Deep Love: Ayu no Monogatari

Deep Love: Ayu's Story was very realistic. fast-paced, and tragic - so much so that I'd classify it as a psychologically realistic horror story. There is not a joyous part to be found in the entire 8 chapters. It's one blow to the heart after another. Tears will stream down your face so much that not only will you need tissue for you nose but a towel for your tears.

Some characters reach so far out to you with their story and their past that you pray they can live until the next chapter. This was - I admit - well done at first but got a bit old after a while. It still, however, didn't lose the theme that money kills but so do people.

The art wasn't impressive to me. The eyes were drawn in a style I didn't warm up to and some scenes were hard to follow.

I read this story with the anticipation of obtaining a better perception of my own life and for inspiration for my story, but in the end it made me cry and cry even more for the fact that it was a realistic story.

It's not really a must-read, but I recommend it.

Deep Love - Ayu no Monogatari is definitely not your typical girl-finds-guy and falls in love type of romance manga. I started reading with that mindset, and after 8 chapters, I was blown away. Deep Love - Ayu no Monogatari was not only atypical, but delivers such deep themes and story to readers that will fill you with either sympathy, happiness, or anguish by the time you finish.

The story is quite simple and straightforward. Ayu is a teenage girl who finds life meaningless, and thus sells her body in a society she sees as decadent and immoral. However, an encounter with a granny changes her views, and, after listening to the granny's story of her long lost lover, Ayu becomes determined to change for the better. This is actually quite a bright summary, but the actual story isn't such a clean pavement. Many things happen along the way that will make you both love and detest Deep Love - Ayu no Monogatari.

The art is quite clean and beautiful. The mangaka pays very little attention to detail, and as such, I was browsing through each page quite quickly. This is not bad however, as it offers very clean pages and very simple, but appealing backgrounds in each panel, which keeps your focus more on the story and its characters, which are the strong points of this manga.

Despite how short this manga was, character development, that is, Ayu's development, is fantastic. I really sympathized with her as she struggled through the chapters. Ayu truly came alive in Deep Love - Ayu no Monogatari.

Overall, Deep Love - Ayu no Monogatari was very enjoyable. Its story, characters, and the themes on morality and suffering, all of it was just remarkable.

My hands literally can't stop shaking and my head can't wrap itself after I read this manga like it is so so sad man. We see a young schoolgirl being handled by shady people as well as having unprotected sex with dirty b**tards for the sake of money. My non continuous question throughout reading this manga, where was her parents in all of this taking place??!!!!!!

She then befriends the old woman and then later on, she befriends her adopted son Yoshiyoki who has a chronic illness (there was not much information about the cause). To tell you the truth, I f*cking hated Yoshiyoki's father for being a nasty d*uchebag towards Ayu and using her as a toy just like the rest of the men she unfortunately encountered.

This manga not only made me really upset but very angry like I can't put it into proper words of what to say. It makes you just feel helpless because it is sadly enough happening in our world💔💔💔💔

Well i finished few mangas in my life and after finishing this i could tell it would be masterpiece even if i finished 100+.

Story follow girl that sells body,use heroin, falling in * narco trap * ( when you need to get money for someone who is drug addict ),stealing,... but everything she does is for someone else except prostitution.She is the girl that everyone hates just because, no reason or anything.Like for example * you are selling your body * so they hate her...But actually she is angel which thinking influenced thinking of others about her.It's very, very, very, very sad story if you ask me.

Art: well art is beautifull to me, every single detail is there.But a little thing is about words in manga, they are kinda confusing to me ( maybe cause im not used to them ? )

Character: Characters are awesome, everyone once felt like Ayu or Yoshiyuki or dreamed about story similar to this one ( booth have sad destiny but it is what it is ) and if they say they didn't felt like them or didn't think about similar scenario THEY ARE 100% LYING no matter what they say.
I don't know what to say except they are living different life than .. normal " so their feeling and persona is adjusted to that.

Enjoyment: i finished this manga in a blink of an eye, it was awesome and it just kept attacking me with those feels, definetlly worth reading.

Overall: well i'm not that much intro manga but overall of this one to me is fu*king great, or should i say outstanding :) didn't regret reading it at all, matter of fact i'm so glad that i finished it. So yeah i recommend it to anyone.

This is the first story of the deep love series, i highly recommend you start with this as to not confuse the order the order of the manga.

This is an unforgettable manga which shows the heart -touching , TRAGIC life of the protagonist. Brave , determined characters are found in this manga who inspire you with their strong wills , decisions and actions.

However this manga describes a deeply tragic life. And sad incidents around the protagonist. All the deep love mangas contain different and painful situations and happenings
I promise you , If you cry easily ( Which I do :') you'll be drenched in TEARS throughout the entire deep love manga.

