Itou-san (KURAKA Sui)

Description

Every Tuesday night, a mysterious man named "Ito" visits Kyosuke, who is a prostitute, and talks to him about silly things until dawn. One day, he brings a briefcase full of money and tries to give it to Kyosuke, telling him that he wants him to quit his job and do something he truly wants to do, however?

Kuraka Sui brings forth a beautiful, dark story revolving around the gunsmoke and blood of the underworld. This is her very first BL, now in tankobon!!
"Cage," a story about an S&M school of domination and control, is also included.

Type

Manga

Related Series

I: Episode 0 (Sequel)

Associated Names

Ito-san (KURAKA Sui)

Ито-сан

イトウさん

伊藤先生

그 남자 이토

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Cocobees

Latest Release(s)

v.1 (end) c. by Cocobees 10 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

1 Volume (Complete)

*Note: Chapter 6 "Cage" is an unrelated oneshot by same mangaka.

What could be considered a second volume is called I: Episode 0*

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 8.3 / 10.0 (335 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.14 / 10.0

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Last Updated

February 2nd, 2025 5:56am PST - 3 months ago

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Genre

Drama Psychological Romance Yaoi
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Author(s)

KURAKA Sui

Artist(s)

KURAKA Sui

Year

2015

Original Publisher

Akaneshinsha

Serialized In (magazine)

Opera (Akaneshinsha)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #697

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Monthly Pos #1609

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3 Month Pos #3493

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6 Month Pos #4702

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Year Pos #6164

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List Stats

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On 145 wish lists

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Need to read the companion piece for full effect

by BepsRose
1 year ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

The story covered here is mostly from Kyousuke's pov, starting with after Ito-san has met with Kyousuke a few times as a "client" and has a little bit of an open ended conclusion after the main climax of the story. The companion piece I: Episode 0 covers the same story, but mostly from Ito-san's pov, starting from his origin story, leading up to the beginning of this story, and then jumping forward in time to pick up where this story ended.

Chronological order:
I: Episode 0: events leading up to main story
Ito-San: main story
I: Episode 0: continuation of main story's open ending

Highly suggest reading all of Ito-san, and then reading all of I: Episode 0 for max enjoyment.

... Last updated 1 year ago

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Feels like it's trying to go somewhere but missing the mark

by suzakufire
4 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

I'm not sure how to describe how I felt reading this. At first, I thought the mangaka was maybe trying too hard with the dark themes and making the story sound really deep. But it also didn't really feel like the case? Then I wondered if it's due to the (cliche) tropes that popped up at random places, as if the mangaka couldn't help themselves?

It felt almost like the mangaka couldn't decide if she wanted to portray realistic love in this dark-themed backdrop (when I say this I don't mean it has to end in tragedy btw), or just go with the idealistic love that people want to see. Anyway, the end result was that it left me confused about where the story was going and what emotion it was hoping to bring out of me.

Overall it wasn't a bad read, the story was new and refreshing (albeit with some really cliche and predictable moments). It's not bad if you don't think too deeply about it and just kinda let it take you along for the ride.

The art was alright, though I was really confused about the character's expressions at various places (like I couldn't tell Itou-san's angry expression from his obsessive/loving expression from his about-to-become-dangerous expression - maybe that was the whole point, but it just confused the hell outta me).

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Legendary-tier Manga

by LemonPriest
4 years ago

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c7.7

this is one of the most if not THE MOST amazing manga ive read in my life. i love it so much

Ive lost count of the amount of times ive reread this masterpiece

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Beautifully done...Never expected it to become a top favorite

by Sunfae
4 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

I don't know why until now I always passed this manga and never seemed to have any interest in reading it, but I guess it's true that everything has its time.

This was outstandingly and beautifully written, and same here I am impressed that this is the author's first work.

I cried through the whole manga, even the simplest words said were heavy and had a lot of pain behind them.

"Ito-san" is a masterpiece. It left me satisfied (even though I'm tired from silently crying throughout the whole story) it leaves this feeling of an aching heart from the twisted dark reality of it but it also leaves it mixed with a lingering warm feeling from the beautiful, painful and powerful love of the two characters.

I will definitely read it again.

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Underrated

by shi4213
6 years ago

Rating: 8.5 / 10.0

Better than 70% yaoi manga out there. This one has good art and decent plot, characterization can be better, but hey it's only 1 vol. so it's understandable if this one feels a little rushed. Also to those who disliked or didn't understand about the ending, you must read episode 0, It has itou-san true ending (2 chapters of itou-san continuation. But don't read eposode 0 first, even though it was listed as prequel. Rather than the prequel it was more like the complement of itou-san.

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It's hard to believe this is the author's first work

by haruny
6 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

I normally avoid mangas with dark and twisted plots, especially in Yaoi, since most of the time, Yaoi mangakas overshadow the plot with loads of smut and rape, and it just turns out to be grim and shallow. But this is definitely not the case for Itou-san.
I seriously can't believe this is the author's first work, because the plot and pacing is so consistent and very well done, she was able to show the character's twisted pasts, let them meet and fall in love under such dim circumstances and reach a good ending in just ONE manga volume. I find that incredibly fascinating and impressive.
Works that contain dark themes such as violence, rape, murder, etc usually leave me feeling distressed, but this one left me feeling hopeful and happy and I am glad I gave it a try despite being a genre that I usually avoid.
My only complaint tho would be that

I felt that Itou's boss gave up chasing them way too fast, but I guess that can be understandable to some degree, because if he kept chasing them down it would take forever for the manga to end and it would also become annoying I guess lol

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You'll be kept on the edge of your seat

by OmNom
7 years ago

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Now this is a manga packed with drama, action, romance all well combined into a gripping thriller piece. I like the fact that it's very concise, compact and there's no unnecessary detail in both the plot as well as presentation. The fast and consistent pace did wonders in pulling the audience in and making them engrossed in the story, combined with the very stylistic and polished art style that helps elevate this type of dark and gritty story to an even higher level. "Itou-san" is quite a well done work of fiction.

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A beautiful story with a questionable ending...

by liontaraki
8 years ago

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This is one of the most well-written yaoi stories that I've read (not the random oneshot, though) and I was always wondering why it only got one volume. We need a happy ending and I hope the spin-off series about Ito's past progressed into the future and we get to see Ito and Kyosuke spend the rest of their lives in bliss in that small house by the ocean....

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I WASN'T ENGROSSED AT FIRST

by Himeowchama
8 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

BECAUSE I WASN'T IN THE MOOD TO READ SOME TWISTED MANGA AND I GUESS I DIDN'T TAKE THE ENDING TOO SERIOUSLY. I THINK I READ THIS AROUND 5 MONTHS AGO. WHEN I READ IT AGAIN WEEKS AGO (the cover was familiar) I WAS IN LOVED WITH IT AND GOT MY HEART BROKEN. I SWEAAAR I WISH THIS ENDING HAS A SEQUEL!!!! MY HEART CAN'T JUST TAKE IT.

I LOVE HOW TWISTED THIS IS. THEIR LOVE ISN'T TWISTED AT ALL. IT DOESN'T INVOLVE MANIPULATING A PARTNER. IT DOESN'T INVOLVE SEXUALLY HARASSMENT WITH THE PARTNER. IT DOESN'T INVOLVE SELFISHLY ISOLATING YOUR PARTNER ALL TO ONESELF. INSTEAD, THEIR SITUATION WAS TWISTED. HOW THEY MET WAS TWISTED. HOW THEY TRIED TO RUN WAS TWISTED. THEIR FATE WAS TWISTED. AND THAT IS MY FAVORITE KIND OF TWISTED.

THIS DOES NOT INVOLVE ABUSE WITH LOVE AS AN EXCUSE. INSTEAD, IT INVOLVES TRUE LOVE AND WANTING THE BEST FOR EACH OTHER. TRUST ME, YOU'LL LOVE IT.

... Last updated 8 years ago

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Read the Prequel AFTER This

by toastmuncher
8 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

I cannot stress this point enough. Please whoever comes across this manga, please read the prequel after this. Ito-san on it's own is dark, twisted, nicely though out but when I first read it I didn't like it that much because the technological aspect of it seemed more magical than anything else, still more importantly the ending breaks the tone of the whole manga for me. BUT the prequel makes sense of it all. (Not the technology as magical though, not that I really care about it much).
That's why even though the whole story started from the prequel, please don't read it first.
There's also this big emotional uplift which you get which the prequel gives only because you (meaning "I", pun intended) were disappointed by Ito-san in the first place.

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