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''The Name of the Flower'' (JP: ''Hana (''Hana No Namae'') is a Japanese {{Shojo}} {{Manga}} by the mangaka Saitou Ken.
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The story details the life of Chouko Mizushima, a teenage girl whose parents both die in a car crash. Depressed and refusing to speak, she goes to live with a distant relative, Mizushima Kei, who is a famous post-modern novelist, who has two prestigious awards, whose books have a power to express deep feelings of loneliness and despair. He himself suffers from such feelings and living together Chouko learns to go on and once again becomes a happy girl. But as they become closer, feelings develop and Chouko has to decide whether she wants to brave the kind of loneliness that loving the depressed Kei would bring, And Kei has to decide whether to pull himself out of the dark abyss or risk dragging Chouko down with him.
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The story details the life of Chouko Mizushima, a teenage girl whose parents both die in a car crash. Depressed and refusing to speak, she goes to live with a distant relative, Mizushima Kei, who is a famous post-modern novelist, who has two prestigious awards, whose books have a power to express deep feelings of loneliness and despair. He himself suffers from such feelings and living together Chouko learns to go on and once again becomes a happy girl. But as they become closer, feelings develop and Chouko has to decide whether she wants to brave the kind of loneliness that loving the depressed Kei would bring, And and Kei has to decide whether to pull himself out of the dark abyss or risk dragging Chouko down with him.
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''Hana No Namae'' (English: "The Name of the Flower") is a Japanese {{Shojo}} {{Manga}} by the mangaka Saitou Ken.
The story details the life of Chouko Mizushima, a teenage girl whose parents both die in a car crash. Depressed and refusing to speak, she goes to live with a distant relative, Mizushima Kei, who is a famous post-modern novelist, who has two prestigious awards, whose books have a power to express deep feelings of loneliness and despair. He himself suffers from such feelings and living together Chouko learns to go on and once again becomes a happy girl. But as they become closer, feelings develop and Chouko has to decide whether she wants to brave the kind of loneliness that loving the depressed Kei would bring, And Kei has to decide whether to pull himself out of the dark abyss or risk dragging Chouko down with him.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Kei is the brooding boy, Chouko is the gentle girl.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kei [[spoiler: he was an illegitimate child, his mother worked herself to death and may have committed suicide, and his family disowned and hated him, and his first girl friend was using him and became sadistic to punish him for being so depressing or something, and then messily broke up with him, nearly destroying him. The guy has reason to be depressed, but he's a dick about it.]]
* [[FirstGirlWins First Guy Wins]].
* GreenThumb: Chouko. Kei originally told her to garden because she was just wallowing in greif and he wanted to get her out of the way and then she started liking it and came out of her shell.
* HeroicBSOD: Both Kei and Chouko at various points.
* HotSpringsEpisode: Though definitely not filled with your typical fan service.
* JapaneseSchoolClub: At Chouko's university, she ends up joining a club for reading post-modern literature, everyone there raises up Kei as a God, pretty much.
* KimonoIsTraditional: Kei wears Kimonos all the time. He says it's just because the person who willed him the house left them and he didn't feel like buying new clothes.
* LastGirlWins
* LonersWillStayAlone: Mizushima Kei, who is a famous writer of depressing, nihilistic works and won two very prestigious awards for them. He himself has a tragic past and struggles with deep depression, and before the start of the story pretty much has one, singular, friend who he 'claims' to hate. The story resolves around him and the distant relative he took in, Chouko, and her desire to love and save him from his depression and his feeling that he doesn't deserve it, or can never bring himself out of it enough to do anything but drag her down with him.
* Meganekko: Male example: Karasawa plays this trope fairly straight. He is often nervous and shy to the point of stuttering, making Chouko feel badly for him at first. Once they know each other better, he's still nervous, but incredibly sweet and considerate of her; for instance, by taking her lunchbox to her house when she'd forgotten it at a book club meeting.
* MostWritersAreWriters: It's a manga (graphic novel), and one of the main characters is a writer.
* NotNowKiddo: completely averted when it comes to Shinichi and Karasawa
* OnlyFriend: Mizushima Kei's only friend is his editor and biggest fan Akiyama Shinichi, though Kei tries to 'claim' he hates Shinichi.
