The girl who has the BIGGEST problems with men, EVER.
I hate them! I fear them! I detest them! Because when it comes to men…
When it comes to men, Hinako Aikawa has problems—problems which she confesses to an empty and abandoned church. Unbeknowest to her, her classmate, local
Casanova Daisuke Suwa, was hiding in said church to dodge his henpecking Childhood Friend Yuzu Yamamoto and his wanna-be girlfriend Kazuki Ibuse. At first he tries to shoo Hinako away, but eventually relents. He expects to hear a minor confession, and instead receives the shock of his life in learning of
years of abuse Hinako suffered. Sexual abuse from her stepfather that got her pregnant not once, but
twice, and resulted in at least one birth to a child one year prior, when Hinako was fifteen.
Despite initial denial, Daisuke is forced to accept his classmate has indeed suffered these horrors. As a result, even though Hinako was the one girl Daisuke had said he would pass on, he finds himself unable to stop thinking about her. He begins to watch out for her, protect her, and inevitably fall in love with her. The main obstacles he faces in pusuit of this newfound love are Kazuki's jealousy and Hinako’s own difficulties around men. For her part, Hinako herself has managed to develop feelings towards Daisuke, but is unsure if he would accept her past... Therefore, the story of
Bitter Virgin by Kei Kusunoki follows the two protagonists as they work through their issues and gradually come to understand one another.
This series features examples of:
- Abusive Parents (Hinako's stepfather)
- Adults Are Useless (Hinako's mother is in denial about her abuse for a LONG time. Contrast that with Daisuke's mother, Nana.)
- Attempted Rape (Hinako, mid-way through the series)
- Attention Whore (Kazuki, at one point using a quote very close to the one on top of the Trope's page)
- Berserker Tears
- Bittersweet Ending ( Hinako and Daisuke are together at the end. Kazuki and Yuzu accept this and step aside. But no one, including the couple themselves, expects the relationship to last, both of them feeling the other could do better, although thankfully it's left up in the air and really depends on what you think will happen)
- Break The Cutie (Hinako starts the series already broken, and the story focuses largely on her recovery)
- Casanova (Daisuke, in the beginning)
- Clingy Jealous Girl (Kazuki; to her credit she got better)
- Confessional
- Cool Big Sis (Izumi)
- Cooldown Hug (Hinako to Daisuke in chapter 13)
- Creator Breakdown (Kei Kusunoki wrote this manga right after having a miscarriage. Hence, why Hinako lost her first baby, and Izumi hers)
- Crowning Moment Of Awesome (Daisuke's rescue at the end of chapter 12 and Hinako's shooting down Kazuki's attempt to cry rape in chapter 16)
- Crowning Moment Of Heartbreaking (When Daisuke's nephew was stillborn. This troper lost a child almost exactly like that and that chapter had him in tears for hours.)
- Does Not Like Men (Hinako)
- Give Him A Normal Life (Why Hinako gave up her second baby into adoption)
- Good Girls Avoid Abortion (Hinako was made to carry her second pregnancy to term for the sake of her health)
- Good Scars Evil Scars (Hinako's C-Section scar)
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel (For anyone that plans to have children.)
- Not What It Looks Like (Hinako sees right through it, despite Kazuki's attempts to make it seem exactly what it looks like)
- Parental Incest (Hinako's abuser was her stepdad)
- Rape As Drama (Milked for ALL it's worth)
- Secret Keeper (Asymmetric, as Hinako does not know Daisuke knows. Kazuki and Yuzu also become this kind of keeper later. On the other hand, Izumi is Hinako's symmetric keeper)
- Shrinking Violet (Hinako)
- Valley Girl (To a degree, Kazuki)
- The Woobie (Hinako, too)
- They All Said We Never Could Be Happy
- Unlucky Childhood Friend (Yuzu)
- Yandere (Kazuki)
