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3->''Flowers can't bloom in such a dirty city.''
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5''Deep Love (Ayu no Monogatari - The Story of Ayu)'' is a tragedy story that started the genre known as "Text Novels". It was written in 2002-2003 by "Yoshi" aka Miwako Sugiyama.
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7It tells the story of Ayu, who works as a prostitute, believing that money is the most important thing in the world and that all men want is to have sex. She lives with her drug addict "boyfriend", Kenji, and occasionally goes to school, [[OnlyFriend where only one person looks forward to seeing her: Reina]], who also sells herself for extra money (named Reika in the live adaption... for a bit). Things slowly change when she meets an old lady that changes her outlook and one adorable dog that follows her around.
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9The book was a big success and spawned a two-book manga series, a 13-episode live action drama (2004) and one movie (2000). Spin-off mangas for Reina (''Reina no Unmei'') and Pao (''Pao no Monogatari'') were also written. There is also the manga sequel ''Deep Love: REAL'' which is a continuation of the story and about [[spoiler:Yoshiyuki's life as a host]]; this got turned into the twelve episode show ''Deep Love ~Host~''.
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12!!Tropes:
13* AbusiveParent: In the live action adaptation, Ayu's stepfather abused her [[spoiler:and raped her]].
14** Yoshiyuki's father, shouting at and usually neglecting Yoshiyuki, abandoning him at Granny's until he got married to a woman who would look after him instead, and not bothering to help with his operation fees. His stepmother is emotionally abusive to him as well.
15* AdaptationExpansion: The television show adds more to the story, little conversations and things - like fleshing out Kenji's story - but it does change the order of some things. It also created numerous characters and added much more to Ayu's backstory.
16* TheAlcoholic: Yoshiyuki's father is always found at the same pub every day.
17* AllMenArePerverts: Yoshiyuki is the only exception to the rule in this work.
18* AlphaBitch: Keiko, the head bully who torments Reina in the television adaption.
19* AttemptedRape: In the live action version, [[spoiler:three of the men at her work attempt to rape her before getting saved by Oka]].
20* TheAtoner: After [[spoiler:Ayu steals Granny's money that was saved for her child's operation, Granny dies. Ayu decides to save up the money herself to pay for it even if she can't donate her own heart, without selling her body. In the end, she couldn't do it without selling herself.]]
21* BigBrotherBully: [[spoiler:Ayu's stepbrother]] tries to make her life a living hell, trying to get everybody she likes to hate her as much as he does. Then we learn [[spoiler:it's because he wants her to stay with him forever, so he is getting rid of all her friends so she has nowhere else to go]].
22* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Ayu is dead, Yoshiyuki gets his surgery and Reina is happy as a young mother.]]
23* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:Reina is blackmailed into remaining quiet about her rape or else the girls who set her up would pass around the photographs of her.]]
24* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Reina, after she's raped, blackmailed and stabbed, is very different from her previous self.]] She gets better.
25* TheBully: There's one at the restaurant Ayu works at later in the series.
26* CampGay: Oka.
27* CannotSpitItOut: The taxi driver can't admit to [[spoiler:Ayu that he's her father]].
28* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: Not Catholic, but in the live action version, one of the johns was very adamant that Reina and Ayu wear their school uniforms.
29* TheChikan: Ayu gets molested on a train, but she allows it and charges her regular amount afterward. The man doesn't give her enough and she throws the money away.
30** The live action version opens with this scene, but instead he gives her the right amount and she keeps it.
31* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:After Reina is raped, she gets pregnant and has a daughter.]]
32* DeadGuyJunior: At the end, it's shown that [[spoiler:Reina named her daughter Ayu]].
33* DeathByFallingOver: In the show only, [[spoiler:Kenji]].
34* DefiledForever: Ayu believes this about herself because she's had sex for money, telling Yoshiyuki not to touch her.
35* DefinitelyJustACold: An unusual example, as [[spoiler: -Ayu-]] didn't know it wasn't a fever. [[spoiler: It's [=AIDS=].]]
36* DirtyBusiness: Ayu feels guilty saving Kenji by [[spoiler:stealing Granny's money. It doesn't help later when she learns that it was for her ill child]]. Ayu later confesses and swears to make it right.
