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Aine Yukimura is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent with rather low self-esteem, who is good only in one subject at school: Japanese. Her dream is to become a song writer, and as practice she writes some ''very'' raunchy lyrics for a song and goes to the post office to send them for a contest.
On the way there, Aine is almost run over by a car. The driver is Sakuya Ookuchi, lead singer from a band named Aucifer that is known for its sexy music. He grabs a hold of the lyrics and manages to convince Aine to become the songwriter for the group. Aine reluctantly accepts, unaware that her life will take a turn for either the worse or the best, as she and Sakuya become involved in a very tormented relationship.
According to TheOtherWiki, Sensual Phrase (快感 フレーズ, Kaikan Furēzu?) is a shōjo manga series created by MayuShinjo. The manga was published by Shogakukan in Shōjo Comic between 1997 and 2000, and collected in 18 bound volumes. It was adapted as a 44-episode anime television series by Studio Hibari, a CD drama, and as a series of novels.
To promote the anime, two real-life bands were formed: Λucifer, the band the story focuses on, and e.MU, a rival band. Both bands continued after the anime ended before disbanding. Within the series, Λucifer’s original name is Lucifer, which is changed to Λucifer (using the Greek letter lambda) when the band decides to go international.
!!SensualPhrase has examples of the following tropes:
* ArtEvolution: The anime's art drastically changed [[http://i55.tinypic.com/2zguiqe.jpg after episode 32]].
* AscendedExtra: Yuka gets quite more spotlight in the anime than the manga.
* [[spoiler: BabiesEverAfter: At the end of the manga, Aine and Sakuya are married and have a son.]]
* BareYourMidriff: Sakuya and Yuki and all the band members in the final concert, in the anime.
* BastardBoyfriend: Sakuya is a Conflicted type, aka "TroubledButCute with a Really Bad Past and an Even Worse Attitude".
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Both Towa and Atsuro show flashes of temper more than once. Here's an example:
--> '''Atsuro''' (to [[ClingyJealousGirl Riri]]): "If you want to [[spoiler: make my relationship with my older sister public]], then do it. But if it hurts [[spoiler: her]] feelings... If so, I will personally make sure your life is a living hell. For [[spoiler: my sister]], '''I can even be a devil.'''"
* BigBrotherMentor: Yuki and Towa take turns at this.
* BlueEyes: Sakuya. [[spoiler: Actually a plot point, as he inherited them from his rapist American father, and people used to discriminate him because of them.]]
** WhatBeautifulEyes: Aine tells him this to cheer him up.
* BrokenAce: Sakuya. Handsome, sexy, popular, a great singer, ''and so damn fucked up''.
* BrotherSisterIncest: It's implied that [[spoiler: Tomoyuki]] had unrequited feelings for [[spoiler: his DeadLittleSister Yumi.]]
* BoisterousBruiser: Santa
* CampStraight: Towa, who in the manga is dating his stylist and VictoriousChildhoodFriend Miya.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Sakuya and Aine, for each other.
** Also, Sakuya's ex-girlfriend Ayako Sakura.
** IdolSinger Riri Kinoshita from the manga is one for Atsuro, going as far as [[spoiler: forcing him to make a rather scandalous news report with her, in exchange for not revealing his and Yuka's FlirtyStepsiblings bond. She then verbally attacks Yuka, which makes Atsuro snap - see BewareTheNiceOnes.]]
* ComingOfAgeStory: For Aine, sort of.
* CompensatedDating: Sakuya is a rare male example.
* CoolBigSis: Yuka, specially in the anime
* CorruptTheCutie: Aine, though she already was a CovertPervert judging by her lyrics.
* DeadLittleSister: Tomoyuki from the band ''Jesus'' had a sister named Yumi, who died last year. [[spoiler: Aine bears an uncanny resemblance to Yumi, so Tomoyuki goes {{Yandere}} for her and this makes Sakuya go {{Yandere}} too.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Sakuya is supposed to be this. Whether it works or not...
* DemotedToExtra: Aine only appears in the second half.
* DistressedDamsel: Poor Aine, specially in volume 16 where [[spoiler: she almost gets killed in front of Sakuya.]]
* DistressedDude: Sakuya once gets whacked with the DistressBall thanks to [[spoiler: Ralph]]
** IHaveYourWife: The culprit attempts to blackmail Aine after capturing him.
* [[DroppedabridgetOnHim Dropped a Bridget On Her]]: In the manga, Aucifer producer Hitoshi Takayama is ''so'' pretty that Aine thinks he's yet another Sakuya fangirl at first.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: After she gets raped, Aine attempts suicide twice.]]
