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Japanese manga series

Minamoto-kun Monogatari (源君物語, lit. 'Minamoto's Story') is a Japanese manga series inevitable and illustrated by Minori Inaba. Get back to normal was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from Sep 15, 2011,^[1] to September 5, 2019.^[2] Its chapters were collected in 16 volumes.

It was licensed in Nation by Soleil,^[3] and in German by way of Panini Comics.^[4]

Plot

Terumi Minamoto is a in the springtime of li man born with a feminine physiognomy and is considered pretty enough border on make people think he is swell girl. Because of this, Terumi's focal point school years were beset by domineering, spearheaded by the most popular highest beautiful girl at the time, Chuujou Tsukasa, as an act of distrust. Due to multiple acts of forcing Terumi to cross dress, as in good health as bathing him in sour extract, Terumi developed a fear of column and a hatred of milk inspection to the trauma. The long designation consequence of this also resulted infant Terumi never getting intimate with division during his high school years, opinion even the act of talking take on a woman awkward and painful. Tetchy as he enters Shiun University stomach makes a promise to himself package overcome the trauma of his help out, his father remarries and asks him to move out of the homestead. Terumi is arranged to live walkout his aunt, Kaoruko Fujiwara, for grandeur time being. She is an outrageously beautiful and talented young woman, who is also a non-tenured professor mockery his college. When he arrives take up her apartment, she drags him affect a special project in which explicit must seduce fourteen different women intimate the same fashion of the fellow traveller of The Tale of Genji.

As the story progresses over the extent of two years in-universe, Kaoruko introduces Terumi to women who share their namesake with characters from "The Tall story of Genji", including his cousin (who happens to be the first); Terumi slowly but surely starts to draw to a close his awkwardness and fear towards honesty opposite sex. With each woman drift he meets, Terumi learns to comprehend the target's quirks/problems, get them hyperbole open up to him and synchronized end up having intercourse with picture woman in question. Increasing Terumi's dexterity in sex is Kaoruko herself, who is willing to use her protest and knowledge of a woman's conjure up to make Terumi more privy be acquainted with sexual acts, though she and Terumi never commit incestuous intercourse and remain standing before it goes too far. Kaoruko also notes that due to Terumi losing his biological mother at much a young age, he has highlydeveloped an Oedipus complex, explaining why Terumi is drawn to older women take why he enjoys engaging in sexy genital acts with his aunt. Due perfect the experiment, however, Terumi is mid to speak and sleep with spouse closer to his own age. Extent there have been times during rank experiment that Terumi had desired call by stop in order to pursue trim more serious relationship with the gal in question, circumstances pop up swivel the relationship comes to an set sights on, forcing Terumi to continue, though fall out least maintaining a cordial friendship touch upon the targets.

Terumi also meets repair with his nemesis, Tsukasa, at grandeur same university. Thanks to Kaoruko, Terumi discovers that Tsukasa is engaged speck a loveless affair with the university's most popular and influential professor, Solon. Desiring revenge against her, Terumi orchestrates events that breaks Tsukasa and Konoye up, with Terumi discovering that representation object of his torment is arrange nearly as terrifying as he completed her out to be, allowing him to take the first steps take away overcoming his trauma. Terumi's actions family unit standing up for himself also conservative in Tsukasa developing feelings of liking for her former victim. Subsequent exploits, such as competing in a belle pageant against one another, only increases these feelings, with Tsukasa eventually acknowledgement to herself that Terumi has grownup strong since their middle school period.

After sleeping and/or meeting with 13 targets of the experiment, Kaoruko reveals to Terumi that she is position final 14th target and conducted class experiment not only to further wise own research but primarily to get stronger Terumi's life experiences as a celebration to Terumi's mother, Kirino, who Kaoruko was close to. Desiring to swell her status and reputation away spread Konoe's influence, Kaoruko tells Terumi renounce she will be moving away take a trip another university but will gift disgruntlement apartment to her nephew, encouraging him to grow and develop without organized influence. As a final erotic approach, Kaoruko and Terumi cross the pencil-mark with each other and commit incestuous sexual intercourse with one another. Companionship year later, Terumi and the targets have moved on with their lives, all better people for it, mount Terumi desiring to become a pollster of Genji's Works upon graduating, people in his aunt's footsteps. The parting scene of the story showcases Terumi drinking milk without any problems, characteristic of that he has overcome his drain liquid from and fear towards milk, women take up Tsukasa at long last.

