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Bitter Virgin (Manga)

Bitter Virgin

Alternative Titles

English: Bitter Virgin
Japanese: ビターバージン

Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 4
Chapters: 32
Status: Finished
Published: Feb 18, 2005 to Mar 7, 2008
Authors: Kusunoki, Kei (Story & Art)
Serialization: Young Gangan

Statistics

Score: 8.071 (scored by 12613 users)
Ranked: #7712
Popularity: #52
Members: 19,566
Favorites: 851
1 indicates a weighted score
2 based on the top manga page.

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drama romance seinen
May 2, 2011
Moon_Light
“If this were a nightmare, then this is the part when I would open my eyes.”

Life.
It can be cruel and even when it's not it will tests you. Sometimes to see how far you can go before you break, or even after that. That’s how it is for characters in this story. This manga shines light into things that happen more often than not to women and their families but that we don’t think about until it happens to someone we love.
In case you’re wondering, it doesn’t just deal with a girl’s story into overcoming rape and pregnancy. It throws into a whirlwind everything read more
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Aug 1, 2009
DrBoondigga
Bitter Virgin is a surprisingly mature, beautiful and dark story with a strange and misleading title. When I first saw the title of Bitter Virgin, I figured it was yet another mediocre Ecchi/Comedy that would feature some girl with overly sized breast to the point their unattractive embracing random men as their heads go into the breast. Classic joke isn't it? Of course thinking that, I decided to ignore the series, and wasn't even looking for a new series at the time, focusing on the things I was already reading. I heard it's name thrown around a couple of times afterwards, and finally looked at read more
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May 9, 2008
tweetlepie
I have to admit, I've only just started reading this manga, and this is my first review.

A manga like this, with such a taboo plot, doesn't usually hit this close to home. Not to me, but with my very dear childhood friend. This is captured perfectly, the step-father's attempts, the mother thinking the child is lying, then when the mother was backed into a corner, she had no choice but to kick him out and beg for forgiveness.

Some of us have gone through things that happened in this manga, some can relate on another level, (for me it's the fear of men I have because read more
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Jul 12, 2009
kiriska
Bitter Virgin is a short, four-volume manga about a girl with a secret and the boy who learns of it.

STORY - …Bitter Virgin isn’t actually about a bitter virgin. Quite the opposite, actually? To be honest, the shock value and tragedy of Aikawa’s secret faded relatively quickly for me (probably because of one too many episodes of Law and Order: SVU). The subject matter also reminded me a lot of those in Mondaiteiki Sakuhinshu (brought overseas as Confidential Confessions). Consequently, the story premise and flow felt rather typical and predictable in that romance drama sort of way. Nevertheless, Bitter Virgin is well told, and read more
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Sep 19, 2008
Master_M2K
Bitter Virgin is a really compelling Shoujo/Seinen, Slice of Life, Romance, Drama with a story that will blow you away. This manga deals with the terrible sorrows in life, so it’s definitely not for the fainthearted.

Daisuke Suwa is just your ordinary teenage boy who has been living a simple life but doesn’t enjoy it one bit. Then he soon becomes involved with his classmate Hinako Aikawa, after unintentionally learning about her deep dark secret. The story really gets serious, right from the start, which is pretty uncommon for your average romance. Though what intrigues me the most about the story is the bittersweet relationship that read more
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Jan 17, 2008
Chenoan
This Manga is a beautiful Manga with a truly unique storyline. The lead female character, Aikawa, has an extrordinarily designed personality and history, and the lead male character, Suwa, is so very sweet. This manga makes you feel a sympathy towards the main characters, particularly Aikawa.

I love this romance, of how Aikawa's story transform's the girl chasing Suwa into someone in love without her even noticing, and how Suwa changes Aikawa's view on men and love. over all i have fallen in love with this manga as it was the first ever shojo manga i heve ever read(i was not a huge fan of shojo read more
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Feb 7, 2008
Haruki
The manga starts out like one of the typical school life manga involving a guy. The big tough playboy like guy who seems to want every girl. Then when one girl says a secret to him on accident, the storyline changes so fast its like getting smacked in the face by a freakin boxer.

To me, i found this manga to be one roller coaster of horror despite that not being one of its genres. The drama of this thing is so amazing, when i first found out what this story was going to be about, all i could say was... "Holy...sh-" with my blood read more
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Jun 30, 2010
Gman_Link
Review? You've gotta be kidding me. A manga like this doesn't NEED a review. This how good this manga is. I've read some number romance mangas. Typically there's that "boy meets girl, stupid, cliched misunderstandings and conflicts ensue" stereotype happening. But this. This manga, is COMPLETELY different than any of them.

Story: I never thought in my entire life that anyone in the manga industry would actually write about such a taboo topic. Since every managaka is concerned about popularity, such a topic may not be a very pleasant idea. Out of all the manga that I've read (those listed and not listed), truly this read more
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Jul 16, 2009
sayami
To be honest at first I was afraid reading this manga. I'm not used to read this kind of stories, but I've read the other reviews and I started to get interested in the storyline.
The manga is about a girl, Aikawa Hinako, who was raped by his stepfather, got pregnant then aborted the child. But unfortunatelly the harassment countiued and she got pregnant again and she had to give the child to adoption.
We usually see the happenings from a boy's view, Suwa Daisuke, who accitentally heard Hinako's confession about her past. But instead of telling everybody at school, he's getting interested in the girl, and read more
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Oct 15, 2008
AironicallyHuman
Bitter Virgin is one of the few manga titles out there that deals with the horrible problems people face in real life, such as rape and abortion, and it deals with those issues as maturely as possible. The reason for this is probably down to the author being a woman who had to deal with stillbirth, one of the many issues the story goes into, herself when she was younger.

The story is very easy to understand and follow, yet it makes for compelling reading as a result of the story delving into the difficult topic of rape and how a rape victim deals with being read more
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