No Money - Okane ga nai

Okane ga nai (お金がないっ, Okane ga nai?) (also known as No Money) is a shōnen-ai manga created by Hitoyo Shinozaki and illustrated by Tohru Kousaka. Besides the manga, there are also Okane ga nai drama CDs and 4 OVA's.

Synopsis
Ayase Yukiya is a university student whose cousin Tetsuo Ishii betrays him and sells him in an auction to settle his heavy debts. Ayase is bought by Somuku Kanou for 1.2 billion yen.

The reason behind Kanou doing this is Kanou remembers Ayase from four years ago, when Ayase, a stranger, helped him. Now Kanou wants to keep Ayase close to him in order to protect him, and uses the 1.2 billion debt to force Ayase to live with him. As Ayase is still a student and does not have a job, he is forced to sell his body to Kanou for 500,000 yen a time.

Characters

Kanou Somuku
Age:26
Birthday: July 24th
Horoscope: Leo
Blood type: O
Height: 195,3 cm
Weight: 83kg
Shoe size: 28 cm
Occupation: Running a financial firm.
Hobby: Work
Special ability: Normal permit. Dangerous item handling. Grade A licence
Highest education: University

A twenty-six year-old businessman who runs a financial firm in Shinjuku. He was saved by Ayase's kindness around four years ago, therefore saved Ayase when he was being auctioned off by buying him for 120 million Yen. In order to protect Ayase, he forced the 1.2 billion debt (plus a hefty interest of 10% every 10 days) on Ayase as a means to keep Ayase with him, and pays 500,000 Yen to Ayase each time they have sex.

He has a hard time trying to express his feelings towards Ayase due to his gruff, no-nonsense exterior, and particularly Ayase's naïveté and reluctance to accept a relationship between two guys. An extremely possessive and jealous person, Kanou forbids anyone to come close to Ayase without his permission and lets him go outside only begrudgingly. He is not above bullying or even manhandling Ayase if he happens to hurt his feelings. Nevertherless, Kanou is mostly kind and considerate towards Ayase and expresses his passionate affection towards said person without restraint.

Realizing that he has started off on the wrong foot by raping Ayase after the auction, he tries to make it up to him by doing various things with mixed results (i.e: solving Testuo's debt, and in the manga: buying Ayase new clothes, allowing him to attend summer classes, allowing Ayase to work).

In the released artbook, an interview with him shows that his motto is "perseverance brings success" and that he washes his right shoulder first when bathing.

Ayase Yukiya

Age: 18

Birthday: January 2

Horoscope: Capricorn

Blood type: B

Height: 160cm

Weight: 46.2kg

Shoe size: 24.5cm

Family members: Was living alone after Junior High. Now is living with Kanou-san.

Occupation: 1st year university student.

Personality: Gentle, leisurely, and sometimes restless. Easy-going, yet really stubborn.

Hobby: Thinking about gardening recently. Likes tomato or eggplant.

Special ability: Kanji official approval 2nd level. Is planning to take Chinese Language official approval test.

Highest education: Is a University student right now.

The eightteen year-old boy who was betrayed by his own cousin, Tetsuo, and was auctioned off to settle Tetsuo's debt. He was bought by Kanou for the price of 1.2 million Yen, and had to pay off the debt by having sex with Kanou for 500,000 Yen each time.

He had lost his parents in a young age and had a lonely childhood. Gentle and very naive, he has a hard time expressing himself to people and not very good at socializing. He tends to keep to himself and to act aloof towards people but Kanou has forced himself into his life. He also has a knack for getting in trouble mostly because he does not realize that men tend to feel a very strong sexual attraction to him when he's around.

He is confused about his relationship with Kanou and often feels guilty that he is involved with another guy. In the manga, he is currently trying to change his personality to be a bit more outgoing and more sociable. Gaining Kanou's permission, he is currently working part-time as a kitchen helper in Someya's store.