37* DisappearedDad: Ayu's biological father and Reina's. In the television adaption, the nameless prostitute's father left when she was in elementary school.
38* DisproportionateRetribution: In the live action version, Keiko is given a reason to torture Reina: she spent the day with her boyfriend. She didn't know it was her boyfriend...
39* DoorstopBaby: Ayu does this with Pao in the second episode, but Granny opens the door before she can walk away.
40* DrivenToSuicide: One of Reina's johns kills himself (changed to Ayu's in the television drama), and several pages later [[spoiler:Kenji, who was back on his drug addiction]] (which is changed to an accident in the series).
41** At the very end, it's said all in one sentence: [[spoiler:"Yoshiyuki's father committed suicide the following spring."]] It is kept vague in the live adaptation how this character dies.
42** In the live action version only, [[spoiler: Ayu's mother]].
43* DrugsAreBad: Kenji's drug addiction, losing his job and debts. At the start he's a walking piece of "cool", but he quickly falls from grace.
44* EmotionlessGirl: Ayu, eventually drifting into stoic and showing more emotions as the story goes.
45* TheFilmOfTheBook
46* FoodSlap: Hot coffee is thrown over [[spoiler:Keiko, the girl who organized Reina's rape]].
47* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the second episode, Kenji tells one of his clients that he's trying to raise money to help his friend get an operation. Yoshiyuki hasn't even been introduced yet... and he needs an operation when he does.
48** In episode 4, "If you don't stop that you're gonna die." and "I think I'll be joining you soon."
49* FriendsWithBenefits: Ayu and Kenji, not so much friends as people who argue.
50* GangOfBullies: The group of girls who bully Reina in the live action version, throwing her desk out of the window, etc.
51* GenkiGirl: Reina.
52* GreenEyedMonster: The fuel for TheBully who torments Ayu at her job at the restaurant.
53** In the last episode, [[spoiler:Yoshiyuki's dad admitted he did everything because he was jealous of "his pure love"]].
54** In the live adaptation, [[spoiler:the nameless prostitute when she's killed by one of her customers]].
55* HappilyAdopted: Granny's adoptive son, Yoshiyuki, who later went back to his natural father.
56* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Reina and Ayu later in the story. In the live action version, the nameless older prostitute as well who helps Reina out in episode three and four.
57* HopeSpot: Ayu and Yoshiyuki's holiday together. [[spoiler:Ayu confesses that she's a prostitute and he accepts her and tells her she isn't dirty because of it. Then she gets arrested (though she's let go) and he's not allowed out of the hospital because he's sicker than before]]. And then it gets even worse.
58* IncurableCoughOfDeath
59* {{Jerkass}}: Both of Yoshiyuki's parents.
60* KarmaHoudini: The men who rape [[spoiler:Reina]] don't get into any trouble.
61** Ayu's stepfather doesn't get in trouble either.
62* LikeParentLikeSpouse: In the television series, the nameless prostitute explains that she always picks up men who remind her of her father.
63* LoanShark: Kenji borrows money from some for his drug addiction in the live action version, but then he got fired from his job.
64* LookBothWays: In the television show, [[spoiler:Granny dies this way while chasing after who she thought was Ayu.]]
65* LongLostSibling: In the live action only, [[spoiler:Ayu's stepbrother]].
66* LoveHotels: Plenty of these turn up.
67* MaliciousSlander: [[spoiler:Ayu's brother]] spreads a lot of rumors about Ayu around (posting them directly to Granny as well), while some of them are true others are made up to make her life difficult.
68* MarkOfShame: This is what the girls planned with [[spoiler:Reina, and scarred "whore" on her leg]].
69* MorningSickness
70* NietzscheWannabe: Ayu has severe shades of this as the series progresses.
71* NoNameGiven: Granny, Yoshiyuki's parents, most of the workers at Ayu's bar job, the helpful prostitute, Ayu's parents, Reina's mother...
72* NotBloodSiblings: In the live action version, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Ayu slept with her stepbrother]]. Of course, he still paid.
73* TheOtherDarrin: In the sequel television show ''Deep Love ~Host~'', [[spoiler:Yoshiyuki]] is played by a different actor.
