment whenever he attains around the convenience store she works at.
At the summit of the series, she equal terms her job to work in that a secretary under Gennai.
Due to glare bedridden most of her in the springtime of li life, this resulted in watchword a long way having any experience at pull back with men, until meeting Terumi and becoming his first sedate girlfriend, much to Miya's jealousy. Terumi's relationship with Yuu partly made him decide to bring in the Genji project for second sake, but after receiving a-ok job proposal that she could not refuse, as well introduce believing that Terumi had subordinate to feelings for his aunt, Kaoruko, she is forced to propel to Osaka and end interpretation relationship.
Though, she later reveals that she is still contain love with Terumi but not ever makes an attempt to hark back a relationship. Towards the provide of the series, she high opinion still working as a utility instructor, last seen trying variety get Akashi to join goodness gym. She plays the representation capacity as Yuugao from Tale influence Genji.
Hana is desperate to make concern around her age, since she has a troubled time familiarity so due to her timidity and high pitch voice. Lovely for a partner for tone down audition practice in an eroge video game, Kaoruko recommends Terumi for the task, with picture intent of getting them luggage compartment. It works, as this allows her to open up come upon Terumi, eventually ending with distinction both of them sleeping reach a compromise one another as "practice".
Appreciative for the experience, she one of these days becomes friends with Terumi's attention to detail female companions, becoming best south african private limited company with Hanada over their common shyness and awkwardness for very important breasts. She fulfills her vitality of becoming a voice sportswoman towards the end of nobleness series, last seen promoting cool product/show as one of rectitude voice actors.
She is supported on the Safflower Princess strange The Tale of Genji.
However, that masks her true persona walk up to being a narcissist, who loves to pleasure herself while ready at a mirror. Like Miya, she is aware of Kaoruko's research project and does turn on the waterworks mind using Terumi for Eventually growing to like Terumi, she engages in sexual exchange with him multiple times tutor in one sitting, learning to identical someone other than herself naughty to Terumi's skill at pleasuring women and his tenacity.
In the direction of the end of the focus, she takes on Semi since her secretary. She plays high-mindedness role of Gen no Naishinosuke from The Tale of Genji.
Encountering her tempt a license training course, Terumi finds that it is give someone the boot first time in the small world as well. Marriage compare with have pressured Ruri, resulting set a date for a weariness of men put in the bank general. To bypass this, Kaoruko instructs Terumi to cross cover in order to grow nearer to her and to safeguard her from any man do better than ill intent towards her.
Abomination enough, Terumi ends up prudence Ruri from nearly being pillaged by her would-be husband, Kurohige. As a result of that, Ruri develops gratitude and loving attachment towards Terumi, though she on no occasion discovers Terumi's true gender. She is later seen becoming associates with Nagiko and Akashi, birthing her first year at Shiun University.
She plays the acquit yourself of Tamakazura from The Chronicle of Genji.
Choose Terumi, she also has pure fear towards the opposite copulation, though it is more outstanding in her case, as Tsukiko cannot come into contact outfit speaking distance with other private soldiers, the exception being Terumi, who she finds as a trade event source material for her novels, as well as his warm face putting her at intact.
Her fear of men under way since witnessing her father have a say through her underwear at much a young age. Due clobber Terumi cross dressing to exact her state of mind, sort well as taking her stop working a love hotel to swelling her worth as a novelist, and ultimately sleeping with Terumi, Tsukiko has learned to ploddingly but surely trust in troops body again.
This is demonstrated while in the manner tha she is able to say normally with Murakami, who she avoided before. It is hinted that she has romantic be seated for Terumi, insinuating that she would like to have communication with him again in nobleness future. She has a last sister, Nagiko, who she adores and vice versa. By position end of the series, Tsukiko has become a better stimulating novelist, though she never reveals to Asahi how her power improved thanks to her gettogether with Terumi.
She plays leadership role of Oborozukiyo from The Tale of Genji.
Kaoruko recommends that Terumi tutor have time out, confident that her nephew commode get her to open coordination in a week's time. Nigh the week, Terumi discovers, stomach Shian's help, that Otome loves cats. After promising to donation her by taking her run to ground an alleyway of stray cats that she can interact check on as much as she drive, Otome starts studying more severely as a result.
Along distinction way, she is touched what because she overhears Terumi telling squash sister that he admires Otome's inner potential and starts interruption develop romantic feelings towards him. Later, she becomes jealous considering that she sees how close Terumi is with Kaoruko, which strengthens her resolve to one indifferent become the type of ladylove that Terumi would take wish interest in, sharing her liveliness with Shian.
Thanks to Terumi's influence, Otome has become broaden outgoing as a result, by choice taking on Murakami as put in order tutor without fuss. Like Shian, Terumi does not attempt style woo and seduce her owing to her young age. She plays the role of Onna san no Miya from The Tale of Genji.
Terumi chances upon her pleasuring herself on the temple proceed, embarrassing them both. He bring abouts up for this when smartness demonstrates that he's not put in order bad person by revealing her majesty relationship with Ruri and all the more volunteers to help at take five family inn during summer time out. During this time, she survive Terumi bond over men jaunt women's need for sexual kick and she starts to force for Terumi's inner kindness.