In the released artbook, an interview with him shows that his motto is "you can go far little by little" and that he washes his left arm first when bathing.

Ishii Tetsuo

Age: 20

Birthday: Nov 9

Horoscope: Scorpio

Blood type: B

Height: 177.3cm

Weight: 63kg

Shoe size: 25.5cm

Family members: Father & Mother

Occupation: University 2nd year student

Personality: Selfish with a lack of self-control.

Hobby: Gamble, guitar.

Special ability: Nothing particular.

Highest education completed: Currently in 2nd year of University.

Ayase's cousin. Since he only thinks of himself, he can't calmly analyze his surroundings. If he became a bit more calm and generous, even though he complains every now and then, he and Ayase might be a good relative match.

Ishii Rikako

Age: 44

Birthday: June 28

Horoscope: Cancer

Blood type: A

Height: 162cm

Weight: 48kg

Shoe size: 23.5cm

Family members: Husband and son

Occupation: Running a restaurant.

Personality: Although she thinks of herself as a victim, she's actually just self-centered.

Hobby: Shopping

Special ability: Nothing particular.

Highest education completed: High school graduate.

Ishii Tetsuo's mother, Ayase's aunt.

Kuba Homare and Kuba Misao

Age:25

Birthday: February 12th

Horoscope: Aquarius

Blood type: AB

Height: 184.4cm

Weight: 74kg

Shoe size: 27cm

Family members: Father and Mother. Others are secret.

Occupation: Work in a financial firm.

Personality of Homare: Pride is a powerful craft. Hates bowing to people.

Personality of Misao: Since he doesn't think about anything, it's impossible to determine. He also doesn't care about himself or others.

Homare's hobby: Cars

Misao's hobby: Fishing

Special ability of Homare: Normal permit. Truck license. Picking locks. Stealing cars.

Special ability of Misao: Normal permit. Truck license. Stealing cars.

Highest education: University

The twenty-five year-old twins who work for Kanou. Homare is the elder and displays more feeling and emotions compared to his younger brother.

Homare has shown to be violently attracted to Ayase (he almost kissed him on one occasion) but he never voices his true feelings ought of fear of Kanou's retaliation on him and Ayase, and ought of loyalty to his boss. However, Homare may openly take Ayase's defense and has already encouraged him to be more assertive in front of Kanou. Misao on the other hand, doesn't pay any attention whatsoever to the protagonists' relationship or to anybody else for that matter, even his own brother.

There is currently no way to differentiate Homare from Misao physically.

According to the released artbook, Homare tends to like anything to do with cars and Misao loves his food. The book also mentions Homare owning a 32 Skyline GT-R which costs around 5.9 million Yen.

Someya Kaoruko

Age: 24

Birthday: May 30th

Horoscope: Gemini

Blood type: A

Height: 175

Weight: Secret♥

Shoe size: 25cm

Family members: Father, Mother, two older brothers.

Occupation: Running a restaurant.

Personality: Loves beautiful things, but abusive.

Hobby: Kimono

Special ability: Normal permit

Highest education completed: University

The twenty-four year-old okama (male transvestite) who is Kanou's childhood friend. He owns an Okama bar and is currently employing Ayase as a part-time kitchen helper in the manga.

He apparently loves his father very much even though his father objects to him being an okama and opening an okama bar. He loves beautiful things and tries to improve the relationship of Kanou and Ayase by giving Kanou 'tips' (i.e: giving Kanou a book titled "How to take care of small animals" - because Ayase tends to resemble a small animal according to Kanou - when he was trying to get Ayase to open up to him. Though whether it was meant to be a joke or not is unknown) and by eventually becoming the couple's counselor of sorts. He always speaks abrasively to Kanou and often intercedes with him in favor of Ayase. He refers to Kanou as 'danna' (Japanese for 'Master') which is an informal way to refer to one's husband.

In the artbook, it is said that his most expensive item owned is a long-sleeved kimono which costs 3.3 million Yen.