* DrowningMySorrows: [[spoiler: Sakuya's mother Reiko, after being abandoned by her husband, drank herself to death.]]
* TheDutifulSon: Yuki is supposed to be this, but he refuses.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Towa, much to his embarrassment.
* ExecutiveMeddling: There was a rather ugly fight between Shinjou and the Shogakukan people, as according to her they did NOT inform her that they were making an anime and a movie.
* FanGirl: Sakura-chan, a girl whom Aine befriends but their friendship is strained when she learns about Aine and Sakuya, right when they're going in a rather harsh spot. [[spoiler: She gets to date Sakuya... but it's a sort-of BatmanGambit from him to try seeing if she can handle the pressure of dating a super-star and teach her a lesson about her treatment of Aine.]]
* FlatCharacter: Poor Santa never gets real development.
* FieryRedhead: Santa
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Sakuya Ookuchi
** TheLancer: Yukifumi "Yuki" Todou
** TheBigGuy: Yoshihiko "Santa" Nagai
** TheSmartGuy: Kazuto "Towa" Sakuma and Aine Yukimura
** TheChick: Atsuro Kiryuu, and Aine does double duty here.
** SixthRanger: Yuka Kiryuu
* FlippingTheBird: Sakuya, to Ralph. Alongside a nice [[GratuitousEnglish "Fuck you!"]]
* FlirtyStepsiblings: Atsuro and Yuka, in the manga. [[spoiler: They get married in the end.]]
* ForcefulKiss: Ralph, on Aine.
* GenericCuteness: Aine seems to think lowly of her looks as she's not as gorgeous as other girls in the media.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Though Sakuya's... [[BastardBoyfriend goodness]] is very questionable.
* HappilyMarried: Yuki, in the manga. [[spoiler: Later Sakuya and Aine, then Atsuro and Yuka]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicBastard: Sakuya isn't only this, but he was born from ''rape''.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Aine suffers a bad one after she [[spoiler: gets raped.]]
* HypnotizeThePrincess: [[spoiler: Tomoyuki hypnotizes Aine into thinking she's his sister Yumi and forgetting about Sakuya. Sakuya almost dies to try get her back.]]
* HoYay: Atsuro and Towa, in the anime
* HotDad: Yuki, in the manga. [[spoiler: And Sakuya, later.]]
** HotMom: Yuki's wife Maria. [[spoiler: And Aine.]]
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Sakuya is much taller than Aine. Once they try to [[FuroScene share a hot bath]] and they barely fit into the tub because of Sakuya's size.
* IntercourseWithYou: Aucifer's songs. And how.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Yumi to Santa, in the anime.
* JerkAss: Sakuya, in the anime. Oh BOY, is Sakuya unbearable there.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Towa is androgynous and pretty, Miya is tomboyish and considers self plain-looking
* [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Nickname]]: Santa's nickname comes form him being born in Christmas.
* NamesToKnowInAnime:
** TV series: MasayaMatsukaze (Sakuya), AtsukoEnomoto (Aine), ShinichiroMiki (Yuki), TakahiroSakurai (Santa), SusumuChiba (Towa), KenichiSuzumura (Atsuro), Kyouko Tsuruno (Yuka), NobuoTobita (Ralph), RioNatsuki (Yumi), MasakoKatsuki (Misa), ChiyokoKawashima (Reiko)...
** CD drama: TakehitoKoyasu (Sakuya), HoukoKuwashima (Aine), ToshiyukiMorikawa (Yuki), MitsuoIwata (Santa), ShinichiroMiki (Towa), HikaruMidorikawa (Atsuro).
* NearRapeExperience: [[spoiler: Sakuya nearly rapes Aine in a fit of misguided jealousy.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: Milked for LOTS of drama:
** Sakuya: ([[spoiler: His father rapes his mother Reiko, her husband leaves her prior to his birth, and [[LadyDrunk Reiko]] subsequently drinks herself to death. He's adopted by Reiko's landlord, but Sakuya quickly realizes that the man wants him as a tool to get Reiko's debts paid.]]. Sakuya shows the effects of this and has to deal with meeting his remaining family ([[spoiler: specially, his evil half-brother Ralph]]) as an adult.
** Yuki is disinherited for choosing the band above his family duty of Noh acting, but the family still obviously love each other and turn to each other in times of difficulty. [[spoiler: When Aucifer is disbanded, he returns to them and retakes his acting career.]]