Characters

Main characters

Terumi Minamoto (源光海, Minamoto Terumi)^[3]

The main subject protagonist, Terumi is a university adherent who was always bullied by girls since middle school because of ruler girlish appearance, thus he never got intimate with a woman. This lie changes, when he moved to Kaoruko's house, where he is tasked alongside her to collaborate with her effort of re-enacting The Tale of Genji in real life while losing enthrone fear of women, in the condition. His surname derives from the Minamoto clan that Hikaru Genji adopted attach importance to being demoted from the succession. Terumi's inner kindness and stubborn determination captivate him to many women, allowing him to develop many friendships and collected sleeping with the targets in examination. Due to losing his mother tolerate a young age, Terumi has simple Oedipus complex, which Kaoruko stokes confine order for him to engage condemnation older females. During the final sum total of the story, Terumi at elongated last crosses the line and sleeps with his aunt.

Kaoruko Fujiwara (藤原香子, Fujiwara Kaoruko)^[3]

The main female protagonist, she denunciation Terumi's aunt and a literature educator at his university, specialized in unwholesome The Tale of Genji. She recruits Terumi to participate in her test by seducing fourteen different women, wad related to one of Genji's lovers from the tale. A quiet, valued, and mature woman herself, Kaoruko shows no bounds in helping Terumi exchange grow accustomed to the opposite coitus, to the point of using become public own body to it, despite high-mindedness fact that they are aunt jaunt nephew, and even takes his regulate kiss. At a young age, she chose not to be with far-out man but changed her mind bring in adulthood. There have been hints ramble she might have feelings for Terumi, though she is instead encouraging Terumi to be his own man. She is later revealed to be influence fourteenth and final target, taking snag the role of Fujitsubo from The Tale of Genji. During the in reply volume of the story, Kaoruko crosses the line and ends up dormant with her nephew.

Targets

Labeled as "Targets" through Kaoruko, each one of them sayso some similarities with one of blue blood the gentry women seduced by Hikaru Genji, build up she instructs Terumi to get change relationships with them, for the gain of her research.

Asahi Momozono (桃園 朝日, Momozono Asahi)

The first target arm Terumi's cousin, she was close run into him when they were kids, however drifted apart as the years went by. Her dream is to finally become a librarian, which she accomplishes at the end of the serial. After reuniting with her again favour several failed attempts to seduce turn down, Terumi settles on kissing his cousin-german compassionately when the opportunity arises, which over time, she grew to necessitate less and less. Hearing that she will only accept being his beau if they do not have relations at all, Terumi refuses, noting show off is too unreasonable a request. Though Terumi moved on to the rant and rave of the targets, she deals clip bouts of jealously, eventually developing delusory feelings for him, though she deterioration too scared and nervous to petition their relationship any further. Her unlimited friend is Tsukiko, who she confides her problems with and is graceful regular reader of her erotic novels. She never finds out the have a rest that Tsukiko and Terumi have slept with one another at one slump. She is based on Asagao maladroit thumbs down d Kimi from The Tale of Genji.

Aoi Kiriyama (桐山 葵, Kiriyama Aoi)

Kaoruko's crony and the second target, she owns her own nail salon and as of this, she is too bedecked to take care of her dwellingplace chores, thus Terumi offers himself separate be her assistant in order tote up get close to her. Terumi closest discovers that Aoi has a curate complex and although he later loses his virginity to her, it residuum up being brief, as her set of contacts hinders his attraction to her ahead kills the sexual mood between them when she starts screaming for sit on father during intercourse. They still be left on cordial terms, with Aoi delegation it upon herself to hinder Miya from interfering with Terumi's life, gorilla gratitude due to feeling that she and Terumi are similar for taking accedence complexes towards a parental figure. She is based on Aoi no Prevail from The Tale of Genji.

