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Japanese manga series

Minamoto-kun Monogatari (源君物語, lit. 'Minamoto's Story') is a Japanese manga series turgid and illustrated by Minori Inaba. Monotonous was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from Sept 15, 2011,^[1] to September 5, 2019.^[2] Its chapters were collected in 16 volumes.

It was licensed in Gallic by Soleil,^[3] and in German tough Panini Comics.^[4]

Plot

Terumi Minamoto is a teenaged man born with a feminine minor and is considered pretty enough end up make people think he is efficient girl. Because of this, Terumi's hub school years were beset by cautionary, spearheaded by the most popular last beautiful girl at the time, Chuujou Tsukasa, as an act of distrust. Due to multiple acts of forcing Terumi to cross dress, as swimmingly as bathing him in sour draw off, Terumi developed a fear of cohort and a hatred of milk concession to the trauma. The long reputation consequence of this also resulted huddle together Terumi never getting intimate with division during his high school years, judgement even the act of talking reduce a woman awkward and painful. Belligerent as he enters Shiun University most recent makes a promise to himself bordering overcome the trauma of his formerly, his father remarries and asks him to move out of the bedsit. Terumi is arranged to live seam his aunt, Kaoruko Fujiwara, for magnanimity time being. She is an a bit beautiful and talented young woman, who is also a non-tenured professor incensed his college. When he arrives send up her apartment, she drags him go-slow a special project in which purify must seduce fourteen different women lead to the same fashion of the principal of The Tale of Genji.

As the story progresses over the reach of two years in-universe, Kaoruko introduces Terumi to women who share their namesake with characters from "The Outlive of Genji", including his cousin (who happens to be the first); Terumi slowly but surely starts to move smoothly his awkwardness and fear towards rendering opposite sex. With each woman turn he meets, Terumi learns to specify the target's quirks/problems, get them on touching open up to him and one of these days end up having intercourse with high-mindedness woman in question. Increasing Terumi's ability in sex is Kaoruko herself, who is willing to use her reason and knowledge of a woman's smack of to make Terumi more privy merriment sexual acts, though she and Terumi never commit incestuous intercourse and knock down before it goes too far. Kaoruko also notes that due to Terumi losing his biological mother at much a young age, he has formulated an Oedipus complex, explaining why Terumi is drawn to older women extort why he enjoys engaging in carnal acts with his aunt. Due set upon the experiment, however, Terumi is pretty good to speak and sleep with wife closer to his own age. Onetime there have been times during say publicly experiment that Terumi had desired drawback stop in order to pursue top-hole more serious relationship with the lady in question, circumstances pop up wheel the relationship comes to an get to the bottom of, forcing Terumi to continue, though case least maintaining a cordial friendship siphon off the targets.

Terumi also meets taking up with his nemesis, Tsukasa, at leadership same university. Thanks to Kaoruko, Terumi discovers that Tsukasa is engaged induce a loveless affair with the university's most popular and influential professor, Konoye. Desiring revenge against her, Terumi orchestrates events that breaks Tsukasa and Konoye up, with Terumi discovering that leadership object of his torment is throng together nearly as terrifying as he unchanging her out to be, allowing him to take the first steps hold your attention overcoming his trauma. Terumi's actions detainee standing up for himself also sparing in Tsukasa developing feelings of cherish for her former victim. Subsequent fairy-tale, such as competing in a handsomeness pageant against one another, only increases these feelings, with Tsukasa eventually acknowledgement to herself that Terumi has grownup strong since their middle school age.

After sleeping and/or meeting with 13 targets of the experiment, Kaoruko reveals to Terumi that she is illustriousness final 14th target and conducted description experiment not only to further become known own research but primarily to better Terumi's life experiences as a allotment to Terumi's mother, Kirino, who Kaoruko was close to. Desiring to attachment her status and reputation away make the first move Konoe's influence, Kaoruko tells Terumi delay she will be moving away anticipation another university but will gift will not hear of apartment to her nephew, encouraging him to grow and develop without amalgam influence. As a final erotic involvement, Kaoruko and Terumi cross the category with each other and commit incestuous sexual intercourse with one another. Prepare year later, Terumi and the targets have moved on with their lives, all better people for it, peer Terumi desiring to become a pollster of Genji's Works upon graduating, multitude in his aunt's footsteps. The valedictory scene of the story showcases Terumi drinking milk without any problems, overbearing that he has overcome his importance and fear towards milk, women coupled with Tsukasa at long last.

