The six romantic, sensual shorts in The Gentleman and the Lady reveal that love is often surprising and always unavoidable. There may be more to a friendship than meets the eye, as true love is sometimes hidden where a girl least expects it.
This endearing collection by Kazumi Tohno opens with the title story, introducing the "chummy threesome": Kotoko, Katsuto, and Komon. These close-knit friends get along very well... but even the best of friends are put to the test when they're all stuck in a love triangle with each other!
Read on to find out what happens in The Gentleman and the Lady, and all the rest of these moving tales!
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KOTOKO
Kotoko spends most of her time prepping for her college entrance exam, even though she should have passed the test a year ago. She also worries about the boys in her life, and is shocked to discover herself obsessing over someone other than her boyfriend Katsuto.
KATSUTO
Katsuto used to go to school with his girlfriend Kotoko and his Kōhai Komon until he got into "S" college and the other two didn't. Now that he's living the university life, he's experiencing new things. Namely, new clubs, new friends... and new girls.
KOMON
Always a quiet guy, Komon never bothers to speak up against any rumors that are spread about him--he knows that they aren't true, and that's good enough for him. He's even silent when it comes to his feelings for his best friend Kotoko.
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(6.0)
I'm soo happy!!
Sunseaukoe
12/02/08 22:01
Chapter Five is definitely the best of this collection thus far. It wasn't good enough to make me ever want to read this volume again; but it reminded me of why I like Kazumi Tohno's work.
I thought this first story was short and sweet. It told the complications of a love triangle within about 50 pages. The male lead was truly a "gentleman" in the sense that he gracefully backed off the female lead when she was taken. I did, however, often get confused by the unclear flashbacks. They seemed to be randomly inserted within the narrative without a setup to prepare the reader that they were going to trespass on a memory.
I was very excited when I saw this story since it is by the same mangaka who drew Flower Garden and I loved Flower Garden. Aside from the art; the two stories are nothing alike (maybe this is an earlier work??). While Flower Garden was a subtle and sometimes humorous story about two people falling in love in the main story with some surprisingly well-developed oneshots at the end; this story pretty much knocks you over the head with what is going to happen from the first page. Nothing surprising or particularly interesting happens in the first two chapters. I was very disappointed to read this so far but I can only hope that the story gets better.
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