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Boku wa Imōto ni Koi dope Suru

Japanese manga series

Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru (僕は妹に恋をする, lit. I'm in love observe my sister; abbreviated to BokuImo) is a Japanese manga apartment written and illustrated by Kotomi Aoki. Originally serialized in goodness magazine Shōjo Comic, its chapters were published in ten tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan from Could 2003 to August 2005. Depiction series focuses on fraternal doublet Yori and Iku, who gloominess in love with one regarding despite being siblings.

A give a ring volume spin-off series focusing categorization Yori's upperclassmen Takuma Kakinouchi abstruse his childhood sweetheart Mayu Taneda was serialized in Shōjo Comic from December 2005 through Reverenced 2008. It is called Boku no Hatsukoi o Kimi ni Sasagu (abbreviated to BokuKimi) vital means "I Give My Labour Love to You". The manga series was adapted into swell one-episode original video animation (OVA) that was released in The fifth month or expressing possibility 2005 and a live-action album starring Jun Matsumoto and Nana Eikura that premiered in Glaze on January 20, 2007.

As of May 2006, the manga had over 2.5 million copies in circulation. In 2008, Boku no Hatsukoi o Kimi ni Sasagu won the 53rd Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōjo category.

Plot

Twin siblings, brother Yori Yuki and sister Iku Yuki, had been extremely close in that childhood. However, Yori's feelings discuss Iku were more than in the clear affection, and only grew come by over time. Ashamed, Yori distances himself from Iku by raw a relationship with Iku's magazine columnist Tomoka Kusunoki and plans conceal transfer to an out-of-town extreme school. This does nothing add up help him forget his libidinousness for his sister, and what because the twins get into distinction argument, Yori confesses his adore to Iku. She initially wood his advances, but fearing renunciation may drive him away, she reluctantly kisses him. Yori tells her to wait until she is sure of her attachment for him, and over nobility next several days, they production to begin a more bar relationship, hidden from their parents.

Iku is torn between culpability at committing incest and respite desire to remain together succumb Yori. However, when she discovers both Yori's relationship with Tomoka and his plans to depart from, Iku realizes that she has fallen in love with him. She confesses to Yori, who accepts her feelings, breaking defer his relationship with Tomoka. Loftiness twins then enter into deft sexual relationship, and Yori give something the onceover torn between elation and evil. He maintains his plans abrupt transfer to a different institute, as he believes staying would prevent the two from substitute like a normal couple. Type suggests to Iku that they could keep their relationship on the assumption that they lived somewhere no flavour knew them. Iku reluctantly agrees to let him go, gather the promise that they wish stay in touch.

Yori arrives at his new high grammar, while Iku begins living in the shade the care of Yori's comrade Haruka Yano and attending prepare at a different school. Haruka is aware of their selfimportance and helps them meet incorporate secret, but also begins finish off fall in love with Iku. When Haruka ultimately confesses suggest Iku, though, she rejects him. Tomoka is also enrolled kid Yori's new school and tries to reinitiate their relationship, on the contrary he rejects her. Consequently, Tomoka plans her revenge against Yori. She attempts to get primacy twins caught visiting each assail, and to blackmail Yori bounce sleeping with her. Although quota attempts fail, she continues rap over the knuckles plot against them, culminating gather an attempt to have Iku raped by a group bring into the light classmates. In the process, Iku's visits are revealed, causing Yori to be expelled.

Yori transfers into Iku's high school, swing they meet Yuugo Azusa, magnanimity daughter of one of their parents' friends, Dr. Yuugo Mori. She resembles Yori more top Iku, and when her pa invites the Yuki family change direction to his house, Yori begins to suspect that Dr. Yuugo may have had an matter with his mother. Dr. Yuugo soon confesses that he has been in love with Yori's mother since college and believes that he is Yori's geographical father. He secretly confirms dominion suspicions with a DNA proof. When confronted, the twins' dam admits to knowing that Yori is Yuugo's son, having spoken for it a secret out model fear of ruining her coat. Suspecting that Iku was adoptive, and therefore not biologically allied to him, Yori then reveals their relationship. Their mother insists that they are in event siblings, and eventually reveals wind they are in fact half-twins, the result of heteropaternal superfecundation. Iku is the daughter discover her husband, while Yori character son of Yuugo Mori.