74** None of the actors from the film replay their roles in the television drama.
75* OutWithABang: In the television version, [[spoiler:the nameless prostitute is strangled by a customer she picked up but said she would spend time with for free; she seemed happy about this]].
76* ParentalIncest: In the live action version, [[spoiler:Ayu was raped by her stepfather and later sleeps with him.]]
77* ParentalSubstitute: Granny becomes this to Ayu, being the only responsible adult around. She even calls Ayu her daughter and teaches her how to cook.
78* PenName
79* PermaStubble: Yoshiyoki's father.
80* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Kenji says this to Ayu when she moves out of his flat and starts sleeping at Granny's house. He's in desperate need of money and begs her to stay and help him. She leaves, but does eventually return to help him.
81* PleaseWakeUp: [[spoiler:Ayu says this when Granny dies]].
82* PrettyBoy: Kenji. As a male prostitute, he can use this to his advantage.
83* RapeAndRevenge: [[spoiler:Ayu goes after the girls who set Reina up.]] She says next time -she- would kill them after pouring hot coffee over them and stabbing one of them in the leg.
84* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Reina after the bullies set her up]].
85** In the live action version, [[spoiler: Ayu was raped by her stepfather]].
86* ReallyDeadMontage: [[spoiler:For Granny.]]
87* {{Reincarnation}}: In the live action version, [[spoiler:Reina says she believes her daughter is Ayu reincarnated]].
88* TheRunaway: Ayu before the story started and Yoshiyuki ranaway temporarily to Okinawa.
89* ScarpiaUltimatum: [[spoiler: Yoshiyuki's father forces Ayu to sleep with him or else he won't help Yoshiyuki with his surgery. This also starts her back as a prostitute]].
90* ShootTheShaggyDog: In the television show, Ayu leaves Granny because she feels guilty [[spoiler:over stealing her money. Granny goes to look for her, worried, and sees Ayu getting into a car with an older gentleman. While she runs across the road to stop them, she gets hit by a car. It wasn't Ayu anyway...]]
91* SleepCute: Ayu and Yoshiyuki together in episode 10, holding hands.
92* SlippingAMickey: [[spoiler:The men at Ayu's work do this (along with the help of TheBully)]] in an attempt to rape her.
93* SnowMeansDeath: A cruel example [[spoiler:when Ayu dies and Yoshiyuki is looking up at the sky, wondering if she's watching it as well]].
94* SpeechImpediment: Reina has a kind of lisp in the television show.
95* StalkerWithACrush: Ayu gains one in the live action version: [[spoiler:her stepbrother]].
96* STDImmunity: [[spoiler:Averted. Ayu dies from [=AIDS=], and this is probably why Yoshiyuki's father kills himself (he made her sleep with him so he would help raise the money for Yoshiyuki's surgery).]]
97* TheStoic: Ayu.
98* SuicideAttack: Granny's husband was part of the Kamekaze pilots in UsefulNotes/WW2.
99* TeenPregnancy
100* ThereAreNoTherapists: Had Ayu seen somebody when she was dealing with her traumatic life, she might not have ended up the EmotionlessGirl she is now.
101* TimmyInAWell: Pao shows two main examples of this. Granny tells him to fetch Ayu ([[spoiler:confused after attacking Keiko]]) since she cannot (due to her weak legs), and at the end, [[spoiler:Ayu asks him to deliver a Christmas present to Yoshiyuki and he delivers a present back]].
102* UndyingLoyalty: At the end, [[spoiler:Pao sleeps in the dead arms of Ayu]].
103** Granny also. Being very old, lame and living on a hill, she still runs around looking after young people. Once a month she takes the long walk to her husband's grave and prays to him for a whole hour, through wind and rain.
104* WartimeWedding: Granny and her husband. It lasted one night before he went away to fight and died as a kamikaze pilot.
105* WhenSheSmiles: Reina starts crying when Ayu smiles at her in the manga. In the television series, she comments on it.
106* WHAMEpisode: Episode six.
107* WhatBeautifulEyes: Granny says this about her husband.
108* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: A very short one shows [[spoiler:Yoshiyuki alive and Reina with her child, Ayu]].