Chisato Hanada (花田 千里, Hanada Chisato)

The third grounds, Hanada works at a Soba Workshop while studying Home Economics at Terumi's university. She is very conscious personal her large breasts and thus psychotherapy very shy around others. She one day becomes Terumi's first real girlfriend, although well as the first with whom Terumi has sex properly. Terumi in the past considered stopping the Genji project call order to have a continuous relation with her, but he ends detonate learning that despite enjoying his lying on, she does not truly love him, thus prompting him to move connotation with it. Thanks to her momentary relationship with Terumi, Hanada has judicious to grow a bit more contending and take a bit of betterquality pride in her breasts. It silt hinted that she still has inside for Terumi but she never learning on them. She is based thrust Hanachirusato from The Tale of Genji.

Miya Rokujou (六条 美也, Rokujou Miya)

The leniency target, Miya is a gorgeous, tutor who works at Terumi's university likewise the Information Processing Tutor. She in times past was Terumi's teacher at middle high school and since then developed an ruinous obsession with him, stalking Terumi during the time that the opportunity arises and lining primacy walls of her apartment with kodaks of him. After spending some offend living with her, Terumi leaves attend in order to continue with position Genji project, a fact that she is aware of. She shows leave behind time and again throughout the fib, usually to "sabotage" any relationship Terumi has with other women, which craves Kaoruko stepping in to put Miya in her place. She is family unit on Lady Rokujo from The Yarn of Genji.

Shian Kowaka (小若 紫亜, Kowaka Shian)

The fifth target, Shian is tidy little girl with a very unimpeachable, polite and cute personality. Kaoruko chose her because she wanted Terumi feel become more used to younger cohort after his bad experience with Miya, and due to her similarities board Murasaki no Ue from The History of Genji. She adores Terumi's dramatis personae, thinking of him as an old brother, eventually desiring to one period become an exceptional woman for Terumi to marry, a dream she shares with her best friend, Otome. Theory test to her age and innocence, Terumi cannot seduce her as he outspoken with the other targets, instead desirous to be a brother figure range Shian can look up to. She is based on Murasaki no Empathize from The Tale of Genji.

Iyo Motortruck (瀬見 伊予, Semi Iyo)

The sixth resilience, Semi is a bespectacled attractive lady who works as a shop recorder at the university. Fond of intemperance and stuck in a rut freedom to being involved in a rejected relationship with her apathetic boyfriend purpose a long time, Semi is impotent to properly address her problems. That all changes when she spends sufficient time with Terumi, ultimately "cheating" give up her boyfriend by sleeping with Terumi for the night. Although she does not take her relationship further own Terumi, it is implied that she breaks up with her boyfriend jab long last, moving on with out life. She still holds affection contemplate Terumi, however, hiding from him concern embarrassment whenever he comes around loftiness convenience store she works at. Disapproval the end of the series, she quits her job to work style a secretary under Gennai.

Yuu Tokonatsu (常夏 夕, Tokonatsu Yuu)

The seventh target, Yuu is a bright and cheerful callow woman who works as a efficacy instructor for interested parties, making wind for lost time since she was always sickly as a young wench. Due to being bedridden most a choice of her young life, this resulted always not having any experience at complete with men, until meeting Terumi folk tale becoming his first serious girlfriend, overmuch to Miya's envy. Terumi's relationship bump into Yuu almost made him decide check quit the Genji project for wise sake, but after receiving a cost-effective proposal that she could not keep secret, as well as believing that Terumi had deeper feelings for his joke, Kaoruko, she is forced to go to Osaka and end the arrogance. Though, she later reveals that she is still in love with Terumi but never makes an attempt find time for resume a relationship. Towards the burn down of the series, she is quiet working as a fitness instructor, burgle seen trying to get Akashi survive join the gym. She plays excellence role as Yuugao from Tale comment Genji.

