Line #30 Manga/LoveOfKill


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4	''Love of Kill'' (''Koroshi Ai'') is a {{shoujo\|Demographic}} manga written and illustrated by Fe, which was serialized in the magazine ''Monthly Comic Gene'' from October 2015 to January 2023 and compiled into 13 volumes. The manga is based on Fe's Pixiv webcomic ''I Wanted to Read a Manga About an Assassin Couple in Love so I Started Drawing One'', followed by ''A Short Story About the Assassin Couple in Love Manga that I Just Wanted to Read About''. Overseas, Creator/YenPress publishes it in English.
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6	The manga has a drama CD released in 2018. [[WordOfGod According to Fe, she helped out in the script and production]] when the voice actors were being cast. It was only released in Japan on February 15, 2018 under the March 2018 issue of ''Monthly Comic Gene''.
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8	An anime adaptation was first broadcast on January 13, 2022, animated by Platinum Vision and directed by Hideaki Ōba, with Ayumu Hisao doing the script. Yōko Satō serves as character designer and Kei Yoshikawa as composer. It's airing in Japan under Tokyo MX, SUN, KBS Kyoto, BS NTV and AT-X. Crunchyroll streams it outside Japan and the company announced that it will receive an English dub.
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10	An afterstory epilogue taking place after the main story titled ''After the File'' was serialized in ''Monthly Comic Gene'' from May 2023 to February 2024. These chapters were compiled into another manga volume released on February 27, 2024, essentially serving as the 14th and final volume of the series.
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12	During a typical bounty hunting assignment for Ritzland Support, Chateau Dankworth encounters an East Asian assassin named Song Ryang-ha. While he was supposed to be hunted down as a bounty, Ryang-ha stalks her 24/7 and pleads with her to get a date in exchange for information he can provide. Chateau does so with reluctance. Later on, Ryang-ha helps her out from behind the scenes.
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14	The two are later forced to confront their DarkAndTroubledPast when they are targeted by armed men working for Donald Bachman.
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17	!!The manga provides examples of:
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19	* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The European Union does not allow anyone to do bounty hunting.
20	** {{Ruritania}}: Then again there are no real-life European locations depicted in the story.
21	* AnAssKickingChristmas: Chateau's contract to hunt down Ryang-ha, followed by him hunting down other contracts placed on Chateau for her bounty work, took place during the holiday season.
22	* BountyHunter: Ritzland Support's a company that specializing in hunting down persons of interests. Chateau's contract to hunt Ryang-ha came from a triad group based in the unnamed country.
23	* CaptiveDate: Song spends the first few manga chapters/first episode of the anime stalking Chateau and badgering her for a date after running into her on a job. He finally extorts one from her in exchange for information her boss has ordered her to obtain for business purposes. [[BadDate It doesn't go well]] and she leaves the hotel room he takes her to at the end of it. He still manages to force a hug on her before she gets on the train to go home.
24	* CruiseEpisode: A story arc takes place on a cruise ship where RS was assigned to provide security for a VIP secretly since the person is well-known. Ryang-ha boards the ship too and he gets tangled with Jinon in a fight. [[spoiler:Turns out that the VIP was Euripedes' wife.]]
25	* DrivingQuestion:
26	** Why did Ryang-ha take out the leadership of a triad gang?[[note]]The Japanese version mentions the name ''Santoukai''.[[/note]]
27	** Also what happened to Chateau when she was very young?
28	* LostOrphanedRoyalty: [[spoiler:Chateau is heir to the prestigious Noble family, who was forced to go on the run after a power struggle occurred that left her father murdered.]]
29	* MarketBasedTitle: In Japanese, it's known as ''Koroshi Ai''.[[note]]The Japanese title is a pun, meaning ''Killing Love''.[[/note]]
30	* OddlySmallOrganization: Ritzland Support is currently made up of Indian Guy, Chateau and Euripedes.
31	* ShoutOut: Ryang-ha using a baseball bat with barbed wire around it is a reference to Negan's use of it in ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', according to Fe in the manga afterword.
32	* WretchedHive: The unnamed European country's Ritzland Support's HQ is located in. It's lampshaded in the media that the criminal groups there call the shots and the local government/law enforcement are powerless to stop it.

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