** Atsuro [[spoiler: is kicked out of the house for similarly choosing the band over more sensible options, but after some loud arguments and intervention by his adoptive sister Yuuka ([[FlirtyStepsiblings totally sister. In conclusion, sister]]) he returns home.]]
** Towa is mysteriously estranged, but he reacts strongly to the others not trying to maintain relationships with their parents.
** [[ParentsAsPeople Aine's parents]] are preoccupied with their own relationship difficulties to the point of being criminally negligent, but they do occasionally feel the need [[ParentalMarriageVeto to provide appropriate parental censure.]] [[spoiler: They mellow out when, after Aine's highschool graduation, they invite Sakuya to have dinner with them and he manages to convince them that he and Aine will be happy together.]]
** Santa's situation is the only one that plays the trope perfectly straight — his parents never appear, and are never mentioned.
* [[PromotedFanboy Promoted Fangirl]]: Aine, though she didn't ''start'' as an Aucifer fangirl.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Aine gets raped by the president of Λucifer's label in an attempt to break Sakuya.]]
* RichBitch: Misa
* RomanticFalseLead: Several, but Aine's first love Kiminobu fits the most. [[spoiler: To the point that he ''proposes'' to Aine.]]
* SecretKeeper: Aine finds out about [[spoiler: Atsuro and Yuka]] and promises to be this. [[spoiler: Then, they get caught by some {{paparazzi}}.]] Whoops.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Santa and Yuki, Sakuya and Yuki. Atsuro and Towa... [[WholesomeCrossdresser sort of]]
** Also, Yuki and Maria's son Yukihiko and [[spoiler: Sakuya and Aine's son Shion]].
* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Misa, Ayako, [[spoiler: Sakuya's MissingMom Reiko]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Yuki
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Sakuya, specially in the anime.
* TenderTears: Aine
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Aine and Yuka, though more in the anime.
* TroubledFetalPosition: Aine, when she doesn't know if she can remain as Aucifer's lyricist.
* {{Tsundere}}: Yuka, a Type B (deredere)
* WhenSheSmiles: Aine is said to have a very pretty smile. This causes her some angst later [[spoiler: whens he becomes the post girl for some ads and can't give a true smile.]]
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Towa
* YourCheatingHeart: In the anime, Santa was dating the vocalist of his and Yuki's former band, Yumi. When she cheated on him due to emotional abandonment, he and Yuki left the group.
* {{Yandere}}: Sakuya, his first girlfriend Ayako Sakura, Tomoyuki and others.
* YokoOhNo: Poor Aine is accosted by fangirls many, many times.
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[[caption-width-right:300: Play misty for her, baby.]]
Aine Yukimura is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent with rather low self-esteem, who is good only in one subject at school: Japanese. Her dream is to become a song writer, and as practice she writes some ''very'' raunchy lyrics for a song and goes to the post office to send them for a contest.
On the way there, Aine is almost run over by a car. The driver is Sakuya Ookuchi, lead singer from a band named Aucifer that is known for its sexy music. He grabs a hold of the lyrics and manages to convince Aine to become the songwriter for the group. Aine reluctantly accepts, unaware that her life will take a turn for either the worse or the best, as she and Sakuya become involved in a very tormented relationship.
According to TheOtherWiki, Sensual Phrase (快感 フレーズ, Kaikan Furēzu?) is a shōjo manga series created by MayuShinjo. The manga was published by Shogakukan in Shōjo Comic between 1997 and 2000, and collected in 18 bound volumes. It was adapted as a 44-episode anime television series by Studio Hibari, a CD drama, and as a series of novels.
To promote the anime, two real-life bands were formed: Λucifer, the band the story focuses on, and e.MU, a rival band. Both bands continued after the anime ended before disbanding. Within the series, Λucifer’s original name is Lucifer, which is changed to Λucifer (using the Greek letter lambda) when the band decides to go international.
!!SensualPhrase has examples of the following tropes:
* ArtEvolution: The anime's art drastically changed [[http://i55.tinypic.com/2zguiqe.jpg after episode 32]].
* AscendedExtra: Yuka gets quite more spotlight in the anime than the manga.
* [[spoiler: BabiesEverAfter: At the end of the manga, Aine and Sakuya are married and have a son.]]
* BareYourMidriff: Sakuya and Yuki and all the band members in the final concert, in the anime.
* BastardBoyfriend: Sakuya is a Conflicted type, aka "TroubledButCute with a Really Bad Past and an Even Worse Attitude".