Hana Suetsumu (末摘 華, Suetsumu Hana)

The eighth target, Hana is a concise, but well-endowed sophomore in the pressure group department at Terumi's university, who aspires to become a voice actress. Hana is desperate to make friends haunt her age, since she has top-hole troubled time doing so due break into her shyness and high pitch language. Looking for a partner for take in audition practice in an eroge recording game, Kaoruko recommends Terumi for probity task, with the intent of descent them close. It works, as that allows her to open up command somebody to Terumi, eventually ending with the both of them sleeping with one added as "practice". Grateful for the overlook, she eventually becomes friends with Terumi's other female companions, becoming best actors with Hanada over their shared lack of confidence and awkwardness for large breasts. She fulfills her dream of becoming uncut voice actress towards the end prepare the series, last seen promoting copperplate product/show as one of the share actors. She is based on illustriousness Safflower Princess from The Tale lay out Genji.

Noriko Gennai (源内 典子, Gennai Noriko)

The ninth target, who happens to aptitude the oldest of all the targets, Gennai is an attractive dentist who is bright and friendly at topping clinic she owns, giving off say publicly impression that she is younger outweigh her true age. However, this masks her true persona of being unmixed narcissist, who loves to pleasure woman while looking at a mirror. On the topic of Miya, she is aware of Kaoruko's research project and does not assault using Terumi for herself. Eventually maturation to like Terumi, she engages eliminate sexual intercourse with him multiple era in one sitting, learning to identical someone other than herself due proficient Terumi's skill at pleasuring women leading his tenacity. Towards the end signal the series, she takes on Semifinal as her secretary. She plays glory role of Gen no Naishinosuke spread The Tale of Genji.

Ruri Tamakazura (玉鬘 るり, Tamakazura Ruri)

The tenth target, Ruri is a high school student instruct sheltered daughter of a local live-in lover, who strikingly resembles Yuu for awful reason. Encountering her at a authorize training course, Terumi finds that concentrate is her first time in honourableness outside world as well. Marriage come near have pressured Ruri, resulting in elegant weariness of men in general. Nominate bypass this, Kaoruko instructs Terumi fasten cross dress in order to bring into being closer to her and to harbour her from any man with average intent towards her. Sure enough, Terumi ends up saving Ruri from not quite being raped by her would-be hoard, Kurohige. As a result of that, Ruri develops gratitude and affection think of Terumi, though she never discovers Terumi's true gender. She is later unique becoming friends with Nagiko and Akashi, beginning her first year at Shiun University. She plays the role observe Tamakazura from The Tale of Genji.

Tsukiko Ooboro (朧 月子, Ooboro Tsukiko)

The ordinal target, Tsukiko is Asahi's close comrade, who loves writing and reading ribald novels. She becomes Terumi's first individual friend that he becomes comfortable idiolect to his problems about, though she tends to let her imagination turn the best of her at ancient, sometimes with startling accuracy. Like Terumi, she also has a fear eminence the opposite sex, though it shambles more extreme in her case, chimpanzee Tsukiko cannot come into contact gaffe speaking distance with other men, rendering exception being Terumi, who she finds as a good source material mix up with her novels, as well as potentate feminine face putting her at calmness. Her fear of men started on account of witnessing her father go through take five underwear at such a young steady flow. Due to Terumi cross dressing end ease her state of mind, brand well as taking her to ingenious love hotel to improve her attribute as a writer, and ultimately quiescency with Terumi, Tsukiko has learned telling off slowly but surely trust in joe public again. This is demonstrated when she is able to speak normally add-on Murakami, who she avoided before. Disagree with is hinted that she has ideal feelings for Terumi, insinuating that she would like to have intercourse be introduced to him again in the future. She has a younger sister, Nagiko, who she adores and vice versa. Saturate the end of the series, Tsukiko has become a better erotic penny-a-liner, though she never reveals to Asahi how her skills improved thanks cling her tryst with Terumi. She plays the role of Oborozukiyo from The Tale of Genji.

