Line #40 Manga/SweetGuiltyLoveBites


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:Kyrie, Nina, Claire, and Kokoro]]
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4	''Sweet Guilty Love Bites'' is a short, three-chapter YuriGenre manga by Creator/ShunintaAmano, which was serialized in ''Magazine/YuriHime'' in 2010. Each chapter focuses on one of three very different lesbian couples, united only by the fact that at least one partner in each pairing works as a hostess at the cabaret ''Club Rose''. Each couple gets a chapter in the trilogy:
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6	* ''Sweet Guilty'' is about Kyrie, a hostess, and Miyata, a mysterious girl whom Kyrie finds collapsed from hunger on the street.
7	* ''Guilty Love'' is about Nina, a hostess and a single mother, and Mayu, her [[IntroductionByHookup accidental]] lover and her daughter's preschool teacher.
8	* ''Love Bites'' is about Claire and Kokoro, two hostesses, who share an apartment and a very unprofessional relationship.
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11	!!Tropes found in the manga:
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13	* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Claire's parents are some major assholes. They beat her up as a kid, so she ran away to work at a cabaret. Then, when she finally hit it big in fashion business, they looked her up and demanded money, beating her up again when she refused. The worst part? They are cynical enough not to hit any parts of her body that cannot be covered up on a photo shoot.]]
14	* AccidentalPervert: The first thing Miyata sees of Kyrie is her panties.
15	%%* AngerBornOfWorry: When Kyrie doesn't find Miyata at home.
16	%%* BrokenBird: Claire.
17	* CatGirl: Kyrie imagines Miyata as a catgirl thanks to the latter's many [[CatsAreSuperior feline personality traits]].
18	* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Chronic Caretaker Syndrome: Kyrie tends to pick up stray living things (like dogs and girls)... and lampshades this.
19	* CommonHollywoodSexTraits: Averted with a lampshade: Miyata outright forbids Kyrie to "do her" until the latter cuts her long fingernails.
20	* CompoundTitle: ''Sweet Guilty Love Bites'' is made up of the three chapters, ''Sweet Guilty'', ''Guilty Love'' and ''Love Bites''.
21	* ContinuityCameo: The three chapters are largely independent stories but their protagonists' occasionally show up in others' chapters, particularly in ''Love Bites''.
22	* TheEmpath: Claire's number one hostess at ''Club Rose'' because she can sense other people's emotions and, partly, wishes. That includes Kokoro's wishes the latter isn't even aware of.
23	%%* {{Fangirl}}: Kokoro about fashion models in general and Claire in particular.
24	* FirstKiss: Nina avoids kissing Mayu even when having sex with her. [[spoiler:They only kiss after Mayu persuades her to enter a fully committed relationship.]]
25	%%* GayBar: The place where Nina and Mayu met is implied to be this. Mayu explains her presence there with a friend's invitation, which leaves the question of why Nina was there, as well, open...
26	* GirlishPigtails: Kokoro, who is by far the most childish (and the youngest) of the six protagonists. She stops wearing her tails after [[spoiler:quitting the cabaret to support Claire]].
27	* HairContrastCouple:
28	** The diligent Kyrie has long dark hair, while the scatterbrained Miyata's is short and blond.
29	** Blonde Nina is a reserved survivor, while dark-haired Mayu is openly supportive and tomfoolerish.
30	** Blonde Claire is somewhat of a BrokenBird, while Kokoro (whose hair is some weird shade of green... ish) is a GenkiGirl.
31	* HostClub: Hostess Club: ''Club Rose''.
32	%%* IKissYourHand: Mayu to Nina, much to the latter's embarrassment.
33	%%* ImagineSpot: Kokoro has a lot of these about Claire.
34	* InsatiableNewlyweds: Claire and Kokoro are so into it after their RelationshipUpgrade that their performance at work starts to suffer.
35	* InterruptedIntimacy: Ryuna has a talent for running in the moment Mayu tries to seduce Nina.
36	%%* IntertwinedFingers: Kyrie and Miyata do that a lot.
37	* IntroductionByHookup: At the start of ''Guilty Love'' Nina sleeps with a random woman she meets in the bar--only to discover the next morning that the woman, Mayu, is her daughter's preschool teacher.
38	%%* LoveAtFirstSight: Lampshaded by Mayu.
39	%%* LoveHotel: ''Hotel Castle'', which Nina and Mayu visit.
40	%%* OjouRinglets: Kyrie.
41	* PervertRevengeMode: Kyrie engages in this against Miyata regularly, even when the latter is on the brink of death.
42	%%* PreMeeting: Nina and Mayu.
43	%%* PrettyFreeloaders: Miyata to Kyrie.
44	* SexForServices: [[spoiler:After Miyata's band flopped, she resorted to having sex with their boss's wife for money. Eventually, she ran away from her and ended up in a similar relationship with Kyrie (except that she actually wants her).]]
45	* SingleMomStripper: Nina is not a stripper per se, but she does earn her living with her good looks.
46	* TraumaSwing: Kokoro and Claire's dialogue about [[spoiler:Claire leaving for another club]] takes place one a pair of swings.
47	%%* YuriGenre

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