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Both Towa and Atsuro show flashes of temper more than once. Here's an example:
--> '''Atsuro''' (to [[ClingyJealousGirl Riri]]): "If you want to [[spoiler: make my relationship with my older sister public]], then do it. But if it hurts [[spoiler: her]] feelings... If so, I will personally make sure your life is a living hell. For [[spoiler: my sister]], '''I can even be a devil.'''"
* BigBrotherMentor: Yuki and Towa take turns at this.
* BlueEyes: Sakuya. [[spoiler: Actually a plot point, as he inherited them from his rapist American father, and people used to discriminate him because of them.]]
** WhatBeautifulEyes: Aine tells him this to cheer him up.
* BrokenAce: Sakuya. Handsome, sexy, popular, a great singer, ''and so damn fucked up''.
* BrotherSisterIncest: It's implied that [[spoiler: Tomoyuki]] had unrequited feelings for [[spoiler: his DeadLittleSister Yumi.]]
* BoisterousBruiser: Santa
* CampStraight: Towa, who in the manga is dating his stylist and VictoriousChildhoodFriend Miya.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Sakuya and Aine, for each other.
** Also, Sakuya's ex-girlfriend Ayako Sakura.
** IdolSinger Riri Kinoshita from the manga is one for Atsuro, going as far as [[spoiler: forcing him to make a rather scandalous news report with her, in exchange for not revealing his and Yuka's FlirtyStepsiblings bond. She then verbally attacks Yuka, which makes Atsuro snap - see BewareTheNiceOnes.]]
* ComingOfAgeStory: For Aine, sort of.
* CompensatedDating: Sakuya is a rare male example.
* CoolBigSis: Yuka, specially in the anime
* CorruptTheCutie: Aine, though she already was a CovertPervert judging by her lyrics.
* DeadLittleSister: Tomoyuki from the band ''Jesus'' had a sister named Yumi, who died last year. [[spoiler: Aine bears an uncanny resemblance to Yumi, so Tomoyuki goes {{Yandere}} for her and this makes Sakuya go {{Yandere}} too.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Sakuya is supposed to be this. Whether it works or not...
* DemotedToExtra: Aine only appears in the second half.
* DistressedDamsel: Poor Aine, specially in volume 16 where [[spoiler: she almost gets killed in front of Sakuya.]]
* DistressedDude: Sakuya once gets whacked with the DistressBall thanks to [[spoiler: Ralph]]
** IHaveYourWife: The culprit attempts to blackmail Aine after capturing him.
* [[DroppedabridgetOnHim Dropped a Bridget On Her]]: In the manga, Aucifer producer Hitoshi Takayama is ''so'' pretty that Aine thinks he's yet another Sakuya fangirl at first.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: After she gets raped, Aine attempts suicide twice.]]
* DrowningMySorrows: [[spoiler: Sakuya's mother Reiko, after being abandoned by her husband, drank herself to death.]]
* TheDutifulSon: Yuki is supposed to be this, but he refuses.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Towa, much to his embarrassment.
* ExecutiveMeddling: There was a rather ugly fight between Shinjou and the Shogakukan people, as according to her they did NOT inform her that they were making an anime and a movie.
* FanGirl: Sakura-chan, a girl whom Aine befriends but their friendship is strained when she learns about Aine and Sakuya, right when they're going in a rather harsh spot. [[spoiler: She gets to date Sakuya... but it's a sort-of BatmanGambit from him to try seeing if she can handle the pressure of dating a super-star and teach her a lesson about her treatment of Aine.]]
* FlatCharacter: Poor Santa never gets real development.
* FieryRedhead: Santa
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Sakuya Ookuchi
** TheLancer: Yukifumi "Yuki" Todou
** TheBigGuy: Yoshihiko "Santa" Nagai
** TheSmartGuy: Kazuto "Towa" Sakuma and Aine Yukimura
** TheChick: Atsuro Kiryuu, and Aine does double duty here.
** SixthRanger: Yuka Kiryuu
* FlippingTheBird: Sakuya, to Ralph. Alongside a nice [[GratuitousEnglish "Fuck you!"]]
* FlirtyStepsiblings: Atsuro and Yuka, in the manga. [[spoiler: They get married in the end.]]
* ForcefulKiss: Ralph, on Aine.
* GenericCuteness: Aine seems to think lowly of her looks as she's not as gorgeous as other girls in the media.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Though Sakuya's... [[BastardBoyfriend goodness]] is very questionable.
* HappilyMarried: Yuki, in the manga. [[spoiler: Later Sakuya and Aine, then Atsuro and Yuka]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicBastard: Sakuya isn't only this, but he was born from ''rape''.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Aine suffers a bad one after she [[spoiler: gets raped.]]
