History Manga / VirginLove

* LadykillerInLove: Daigo after meeting Kaoru. Kaoru is a mankiller (maneater?) in love when he finally comes around.

* TheLoveSlapOfEpiphany: Inverted. Daigo gets kissed by some random girl at a club and Kaoru slaps him, which Daigo reads as Kaoru having feelings for him. Kaoru freaks out when he realizes this might be true.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Kaoru.

* FirstLove: Despite both Kaoru and Chiharu's [[ReallyGetsAround long line of one-night hook-ups]] and FuckBuddies, both Daigo and Kazuki respectively are the first and only people they've ever fallen in love with[[note]]The fact that the reason for this is that both are borderline insane with enough childhood baggage to sink an oil liner makes this slightly less romantic than it sounds[[/note]].

* FuckBuddies: Kaoru doesn't want a relationship but thinks the sex is too good to give up so he and Daigo become this. Eventually Daigo falls for Kaoru.

** In the associated series, Chiharu shows himself up as having similar issues as Kaoru, although he takes it to greater extremes. Apparently it's InTheBlood, or they were ''incredibly'' screwed up by their collective parents[[note]]Probably a mixture of both[[/note]].

* GreenEyedMonster: unsurprisingly, Kaoru and Chiharu. Insanity really ''is'' [[InTheBlood inheritable in their case]]. Other characters have been caught in the jealousy-trap, but absolutely none take it to the kind of extremes that Kaoru and Chiharu do. Safe to say they've never tried to ''murder'' someone over it.

* InTheBlood: Kaoru and Chiharu believe madness runs in their family. They're correct, although given their parents' actions it could easily be a nurture thing. That said, their mom and dad were[=/=]are completely off-the-wall insane in rather ugly ways. The only thing that keeps Kaoru and Chiharu sane are, quite literally, their relationships with Daigo and Kazuki respectively, who act as huge stabilising forces. It something happens to those relationships, they tend to fly off the handle and fall to pieces faster than a speeding train on amphetamines.

* BadDreams: Kaoru has a lot of trouble catching sleep because he always dreams of his abusive childhood.

* TheInsomniac: Kaoru, thanks to being haunted by BadDreams of his childhood. He discovers being in a stable relationship combats this.

Part of a larger series of interrelated stories of [[{{Salaryman}} salarymen]], Creator/FujisakiKou's ''Manga/VirginLove'' and its two direct sequels follow the rather smutty relationship of two business partners: Kaoru a mid-level manager at Todou and Daigo the executive director of Mercury.

Part of a larger series of interrelated stories of [[{{Salaryman}} salarymen]], FujisakiKou's ''Manga/VirginLove'' and its two direct sequels follow the rather smutty relationship of two business partners: Kaoru a mid-level manager at Todou and Daigo the executive director of Mercury.

* AbusiveDad: Chiharu's father wasn't much better. His preferred method of education was beating his son repeatedly with a ''cane'' because he didn't like the "look in his eyes".

* BrutalHonesty: Kaoru is the master wielder of this particular technique. He can destroy someone's self-esteem with this in less than a minute (shown to rather cruel effect in the associated series). The only person this doesn't work on is Chiharu[[hottip:*:Apparently they already swapped their {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}es a long time ago]].

** In the associated series, Chiharu shows himself up as having similar issues as Kaoru, although he takes it to greater extremes. Apparently it's InTheBlood, or they were ''incredibly'' screwed up by their collective parents[[hottip:*:Probably a mixture of both]].

* FirstLove: Despite both Kaoru and Chiharu's [[ReallyGetsAround long line of one-night hook-ups]] and FuckBuddies, both Daigo and Kazuki respectively are the first and only people they've ever fallen in love with[[hottip:*:The fact that the reason for this is that both are borderline insane with enough childhood baggage to sink an oil liner makes this slightly less romantic than it sounds]].

* InSeriesNickname: Daigo is referred to as the "[[BadassNickname Young Lion of Mercury]]" in the business world, and in the Todou group Kaoru is dubbed the "[[{{Bishonen}} Beautiful Noble]]."

''...Junai No Seinen'' picks up after this, with Daigo still worried about what Kaoru's feelings for him are. This only gets worse when Kaoru's ex-[[FuckBuddies sex friend]] Ian shows up hoping to strike something up again and Kaoru takes advantage of this to make Daigo jealous in order to feed his own insecurity. It backfires when Daigo leaves him in anger. After a Kaoru has a public [[HeroicBSOD meltdown]] Daigo figures out what was going on and forgives him.

* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Daigo's father has his {{mook}}s give Kaoru a blank cheque, to be filled with any sum he likes so long as he ends his relationship with Daigo. He is apparently unaware that [[TheBeatles money can't buy you love]].

** In the associated series, Chiharu shows himself up as having similar issues as Kaoru, although [[BeyondTheImpossible he takes it to greater extremes]]. Apparently it's InTheBlood, or they were ''incredibly'' screwed up by their collective parents[[hottip:*:Probably a mixture of both]].