I'm shocked. I didn't expect this manga to be so different from any manga I've read. The plot itself is very interesting and different but the ending is very well-thought in my opinion.

Ayu is a teenage girl that has no dreams, who doesn't aim for happiness and is involved in prostitution. The athmosphere is well presented and you can feel so much emotion like the emptiness, despair, misery, new founded hope by many characters. The story also gives a good life lesson, the choices you make have consequences whether you like it or not and not everyone in a bad place is a bad person, people do anything to survive, fill the void in their hearts in this cruel world.

The art is pretty, clean and easy to understand. I'm pleasantly surprised by the greatness of character development.

I recommend it if you're not a young person or have a traumatic experience that may get you triggered when reading this manga. Given the plot, it has nudity but not too much that you will feel discomfort. If you're not either of those, give this a shot!

After reading a review that compared Deep Love to a car wreck, that alone was enough to spike my interest. It was on the last page that I realized why it was like a car wreck. At the end you’re left there frozen in your tracks staring, at nothing, long after the car and everyone else is gone. Unable to form any coherent thoughts just a dumbstruck expression on your face.

That’s what Ayu’s life was, a huge accident, one you see coming long before it hits you, yet you’re there staring at it getting closer because you are so stunned by its complexity. Wondering, trying to pinpoint the exact point in time in the story her life spiraled out of control and coming out blank because there are so many you wouldn’t even know where to start or end.

Who was Ayu? A lost girl, who believed love was pointless. Living alone, selling her body for money not because she needed it, but because she felt insignificant. All that mattered to her was getting money, in her life that‘s what made the world go round. Not knowing that there was more to existing than just breathing and looking out only for yourself. Life has something new in store for Ayu and it comes in the form of an old lady’s kindness.

The word love gets thrown around everywhere in manga (in my share of read ones anyway) . In this case it’s not the romantic type of love, it’s the other kind. The type that’s so rare, yet a lot of us have it but take it for granted, not giving it a second thought. Not until we lose it. I was more surprised at myself, that I enjoyed Ayu’s story so much, even though it is the story of a girls sorrowful life and not a romantic comedy. It’s Ayu picking herself up just to be slammed to the ground again by an invisible force. The choices she makes to change her life, ones she regrets and ones she would do all over again.

This isn’t the type of story you laugh through, actually there are only smiles and heartwarmings, no LOL moments. If you want to laugh or feel all warm and fussy this is far from it. It’s a cruel life where the decisions you make will catch up to you, and I think that’s where this mangaka got it right. Life is unfair and sometimes will give you very few reasons to smile and though you might feel closed up and trapped, like Ayu, there is always someone who cares.

The art was a little on the plain side, but that same art showed me a cover that dared me to read it, a girl crying, for a second I thought I saw wrong. Let me be the first to point out that when a manga first words are, “Care to give me a blow,” it is bound to have some ecchiness. Guaranteed even. Though graphic in context at times it never shows any nudity, not in the completely naked anyway. It’s about her story, uncensored.

When all is said and done, though I agree with the car wreck, for me it was more like getting punched in the face and you don’t know who did it. In the end you’re left angry and stupefied at realistically sad story of a girl named Ayu.

That being said this is the best quote that sums up what this manga is about:

“Appreciation is the purest, and strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that ask for nothing and gives everything. It is the antidote to fear. Although fear was the first feeling that developed during evolution, love is believed to be the second.”

Synopsis: A 17 year old girl, named Ayu, is selling her body for money. She is depressed, doesn't believe in happiness, and thinks that the world is rotten and that the only way to make it in this rotten, immoral world is to become rotten yourself. She thinks that love is nothing more than an unwanted burden that will get in the way of her job. She leads a miserable life, until she meets a very kind old lady, and an abandoned dog whose tongue has been cruelly cut out...
Just from observing the old lady, her persistence, and will to do good, Ayu starts to change, both herself and her opinion of the world...

*end synopsis*

*enter opinions*

This manga basically completely and utterly reveals the sad truth of the world today. I think I liked it so much (and still do) because it is a tragic, romantic story of redemption.

I really liked the powerful emotions it evokes. They are really easy to relate too. Although in the manga, the emotions are a bit extreme, many of us (by which I mean humans) have experienced the emotional trauma on a lesser scale.

All the major characters are brilliant. They each personify an undeniable truth of the world. One portrays the absolute doubting and untrusting nature of humans. Another depicts our ability and willingness to persevere through hardship for a higher cause. The third clearly shows that we must enjoy what time we have, because it's our most precious and the scarcest of all resources.