* HypnotizeThePrincess: [[spoiler: Tomoyuki hypnotizes Aine into thinking she's his sister Yumi and forgetting about Sakuya. Sakuya almost dies to try get her back.]]
* HoYay: Atsuro and Towa, in the anime
* HotDad: Yuki, in the manga. [[spoiler: And Sakuya, later.]]
** HotMom: Yuki's wife Maria. [[spoiler: And Aine.]]
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Sakuya is much taller than Aine. Once they try to [[FuroScene share a hot bath]] and they barely fit into the tub because of Sakuya's size.
* IntercourseWithYou: Aucifer's songs. And how.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Yumi to Santa, in the anime.
* JerkAss: Sakuya, in the anime. Oh BOY, is Sakuya unbearable there.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Towa is androgynous and pretty, Miya is tomboyish and considers self plain-looking
* [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Nickname]]: Santa's nickname comes form him being born in Christmas.
* NamesToKnowInAnime:
** TV series: MasayaMatsukaze (Sakuya), AtsukoEnomoto (Aine), ShinichiroMiki (Yuki), TakahiroSakurai (Santa), SusumuChiba (Towa), KenichiSuzumura (Atsuro), Kyouko Tsuruno (Yuka), NobuoTobita (Ralph), RioNatsuki (Yumi), MasakoKatsuki (Misa), ChiyokoKawashima (Reiko)...
** CD drama: TakehitoKoyasu (Sakuya), HoukoKuwashima (Aine), ToshiyukiMorikawa (Yuki), MitsuoIwata (Santa), ShinichiroMiki (Towa), HikaruMidorikawa (Atsuro).
* NearRapeExperience: [[spoiler: Sakuya nearly rapes Aine in a fit of misguided jealousy.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: Milked for LOTS of drama:
** Sakuya: ([[spoiler: His father rapes his mother Reiko, her husband leaves her prior to his birth, and [[LadyDrunk Reiko]] subsequently drinks herself to death. He's adopted by Reiko's landlord, but Sakuya quickly realizes that the man wants him as a tool to get Reiko's debts paid.]]. Sakuya shows the effects of this and has to deal with meeting his remaining family ([[spoiler: specially, his evil half-brother Ralph]]) as an adult.
** Yuki is disinherited for choosing the band above his family duty of Noh acting, but the family still obviously love each other and turn to each other in times of difficulty. [[spoiler: When Aucifer is disbanded, he returns to them and retakes his acting career.]]
** Atsuro [[spoiler: is kicked out of the house for similarly choosing the band over more sensible options, but after some loud arguments and intervention by his adoptive sister Yuuka ([[FlirtyStepsiblings totally sister. In conclusion, sister]]) he returns home.]]
** Towa is mysteriously estranged, but he reacts strongly to the others not trying to maintain relationships with their parents.
** [[ParentsAsPeople Aine's parents]] are preoccupied with their own relationship difficulties to the point of being criminally negligent, but they do occasionally feel the need [[ParentalMarriageVeto to provide appropriate parental censure.]] [[spoiler: They mellow out when, after Aine's highschool graduation, they invite Sakuya to have dinner with them and he manages to convince them that he and Aine will be happy together.]]
** Santa's situation is the only one that plays the trope perfectly straight — his parents never appear, and are never mentioned.
* [[PromotedFanboy Promoted Fangirl]]: Aine, though she didn't ''start'' as an Aucifer fangirl.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Aine gets raped by the president of Λucifer's label in an attempt to break Sakuya.]]
* RichBitch: Misa
* RomanticFalseLead: Several, but Aine's first love Kiminobu fits the most. [[spoiler: To the point that he ''proposes'' to Aine.]]
* SecretKeeper: Aine finds out about [[spoiler: Atsuro and Yuka]] and promises to be this. [[spoiler: Then, they get caught by some {{paparazzi}}.]] Whoops.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Santa and Yuki, Sakuya and Yuki. Atsuro and Towa... [[WholesomeCrossdresser sort of]]
** Also, Yuki and Maria's son Yukihiko and [[spoiler: Sakuya and Aine's son Shion]].
* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Misa, Ayako, [[spoiler: Sakuya's MissingMom Reiko]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Yuki
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Sakuya, specially in the anime.
* TenderTears: Aine
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Aine and Yuka, though more in the anime.
* TroubledFetalPosition: Aine, when she doesn't know if she can remain as Aucifer's lyricist.