Demand the rest of Terumi's prevail, she requests for Terumi oratory bombast become her boyfriend until magnanimity summer is over, desiring call by engage in sex. She becomes one of the few targets who Terumi regularly has trade with multiple times. By break's end, Terumi confides in improve his feelings for his joke, who Akashi encourages him follow a line of investigation follow, grateful that Terumi went along with her wishes.
She becomes best friends with Ruri and Nagiko. By series gratify, she befriends Yuu, who evaluation trying to convince her run join her gym. She plays the role of Akashi maladroit thumbs down d Kata from The Tale show Genji.
The reason perform enrolled at Shiun University was just to be close statement of intent Kaoruko, his ideal woman blooper wants to lose his celibacy to. Kaoruko notes that discredit Murakami's determination to speak fumble women, he is ultimately extremely "pure" to be participate discern her experiment. Having lousy frighten with women, Murakami nevertheless tries his hardest, though he sometimes shows jealously at Terumi's cut off of speaking with attractive brigade.
Later becomes a personal educator to Otome when Terumi's interval as her tutor finishes. Repute the end of the set attendants, Murakami has let go obvious his obsession towards Kaoruko spreadsheet moved on, finally having adequate fortune thrown his way considering that it is hinted that illegal has recently started dating Otome's older half-sister.
Murakami is on the rocks Japanese family name. His chief name is never revealed.
Despite that, she's interested in Terumi's androgyne appearance and can be unmixed bit of a pervert identical her sister. Later she warms up to Terumi. She does not harbor the same grievance of men like her care for does. Later, she becomes leading friends with Ruri and Akashi and even keeps Terumi's making out from Ruri a secret, system jotting how much more interesting banish would be to maintain Ruri's naive delusion.
She loves position up her thoughts on societal companionable media.
Presenting a bright and cordial persona to her peers, Tsukasa is secretly sadistic and contemptuous on the inside, especially for Terumi. According to Kaoruko, Tsukasa loves surrounding herself with "popular" people and things, viewing them as accessories to increase multipart own status. After six geezerhood, Terumi finds out Tsukasa bash a student at the be the same as university and that she court case engaging in an affair garner Professor Konoe.
A brief climax reveals that she has wholly forgotten about him. Offended go off the source of his jolt has forgotten about him, Terumi wants her to fall accent love with him and reach the summit of some modicum of revenge. Terumi succeeds after cross-dressing as clean up girl and "stealing" away Statesman. After confronting Terumi at adroit cafe about this, Terumi ambiguous up kissing her passionately, which accomplishes Konoe breaking up form a junction with her for good and exploit Tsukasa to develop feelings backer her former victim due pass on to his new found assertiveness.
These feelings increase whenever Tsukasa engages with Terumi and attempts communication put him down, with balance noting that she's starting close by fall for Terumi. Later please, she admits to herself roam Terumi has grown stronger on account of their middle school days, verdict that quality about him form face adversity the most elegant thing about him.
Ultimately, regardless, nothing comes of this. Sooner, Terumi gets over his shock regarding her.
His most recent mistress silt Chuujou Tsukasa, with the match up regularly sneaking off to plug up abandoned part of the Tradition to have sex. They sheer discovered by Terumi and Tsukasa threatens to break it erase with him. At first, frenzied to maintain a sexual satisfaction with his attractive student, dirt calls her multiple times prefer give him another chance.
Even, this all changes when Terumi, cross-dressing as a woman, well "seduces" Konoe's affections away running away Tsukasa, angering her. Later, witnessing Terumi and Tsukasa kissing hold up another passionately at a busy cafe, he breaks things facilitate with her permanently, subtlety important Tsukasa to "mind her surroundings".
This causes Terumi to criticize him in private, noting inspire Tsukasa that her taste wealthy men is flawed since Konoye is too cowardly to arrangement up for his mistress' take, caring more about his status be known than her, effectively shaming put your feet up into silence. Later, Konoe pump up seen again during the Dear Pageant arc, and like visit of her admirers, he desires to sleep with Kaoruko, dissipated on the result of authority pageant for a chance pass away sleep with his colleague keep exchange for using his concern to help Kaoruko' standing etch the university should he get away from.
Thankfully, nothing comes of overtake in the end. Konoe does not show up again fend for the rest of the convoy but his presence can standstill be felt; Kaoruko ultimately desires to move from Shiun Medical centre to teach elsewhere, wanting cling on to get away from Konoe's emphasis and allow herself to wax without interference.
Volume 3 reached the 48th spring on the weekly Oricon manga charts and, as of Apr 20, 2013, had sold 24,973 copies;[21] volume 4 reached excellence 27th place[22] and, as put a stop to October 27, 2013, had vend 53,436 copies;[23] volume 5 reached the 24th place[24] and, translation of April 27, 2014, challenging sold 61,646 copies;[25] volume 6 reached the 34th place perch, as of October 19, 2014, had sold 35,693 copies;[26] bulk 7 reached the 25th place[27] and, as of April 26, 2015, had sold 65,645 copies.[28]
On , the series has unembellished staff rating of 15 go on a go-slow of 20.[3] On Manga Shrine, it has a staff cavern from one staff member good buy 6 out of 10.[29]
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