Aishuu

Description

College student Haneji Kaoru is surprised when popular actor Aragaki Jin appears in his workplace. They were high school friends, but unable to cope with his deepening feelings for the playboy, Haneji cut all ties after graduation. But now that Aragaki has found him, he has no intention of letting Haneji go...

Type

Manga

Related Series

Manatsu no Zanshou (Side Story)

Associated Names

Aishū

Aisyu (French)

Covetous Affection

Tenacious Love

Страстное желание

愛執

爱执

Groups Scanlating

Dangerous Pleasure

Latest Release(s)

v.1 c.Extra by Dangerous Pleasure 13 years ago

v.1 c.1v2 by Dangerous Pleasure 13 years ago

v.1 c.6 by Dangerous Pleasure 14 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

1 Volume (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 7.7 / 10.0 (576 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.63 / 10.0

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16%

10%

Last Updated

November 26th, 2018 11:57am PST - 6 years ago

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Genre

Drama Yaoi
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

Minase Masara

Artist(s)

MINASE Masara

Year

2008

Original Publisher

Taiyo Tosho

Serialized In (magazine)

HertZ (Taiyo Tosho)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #706

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Monthly Pos #1811 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3127

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6 Month Pos #5024

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Year Pos #6734

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List Stats

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On 273 wish lists

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Eh, it's ok

by Embracing Madness
13 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

The story's rather cliched and the characters fall flat. Too much unnecessary angst, immature unlikable people and dramatic illogical decisions being made. However, as the artwork's pretty and it's easy to follow the plot - or what little there is of it - it's good for a 15 minute read with happy ending attached.

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Okay

by booyaka
15 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

Despite popular opinion I don't think Masara Minase has had any work that has been great since her debut manga. This is no exception. Bland, boring and completely predictable sums up this story pretty nicely. If you've read one manga by her you've read them all. It's almost as if she went through a check list of things she had to do from chapter to chapter in order to end it in a big dramatic moment each chapter. But it's hard to look forward to the resolution when you can see the end coming a million miles away.

I sense no emotion between the two characters. I'm not sure why these two are friends, let alone lovers. The characters aren't developed as people so it's very hard to understand their motivation. That leaves all the misunderstandings and heartache basically pointless.

It's a decent read, but nothing that hasn't been done (and better) a million times. Her art is nice, but honestly I find it kind of soulless and with no character. The lack of screentones, backgrounds or even hair color is also very off putting. The characters are nicely drawn, but it's so sterile and almost too clean.

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So cliche

by emeraldglass
14 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

I actually don't understand why there's such a high rating for this manga and the amount of people who gave it 10/10. The story itself is clichéd and predictable that there's already 1000 yaoi mangas out there that have similar sort of characters and storyline. Do people actual find these sort of storylines romantic? Do they consider this as real love between two people where one person goes around sleeping with the whole world whilst the other pines over them and in the end the first arsehole realises he's in love with the other guy afterall? These characters have no respect for themselves and each other.
With that being said, I do like Minase Masara's works, her art is quite clean and pretty. even though I don't quite like these type of stories where the Seme is a cheating jerk who flaunts it in front of the uke, i will continue to read it lol.

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Fine.

by sofistree
10 years ago

Rating: 6.6 / 10.0

It's about what you'd expect from this author. Nothing original or very interesting in this story, but the art was okay and it wasn't painful to read.

Everyone is overly dramatic, but not nearly the worst I've seen.

Not too bad, though I probably won't read it again.

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disgusting

by YanaseRyoko
6 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

seriously, this was too much to handle.
the only normal and smart character was the manager, I was shipping him with that stupid uke.
I love strongers ukes with self esteem and this isn't for me.
and here I wonder why this has a high rating

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Pretty bad, but still somewhat enjoyable

by Lu-chan
14 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

"It lets itself be read" as the French saying goes. The art is pretty, as usual, the first chapters showed some promise, but then the story revealed itself to be the same boring, cliché crap you read everywhere, with not an ounce of originality to detract from it.
If you've read Minase Masara's other works, then you know what to expect.

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I like all of her work:) No matter what people say...

by Gattaca88
14 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

She writes fun stories that are very easy to the eye. Aishuu is one of them. Yes, it might be predictable but what is so horrible about that....what kind of surprise are you looking for anyway? At least you can always expect a happy ending from her and I like that about her. I come to sensei when I want something simple and with beautiful art.

