In love with Osaka
In love with Osaka ( Japanese リ バ テ ィ ☆ リ バ テ ィ ! , Ribati Ribati! For English Liberty Liberty! ) Is a manga by the Japanese illustrator Hinako Takanaga , who also wrote Little Butterfly . It deals with a love affair between two men, so it can be assigned to the Shōnen-Ai genus.
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When Itaru wakes up from an intoxication, he is in a house he does not know. Koki Kuwabara, who let him stay the night, demands money for a camera destroyed by Itaru. But since he recently dropped out of his studies and was kicked out of home, he cannot pay. Since Itaru does not yet have his own accommodation, he asks Koki to be allowed to stay with him for a while. Koki is not particularly impressed by the idea, but the grumpy photographer takes the “homeless” boy into his home.
Itaru quickly realizes that he is in love with Koki. But at first he doesn't dare to confess his love to him, among other things because he is not clear about his feelings for one of Koki's work colleagues.
Publications
In love with Osaka appeared in Japan in 2003 and 2004 in individual chapters in the manga magazine Rutile of the Gentōsha publishing house, which published these individual chapters in 2005 as an anthology.
After the success of Little Butterfly , TOKYOPOP decided to publish other works by Hinako Takanga, including In Love with Osaka . This anthology, translated by Costa Caspary , was published in December 2006 and in the same month reached third place in the monthly manga charts of the most successful mangas in selected German comic and book shops.