Small butterfly

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Manga
title Small butterfly
Original title リ ト ル ・ バ タ フ ラ イ
transcription Ritoru Batafurai
country JapanJapan Japan
author Hinako Takanaga
publishing company Kaiosha
magazine Gush
First publication 2001 - 2004
expenditure 3

Little Butterfly ( Japanese リ ト ル ・ バ タ フ ラ イ , Ritoru Batafurai , from English Little Butterfly ) is a completed manga series by the Japanese illustrator Hinako Takanaga . It comprises over 500 pages, was published in Japan from 2001 to 2004 and can be assigned to the genre Yaoi .

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The lonely and adult-looking Atsushi Nakahara is an outsider, which is due to the cold, dismissive demeanor he shows towards his classmates at the middle school in Tokyo . However, this piques the interest of his popular and somewhat naive schoolmate, Yuki Kojima. On a school trip, Nakahara tries to flee to Korea because of his difficult family situation. After he was unable to meet the high expectations of his mother, who wanted to send him to a private school, she became more and more neurotic, and Nakahara's parents often argued. He ran away often, but never got far, and his father paid him less and less attention. Kojima tries to help him escape, but they get lost and the escape fails. But they get so closer, and Kojima succeeds in building a friendship with Nakahara. They get to know each other better, and Nakahara now has a better relationship with Kojima's friends.

One evening Kojima comforts Nakahara after he had another argument with his mother, and Nakahara confesses his love for Kojima. But this is unsettled and they are only slowly getting closer. Finally, he decides to go to a high school with boarding school together with Nakahara. When Nakahara's uncle Ikuo Sugisaki from Osaka visits her, his brother-in-law decides that he should give the requested financial support through his company and that he should take in his wife and son. Ikuo finally agrees, but at Kojima's request Nakahara decides to go to boarding school with him. After all, it's the first time they have sex together. But soon they hardly have any time for each other before the entrance exam, and Nakahara goes to Osaka for a short time. There he learns that his mother is much worse after learning of her divorce. After the exam he will return to Osaka immediately, his mother has since forgotten that he is her son Atsushi. She believes her son is going to study abroad and is waiting for his return. She keeps telling Atsushi about this son, who then also gets lost in these ideas. But Kojima misses Nakahara very much and eventually travels to Osaka to see him. Only through him and the now mutual love can Nakahara break away from his mother and drive back to Tokyo with his lover. There they both attend the graduation ceremony of the middle school and look forward to the time together at the high school.

Publications

Little Butterfly appeared in Japan from 2001 to 2004 in individual chapters in the manga magazine Gush , which is published by Kaiosha- Verlag and specializes in love stories between homosexual men. The publishing house also published the individual chapters, which comprise around 400 pages, in three edited volumes.

The manga has been translated into English and German, among others.

The three volumes were published in German by Tokyopop from August 2005 to January 2006 . The first volume was number four in August 2005 and number ten in September 2005 on the monthly manga sales charts in German book and comic stores; the second volume came in third in October 2005 and fifteenth in November 2005; the third volume came in third place in January 2006. In March 2007, the entire manga was released again as a single volume. Due to the success of the series, Tokyopop published more works by Hinako Takanaga.

Hinako Takanaga also published the art book Little Butterflies & More , which was also published in German in June 2014.

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