Gion Toranosuke

Age: 22

Birthday: October 21st

Horoscope: Libra

Blood type: B

Height: 176.4 cm

Weight: 71kg

Shoe size: 26cm

Family members: Parents and elder sister

Occupation: Graduate school 1st year

Personality: Easy-going, ecstatic. Sometimes intelligent. Since he's good with reading the mood of the atmosphere, he's loved in many cases.

Hobby: Collecting fancy goods. Watching cute kids.

Special ability: Normal permit, junior high teacher license(science 1st year). Dangerous item handling-second grade, scout.

Highest education completed: Currently in graduate school PhD 1st year

The twenty-two year-old student who apparently works as a part-time cameraman. Although he addresses Kanou as 'nii-san' (Japanese for 'older brother'), he is not related to Kanou. He loves to record AV (Adult Videos) and thought Ayase was a girl the first time they meet when Kanou calls him. Despite often getting beaten up by Kanou, he displays an incessantly friendly behavior towards him and is not afraid to taunt and tease him from time to time. He also has developped a liking for Ayase and is especially grateful to him for having mellowed Kanou's merciless and aggressive personality.

In the artbook, the most expensive thing he owns is his camera which costs about 400,000 Yen. He also dreams of recording an AV of Kanou and Ayase.

Hayashida Naotoshi

Age: 52

Birthday: June 11

Horoscope: Gemini

Blood type: B

Height: 178,5cm

Weight: 82kg

Shoe size: 26cm

Family members: Wife and two daughters

Occupation: Running a restaurant

Personality: Naturally a boss

Hobby: Golf

Special ability: Cheat, normal permit

Highest education completed: University graduate

He's a competitor of Kanou, and the owner of Akushi. He often tries to make Kanou suffer, but ends up being pressed down instead. However, it also proves that he is tough and hates giving up.

Someya Kaoru

Age: 57

Birthday: August 26th

Horoscope: Virgo

Blood type: A

Height: 176.4cm

Weight: 68kg

Shoe size: 26cm

Family members: Wife, three sons and a dog

Occupation: Lawyer

Personality: Anxious, intelligent, Dislikes jokes

Hobby: Reading and collecting books. Swim.

Special ability: Regular permit

Highest education completed: University graduate.

Someya Kaoruko's father, is a childhood friend of Kanou's father. Thinks of Kanou as his own son. He has forgiven his third son for being an okama, and will lecture a bit when they meet. He's one of the few people who can speak to Kanou unsparingly. His career is successful, but his privat life seems to be the opposite.

Mizoguchi Eishou

Age: 41

Birthday: March 1st

Horoscope: Pisces

Blood type: O

Height: 181cm

Weight: 68kg

Shoe size: 26cm

Family members: Parents, elder sister and elder brother.

Occupation: Designer and shop owner

Personality: Likes little girls who follow their own aesthetic sense. Although he's friendly, he is also a "my pace" person who will do anything to achieve his goals.

Hobby: Let cute kids wear the clothes he designed.Take photos, operating a sewing machine.

Special ability: Sew. Design.

Highest education completed: Fashion design school graduate.

A man who dreams towards Ayase's thin chest. Is in his forties, but makes himself look really young. He decorated Kanou's apartment and picks his clothes.

Tokigawa Takaaki

Age: 19

Birthday: November 30th

Horoscope: Sagittarius

Blood type: A

Height: 173cm

Weight: 61 kg

Shoe size: 25.5cm

Family members: Parents and two elder sisters

Occupation: A formal University student

Personality: Collector. Will not show his thoughts.

Hobby: Watching Ayase.

Special ability: Stalk, take peeping photos.

Highest education completed: Quitt University during term.

Ayase's formal University friend. He has been secretly taking photos of Ayase since High school.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okane_ga_nai)

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Love Mode

Love Mode is a yaoi manga series by Shimizu Yuki.

