Ren'ai Bōkun

Ren'ai Bōkun (恋愛暴君, lit. Love Tyrant), also known as The Very Lovely Tyrant of Love, is a Japanese comedy manga series by Megane Mihoshi, serialized online since 2012 in Aplix's Comic Meteor website. It has been collected in seven tankōbon volumes. An anime adaptation has been announced.^[1]

Summary

A Kiss Note is a powerful notebook that makes anyone who has their name written together will instantly fall in love if they kiss each other regardless of any circumstances. This magical and very familiar item belongs to an angel named Guri whose job as cupid is to create couples. However, she accidentally writes down Aino Seiji, a regular high school student, and unless he kisses someone, Guri will die. She convinces Seiji to go kiss his crush, Hiyama Akane, the school's popular girl who turns out has even stronger feelings for him, bordering on obsessive and psychotic. Eventually Akane and Seiji come together but not before Guri decides that she likes Seiji as well. What seems awesome to most guys becomes hell for Seiji who just wants a normal relationship with girls.

Characters

Seiji Aino (誠司 愛野, Seiji Aino)

The main protagonist of the series. He encountered Guri when she appeared at his front door, cosplaying as a shinigami She then told him that his name was written in the Kiss Note and if he didn't kiss someone within the next 24 hours, she would die and he would remain a virgin life. He eventually revels his crush for Akane, only to find out her yandere tendencies. His a more-or-less level headed individual, trying to please all the women around him, without hurting them. He, like all the others except for Guri, are minor angels as Guri made them all into a relationship together. As a result, they are all effectively immortal (But they still feel pain).

Guri

An Angel/Cupid. The literal child of God and a devil. Due to this, Guri has the natural tendency to "fall" easier than most angels. She often treats her duty as a Cupid like a joke, forming almost, only gay couples, due to the fact that she "Likes BL" However also due to this she goes over her quota for couples to be formed per month. Despite being a Cupid, she doesn't understand the concept of Love. In fact, the reason she is a cupid is that god wanted her to try to understand what love is, as that is one requirement for becoming God (God must love everyone. That is the reason he conceived Guri with a Devil. He loved her) Eventually, she starts to recognize certain emotions when she is with Seiji, eventually discovering she is in love.

Akane Hiyama (茜檜山, Akane Hiyama)

The Class Idol of Seiji's Batch. Seiji, initially had a crush on her, intending to use Guri and get them to kiss and making them a couple. However, when Akane sees them, He randomly begins to explain the circumstances, eventually reveling that he and Guri kissed earlier in an attempt to nulify the Kiss Note (he had to kiss anyone, he assumed). This causes Akane to fly into a psychotic rage, as she had noticed his "loving stares" and eventually developed feelings for him as well. She begins to accuse him of cheating with her and then stabs Guri in the head, then revealing her immortality. Eventually Guri gets the two to kiss, calming Akane down briefly before aggravating her again by revealing that she added her own name as well. While she does often attack him, she does truly love him. She has a strange habit of pulling endless number of knives out of her sleeves to fight. She gets extremely angry should anyone try and steal Seiji from her, especially Guri.

Yuzu Kichougasaki

Younger half-sister of Akane, sharing the same father. She is in love with Akane, both as a sister and as a woman, although she later also develops some feelings for Seiji. Immensely protective of her sister, she does not want to give her to anyone. She becomes good friends with Guri and Seiji, despite an initial rocky start. She is also added into their harem, when Guri adds her name in the Kiss Note.

References

External links

• Official website (Japanese)