Ranked #4506

Love Celeb (Manga)

Love Celeb is another work by Mayu Shinjo, connected to her previous ones, Kaikan Phrase and Haou Airen. Since it's Mayu Shinjo, you know that you will expect a naive girl, bishies and a lot of sex.


STORY SECTION;
The story is too simple. It focus on a dumb girl named Kirara who is trying to become an idol but she has no talent. Despite that, her manager accepts her and he suggests her to sleep with producers in order to become a singer and actress. Kirara disagree to do so, since she is pure and a virgin but she meet up a mysterious bishie named Gin, who is asking to give him her virginity and he will make her famous.

1) The logic of this manga is flawed. Ok, it's not that far from reality, many aspiring artists sleep with producers in order to release a cd and gain success but it is too much in Love Celeb. It's like the only possible way to make out a name is to sleep with one of the producers. We get to see minors sleeping with old men just for that. Pretty much every girl must be a prostitute to become an idol.

2) Every guy is a sex freak! Surely, sex is an important subject, but these guys think only of sex day and night. Not only that, type of guys that treat girls like objects, seduce them and then rape them. And guess what? Most of those girls enjoy the rape. There is absolutely no honor in that kind of men but Mayu Shinjo is trying to portray them as charming which is crazy.

3) Too much sex. Surely, it is a smut but there is a lot of random sex going on.

4) There are many comedy elements but there is also some cheesy melodrama that I found sort of silly.

5) The ending is happy, but too cheesy and unbelievable. It's one of those manga that miracles happen out of nowhere.


CHARACTERS SECTION;

Kirara, the female lead is just another stupid teenage girl who thinks she will earn everything by becoming an idol. She is your typical weak and naive shoujo heroine who is not popular at school but later she becomes all popular. For example, her manager wants to sleep with her; He is someone in his mid-late 20s and she is 16 but it's still fine. Then Gin is trying to get her virginity and he keeps mentioning it. Not only that, Gin's rivals learn that Kirara is a virgin and they want to get her virginity too. Jeez, it's not the Holy Grail! Those guys act like they participate in the Holy War and by taking Kirara's virginity they will win something. Yet, even if Kirara is with Gin, she allows other guys to touch her. No pride at all.

The male lead, Gin, is the heir of the most wealthy family who is a line of prime ministers. Apparently, he will be the future prime minister of Japan just because of his family. (Sounds more like monarchy, rather democracy)
So what kind of a future prime minister is Gin? A guy who only cares about sex and nothing else. He barely shows any interest in politics. What he seeks in most of the manga is Kirara's virginity and he makes it such a huge issue. It's like the author is trying to use his status just to make him powerful and enough dreamy. Also to mention that Gin rape girls too but it's still fine, according to the author's logic. But what makes him to fall for Kirara when Gin previously was sleeping with other, beautiful girls? Their relationship is quite unbelievable and forced.

And there is the manager too, who is another pervert and he is getting jealous by seeing Gin with Kirara.

In the end, one-dimensional characters.


ARTWORK SECTION;

Not a big fan of the author's artwork, however, she draws some good-looking bishies. But once again, most of her bishies look so similar. We get to see the protagonists from Haou Airen and Kaikan Phrase and when you compare them to Gin, they look similar. On the other hand, her females are just so simple.

And of course, there is a lot of nudity.


I would have taken it seriously if it was something like Ai Yazawa's or Tomu Ohmi's works. read more

Love Celeb is a Shoujo, Smut, Romantic, Comedy which had a great deal of promise. However apart from the adequate art and raunchy romance, there’s nothing particularly outstanding about this manga, except its poor attempt in portraying the entertainment industry.

Kirara Nakazono is a young girl who dreams of being a top idol but her career is going no where. That all changes when a very wealthy and influential young man named Ginzou Fujiwara (Gin for short), develops an interest in her virgin body. As you’ve a probably guessed, this is yet another ‘hates him but falls in love with him’ shoujo manga, where our heroine eventually becomes some hot guy’s plaything. So you can expect the usual unrealistic crap the like Gin being able to buy his way into anything from the media to politics but this manga really takes a step further in detracting itself from reality. The main story about Kirara trying to get into the entertainment industry but somehow ending up as Gin’s object of desire… That in itself was unbelievable. But then things get outrageous when the story begins to tailor more towards the sex-charged romance rather than making the entertainment industry premise remotely logical. I really want to know what went through this mangaka’s head during the radical TV Drama chapters?

As for the characters in question; Kirara is your typical weak heroine and is also the source of some amusing comedy. Then there’s the main hero, Gin, who is the very reason behind to subtitle (King+Egoist). So you can expect their relationship to be that of a helpless rabbit, easily prayed upon and ravaged by a ravenous wolf. However there are two wolves competing for this easily attainable prize and the other is her manager… some guy with glasses. I forget his name but that shows how much of an impression megane-kun left. There are other characters that seem to come and go as they please, but they're just forgettable, not to mention those making cameo appearances from Mayu Shinjo’s other works.

Most of the people who have read Mayu Shinjo’s other works may find the artwork to be the best thing about Love Celeb. On the other hand this particular reviewer finds the art to be something you’d find in any typical shoujo manga. The are male characters all have tall handsome figures and a lot of the shoujo veterans will certainly enjoy seeing Gin all hot & bothered and in cute chibi form. The panels with any background scenery are fairly scarce; nonetheless when the backgrounds are shown it’s usually decently drawn.

Overall Love Celeb is really a manga that I have mixed feelings of. The smutty romance is pretty good, along with the comedy in the beginning and so are Kirara’s struggles to become an idol. However the story kinda sucks, as a lot of the sudden developments and random bullshit will leave anyone cringing in disbelief. What’s worse is how badly the heroine is treated (abused, beaten, continuously molested, etc.), and yet she seems to enjoy it like the lustful little tramp she is. True these are some pretty strong feelings for an unbiased reviewer; but having read something created by a mangaka, who clearly abandoned all logic to please the hyperactive fangirls, would get on any rational-thinking person’s nerves.

*Be warned, there's A LOT of sexual content.* read more