Love Mode itself is a compilation of several stories (most often short) involving various degrees of gay couples. Every one of these couples is linked to an establishment known as the Blue Boy. The Blue Boy is a gay host club where anyone wielding enough money can hire out a very attractive man either to pretty up a party or for sex. Most of the couples consist of either hosts/ex-hosts, clients/ex-clients, or both.

Though all of the couples get a considerable amount of spotlight, without a doubt, the main focus of the story is the once dysfunctional Aoe family and their lovers. Aoe Reiji himself owns the Blue Boy and is the only main character to appear in all eleven volumes.

Character:

Sakashita Izumi
Sixteen years old, first appearance: Volume 1. Izumi was an average high school kid interested in meeting girls. He is set up on a blind date, thus meeting Takamiya Katsura, a handsome, older man. Izumi tries to back out, but he finds himself going out with Takamiya anyway and actually enjoying himself. As it would turn out, Takamiya was originally supposed to meet another person also named “Izumi” from a high-class gay dating club. Although Izumi opposes the idea of a homosexual relationship throughout most of the first volume, he finds himself slowly falling for Takamiya and eventually comes to terms with himself, loving Takamiya for the person he is. Still, Izumi is rather skittish about his relationship with Takamiya and often rejects the older man’s advances.


Takamiya Katsura
Twenty-eight years old, first appearance: Volume 1. He first met Sakashita Izumi when he was originally supposed to meet Yanase Izumi (see below), but fell in love the high schooler anyway. He is very kind, gentle, considerate, cares about Izumi’s feelings, and is enthusiastic to win Izumi’s heart. Although he often pushes his young lover’s boundaries, he doesn’t violate them. In a poll once hosted by Biblos, Takamiya got the most votes for someone female readers would want to marry. He and Reiji met while in college in England.

Aoe Reiji
Twenty-eight years old, first appearance: Volume 1. He’s the owner of several establishments and businesses, including the Blue Boy, the gay dating club responsible for Izumi and Takamiya’s happiness together. He’s also a long-time friend of Takamiya’s. Aoe is work-obsessed and often cold to those around him (particularly Izumi), but his actions and words always mean well. Reiji himself had topped the polls for the favorite seme in Biblos during Love Mode's run.

Shirakawa Naoya
First appearance: Volume 2. Orphaned at a young age when his parents died in an auto accident (a traumatic experience that haunted him for years), he was taken in by Aoe Reiji, “out of kindness.” As a result of Aoe’s charity, he fell in love with the older man. Naoya is well obedient to Aoe, and his brother Kiichi (see below). Naoya is often attributed to a cat (he also adopted a kitten Gyoku), known simply as the 'kitten' when people talk about Reiji's lover.

Yanase Izumi
First appearance: Volume 1. The “other” Izumi Takamiya was supposed to meet with from Aoe’s club. He’s tender and soft-spoken. He has a very troubled past: He was brutally raped at the age of thirteen because his parents couldn’t repay a Yakuza debt. He meets and falls in love with Arashi (see below), but couldn’t decide if he could fully express himself to him because he feared Arashi’s family couldn’t cope with their gay son, and because of his past. Due to his health problems and his falling in love with Arashi, Izumi retires from Blue Boy.

Iketani Arashi
First appearance: Volume 3. He’s a carefree, laid-back, playful high schooler who thinks Yanase Izumi is cute, even though he’s a guy. Even after learning of Izumi’s troubled past, he lets Izumi know he doesn’t care about it and that he loves Izumi for who he is now, and even offers himself to ease the pain.

Aoe Kiichi
Thirty-one years old, first appearance: volume 2. A doctor, Aoe Reiji’s elder brother, the self-professed "Queen of Aoe", and a close friend of Yanase Izumi and Naoya, both of whom he tenderly endears. He thinks of Naoya as another brother. Kiichi is always concerned about Reiji, and is often pokey about his (other’s) business. He’s playful, too. He's the one who came up with the kitten nickname for Naoya. He served once as doctors to both Yanase Izumi and Saginuma Tomoki.

