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Haou Airen  
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Description
One day while walking home from her job, Kurumi Akino finds a wounded young man, and saves his life. He mysteriously disappears after that, and leaves only the name “Hakuron”. Next thing she knows she’s been kidnapped from her school, and is on a private jet with that man, heading to China. It turns out she saved the life of the most infamous mobster in Hong Kong, and he wants her to stay with him.

You can find A Tale of Happier Times (v06 extra) in the anthology Motto Oshiete.

Type
Manga

Related Series
Honey Honey Boy - He Is a Sweet Temptation (Side Story)
Love Celeb (Spin-Off)

Associated Names
覇王・愛人
覇王♥愛人
Amante Dragon (spanish)
Despotic Lover
Supreme King's Mistress

Groups Scanlating
A Willful Muse
Eternal Blue
Eternal-Blue
ShoujoMagic

Latest Release(s)
v.9 c.50 (End) by A Willful Muse (1649d ago)
v.9 c.49 by A Willful Muse (1682d ago)
v.9 c.48 by A Willful Muse (1703d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
9 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
N/A

User Reviews
N/A

Forum
5 topics, 24 posts
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User Rating
Average: 6.5 / 10.0 (652 votes)
Bayesian Average: 6.53 / 10.0
10
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9+
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1+
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Last Updated
May 31st 2013, 11:23pm PST

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Genre
Action  Drama  Harem  Mature  Romance  School Life  Shoujo  Smut  Tragedy 
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Okane ga Nai
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Author(s)
SHINJO Mayu

Artist(s)
SHINJO Mayu

Year
2002

Original Publisher
Shogakukan

Serialized In (magazine)
Sho-Comi (Shogakukan)

Licensed (in English)
No

English Publisher
N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #638 increased(+84)
Monthly Pos #882 decreased(-69)
3 Month Pos #885 increased(+38)
6 Month Pos #847 decreased(-65)

List Stats
On 701 reading lists
On 413 wish lists
On 1680 completed lists
On 214 unfinished lists
On 204 custom lists

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Forum Posts
Is it published? 698 days, 9 hours, 11 minutes ago
The "Heroine"? (Spoiler) 920 days, 14 hours, 56 minutes ago
Haou Airen Hakuron ending spoilers -long post is long. 1276 days, 2 hours, 42 minutes ago
Haou Airen *spoilers* 1656 days, 20 hours, 15 minutes ago
Haou Airen - finished? 1679 days, 5 hours, 17 minutes ago

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 Lots of rape   
Rating: N/A
by purehappiness
March 22nd, 2009, 8:56pm
Yeh there was lots of rape and nonsense but it's not really bad or anything.
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I was very disappointed in the ending; it was so sad... They deserved to be together after going through all of that.
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 Disgusted x.x   
Rating: 1.0 / 10.0
by bajuwa
March 3rd, 2009, 8:50pm
im not just saying this cause its smut, cause personally i couldnt care less. what disgusts me is the guy has got a sick and twisted mind, and the girl, who is a complete RETARD keeps fawning over him -.-"
she gets ripped away from her sick mother (who is in need of hospitalization), and her young twin brothers, yet after the first couple chapters, she has completely forgotten about her family and never mentions them again.
then she watches him shoot a girl dead in the middle of the library, gets raped for 3 days straight, yet still fawns over him o.o
and ya its yakuza/mafia, but the girls reaction is just weird considering how weak she is o.0
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 Love it or Hate it....   
Rating: 8.0 / 10.0
by dawncloud6
February 18th, 2009, 9:59am
Let's face it: you are either going to love this manga, or hate it.
I was someone who happened to really enjoy Haou Airen. I like dark romances, and scary psycho mafia leaders.....
Other people will hate this manga, because the heroine of the story is somewhat weak-minded and helpless.
I would recommend this to anyone who wants to read a dark romance with a bit of smut.

A warning though, like all Mayu Shinjo's, this does contain "Consensual rape." Whatever that is. (How can rape be consensual....??!?!)
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 SHOCKING ENDING!   
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by manga-lover1988
December 22nd, 2007, 8:27am
What an unfortunate ending.. really sad.

I find this manga really depressing but I still understand the situation by reading the whole story..
It's kinda draggy at beginning and its really sad that the heroine is the most pathetic and some what really naive/clueless.. but its understandable, though... hakuron is agressive and very forceful towards her I think he truely love her... hmmm.. there are lots of misuderstanding going on and also involve alot of people that want to tear them apart...