* {{Tsundere}}: Yuka, a Type B (deredere)
* WhenSheSmiles: Aine is said to have a very pretty smile. This causes her some angst later [[spoiler: whens he becomes the post girl for some ads and can't give a true smile.]]
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Towa
* YourCheatingHeart: In the anime, Santa was dating the vocalist of his and Yuki's former band, Yumi. When she cheated on him due to emotional abandonment, he and Yuki left the group.
* {{Yandere}}: Sakuya, his first girlfriend Ayako Sakura, Tomoyuki and others.
* YokoOhNo: Poor Aine is accosted by fangirls many, many times.
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to:
[[caption-width-right:300: Play misty for her, baby.]]
Aine Yukimura is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent with rather low self-esteem, who is good only in one subject at school: Japanese. Her dream is to become a song writer, and as practice she writes some ''very'' raunchy lyrics for a song and goes to the post office to send them for a contest.
On the way there, Aine is almost run over by a car. The driver is Sakuya Ookuchi, lead singer from a band named Aucifer that is known for its sexy music. He grabs a hold of the lyrics and manages to convince Aine to become the songwriter for the group. Aine reluctantly accepts, unaware that her life will take a turn for either the worse or the best, as she and Sakuya become involved in a very tormented relationship.
According to TheOtherWiki, Sensual Phrase (快感 フレーズ, Kaikan Furēzu?) is a shōjo manga series created by MayuShinjo. The manga was published by Shogakukan in Shōjo Comic between 1997 and 2000, and collected in 18 bound volumes. It was adapted as a 44-episode anime television series by Studio Hibari, a CD drama, and as a series of novels.
To promote the anime, two real-life bands were formed: Λucifer, the band the story focuses on, and e.MU, a rival band. Both bands continued after the anime ended before disbanding. Within the series, Λucifer’s original name is Lucifer, which is changed to Λucifer (using the Greek letter lambda) when the band decides to go international.
!!SensualPhrase has examples of the following tropes:
* ArtEvolution: The anime's art drastically changed [[http://i55.tinypic.com/2zguiqe.jpg after episode 32]].
* AscendedExtra: Yuka gets quite more spotlight in the anime than the manga.
* [[spoiler: BabiesEverAfter: At the end of the manga, Aine and Sakuya are married and have a son.]]
* BareYourMidriff: Sakuya and Yuki and all the band members in the final concert, in the anime.
* BastardBoyfriend: Sakuya is a Conflicted type, aka "TroubledButCute with a Really Bad Past and an Even Worse Attitude".
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Both Towa and Atsuro show flashes of temper more than once. Here's an example:
--> '''Atsuro''' (to [[ClingyJealousGirl Riri]]): "If you want to [[spoiler: make my relationship with my older sister public]], then do it. But if it hurts [[spoiler: her]] feelings... If so, I will personally make sure your life is a living hell. For [[spoiler: my sister]], '''I can even be a devil.'''"
* BigBrotherMentor: Yuki and Towa take turns at this.
* BlueEyes: Sakuya. [[spoiler: Actually a plot point, as he inherited them from his rapist American father, and people used to discriminate him because of them.]]
** WhatBeautifulEyes: Aine tells him this to cheer him up.
* BrokenAce: Sakuya. Handsome, sexy, popular, a great singer, ''and so damn fucked up''.
* BrotherSisterIncest: It's implied that [[spoiler: Tomoyuki]] had unrequited feelings for [[spoiler: his DeadLittleSister Yumi.]]
* BoisterousBruiser: Santa
* CampStraight: Towa, who in the manga is dating his stylist and VictoriousChildhoodFriend Miya.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Sakuya and Aine, for each other.
** Also, Sakuya's ex-girlfriend Ayako Sakura.
** IdolSinger Riri Kinoshita from the manga is one for Atsuro, going as far as [[spoiler: forcing him to make a rather scandalous news report with her, in exchange for not revealing his and Yuka's FlirtyStepsiblings bond. She then verbally attacks Yuka, which makes Atsuro snap - see BewareTheNiceOnes.]]
* ComingOfAgeStory: For Aine, sort of.
* CompensatedDating: Sakuya is a rare male example.
* CoolBigSis: Yuka, specially in the anime
* CorruptTheCutie: Aine, though she already was a CovertPervert judging by her lyrics.
* DeadLittleSister: Tomoyuki from the band ''Jesus'' had a sister named Yumi, who died last year. [[spoiler: Aine bears an uncanny resemblance to Yumi, so Tomoyuki goes {{Yandere}} for her and this makes Sakuya go {{Yandere}} too.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Sakuya is supposed to be this. Whether it works or not...
