Alternative TitlesEnglish: Captive Heart Synonyms: Captive Heart - Toraware no Minoue, Captive Hearts Japanese: とらわれの身の上
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 5
Chapters: 33
Status: Finished
Published: Nov 5, 1998 to ?
StatisticsScore: 7.481 (scored by 718 users)
Ranked: #25472
Popularity: #355
Members: 1,717
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SynopsisMegumi is a descendant of Kuronekomaru, a famous thief who stole an heirloom from a samurai’s mansion. When he opened the scroll, the family’s guardian dragon appeared and cursed Kuronekomaru and his descendants: his family is destined to serve Kougami’s family for one hundred generations. Megumi is living the high life, since the last of the Kougamis vanished two years ago. However, when Suzuka—the current generation of the Kougamis—returns home, Megumi has built up no resistance to the curse, so he is forced to serve her with a slave-like obedience. (Source: ANN) |
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jenyee123
3 of 9 people found this review helpful
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33 of 33 chapters read
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Toraware no Minoue is basically a romance between the main characters who have a master-servant relationship, however the servant has a curse that makes him have an extreme impulse to do whatever his master tells him to, so that complicates the relationship.
Story: I must admit that the master-servant relationship is seen quite often, so I can't say it's completely original, however it does have a good amount of comedy inside. Sometimes, there are also some serious romance and tragedy parts, but the mangaka has done it quite well, in my opinion, to not make it all too overwhelming.
Art: I like the mangaka's style of art very much both the detailed and simple face sketches which she draws.
Characters: The characters are actually quite common.
The master, Suzuka is the a very simple character being quite independent, kind-hearted, thoughtful of others and quite simple, but bearing some tragic events before in her childhood. However, the tragedies are not concentrated too much on.
Megumi, the servant character, can be described as a good and reliable person. He is also a character who would do [almost] (I'm not sure...) anything for the one he loves -- Suzuka.
Through all the adventures they go through together, they realize their love for each other in the long awaited search for the cure for the curse.
It was quite a cliche story in a way because of the quite simple storyline, but it is a very enjoyable shoujo.
Recommended to those who want a simple romance comedy with the romance going at a steady pace and not too deep a storyline.
(P.S. I don't know why anyone hasn't reviewed this yet... But, I'm happy to be the first to give a review for it and a recommendation for it.)
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By the same mangaka, both are cute sweet romantic stories with magic and curses that impede the main characters' love.
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Toraware no Minoue has the same type setting of a servant & master relationship in which they both fall in love with each other, but there are other obstacles separating their love. Both are also interesting and enjoyable.
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