Also it has the proof that Hakuron really LOVES Kurumi.. he may done it in a demonic way but the feeling of protecting someone is stronger .. though he doesnt want to hurt Kurumi but for her sake he'll be the strongest man that can only protect her even it cost his life... (just like the endling)...

Really shoking story.. but thats how it ends.. at least he left something special for her (KITTEN=CAT)... even they are apart, as long as they think about each other and love each other... that only matters.. I think.... very corny and naive thoughts but it works only in manga world..

... Last updated on December 22nd, 2007, 4:00pm
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 huh?   
Rating: N/A
by bu_erfly
November 20th, 2007, 2:55am
ah...wat theconfused i donno y but i had to finish it, if just to see how much more unbelievably the storyline could cross the boundary of sanity...i don get how she could love him, wouldn u wanna escape from that horrible man as soon as possibleconfused and him!! wat was up with thatconfused? how can he treat his 'precious woman' like that?? really? its way too unbelievable!!
all in all, this is one twisted plot! i wanted to scream at the girl to grow a backbone, a brain, and get a sense of self respect!!
there may be people out there who really like dis manga, i respect that even tho i dont personally understand it
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 Absolutely horrible.   
Rating: 1.0 / 10.0
by Digital-Eon
November 15th, 2007, 4:54pm
How can ANYONE like this manga? What kind of a twisted mind (or lack of a mind entirely) must one have to enjoy such a plot? The heroine is among the most pathetic of her type that I've ever read about (excluding other Shinjo Mayu manga, of course), and the hero may be handsome in some way, but his attitude isn't even remotely attractive.

As to the people who think it's realistic and romantic, I have one thing to tell you: girls who get kidnapped by the mafia and then forced into sex do NOT fall in love with their captor, especially not after knowing them for a few hours. That is not a realistic romance, nor is it even romantic. That's sick and twisted, and I fail to see how anyone could fantasize about such a thing.
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 ..>.<..   
Rating: N/A
by anatolia
March 22nd, 2007, 1:49pm
The plot is not bad but I hate the ending . T____T
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 The worst manga EVER   
Rating: 1.0 / 10.0
by clampies
April 25th, 2013, 1:15pm
Why can't we give 0 to a manga? Because this shit don't even deserve 1. I read other Shinjo Mayu but this one I can't, it's awful. The girl have no personnalities, Hakuron is a bastard who think he could do anything we want because he is handsome (well not my type) and in mafia. The story is all about rape, violence, humiliation, then a fucking fairy tale. A "she will like sex so then she will love me" logic and then he is a prince come be true by the end, it's all shit. The WORST!

... Last updated on April 25th, 2013, 1:18pm
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 why..?   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by Chococake00
June 23rd, 2012, 11:58pm
Typical Shinjo Mayu plot. Corny and overexagerated but somehow I read it anyway like I read all of her stuff (whyyyy? I cant tell if I like it or hate it! lol) She does try to get out of her typical plot a bit with the tragedy and the overuse of blood. Very smutty, even for shinjo mayu. If you dont like that then dont read it, if you do this will be full of it so go for it!

The 2 main characters fall in love instantly for pretty much no reason. And then they have way too many problems that dont even matter (and some that kinda do i guess lol) then they keep doubting each other and then saying they wont doubt. Hate then love. "im afraid of you and hate you" "now i love you and trust you" every other chapter is love/hate. its anoying. both the main characters are really really stupid. They both wont be honest with themselves or others, and dont tell each other about things that are really really important and would make all the difference. its way too overdramatic and the main girl expecially cant commit to a single decision to save her life.

also its one of those cliche everyone falls in love with the main girl and they all want her for some reason even though she has like no redeming qualities.

Yet I read it, twice. -_-
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 love then hate then love agian   
Rating: N/A
by roseofthemoon67777
June 1st, 2012, 9:40pm
It took me a long (long...) time to read this because it seemed every time kurumi and hakuron's relationship got a bit “normal” someone would come along and screw it up but in the end I finally read it and even now I occasionally reread my favorite parts and think about it a bit. I cried a lot in this and will I actually like crying it got old sometimes. A little too sad.
But all in all I liked it in a very sadistic way. It did in fact live up to a TRUE tragedy even if the characters were pretty dumb in how the fell head over heals in love so quick but I mean IT IS a shinjo mayu manga. It is one of my favorite tragedies and a favorite of mayu's works.
I wouldn't recommend this for the faint of heart its sad and pretty much shuts your anticipation for a happy ending only to leave you thinking 'wtf just happened?' in the end.
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