The entire story is like a roller coaster. It has its ups and downs, and by the end you wish that it hadn't ended, or, sometimes you even wish that you hadn't gone on it at all. But, as with roller coasters, you'll remember the thrill that you got while riding it, and you'll find yourself wanting to ride it (or, in this case, read it) again.

I believe that this is possibly the best manga I've ever read. I know it's definitly in the top three. Of my three candidates, this is the one that grabbed me and controlled my emotions the best.

I give it a 10 and advise any manga fan to read it.

NOTE: THIS STORY IS NOT FOR YOUNGER AUDIENCES! IT'S RATED MATURE FOR GOOD REASON! PLEASE USE GOOD JUDGEMENT AS TO WHEN AND WHERE YOU READ IT! (Remember what the main character does for a living!)

*Spoiler alert* - Just to be safe. :P

"To the homeless man, Ayu must have looked like an angel-one who radiates pure, deep love from inside."

If there's one word I would use to describe 'Deep Love: Ayu no Monogatari' it would be tragic. The story of Ayu's life is filled with tragedy: tragic people, tragic circumstances and tragic ways of thinking. However in this world filled with tragedy Ayu finds a light to fuel her love with certain characters she meets whom she shares some absolutely heartwarming moments with. With these characters Ayu finds a light to ignite her pure, deep love which was seemingly burnt out.

"Happiness? What is that? Can't you live without it?"

What happens when someone is headed in a good direction after drowning in the mud for so long? You find yourself yearning for her to find this happiness she doesn't seem to know of, happiness she feels she can live without. You're taken on a journey through Ayu's numbed, colourless life and you watch as she learns that happiness and love are possible for her which is quite a lovely journey to follow but but life isn't simple and life isn't easy and relapse in most cases is inevitable.

"Even in a dirty city they'll bloom if they try hard to."

This manga is simply a great depiction of life and I guess that's why I enjoyed it so much. It doesn't show a life where everything is sunshine and rainbows and it doesn't even show a life where things start out muddy but everything becomes clear in the end and all is well. It shows a life where if you're willing to let yourself find a way to bloom in the dirtiest of situations, then you'll find a way to smile even if it's just for a moment. Ayu finds reasons to smile, reasons to cry and this drives her to bloom and love and find something to protect... something to live for.

Now I'm not too great at rating things but I'll give it a go:

Story: 9/10
I suppose the thing with more realistic stories is that you aren't always going to complete the story and feel fulfilled because you aren't guaranteed that happy or enlightening ending which can often leave you feeling a little empty once you finish it. However I am personally okay with that. My main criticism is that there are certain panels/sentences in the manga I think were unnecessary and took away from the mood of the story, this could have easily been avoided. But overall I thought the story was really well done, tragic yet heartwarming in all the right places.

Art: 10/10
The art is terrific, perhaps a little rough and sharp but that is by no means a criticism as it definitely suits the manga perfectly. Honestly I didn't expect to rate this a 10 as this isn't really my preferred type of art for a manga but I'm not rating my personal taste here.

Character: 10/10
Another 10, what is happening to me? I'm usually not so lenient with rating 10's haha. I think the characters are portrayed exactly how the mangaka's intended and that is exactly why this comes to a 10. While I personally really loved most of the main characters there were also many minor characters I hated but I believe this hatred and love is all intentional. Whilst I usually dislike stories where I'm basically being told who to hate and who to love, that black and white type of writing works in this as your feelings towards characters doesn't feel forced at all.

Enjoyment: 9/10
I thoroughly enjoyed this manga. Most people seem to complain about this manga being to short but I find stories like this are best done when they are short so I personally think it was the perfect length, any more and it would have possible turned into a train wreck of a story seemingly directionless or just been too overwhelming. My criticism is the same as my 'story' rating.

Which comes to a 9/10 for the overall story. I'll say if you enjoy a more realistic story and aren't afraid to let yourself experience 'dem feels' then you should give this manga a go. It's short and *bitter*sweet but well worth your time. :)

Let me begin by stating that this review is for all the Deep Love Mangas (Ayu no Monogatari, Host, Reina no Unmei). This is my first review and i chose this manga to appraise, because it was the first one that made me cry.

I won't state the contents here, because it's difficult to describe without revealing something. Just read it yourself! I'd say you have to read it, because these topics are current and concern everybody.

The drawings aren't cute, but very pretty. The characters develop throughout the Manga.
Love and friendship play an important role. First they seem to perish due to the cruel storyline but in the end you'll think how necessary friends and family are.

The story gets worse with every page you read. It's babaric, horrifying and endlessly sad.
I don't know if you're going to cry when reading this. But i know you're gonna be touched by this awesome Manga.
You will think about it several days and won't ever forget it!