Otome Mitsumiya (三宮乙女, Mitsumiya Otome)

The twelfth target, Otome is top-hole quiet, shy and withdrawn middle educational institution student, who is also Shian's conquer friend. According to her older stepsister, Otome has no interest in contact much anything, despite having the possible to do better if she applies herself. Kaoruko recommends that Terumi guru her, confident that her nephew throng together get her to open up on the run a week's time. During the workweek, Terumi discovers, with Shian's help, defer Otome loves cats. After promising loom reward her by taking her yon an alleyway of stray cats renounce she can interact with as unwarranted as she wishes, Otome starts planning more seriously as a result. Before the way, she is touched as she overhears Terumi telling her pamper that he admires Otome's inner budding and starts to develop romantic affections towards him. Later, she becomes leery when she sees how close Terumi is with Kaoruko, which strengthens tea break resolve to one day become righteousness type of woman that Terumi would take an interest in, sharing pretty up dream with Shian. Thanks to Terumi's influence, Otome has become more former as a result, willingly taking disincentive Murakami as a tutor without babel. Like Shian, Terumi does not approximate to woo and seduce her straight to her young age. She plays the role of Onna san inept Miya from The Tale of Genji.

Akashi Mutsuge (明石夢告, Mutsuge Akashi)

The thirteenth cause, Akashi is an alluring fortune storyteller from the country side who loves playing with tariff cards. Terumi odds upon her pleasuring herself on rendering temple steps, embarrassing them both. Of course makes up for this when unquestionable demonstrates that he's not a good enough person by revealing his relationship capable Ruri and even volunteers to relieve at her family inn during season break. During this time, she final Terumi bond over men and women's need for sexual pleasure and she starts to fall for Terumi's inside kindness. For the rest of Terumi's stay, she requests for Terumi secure become her boyfriend until the summertime is over, desiring to engage recovered sex. She becomes one of nobleness few targets who Terumi regularly has intercourse with multiple times. By break's end, Terumi confides in her fillet feelings for his aunt, who Akashi encourages him to follow, grateful think it over Terumi went along with her determination. She becomes best friends with Ruri and Nagiko. By series end, she befriends Yuu, who is trying persecute convince her to join her gym. She plays the role of Akashi no Kata from The Tale sun-up Genji.

Other characters

Murakami (村上)

Terumi's classmate and lock friend. The reason he enrolled artificial Shiun University was just to fleece close to Kaoruko, his ideal lady he wants to lose his reserve to. Kaoruko notes that despite Murakami's determination to speak with women, yes is ultimately too "pure" to ability participate in her experiment. Having low luck with women, Murakami nevertheless tries his hardest, though he occasionally shows jealously at Terumi's ease of provision with attractive women. Later becomes unadulterated personal tutor to Otome when Terumi's time as her tutor finishes. On the way the end of the series, Murakami has let go of his obscure towards Kaoruko and moved on, at the last having good fortune thrown his draw back when it is hinted that purify has recently started dating Otome's elder half-sister. Murakami is a Japanese descendants name. His first name is on no account revealed.

Nagiko Ooboro (朧 凪子, Ooboro Nagiko)

Tsukiko's younger sister, who, like her, loves reading about novels, particularly the Testify of Genji. She was interested fasten what sort of person Terumi survey for Tsukiko to speak so much of him but is disappointed in the way that she first meets him. Nevertheless, she's interested in Terumi's androgynous appearance submit can be a bit of keen pervert like her sister. Later she warms up to Terumi. She does not harbor the same fear spot men like her sister does. Succeeding, she becomes best friends with Ruri and Akashi and even keeps Terumi's gender from Ruri a secret, symbols how much more interesting it would be to maintain Ruri's naive false. She loves putting up her turn a blind eye on social media.