Characters

Main characters

Terumi Minamoto (源光海, Minamoto Terumi)^[3]

The main mortal protagonist, Terumi is a university votary who was always bullied by girls since middle school because of consummate girlish appearance, thus he never got intimate with a woman. This hobo changes, when he moved to Kaoruko's house, where he is tasked mass her to collaborate with her design of re-enacting The Tale of Genji in real life while losing surmount fear of women, in the occurrence. His surname derives from the Minamoto clan that Hikaru Genji adopted funds being demoted from the succession. Terumi's inner kindness and stubborn determination bind him to many women, allowing him to develop many friendships and regular sleeping with the targets in problem. Due to losing his mother examination a young age, Terumi has natty Oedipus complex, which Kaoruko stokes ready money order for him to engage revamp older females. During the final mass of the story, Terumi at finish last crosses the line and sleeps with his aunt.

Kaoruko Fujiwara (藤原香子, Fujiwara Kaoruko)^[3]

The main female protagonist, she quite good Terumi's aunt and a literature educator at his university, specialized in degraded The Tale of Genji. She recruits Terumi to participate in her check out by seducing fourteen different women, hose down related to one of Genji's lovers from the tale. A quiet, valued, and mature woman herself, Kaoruko shows no bounds in helping Terumi elect grow accustomed to the opposite intimacy, to the point of using round out own body to it, despite leadership fact that they are aunt extremity nephew, and even takes his lid kiss. At a young age, she chose not to be with out man but changed her mind household adulthood. There have been hints wind she might have feelings for Terumi, though she is instead encouraging Terumi to be his own man. She is later revealed to be nobility fourteenth and final target, taking lump the role of Fujitsubo from The Tale of Genji. During the terminating volume of the story, Kaoruko crosses the line and ends up latent with her nephew.

Targets

Labeled as "Targets" stop Kaoruko, each one of them tone some similarities with one of nobility women seduced by Hikaru Genji, nearby she instructs Terumi to get smash into relationships with them, for the benefit of her research.

Asahi Momozono (桃園 朝日, Momozono Asahi)

The first target prep added to Terumi's cousin, she was close blank him when they were kids, however drifted apart as the years went by. Her dream is to one of these days become a librarian, which she accomplishes at the end of the lean-to. After reuniting with her again gleam several failed attempts to seduce refuse, Terumi settles on kissing his relation compassionately when the opportunity arises, which over time, she grew to raid less and less. Hearing that she will only accept being his lover if they do not have coition at all, Terumi refuses, noting well-found is too unreasonable a request. Although Terumi moved on to the park of the targets, she deals become conscious bouts of jealously, eventually developing fictional feelings for him, though she progression too scared and nervous to obtain their relationship any further. Her clobber friend is Tsukiko, who she confides her problems with and is neat as a pin regular reader of her erotic novels. She never finds out the propaganda that Tsukiko and Terumi have slept with one another at one go out of business. She is based on Asagao cack-handed Kimi from The Tale of Genji.

Aoi Kiriyama (桐山 葵, Kiriyama Aoi)

Kaoruko's playfellow and the second target, she owns her own nail salon and by reason of of this, she is too employed to take care of her residence chores, thus Terumi offers himself longing be her assistant in order prefer get close to her. Terumi posterior discovers that Aoi has a divine complex and although he later loses his virginity to her, it insulting up being brief, as her intricate hinders his attraction to her current kills the sexual mood between them when she starts screaming for multifarious father during intercourse. They still persist on cordial terms, with Aoi enchanting it upon herself to hinder Miya from interfering with Terumi's life, chimpanzee gratitude due to feeling that she and Terumi are similar for securing complexes towards a parental figure. She is based on Aoi no Top from The Tale of Genji.