* ThePollyanna: Definitely Chouko.
* ThePowerOfLove: Well it ''is'' a Shojo Manga.
* StalkerWithACrush: Various people can be seen 'stalking' people whom they either love or admire or hate.
* TheStoic: Kei.
* StoicSpectacles: Kei, naturally.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Expressed in-universe by one of Kei's fans. In his most recent book, ''Hana'', it has an ending that can be very loosely construed as happy (I mean, a little girl dies, it's really not ''that'' happy, but the main character is glad to have known her and feels good and stuff). and then writes threatening letters to Kei for 'changing' his style.
* TheUnfavorite: Kei, in his family.
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''Hana No Namae'' (English: "The Name of the Flower") is a Japanese {{Shojo}} {{Manga}} by the mangaka Saitou Ken.
The story details the life of Chouko Mizushima, a teenage girl whose parents both die in a car crash. Depressed and refusing to speak, she goes to live with a distant relative, Mizushima Kei, who is a famous post-modern novelist, who has two prestigious awards, whose books have a power to express deep feelings of loneliness and despair. He himself suffers from such feelings and living together Chouko learns to go on and once again becomes a happy girl. But as they become closer, feelings develop and Chouko has to decide whether she wants to brave the kind of loneliness that loving the depressed Kei would bring, And Kei has to decide whether to pull himself out of the dark abyss or risk dragging Chouko down with him.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Kei is the brooding boy, Chouko is the gentle girl.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kei [[spoiler: he was an illegitimate child, his mother worked herself to death and may have committed suicide, and his family disowned and hated him, and his first girl friend was using him and became sadistic to punish him for being so depressing or something, and then messily broke up with him, nearly destroying him. The guy has reason to be depressed, but he's a dick about it.]]
* [[FirstGirlWins First Guy Wins]].
* GreenThumb: Chouko. Kei originally told her to garden because she was just wallowing in greif and he wanted to get her out of the way and then she started liking it and came out of her shell.
* HeroicBSOD: Both Kei and Chouko at various points.
* HotSpringsEpisode: Though definitely not filled with your typical fan service.
* JapaneseSchoolClub: At Chouko's university, she ends up joining a club for reading post-modern literature, everyone there raises up Kei as a God, pretty much.
* KimonoIsTraditional: Kei wears Kimonos all the time. He says it's just because the person who willed him the house left them and he didn't feel like buying new clothes.
* LastGirlWins
* LonersWillStayAlone: Mizushima Kei, who is a famous writer of depressing, nihilistic works and won two very prestigious awards for them. He himself has a tragic past and struggles with deep depression, and before the start of the story pretty much has one, singular, friend who he 'claims' to hate. The story resolves around him and the distant relative he took in, Chouko, and her desire to love and save him from his depression and his feeling that he doesn't deserve it, or can never bring himself out of it enough to do anything but drag her down with him.
* Meganekko: Male example: Karasawa plays this trope fairly straight. He is often nervous and shy to the point of stuttering, making Chouko feel badly for him at first. Once they know each other better, he's still nervous, but incredibly sweet and considerate of her; for instance, by taking her lunchbox to her house when she'd forgotten it at a book club meeting.
* MostWritersAreWriters: It's a manga (graphic novel), and one of the main characters is a writer.
* NotNowKiddo: completely averted when it comes to Shinichi and Karasawa
* OnlyFriend: Mizushima Kei's only friend is his editor and biggest fan Akiyama Shinichi, though Kei tries to 'claim' he hates Shinichi.
* ThePollyanna: Definitely Chouko.
* ThePowerOfLove: Well it ''is'' a Shojo Manga.
* StalkerWithACrush: Various people can be seen 'stalking' people whom they either love or admire or hate.
* TheStoic: Kei.
* StoicSpectacles: Kei, naturally.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Expressed in-universe by one of Kei's fans. In his most recent book, ''Hana'', it has an ending that can be very loosely construed as happy (I mean, a little girl dies, it's really not ''that'' happy, but the main character is glad to have known her and feels good and stuff). and then writes threatening letters to Kei for 'changing' his style.
* TheUnfavorite: Kei, in his family.
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