Every relationship has problems. Haneji Kaoru and Aragaki Jin have their own issues but we see it opened up and laid on the table for us. I thought it was pretty good and hope for them to change for the better to be with each other. Jin has been a jerk, but that does not mean he will be a jerk to Kaoru his whole life. They do care for each other and hopefully they will find happiness.

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Better than Minase Masara's other works.

by sweetdevil
1 year ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

This is actually one of the better works from Minase, at least as far as the uke (Kaoru) standing up for himself goes. However, until that point, there has to be the obligatory pushy seme (Jin), the dubcon scene, followed by some pining. To me, Aishuu is better than other works of hers because Kaoru speaks his mind, establishes boundaries, and sticks to them, regardless of Jin's intimidation attempts—who gets put in his place several times.

Minase's manga aren't meant to be deep or realistic. They're just a way to pass the time if you feel up for some melodrama and decent art to turn your brain off to.

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Doesn't Deserve So High an Average

by Hobostarr
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

It's not the worst thing out there but definitely not in the 7+ range. More like a 5/10 MAX.
Positives: The art isn't god-tier, but it doesn't make me want to rip out my eyes.

Issues:
-Characters aren't super likeable. Now, truth be told this story doesn't have many chapters, but the characters still fall flat. The uke is alright, but the seme is the problem. Very selfish and posessive character. He sort of addresses the error of his ways a bit, but it's not enough to make him likeable or for me to want to root for the pairing.

-Problematic tropes abound. The first chapter has....dub-con...at best... After repeated requests for the seme to stop what he is doing, he responds with quality quotes such as "if you don't like it, then you'd fight back harder." Yikes. A few panels later, the uke thinks to himself he doesn't hate what's happening, and that the seme is right, buuut still kinda squick behavior very reminiscent of the rape-turns-to-love trope yaoi can't seem to rid itself of.
-As said before, on top of not understanding consent, the seme displays just toxic behavior like posessiveness, over-aggression, etc, and blackmails the uke into staying in the relationship and moving in with him by taking photos of him post-dub-con-smut and threatening to send them to his family (something that is never addressed ever again nor is the seme really called out on it.) I spent the story more wanting the uke to just get away from this man, more than actually root for the relationship. Even one of the characters in the story remarked the seme wasn't good for the uke, which I completely agree.
-The seme is pretty slutty. This one isn't as big an issue for me as the others, but he does fall into the promiscuous/cheating bisexual trope. Aside from being with the main character he also has numerous sexual relations with women. This part could just be a character flaw linked to his selfishness/carelessness for others, so it's not my biggest issue.

So, conclusions: don't read it unless you enjoy bad writing/ need a reference for toxic characters. This could have been an interesting story if the writer had gone a difference direction. Many of the flaws in this manga could have worked in its favor had the writer not tried to pass this story off as a romantic/ even moderately healthy romance. This relationship has red-flags abound which no newfound self-awareness in the seme can really fix. Some of his behavior persists even until the last chapter. If the genuinely abusive/toxic relationship aspects were taken more seriously/given more weight, and the story didn't try to make what was unhealthy healthy, it could have been a decent story about a toxic pairing. Some characters don't need to be redeemed like what they tried to do with the seme to make everything a-ok in the end.

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Lol

by Himeowchama
8 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

Okay lemme set this straight: at first I didn't like it and made up my mind that whatever would happen wouldn't change my opinion of this manga (hated it honestly, no excuse for seme's infidelity and uke's stupidity) bUT WHEN THE SEME CRIED, MY HESRT BROKE!!!!! HE WAS AN INNOCENT KID TO THE WORLD OF LOVE LOL. HE TOOK THINGS FOR GRANTED, AND WHEN HE LOST THE PERSON HE MOST TREASURED, HE REALIZED THR BITTERNESS OF LOVE!!! And maybe he's kinda tsundere or an egoist, not telling what he really feels until the uke would tell him lol (like I love you AND you're my first love lol)
so for the forgivable plot bc of the twist, I'll give this a 6 lol. (From 1 to 6, that's kinda high of a hurdle to jump lol)

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