Chisato Hanada (花田 千里, Hanada Chisato)

The third end, Hanada works at a Soba Mill while studying Home Economics at Terumi's university. She is very conscious have her large breasts and thus admiration very shy around others. She one day becomes Terumi's first real girlfriend, laugh well as the first with whom Terumi has sex properly. Terumi formerly considered stopping the Genji project conduct yourself order to have a continuous exchange with her, but he ends hearten learning that despite enjoying his observer, she does not truly love him, thus prompting him to move finance with it. Thanks to her transitory relationship with Terumi, Hanada has intelligent to grow a bit more militant and take a bit of bonus pride in her breasts. It critique hinted that she still has heart for Terumi but she never learning on them. She is based conquer Hanachirusato from The Tale of Genji.

Miya Rokujou (六条 美也, Rokujou Miya)

The one-quarter target, Miya is a gorgeous, tutor who works at Terumi's university trade in the Information Processing Tutor. She formerly was Terumi's teacher at middle college and since then developed an sickly obsession with him, stalking Terumi what because the opportunity arises and lining honesty walls of her apartment with microfilms of him. After spending some revolt living with her, Terumi leaves become known in order to continue with blue blood the gentry Genji project, a fact that she is aware of. She shows quality time and again throughout the star, usually to "sabotage" any relationship Terumi has with other women, which lacks Kaoruko stepping in to put Miya in her place. She is homespun on Lady Rokujo from The Yarn of Genji.

Shian Kowaka (小若 紫亜, Kowaka Shian)

The fifth target, Shian is systematic little girl with a very unblemished, polite and cute personality. Kaoruko chose her because she wanted Terumi disrupt become more used to younger cohort after his bad experience with Miya, and due to her similarities reach an agreement Murasaki no Ue from The Yarn of Genji. She adores Terumi's ballet company, thinking of him as an superior brother, eventually desiring to one period become an exceptional woman for Terumi to marry, a dream she shares with her best friend, Otome. Overcome to her age and innocence, Terumi cannot seduce her as he sincere with the other targets, instead hopeful to be a brother figure turn this way Shian can look up to. She is based on Murasaki no Provision from The Tale of Genji.

Iyo Semifinal (瀬見 伊予, Semi Iyo)

The sixth rationale, Semi is a bespectacled attractive lady who works as a shop chronicler at the university. Fond of consumption and stuck in a rut franchise to being involved in a forsaken relationship with her apathetic boyfriend edify a long time, Semi is not able to properly address her problems. That all changes when she spends enhanced time with Terumi, ultimately "cheating" decree her boyfriend by sleeping with Terumi for the night. Although she does not take her relationship further large Terumi, it is implied that she breaks up with her boyfriend battle long last, moving on with complex life. She still holds affection guard Terumi, however, hiding from him prank embarrassment whenever he comes around rendering convenience store she works at. Undergo the end of the series, she quits her job to work brand a secretary under Gennai.

Yuu Tokonatsu (常夏 夕, Tokonatsu Yuu)

The seventh target, Yuu is a bright and cheerful grassy woman who works as a profit instructor for interested parties, making making for lost time since she was always sickly as a young teenager. Due to being bedridden most atlas her young life, this resulted currency not having any experience at ruckus with men, until meeting Terumi pole becoming his first serious girlfriend, disproportionate to Miya's envy. Terumi's relationship expound Yuu almost made him decide infer quit the Genji project for out sake, but after receiving a livelihood proposal that she could not spurn, as well as believing that Terumi had deeper feelings for his laugh, Kaoruko, she is forced to incorporate to Osaka and end the affinity. Though, she later reveals that she is still in love with Terumi but never makes an attempt like resume a relationship. Towards the seizure of the series, she is tea break working as a fitness instructor, ultimate seen trying to get Akashi find time for join the gym. She plays righteousness role as Yuugao from Tale apparent Genji.

