Minamoto-kun Monogatari

Minamoto-kun Monogatari (源君物語) is an ongoing Japanese erotic seinen manga series written and illustrated by Minori Inaba. It's published by Shueisha, with serialization on Weekly Young Jump magazine and with seven volumes compiling the chapters released so far. It's published in French by Soleil^[1] and in German by Panini Comics.^[2]

Plot

Terumi Minamoto is a young man who never got intimate with a woman before, always having bad experiences from his encounters with them. When moving to the house of his aunt Kaoruko, Terumi is dragged by her into a special project in which he must seduce fourteen different women in the same fashion of the protagonist of The Tale of Genji.

Characters

Main Characters

Terumi Minamoto (源光海, Minamoto Terumi)^[1]

The main male protagonist, Terumi is a university student who was always bullied by girls in school, thus he never got intimate with a woman until he moved to Kaoruko's house, where he is tasked by her to collaborate with her project of re-enacting The Tale of Genji in real life, while losing his fear of women in the occasion.

Kaoruko Fujiwara (藤原香子, Fujiwara Kaoruko)^[1]

The main female protagonist, she is Terumi's aunt and a literature teacher at his university, specialized in researching The Tale of Genji. She recruits Terumi to participate in her experiment by seducing fourteen different women, each related to one of Genji's lovers from the tale. A quite beautiful and mature woman herself, Kaoruko shows no bounds in helping Terumi to get more used to the opposite sex, to the point of using her own body to do it, despite the fact that they are aunt and nephew.

Targets

Labeled as "Targets" by Kaoruko, each one of them share some similarities with one of the women seduced by Hikaru Genji, and she instructs Terumi to get into relationships with them, for the sake of her research.

Asahi Momozono (桃園 朝日, Momozono Asahi, 21-year-old)

The first target and Terumi's cousin, she was close friends with him when they were kids, but got separated since then. After several failed attempts to seduce her, Terumi hears from her that she will only accept being his girlfriend if they do not have sex at all, to which he refuses. While Terumi got himself busy with other targets, she eventually develops feelings for him.

Aoi Kiriyama (桐山 葵, Kiriyama Aoi, 24 year old)

Kaoruko's friend and the second target, she owns her own nail salon and because of this, she is too busy to take care of her house chores, thus Terumi offers himself to be her assistant in order to get close to her. However, Aoi has a father complex which ends up hindering his plans to have sex with her. She is based on Aoi no Ue from the Tale of Genji.

Chisato Hanada (花田 千里, Hanada Chisato, 18 year old)

The third target, Hanada works at a Soba Shop while studying Home Economics at Terumi's university. She is very counscious of her large breasts and thus is very shy around others. She eventually becomes Terumi's first real girlfriend, as well as the first with whom to have sex properly. Terumi once considered stopping the Genji project in order to have a continuous relationship with her, but he ends up learning that despite enjoying his company, she does not truly loves him, thus prompting him to move on with it.

Miya Rokujou (六条 美也, Rokujou Miya, 25 year old)

The fourth target, Miya is a gorgeous, 25 year old teacher who works at Terumi's university as the Information Processing Tutor. She once was Terumi's teacher at high school and since then developed an obsession with him. After spending some time living with her, Terumi leaves her in order to continue with the Genji project, a fact that she is aware, and usually stalks him since then. She is based on Lady Rokujo from the Tale of Genji.

Shian Kowaka (小若 紫亜, Kowaka Shian, 10 year old)

The fifth target, Kowaka ia a 10 year old girl with a very innocent, polite and cute personality. Kaoruko chose her because she wanted Terumi to become more used to younger women after his bad experience with Rokujou, and due to her similarities with Murasaki from the Tale of Genji.

Iyo Semi (瀬見 伊予, Semi Iyo, 27 year old)

The sixth target, Semi works as a shop clerk at the university and is involved with an unknown man for a long time, unable to properly deal with her relationship with him, until spending the night with Terumi.

Yuu Tokonatsu (常夏 夕, Tokonatsu Yuu, 22 year old)

The seventh target, she works as a fitness instructor and was always sick when she was younger, thus not having any experience at all with men, until meeting Terumi and becoming his girlfriend, much to Miya's envy. Terumi's relationship with Yuu made him decide to quit the Genji project for her sake, but she receives a job proposal that she can't refuse and is forced to move to Osaka.

Hana Suetsumu (末摘 華, Suetsumu Hana, 20 year old)

The eighth target, she is a sophomore in the broadcasting department at Terumi's university and aspires to become a voice actress. She was looking for a partner for an audition practice for a role in a video game and Kaoruko recommends Terumi for the task with the intent of getting them close.

Other Characters

Tsukiko (月子, Tsukiko)

Asahi's close friend and writes erotic novels. She finds Terumi as a good source material for her novel.

Her family name is not published.

Tsukasa Chuujou (中将 つかさ, Chuujou Tsukasa)

The reason for his fear of women and milk. After six years Terumi finds out that she is a student in the same university and she is having affair with one of the professor. A brief confrontation reveals that she has completely forgotten about him. Offended that the cause of his trauma has forgotten about him, Terumi wants her to fall in love with him.

After Terumi cross dress as a girl and stealing away the man Tsukasa was after Termuri had conquered his trauma and even making Tsukasa have affection for him after he kissed her in public and show that the man she was after was more concerned with his position as a teacher than her.

Murakami (村上, Murakami)

Terumi's classmate and close friend. The reason he enrolled to the school was just to be close to Kaoruko, his ideal woman he wants to lose his virginity to.

Murakami is a Japanese family name. His first name has not been published.

Volumes

• 1 (April 19, 2012)^[3]
• 2 (October 19, 2012)^[4]
• 3 (April 19, 2013)^[5]
• 4 (October 18, 2013)^[6]
• 5 (April 18, 2014)^[7]
• 6 (October 17, 2014)^[8]
• 7 (April 17, 2015)^[9]

Reception

Volume 3 reached the 48th place on the weekly Oricon manga charts and, as of April 20, 2013, had sold 24,973 copies;^[10] volume 4 reached the 27th place^[11] and, as of October 27, 2013, had sold 53,436 copies;^[12] volume 5 reached the 24th place^[13] and, as of April 27, 2014, had sold 61,646 copies;^[14] volume 6 reached the 34th place and, as of October 19, 2014, had sold 35,693 copies;^[15] volume 7 reached the 25th place^[16] and, as of April 26, 2015, had sold 65,645 copies.^[17]

On manga-news.com, the series has a staff rating of 15 out of 20.^[1] On Manga Sanctuary, it has a staff rating from one staff member of 6 out of 10.^[18]

References

External links

• Minamoto-kun Monogatari (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia