History Manga / MinamotoKunMonogatari

A modern-day re-imagining of ''Literature/TheTaleOfGenji'' by Inaba Minori. Terumi Minamoto is a young man [[{{Bishonen}} with a face pretty enough to make people think he is a girl]]. During his middle school years, Terumi was bullied by [[GangOfBullies women who were jealous of his face]] and as a consequence, developed a fear of women, to the point of attending an all-boys high school to escape his trauma.

!! Minamoto-kun Monogatari contains general examples of:

* CoitusEnsues: Occurs several times throughout the story, and sometimes without warning. Terumi and his target can be talking and then next page might show him and the target making out with each other.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Happens quite often with most of the cast members when they're thinking about someone else; particularly, with the main character, Terumi.

* {{Expy}}: By the nature of the series, most major characters are to a greater or lesser extent Expies of characters from ''Literature/TheTaleOfGenji''. Justified because Kaoruko is intentionally putting women in Terumi's path whose circumstances resemble those of characters from the Tale, who she almost certainly sought out for this purpose.

* NotSoDifferent: Characters in the story to one another:
** Terumi and Asahi: Both are clueless when it comes to going on dates or having any sort of sexual experience.
** Terumi and Aoi: Both parties have [[spoiler:complexes towards a parent; Terumi for his mother, Aoi for her father]]. As a result, both parties just want to be accepted and held for who they are.
** Terumi and Hanada: Both were originally shy when dealing with members of the opposite sex. They both get better but they're still not completely over it.
** Terumi and Semi: Both want a relationship in which their respective partner pleases them both physically and emotionally. On a lighter note, both complain about having drunken neighbors knocking on their doors trying to get in.
** Terumi and Yuu: Both want to enter a relationship filled not only with sex but with actual love.
** Asahi and Aoi: Both meet each other and immediately think that they will not be able to get along due to their closeness with Terumi.
** Kaoruko and Tsukasa: Both are willing to use their bodies and charm to seduce and manipulate guys to do what they want.
** Terumi and Tsukasa: Both are somewhat twisted human beings who want to get into the pants of the opposite sex, regardless of circumstance. They even gave each other a ForcefulKiss at certain points of the story. Finally both had a [[TeacherStudentRomance kinky relationship with an authority figure.]]
** Terumi and Tsukiko: Both are perverts deep down and lets their imagination run away with them at times.

* {{Expy}}: By the nature of the series, most major characters are to a greater or lesser extent Expies of characters from ''Literature/TheTaleOfGenji''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because Kaoruko is intentionally putting women in Terumi's path whose circumstances resemble those of characters from the Tale, who she almost certainly sought out for this purpose.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Watching Terumi feel more and more comfortable around Kaoruko, and Kaoruko showing she cares for him after all, even if only [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial for the sake of her research]], does seem to imply they are slowly heading towards giving into incest for real. [[spoiler:By the end, it appears that they don't, despite finally working up to foreplay... [[DoubleSubverted at least until the final volume's extended cut of Chapter 357]] revealed that they ''did'', and had sex for at least three months every night before Kaoruko left for her new job.]]

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Aside from the protagonist, Terumi, the only other prominent male character of the series so far is his recurring friend at the university and a teacher who has yet to actually show his face. Even Terumi's father, the plot-device that kicked him out of the house in the first place, hasn't been seen since the very first chapter.

* TitleDrop: In the penultimate chapter, Kaoruko tells Terumi that he didn't end up following Genji's srory to the letter, and therefore walked his own path in the end--he lived out "The Tale of Minamoto-kun".

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Watching Terumi feel more and more comfortable around Kaoruko, and Kaoruko showing she cares for him after all, even if only [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial for the sake of her research]], does seem to imply they are slowly heading towards giving into incest for real. [[spoiler:By the end, it appears that they don't, despite finally working up to foreplay... [[DoubleSubverted at least until the final volume's extended cut of Chapter 354]] revealed that they ''did'', and had sex for at least three months every night before Kaoruko left for her new job.]]

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Watching Terumi feel more and more comfortable around Kaoruko, and Kaoruko showing she cares for him after all, even if only [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial for the sake of her research]], does seem to imply they are slowly heading towards giving into incest for real. [[spoiler:By the end, it appears that they don't, despite finally working up to foreplay... [[DoubleSubverted at least until the final volume's extra chapter]] revealed that they ''did'', and had sex for at least a month every day.]]