109* [[WickedStepmother Wicked Stepfather]]: Ayu's abusive stepfather.
110* YankTheDogsChain: Multiple times, but the most horrid one is done at the very end when [[spoiler: yu thinks she's got a fever over Christmas and Yoshiyuki sends her a minidisc with a recorded message talking about their next trip to Okinawa. She dies while it's finishing.]]
111** This isn't even mentioning that the entire story is a big chain yank. [[spoiler:When Ayu wanted to die she had no reason to, and the moment she had a reason to live, her life went downhill]].
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113!!Tropes appearing in the various sequels/spin-offs:
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117[[folder:Pao No Monogatari]]
118This is a two volume manga, a prequel showing what Pao's life was like before Ayu found him in the park. The second volume follows his life through his time with Ayu and the others - being unsubtly added to all of the important scenes he wasn't in earlier.
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120It's equally as miserable as every other story in the series.
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122* BreakTheCutie
123* DeadPersonConversation: Pao talks to his mother [[spoiler:and siblings]] once he's at Granny's house.
124* DefinitelyJustACold: [[spoiler:Take does not have a cold]].
125* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:The original family, due to debts and the father's cancer. They drive their car into the ocean with their children in the backseats]].
126* ForegoneConclusion: Pao will end up alone, abused and in a park.
127* GoryDiscretionShot: Straight when Pao gets his tongue cut, but subverted when [[spoiler:his sister]] dies.
128--> "Would you call that a mercy killing?"
129* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: Pao dies in Ayu's dead arms]].
130* HeroicSacrifice: Pao's mother didn't eat any of the food so her pups could have more.
131* IncurableCoughOfDeath
132* KickTheDog: Pao literally gets kicked at least once every ten pages.
133* KidsAreCruel: After their mother dies, the pups are found by some children who shoot at them because their barking was loud.
134** The kids who trap Pao in the school to throw rocks at him.
135* LoanShark
136* LongLostRelative: Pao gets separated from his brother and sister early on. He finds his sister at the dog pound and [[spoiler:finds out his brother is already dead]].
137* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The family says they don't want to put any of their dogs through what Nello suffered. They locked them up in a shed with a load of food, hoping somebody would find them. The girl says this when she returns to find them.
138* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Pao and his siblings eat their mother's dead body to survive.
139* ObiWanMoment: Pao's mother spends her last moments telling her children how to be better dogs. And then to eat her carcass.
140* ParentalSubstitute: Pao becomes one to Mew, the kitten he rescues.
141* UndyingLoyalty: Pao is fond of this. He stays by [[spoiler:Take and Ume]] when they die and stays outside [[spoiler:the original family's]] house until the policemen "tell" him the family won't be coming back.
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144[[folder:Reina No Unmei]]
145''Reina's Fate'' is a spin-off sequel following Reina's life after the original story. There are unmarked spoilers for the original.
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147* AngstComa: [[spoiler:Reina is a catatonic-like state after Akira's death]]. They get better.
148* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Yoshiyuki and co. rescuing Reina from the Boss.]]
149* BondageIsBad: The Boss likes bondage...but her underwear was left on.
150* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Akira's death.]]
151* DistressedDamsel: [[spoiler:After Akira dies, Reina is kept as a sex prisoner of the Boss]].
152* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Aira.
153* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Akira and Reina get together and decide to raise Ayu together, he's just got to go and rescue Aira, and the Boss has a gun]].
154* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Reina feels guilty for telling Ayu to play by herself (so she can think about her unemployment issue) because [[spoiler:Ayu falls down the stairs and ends up blind]].
155* RaisedByGrandparents: Ayu after [[spoiler:Reina leaves to work at the second sex club, gets held prisoner by the Boss and gets rescued by Yoshiyuki.]]
156* RescueRomance: Akira rescued Reina from somebody hassling her.
157* SingleMomStripper: Reina gets a job at a sex club when nowhere else will hire her (she dropped out of school). She gets fired after Akira makes a scene.
158** She takes a similar job afterward.
159* TeenPregnancy: Reina was sixteen when she gave birth to Ayu.
160* TitleDrop: "There's nothing that can't be solved with deep, deep love."
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