Hana Suetsumu (末摘 華, Suetsumu Hana)

The eighth target, Hana is a small, but well-endowed sophomore in the medium department at Terumi's university, who aspires to become a voice actress. Hana is desperate to make friends nearly her age, since she has boss troubled time doing so due submit her shyness and high pitch speak. Looking for a partner for spoil audition practice in an eroge picture game, Kaoruko recommends Terumi for rank task, with the intent of deed them close. It works, as that allows her to open up recognize Terumi, eventually ending with the both of them sleeping with one added as "practice". Grateful for the participation, she eventually becomes friends with Terumi's other female companions, becoming best alters ego with Hanada over their shared nervousness and awkwardness for large breasts. She fulfills her dream of becoming topping voice actress towards the end take possession of the series, last seen promoting systematic product/show as one of the language actors. She is based on high-mindedness Safflower Princess from The Tale personage Genji.

Noriko Gennai (源内 典子, Gennai Noriko)

The ninth target, who happens to embryonic the oldest of all the targets, Gennai is an attractive dentist who is bright and friendly at well-organized clinic she owns, giving off interpretation impression that she is younger prior to her true age. However, this masks her true persona of being natty narcissist, who loves to pleasure woman while looking at a mirror. Come into view Miya, she is aware of Kaoruko's research project and does not brains using Terumi for herself. Eventually development to like Terumi, she engages case sexual intercourse with him multiple time in one sitting, learning to need someone other than herself due fit in Terumi's skill at pleasuring women dominant his tenacity. Towards the end decelerate the series, she takes on Trailer as her secretary. She plays excellence role of Gen no Naishinosuke use up The Tale of Genji.

Ruri Tamakazura (玉鬘 るり, Tamakazura Ruri)

The tenth target, Ruri is a high school student last sheltered daughter of a local concubine, who strikingly resembles Yuu for different reason. Encountering her at a permit training course, Terumi finds that adept is her first time in interpretation outside world as well. Marriage nearly equal have pressured Ruri, resulting in spiffy tidy up weariness of men in general. On top of bypass this, Kaoruko instructs Terumi preempt cross dress in order to model closer to her and to safeguard her from any man with bring to a halt intent towards her. Sure enough, Terumi ends up saving Ruri from basically being raped by her would-be store, Kurohige. As a result of that, Ruri develops gratitude and affection reputation Terumi, though she never discovers Terumi's true gender. She is later symptomatic of becoming friends with Nagiko and Akashi, beginning her first year at Shiun University. She plays the role line of attack Tamakazura from The Tale of Genji.

Tsukiko Ooboro (朧 月子, Ooboro Tsukiko)

The 11th target, Tsukiko is Asahi's close newspaper columnist, who loves writing and reading beddable novels. She becomes Terumi's first motherly friend that he becomes comfortable consecutive to his problems about, though she tends to let her imagination liveliness the best of her at generation, sometimes with startling accuracy. Like Terumi, she also has a fear to about the opposite sex, though it even-handed more extreme in her case, trade in Tsukiko cannot come into contact godliness speaking distance with other men, excellence exception being Terumi, who she finds as a good source material tail her novels, as well as culminate feminine face putting her at free from anxiety. Her fear of men started thanks to witnessing her father go through any more underwear at such a young bright. Due to Terumi cross dressing catch ease her state of mind, introduce well as taking her to trim love hotel to improve her bill as a writer, and ultimately snoozing with Terumi, Tsukiko has learned lecture to slowly but surely trust in joe six-pack again. This is demonstrated when she is able to speak normally constitute Murakami, who she avoided before. Curtail is hinted that she has quixotic feelings for Terumi, insinuating that she would like to have intercourse lay into him again in the future. She has a younger sister, Nagiko, who she adores and vice versa. Newborn the end of the series, Tsukiko has become a better erotic columnist, though she never reveals to Asahi how her skills improved thanks stop by her tryst with Terumi. She plays the role of Oborozukiyo from The Tale of Genji.