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Watching Terumi feel more and more comfortable around Kaoruko, and Kaoruko showing she cares for him after all, even if only [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial for the sake of her research]], does seem to imply they are slowly heading towards giving into incest for real. [[spoiler:By the end, however, it appears that they don't, despite finally working up to foreplay.]]

** [[spoiler:Yuu and Akashi didn't want to continue their relationship with Terumi because they believed that he loves Kaoruko more than them. It's not shown if they would start a relationship with him again now that Kaoruko left him after the experiment.]]

* LeftHanging: The manga ends abruptly, with fans believing that the story was axed by the magazine, leaving many plot threads that readers were looking forward to unresolved:

** [[spoiler:Terumi just "gets over" his fear of Tsukasa during his final year at the university, not showing ''how'' the guy did it in a believable manner.]]
** [[spoiler:It's not shown if Ruri ever finds out about Terumi's true gender.]]
** [[spoiler:Despite the author showing each target moving on with their lives, it flies by way too quickly, with some targets deserving of more of a proper send off. For instance, does Rokujou still pursue Terumi to this day?]]
** [[spoiler:Terumi and the targets never revisit one another for sex or the pursuit of a serious relationship, despite the possibilities presented.]]
** [[spoiler:Terumi and Kaoruko never have sex with one another; the closest is a 69 intercourse.]]
** [[spoiler:Asahi never finds out that Tsukiko slept with Terumi and what her reaction to this news could have potentially have been. Tsukiko herself is afraid of Asahi ever finding out and its hinted that she wants to pursue a more serious relationship with Terumi. For that matter, by manga's end, despite being in love with Terumi, Asahi STILL hasn't confessed to the guy.]]

** [[spoiler:It's hinted that Murakami gets over his "love" for Kaoruko and has started dating Otome's older sister. Seeing how that happened would made for an interesting arc.]]

After 384 chapters, ''Minamoto-kun Monogatari'' ended in 2019.

* LuminescentBlush: Terumi is susceptible to this everytime he does something perverted or a girl says or does something to him that makes him feel happy. It's the same in reverse.

* BaitAndSwitch: The penultimate chapter ends with a one year timeskip, showing a little boy who looks quite a bit like Terumi in daycare. You think this leads to a case of MamasBabyPapasMaybe, [[spoiler:but in reality the final chapter shows the boy is Terumi's baby brother]].

* BaitAndSwitch: The penultimate chapter ends with a one year timeskip, showing a little boy who looks quite a bit like Terumi in daycare. You think this leads to a case of MamasBabyPapasMaybe, [[spoiler:but in reality the boy is Terumi's baby brother]].

* TheTease: Many attractive women in this manga love invoking this trope, especially to our main protagonist.

* ThemeNaming: Probably intentional on the part of the author, basically all of the women that Terumi have met so far has at least a name reference to the women in ''Literature/TheTaleOfGenji'', ranging from one single syllable in ''Hiragana'' (''Asa''gao to ''Asa''hi, ''Waka'' to Ko''waka'', ''Yuu''gao to ''Yuu'') to basically carrying the entire name of their counterparts into theirs.

Kaoruko just happens to be one of the most beautiful women in the university, who has done much literary work using TheTaleOfGenji as a base, and is admired and respected by people of both genders. When Terumi arrives at her apartment, she quickly guesses that he was bullied due to his face and that he doesn't have any experience with women. Thinking it would be too boring for him to just lounge around the apartment she offers to help him get over his fear, in exchange of becoming her guinea pig for her research in her "[[GenderFlip Reverse]] [[WifeHusbandry Hikaru Genji Plan]]".

* DoomedByCanon: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. Those who know the story of ''TheTaleOfGenji'' will know that [[{{Yandere}} Rokujou no Miyasudokoro]] goes on to [[spoiler: ''kill'' two of her rivals out of love for Genji]]. Terumi makes that very same connection when Kaoruko brings up her {{Expy}} as the third target, and his reluctance makes Kaoruko change the target to Hanachirusato's {{Expy}}. Time will tell if [[{{Expy}} Miya Rokujou]], the fourth target, will follow suit here; already showing {{Yandere}} tendencies down to a tee.
* {{Expy}}: By the nature of the series, most major characters are to a greater or lesser extent Expies of characters from TheTaleOfGenji. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because Kaoruko is intentionally putting women in Terumi's path whose circumstances resemble those of characters from the Tale, who she almost certainly sought out for this purpose.

* SettingUpdate: Invoked, kind-of. The whole plot is kick-started when Kaoruko decides to use Terumi as a guinea pig in her plan to recreate the circumstances of TheTaleOfGenji for her research.