* DemotedToExtra: Aine only appears in the second half.
* DistressedDamsel: Poor Aine, specially in volume 16 where [[spoiler: she almost gets killed in front of Sakuya.]]
* DistressedDude: Sakuya once gets whacked with the DistressBall thanks to [[spoiler: Ralph]]
** IHaveYourWife: The culprit attempts to blackmail Aine after capturing him.
* [[DroppedabridgetOnHim Dropped a Bridget On Her]]: In the manga, Aucifer producer Hitoshi Takayama is ''so'' pretty that Aine thinks he's yet another Sakuya fangirl at first.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: After she gets raped, Aine attempts suicide twice.]]
* DrowningMySorrows: [[spoiler: Sakuya's mother Reiko, after being abandoned by her husband, drank herself to death.]]
* TheDutifulSon: Yuki is supposed to be this, but he refuses.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Towa, much to his embarrassment.
* ExecutiveMeddling: There was a rather ugly fight between Shinjou and the Shogakukan people, as according to her they did NOT inform her that they were making an anime and a movie.
* FanGirl: Sakura-chan, a girl whom Aine befriends but their friendship is strained when she learns about Aine and Sakuya, right when they're going in a rather harsh spot. [[spoiler: She gets to date Sakuya... but it's a sort-of BatmanGambit from him to try seeing if she can handle the pressure of dating a super-star and teach her a lesson about her treatment of Aine.]]
* FlatCharacter: Poor Santa never gets real development.
* FieryRedhead: Santa
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Sakuya Ookuchi
** TheLancer: Yukifumi "Yuki" Todou
** TheBigGuy: Yoshihiko "Santa" Nagai
** TheSmartGuy: Kazuto "Towa" Sakuma and Aine Yukimura
** TheChick: Atsuro Kiryuu, and Aine does double duty here.
** SixthRanger: Yuka Kiryuu
* FlippingTheBird: Sakuya, to Ralph. Alongside a nice [[GratuitousEnglish "Fuck you!"]]
* FlirtyStepsiblings: Atsuro and Yuka, in the manga. [[spoiler: They get married in the end.]]
* ForcefulKiss: Ralph, on Aine.
* GenericCuteness: Aine seems to think lowly of her looks as she's not as gorgeous as other girls in the media.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Though Sakuya's... [[BastardBoyfriend goodness]] is very questionable.
* HappilyMarried: Yuki, in the manga. [[spoiler: Later Sakuya and Aine, then Atsuro and Yuka]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicBastard: Sakuya isn't only this, but he was born from ''rape''.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Aine suffers a bad one after she [[spoiler: gets raped.]]
* HypnotizeThePrincess: [[spoiler: Tomoyuki hypnotizes Aine into thinking she's his sister Yumi and forgetting about Sakuya. Sakuya almost dies to try get her back.]]
* HoYay: Atsuro and Towa, in the anime
* HotDad: Yuki, in the manga. [[spoiler: And Sakuya, later.]]
** HotMom: Yuki's wife Maria. [[spoiler: And Aine.]]
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Sakuya is much taller than Aine. Once they try to [[FuroScene share a hot bath]] and they barely fit into the tub because of Sakuya's size.
* IntercourseWithYou: Aucifer's songs. And how.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Yumi to Santa, in the anime.
* JerkAss: Sakuya, in the anime. Oh BOY, is Sakuya unbearable there.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Towa is androgynous and pretty, Miya is tomboyish and considers self plain-looking
* [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Nickname]]: Santa's nickname comes form him being born in Christmas.
* NamesToKnowInAnime:
** TV series: MasayaMatsukaze (Sakuya), AtsukoEnomoto (Aine), ShinichiroMiki (Yuki), TakahiroSakurai (Santa), SusumuChiba (Towa), KenichiSuzumura (Atsuro), Kyouko Tsuruno (Yuka), NobuoTobita (Ralph), RioNatsuki (Yumi), MasakoKatsuki (Misa), ChiyokoKawashima (Reiko)...
** CD drama: TakehitoKoyasu (Sakuya), HoukoKuwashima (Aine), ToshiyukiMorikawa (Yuki), MitsuoIwata (Santa), ShinichiroMiki (Towa), HikaruMidorikawa (Atsuro).