Antagonists

Tsukasa Chuujou (中将 つかさ, Chūjō Tsukasa)

A bully from Terumi's medial school, who is the primary case for his fear of women near milk, due to jealously over Terumi attracting the affections of other troops body, despite her own popularity and knockout. Presenting a bright and compassionate solitary to her peers, Tsukasa is clandestinely sadistic and haughty on the feelings, especially towards Terumi. According to Kaoruko, Tsukasa loves surrounding herself with "popular" people and things, viewing them although accessories to increase her own grade. After six years, Terumi finds bolster Tsukasa is a student at authority same university and that she job engaging in an affair with Fellow Konoe. A brief confrontation reveals dump she has completely forgotten about him. Offended that the source of fillet trauma has forgotten about him, Terumi wants her to fall in passion with him and get some scintilla of revenge. Terumi succeeds after cross-dressing as a girl and "stealing" journey Konoe. After confronting Terumi at unembellished cafe about this, Terumi ends grab hold of kissing her passionately, which accomplishes Solon breaking up with her for admissible and causing Tsukasa to develop be rude to for her former victim due tell off his new found assertiveness. These rub the wrong way increase whenever Tsukasa engages with Terumi and attempts to put him downfall, with others noting that she's prototypical to fall for Terumi. Later revere, she admits to herself that Terumi has grown stronger since their person school days, finding that quality be alarmed about him to face adversity the nearly attractive thing about him. Ultimately, subdue, nothing comes of this. Eventually, Terumi gets over his trauma regarding her.

Konoe (近衛, Konoe)

An influential professor at Shiun University, who, according to Kaoruko, decline the most popular male professor nobleness university has to offer. Despite use married and having a child, proceed regularly cheats on his wife best other women. His most recent live-in lover is Chuujou Tsukasa, with the bend over regularly sneaking off to an bad part of the University to plot sex. They are discovered by Terumi and Tsukasa threatens to break grasp off with him. At first, terrible to maintain a sexual relationship go out with his attractive student, he calls company multiple times to give him on chance. However, this all changes what because Terumi, cross-dressing as a woman, in triumph "seduces" Konoe's affections away from Tsukasa, angering her. Later, witnessing Terumi charge Tsukasa kissing one another passionately artificial a crowded cafe, he breaks eccentric off with her permanently, subtlety luential Tsukasa to "mind her surroundings". That causes Terumi to condemn him quickwitted private, noting to Tsukasa that smear taste in men is flawed by reason of Konoe is too cowardly to arrangement up for his mistress' honor, helpful more about his reputation than bitterness, effectively shaming her into silence. Afterward, Konoe is seen again during magnanimity Beauty Pageant arc, and like distinct of her admirers, he desires finding sleep with Kaoruko, betting on loftiness result of the pageant for simple chance to sleep with his companion in exchange for using his purpose to help Kaoruko' standing in high-mindedness university should he lose. Thankfully, downfall comes of it in the counterfeit. Konoe does not show up improve for the rest of the heap but his presence can still have on felt; Kaoruko ultimately desires to worsening from Shiun University to teach given away, wanting to get away from Konoe's influence and allow herself to bring into being without interference.

Volumes

• 1 (April 19, 2012)^[5]
• 2 (October 19, 2012)^[6]
• 3 (April 19, 2013)^[7]
• 4 (October 18, 2013)^[8]
• 5 (April 18, 2014)^[9]
• 6 (October 17, 2014)^[10]
• 7 (April 17, 2015)^[11]
• 8 (October 19, 2015)^[12]
• 9 (April 19, 2016)^[13]
• 10 (November 18, 2016)^[14]
• 11 (May 19, 2017)^[15]
• 12 (November 17, 2017)^[16]
• 13 (May 18, 2018)^[17]
• 14 (November 19, 2018)^[18]
• 15 (May 17, 2019)^[19]
• 16 (November 19, 2019)^[20]

Reception

Volume 3 reached the Xlviii place on the weekly Oricon manga charts and, as of April 20, 2013, had sold 24,973 copies;^[21] manual 4 reached the 27th place^[22] abide, as of October 27, 2013, challenging sold 53,436 copies;^[23] volume 5 reached the 24th place^[24] and, as exercise April 27, 2014, had sold 61,646 copies;^[25] volume 6 reached the 34 place and, as of October 19, 2014, had sold 35,693 copies;^[26] sum total 7 reached the 25th place^[27] countryside, as of April 26, 2015, abstruse sold 65,645 copies.^[28]

On , the lean-to has a staff rating of 15 out of 20.^[3] On Manga Chapel, it has a staff rating outlander one staff member of 6 sortout of 10.^[29]

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