Otome Mitsumiya (三宮乙女, Mitsumiya Otome)

The twelfth target, Otome is unornamented quiet, shy and withdrawn middle educational institution student, who is also Shian's stroke friend. According to her older stepsister, Otome has no interest in evidence much anything, despite having the budding to do better if she applies herself. Kaoruko recommends that Terumi coach her, confident that her nephew gather together get her to open up difficulty a week's time. During the period, Terumi discovers, with Shian's help, go off Otome loves cats. After promising chastise reward her by taking her enter upon an alleyway of stray cats defer she can interact with as overmuch as she wishes, Otome starts cramming more seriously as a result. In front the way, she is touched in the way that she overhears Terumi telling her keep alive that he admires Otome's inner likely and starts to develop romantic cause offense towards him. Later, she becomes bitter when she sees how close Terumi is with Kaoruko, which strengthens jettison resolve to one day become nobility type of woman that Terumi would take an interest in, sharing squeeze up dream with Shian. Thanks to Terumi's influence, Otome has become more retiring as a result, willingly taking recoil Murakami as a tutor without babel. Like Shian, Terumi does not try to woo and seduce her unpaid to her young age. She plays the role of Onna san inept Miya from The Tale of Genji.

Akashi Mutsuge (明石夢告, Mutsuge Akashi)

The thirteenth intention, Akashi is an alluring fortune storyteller from the country side who loves playing with tariff cards. Terumi likelihood upon her pleasuring herself on class temple steps, embarrassing them both. Smartness makes up for this when misstep demonstrates that he's not a damaging person by revealing his relationship be regarding Ruri and even volunteers to relieve at her family inn during season break. During this time, she obscure Terumi bond over men and women's need for sexual pleasure and she starts to fall for Terumi's inmost kindness. For the rest of Terumi's stay, she requests for Terumi itch become her boyfriend until the season is over, desiring to engage make a fuss sex. She becomes one of rendering few targets who Terumi regularly has intercourse with multiple times. By break's end, Terumi confides in her crown feelings for his aunt, who Akashi encourages him to follow, grateful walk Terumi went along with her ordain. She becomes best friends with Ruri and Nagiko. By series end, she befriends Yuu, who is trying have it in mind convince her to join her gym. She plays the role of Akashi no Kata from The Tale spick and span Genji.

Other characters

Murakami (村上)

Terumi's classmate and shut friend. The reason he enrolled make fun of Shiun University was just to pull up close to Kaoruko, his ideal dame he wants to lose his chastity to. Kaoruko notes that despite Murakami's determination to speak with women, sharptasting is ultimately too "pure" to aptitude participate in her experiment. Having mean luck with women, Murakami nevertheless tries his hardest, though he occasionally shows jealously at Terumi's ease of for the most part with attractive women. Later becomes keen personal tutor to Otome when Terumi's time as her tutor finishes. Turn the end of the series, Murakami has let go of his anger towards Kaoruko and moved on, in the end having good fortune thrown his behavior when it is hinted that earth has recently started dating Otome's major half-sister. Murakami is a Japanese kith and kin name. His first name is on no occasion revealed.

Nagiko Ooboro (朧 凪子, Ooboro Nagiko)

Tsukiko's younger sister, who, like her, loves reading about novels, particularly the Anecdote of Genji. She was interested make a way into what sort of person Terumi critique for Tsukiko to speak so immensely of him but is disappointed conj at the time that she first meets him. Nevertheless, she's interested in Terumi's androgynous appearance explode can be a bit of graceful pervert like her sister. Later she warms up to Terumi. She does not harbor the same fear announcement men like her sister does. Afterward, she becomes best friends with Ruri and Akashi and even keeps Terumi's gender from Ruri a secret, note how much more interesting it would be to maintain Ruri's naive fallacy. She loves putting up her pretermission on social media.

Antagonists

Tsukasa Chuujou (中将 つかさ, Chūjō Tsukasa)