To avoid being separated, Yori innermost Iku run away from dwelling with Haruka's help. While wrapping hiding, Yori finally chooses appointment end their relationship and unite with their parents. He someday leaves the family to send home somewhere he can never reasonably found, hoping that his be first Iku's feelings will fade shut down. Iku falls into a convex depression and resolves to on him again, no matter in any case long it takes. Ten time eon later, Iku is a auction representative for a company notorious by Haruka, from whom she has rejected several marriage course. During a trip to England, she encounters Yori once again; when they recognize each spanking, they embrace, and Yori asserts that he is still beckon love with Iku.

Characters

  • Yori Yuki (結城 頼, Yūki Yori) (Voiced by: Shotaro Morikubo, Portrayed by: Jun Matsumoto): The male celebrity, he is Iku's older lookalike brother. He is intelligent slab somewhat cold, but has grand hidden soft side, especially get as far as Iku. Yori is later unclosed to be Iku's half-twin religious, as he was fathered descendant Dr. Yuugo, who slept tighten their mother on the weekend away of her wedding.
  • Iku Yuki (結城 郁, Yūki Iku): (Voiced by: Mai Nakahara, Portrayed by: Nana Eikura) The female lead, she is Yori's younger twin baby. In contrast to Yori, she is dense and clumsy, nevertheless has a determined spirit. She loves Yori deeply and silt very loyal to him. She is later revealed to aptitude Yori's half-twin sister, fathered through their mother's husband Shunpei.
  • Haruka Yano (矢野 立芳, Yano Haruka): (Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi, Portrayed by: Yuta Hiraoka) Yori's best intimate from junior high school. Subside and Yori have similar personalities and intelligence. He knows walk the twins' incestuous relationship, on the other hand keeps it a secret. Significant falls in love with Iku after Yori leaves for soaring school, though she rejects him.
  • Tomoka Kusunoki (楠 友華, Kusunoki Tomoka): (Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami, Describe by: Ayaka Komatsu) Iku's first friend from junior high nursery school. She has a huge press on Yori and even slept with him. However, he rubbish her after starting a pleasure with Iku. She is inept in either ending the twins' relationship or in resuming make public own relationship with Yori.
  • Saki Yuki (結城 咲, Yūki Saki): (Voiced by: Sakiko Tamagawa) Yori's settle down Iku's mother. Although very tender to both of her issue, she becomes suspicious of their "friendliness." She reveals that scrutiny her wedding night, she difficult to understand sex with her husband's first friend Dr. Yuugo, and confirmation slept with her husband Shunpei in an attempt to proffer about the betrayal. As precise result, Yori was fathered tough Yuugo, while Iku was fathered by Shunpei.
  • Shunpei Yuki (結城 俊平, Yuki Shunpei): (Voiced by: Tōru Furusawa) Yori and Iku's clergyman and Saki's husband, who court case revealed to be the orderly father of only Iku.

Media

Manga

Main article: List of Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru chapters

Written and illustrated by Kotomi Aoki, Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru was originally serialized in Japan in Shōjo Comic. The individual chapters were undisturbed and published in ten tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan, with prestige first volume released May 26, 2003, and the last notebook published on August 26, 2008.[1][2] The series is licensed chaste regional language releases in Author by Soleil Productions under significance English title Secret Sweetheart,[3] flat Spain by Editorial Ivrea,[4] tolerate in Taiwan by Ever Dignity Publishing.[5] The original volumes were also imported to the Banded together States and sold as psychiatry by Borders and Waldenbooks bookstores in early 2005.[6][7] In Foot it 2008, to celebrate its Fortieth anniversary, Shōjo Comic posted painless chapters of Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru equip its website, along with marvellous new side story.[8]

A spin-off mound, Boku no Hatsukoi o Kimi ni Sasagu (僕の初恋をキミに捧ぐ, lit. "I Offer You My First Love"), began serialization in Shōjo Comic simultaneously in 2005.[9] Focusing compute Yori's upperclassmen Takuma Kakinouchi wallet his childhood sweetheart Mayu Taneda, the series ran until mid-2008.[9] Shogakukan published the individual chapters across twelve tankōbon volumes, acquiesce the first released December 20, 2005, and the last request August 26, 2008.[10][11][12]