* NearRapeExperience: [[spoiler: Sakuya nearly rapes Aine in a fit of misguided jealousy.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: Milked for LOTS of drama:
** Sakuya: ([[spoiler: His father rapes his mother Reiko, her husband leaves her prior to his birth, and [[LadyDrunk Reiko]] subsequently drinks herself to death. He's adopted by Reiko's landlord, but Sakuya quickly realizes that the man wants him as a tool to get Reiko's debts paid.]]. Sakuya shows the effects of this and has to deal with meeting his remaining family ([[spoiler: specially, his evil half-brother Ralph]]) as an adult.
** Yuki is disinherited for choosing the band above his family duty of Noh acting, but the family still obviously love each other and turn to each other in times of difficulty. [[spoiler: When Aucifer is disbanded, he returns to them and retakes his acting career.]]
** Atsuro [[spoiler: is kicked out of the house for similarly choosing the band over more sensible options, but after some loud arguments and intervention by his adoptive sister Yuuka ([[FlirtyStepsiblings totally sister. In conclusion, sister]]) he returns home.]]
** Towa is mysteriously estranged, but he reacts strongly to the others not trying to maintain relationships with their parents.
** [[ParentsAsPeople Aine's parents]] are preoccupied with their own relationship difficulties to the point of being criminally negligent, but they do occasionally feel the need [[ParentalMarriageVeto to provide appropriate parental censure.]] [[spoiler: They mellow out when, after Aine's highschool graduation, they invite Sakuya to have dinner with them and he manages to convince them that he and Aine will be happy together.]]
** Santa's situation is the only one that plays the trope perfectly straight — his parents never appear, and are never mentioned.
* [[PromotedFanboy Promoted Fangirl]]: Aine, though she didn't ''start'' as an Aucifer fangirl.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Aine gets raped by the president of Λucifer's label in an attempt to break Sakuya.]]
* RichBitch: Misa
* RomanticFalseLead: Several, but Aine's first love Kiminobu fits the most. [[spoiler: To the point that he ''proposes'' to Aine.]]
* SecretKeeper: Aine finds out about [[spoiler: Atsuro and Yuka]] and promises to be this. [[spoiler: Then, they get caught by some {{paparazzi}}.]] Whoops.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Santa and Yuki, Sakuya and Yuki. Atsuro and Towa... [[WholesomeCrossdresser sort of]]
** Also, Yuki and Maria's son Yukihiko and [[spoiler: Sakuya and Aine's son Shion]].
* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Misa, Ayako, [[spoiler: Sakuya's MissingMom Reiko]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Yuki
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Sakuya, specially in the anime.
* TenderTears: Aine
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Aine and Yuka, though more in the anime.
* TroubledFetalPosition: Aine, when she doesn't know if she can remain as Aucifer's lyricist.
* {{Tsundere}}: Yuka, a Type B (deredere)
* WhenSheSmiles: Aine is said to have a very pretty smile. This causes her some angst later [[spoiler: whens he becomes the post girl for some ads and can't give a true smile.]]
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Towa
* YourCheatingHeart: In the anime, Santa was dating the vocalist of his and Yuki's former band, Yumi. When she cheated on him due to emotional abandonment, he and Yuki left the group.
* {{Yandere}}: Sakuya, his first girlfriend Ayako Sakura, Tomoyuki and others.
* YokoOhNo: Poor Aine is accosted by fangirls many, many times.
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* BastardBoyfriend: Sakuya is a Type 2 aka "TroubledButCute with a Really Bad Past and an Even Worse Attitude".
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* JerkAss: Sakuya, in the anime. Oh BOY, is Sakuya unbereable there.
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* JerkAss: Sakuya, in the anime. Oh BOY, is Sakuya unbereable unbearable there.
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When she's in her way , Aine is almost run over by a car. The driver is Sakuya Ookuchi, lead singer from a band named Aucifer that is known for its sexy music. He grabs a hold of the lyrics and manages to convince Aine to become the songwriter for the group. Aine reluctantly accepts, unaware that her life will take a turn for either the worse or the best, as she and Sakuya become involved in a very tormented relationship.
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* [[spoiler: BabiesEverAfter: At the end of the manga, Aine and Sakuya are married and have a son.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: After she gets raped, Aine attempts suicide twice.]]
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Though Sakuya's... goodness is very questionable.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Though Sakuya's... goodness [[BastardBoyfriend goodness]] is very questionable.
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* HeroicBSOD: Aine suffers a bad one after she [[spoiler: gets raped.]]
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* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Aine gets raped by the president of Λucifer's label in an attempt to break Sakuya.]]
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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Towa is androgynous and pretty, Miya is tomboyish and considers self plain-looking
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* PinkBoyBlueGirl: Towa is androgynous and pretty, Miya is tomboyish and considers self plain-looking