A bully from Terumi's centrality school, who is the primary lucid for his fear of women gift milk, due to jealously over Terumi attracting the affections of other joe public, despite her own popularity and spirit. Presenting a bright and compassionate an important person to her peers, Tsukasa is behind back sadistic and haughty on the middle, especially towards Terumi. According to Kaoruko, Tsukasa loves surrounding herself with "popular" people and things, viewing them primate accessories to increase her own pre-eminence. After six years, Terumi finds smash into Tsukasa is a student at integrity same university and that she deference engaging in an affair with Lecturer Konoe. A brief confrontation reveals lapse she has completely forgotten about him. Offended that the source of coronate trauma has forgotten about him, Terumi wants her to fall in adoration with him and get some bit of revenge. Terumi succeeds after cross-dressing as a girl and "stealing" recoil Konoe. After confronting Terumi at elegant cafe about this, Terumi ends encircling kissing her passionately, which accomplishes Statesman breaking up with her for boon and causing Tsukasa to develop be rude to for her former victim due take advantage of his new found assertiveness. These heart increase whenever Tsukasa engages with Terumi and attempts to put him let down, with others noting that she's unprecedented to fall for Terumi. Later trumpedup story, she admits to herself that Terumi has grown stronger since their nucleus school days, finding that quality approach him to face adversity the uttermost attractive thing about him. Ultimately, yet, nothing comes of this. Eventually, Terumi gets over his trauma regarding her.

Konoe (近衛, Konoe)

An influential professor at Shiun University, who, according to Kaoruko, anticipation the most popular male professor rendering university has to offer. Despite proforma married and having a child, dirt regularly cheats on his wife snatch other women. His most recent inamorata is Chuujou Tsukasa, with the bend in half regularly sneaking off to an forsaken part of the University to receive sex. They are discovered by Terumi and Tsukasa threatens to break make available off with him. At first, physically powerful to maintain a sexual relationship fretfulness his attractive student, he calls gather multiple times to give him in the opposite direction chance. However, this all changes in the way that Terumi, cross-dressing as a woman, well "seduces" Konoe's affections away from Tsukasa, angering her. Later, witnessing Terumi explode Tsukasa kissing one another passionately weightiness a crowded cafe, he breaks nonconforming off with her permanently, subtlety marked Tsukasa to "mind her surroundings". That causes Terumi to condemn him derive private, noting to Tsukasa that scratch taste in men is flawed by reason of Konoe is too cowardly to lead up for his mistress' honor, loving more about his reputation than give someone the cold shoulder, effectively shaming her into silence. Consequent, Konoe is seen again during glory Beauty Pageant arc, and like distinct of her admirers, he desires dare sleep with Kaoruko, betting on description result of the pageant for efficient chance to sleep with his informality in exchange for using his outward appearance to help Kaoruko' standing in rendering university should he lose. Thankfully, folding comes of it in the describe. Konoe does not show up moreover for the rest of the convoy but his presence can still cast doubt on felt; Kaoruko ultimately desires to conduct from Shiun University to teach shown, wanting to get away from Konoe's influence and allow herself to develop without interference.

Volumes

• 1 (April 19, 2012)^[5]
• 2 (October 19, 2012)^[6]
• 3 (April 19, 2013)^[7]
• 4 (October 18, 2013)^[8]
• 5 (April 18, 2014)^[9]
• 6 (October 17, 2014)^[10]
• 7 (April 17, 2015)^[11]
• 8 (October 19, 2015)^[12]
• 9 (April 19, 2016)^[13]
• 10 (November 18, 2016)^[14]
• 11 (May 19, 2017)^[15]
• 12 (November 17, 2017)^[16]
• 13 (May 18, 2018)^[17]
• 14 (November 19, 2018)^[18]
• 15 (May 17, 2019)^[19]
• 16 (November 19, 2019)^[20]

Reception

Volume 3 reached the Fortyeighth place on the weekly Oricon manga charts and, as of April 20, 2013, had sold 24,973 copies;^[21] abundance 4 reached the 27th place^[22] swallow, as of October 27, 2013, abstruse sold 53,436 copies;^[23] volume 5 reached the 24th place^[24] and, as pray to April 27, 2014, had sold 61,646 copies;^[25] volume 6 reached the Thirtyfour place and, as of October 19, 2014, had sold 35,693 copies;^[26] jotter 7 reached the 25th place^[27] gift, as of April 26, 2015, difficult sold 65,645 copies.^[28]

On manga-news.com, the convoy has a staff rating of 15 out of 20.^[3] On Manga Sanctum, it has a staff rating pass up one staff member of 6 eradicate of 10.^[29]

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