Kashima Haruomi
Twenty-eight years old, first appearance: volume 3. He’s the offspring of a family who previously served the “Aoe” family. He is the adopted, elder brother of Kashima Shuei (see below), current housekeeper of “Aoe,” and Kiichi’s personal bodyguard and lover. He was prepared for his position since childhood, as he learned several kinds of martial arts and other essential abilities (it’s somewhat of a tradition for any member of “Aoe”). Haroumi is generally calm and solemn, in contrast to Kashima.

Kashima Shuei
Twenty-seven years old, first appearance: Volume 2. He is Aoe Reiji’s personal secretary, and works for the “Aoe” house, like Haruomi. He's one of the most carefree individuals in Love Mode, seemingly immune to Reiji's anger and readily joining in Kiichi's antics. He’s also the only heterosexual guy in the entire series.

Takimura Rin
First appearance: Volume 7. He’s a host of Aoe’s Blue Boy, and became the number one uke after Yanase Izumi retired. He’s cute, but has a nasty temper, and he accepts only high-class customers and doesn’t welcome sexual relationship requests. However, since Ian (see below) has signed him up for a long-term contract, it seems Ian is the only club member Rin has ever actually had any relationship with. Rin is reserved and well mannered, but easily irritated when coupling with Ian. He was raised by Jin (see below), who is Rin’s primary consultant in several matters.

Ian Sanders
Seventeen years old, first appearance: Volume 7. Even at the age of seventeen, he is one of the world’s most famous super-models. He requested Izumi of the Blue Boy, but got Rin instead. Ian is a passionate young man, and bursting with energy and testosterone, which Rin doesn’t take too well to.

Katsuki Kyosuke
First appearance: Volume 7. The “Wild Boar” of the series, he falls in love with Jin (see below) at first sight. Katsuki looks to become a host at Blue Boy, with Jin as his personal trainer. He’s friends with Seiichi (see below), and he also cries easily when he’s drunk.

Kuniaki Jinnai
Thirty-six years old, first appearance: Volume 6. Called “Jin” for short, he’s the oldest host at Blue Boy. He’s also the number two seme, after Seiichi (see below). His first love was originally an Arab prince. Jin never shared his love for over an entire decade, until he met Katsuki.

Saginuma Tomoki
1 Fourteen years old, first appearance: Volume 6. He was the son of a famous actress, but his existence was never revealed. Suffering from a terminal illness, he wanted to know what it was like to be truly loved as his last wish. Kiichi was his doctor, and hired Seiichi, whom Tomoki first met at a hospital when Seiichi went to see Yanase Izumi, to be his lover for two weeks. This came to a screeching halt when Tomoki’s sickness got the better of him. But he decided to return home instead of the hospital, and lived the final chapter of his life with Seiichi. To date, Tomoki is most likely the youngest client Blue Boy has ever had.

Amagai Seiichi
First appearance: Volume 6. He’s the number one on the seme side of the Blue Boy. Kiichi hired him to be young Tomoki’s lover for a two-week period, and was confused about his feelings toward the boy after the contract expired prematurely. Seiichi followed Jin’s advice to retire from Blue Boy and stay with Tomoki as a spouse, but returned to work after Tomoki predeceased him. He is also good friends with Katsuki.

Aoe Shougo
Reiji and Kiichi's father, and the person responsible for the existence of the Blue Boy. A coldly manipulative and sadistic person, he enjoyed profiting off the misery and ruin of others. He had almost no relationship with either of his sons and only saw value in Reiji, whom he believed could both run the family and carry on the Aoe name. He saw Kiichi as more of something just there and imprisoned him on the family grounds for a few years. Though Shougo ended up leaving everything to Reiji, Reiji only took hold of the businesses and gave the Aoe estate to Kiichi.

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Mode)

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