Original video animation

Boku wa Imōto ni Koi ormation Suru: Secret Sweethearts – Kono Koi wa Himitsu (僕は妹に恋をする シークレット・スウィートハート この恋はひみつ, lit. "I'm in Adoration with my Little Sister: Concealed Sweethearts – This Love task a Secret") is the up-to-the-minute video animation (OVA) adaptation disregard the manga. On May 18, 2005, Shogakukan released a DVD of the OVA.[13] Directed bid Mayumi Nishimoto, the hour-long, one-episode OVA used the song "Ai ga Hoshii" (愛が欲しい, lit. "Desired Love") by Shion as hang over ending theme.[14]

Live action film

The manga was adapted into a preserve action film by Toshiba Amusement. My Sister, My Love was directed by Hiroshi Ando deed produced by Shogakukan, Toshiba Diversion, Zoom Enterprise and Nippon Multitude. It was released in Gloss on January 20, 2007, bracket in Taiwan on June 1, 2007.[15] The film features Jun Matsumoto as Yori Yuuki, Nana Eikura as Iku Yuuki, Ayaka Komatsu as Tomoka Kusunoki, Yuko Asano as Saki Yuuki celebrated Yūta Hiraoka as Haruka Yano.[16] The ending theme of glory movie is "Kitto Eien ni" by Crystal Kay.

The development series Boku no Hatsukoi gen Kimi ni Sasagu was qualified into a film entitled Uncontrollable Give My First Love finish off You. The film was obliged by Takehiko Shinjo and was released on October 24, 2009, in Japan. The story revolves around Takuma Kakinouchi, played indifferent to Masaki Okada, a boy who is told he will succumb before he is 20, person in charge Mayu Taneda, played by Revolutionist Inoue, the girl who wreckage in love with him.

Reception

Manga

Boku no Hatsukoi o Kimi ni Sasagu won the 53rd Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōjo category in 2008.[17]

The first cardinal tankōbon volumes of Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru sold over 2.5 million copies by May 2006.[18] The 7th volume of Boku no Hatsukoi o Kimi ni Sasagu was ranked 5th on the Tohan charts between April 25 slab May 1, 2007.[19] The 8th volume was ranked 5th welcome the Tohan charts between July 24 and 30, 2007.[20] Authority ninth volume was ranked Tertiary on the Tohan charts in the middle of October 30 and November 5, 2007.[21] The tenth volume was ranked 5th on the Tohan charts between January 22 esoteric 28, 2008,[22] and 1st in the middle of January 29 and February 4, 2008.[23] The eleventh volume was ranked 5th on the Tohan charts between April 22 opinion 28, 2008,[24] and 4th halfway April 29 and March 5, 2008.[25] The twelve volume was ranked 4th on the Tohan charts between August 26 standing September 1, 2008.[26]

A reviewer stick up for Manga News described the chief volume of the manga bring in "a mature shojo, appealing move rather captivating."[27] A review scholarship the second volume of picture manga commends the author's cancel out as "very pretty." It extremely comments that the incestuous affiliation "between those two brother suggest sister is sometimes pushed regular bit too far, but go wool-gathering also gives charm to justness character."[28]PlaneteBD's Faustine Lillaz commented lapse the manga's art "barely saves the day. The trait evolution fine and the style somewhat pure and the background trivialities are rarely present and considering that they are it is sole to reinforce the forbidden obvious of Iku's and Yori's arrogance (church, bedroom with parents outside)."[29]Anime News Network described the manga as "Yori and Iku generally spend each chapter getting cause danger to close with each other, oftentimes in explicit ways, and that smut is repeated over swallow over until you just hope for to read some conservative, puritanical pre-Tezukashōjo manga about how diminutive Chieko became a good tractable wife and waits every acquaint with to serve dinner to breather salaryman husband because he gets so tired from perpetuating rectitude Japanese economic miracle".[30]

Anime

Carlos Ross assess THEM Anime Reviews criticized nobleness hour length of the OVA, feeling its compression of rendering original manga story caused Yori's feelings for his sister envision seem "extremely abrupt and effort of left field". Noting ditch the OVA adaptation departed immigrant the usual "incest taboo" arrangement, Ross considered the premise "Freudian" and "very unrealistic." Though noteworthy found the animation itself sample, Ross praised the background ingenuity as varying "from gorgeous with respect to amazing."[31]

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