Love Mode

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Synonyms: The Reason I Touched Teacher

Japanese: ラブモード

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 11

Chapters: 54

Status: Finished

Published: Oct 9, 1996 to 2002

Genres: Boys Love, Drama, Romance, Erotica

Serialization: Biblos

Authors: Shimizu, Yuki (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.06¹ (scored by 1,881 users)

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Ranked: N/A²

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Popularity: #5725

Members: 3,451

Favorites: 156

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Ranked N/APopularity #5725Members 3,451

MangaBiblosShimizu, Yuki (Story & Art)

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Chapters: /54

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Synopsis

Mistaken identities, bizarre accidents and pratfalls, tragic pasts and plenty of broken hearts, and that is just for starters! Love Mode tells the story of the lives of the men involved with the classy male escort service, Blue Boy. Love lines intertwine and cross, friendships are made and broken in this boy's love classic!

Sakashita Izumi, your typical straight high school student, gets into a sticky situation with a gay translator, Takamiya Katsura, when he gets mistaken for Izumi - an escort from B&B (Blue Boy)! The two go on a date, Takamiya goes all the way with the young Izumi, and now the older man's in love with him. Tiny Problem: Izumi is slightly homophobe. Will he eventually convert in that which he fears?

Reiji, owner of B&B and other sleazy clubs (and seemingly not gay) finds out his girlfriend had been cheating on him - just after dumping her. He bumps into a young, family-less, money-less, trustless high school named Naoya who at that moment gets knocked out by a pot that Reiji's vengeful ex-lover drops on his head. Reiji accompanies the young boy, feeling bad that this is partly his doing, only to find that now Naoya is homeless since his apartment burned down and finally ends up taking in this "stray cat".

(Source: MU)

Including one-shot:
Volume 10: The Reason I Touched Teacher

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Background

Love Mode was published in English by Tokyopop's Blu Manga imprint from November 1, 2005 to October 1, 2008.

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Related Manga

Sequel:

Lover's Mode, Love Mode Unlimited

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Characters

Aoe, Reiji

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Shirakawa, Naoya

Main

Aoe, Kiichi

Main

Takamiya, Katsura

Main

Sakashita, Izumi

Main

Aoe, Shougo

Supporting

Arashi, Iketani

Supporting

Yanase, Izumi

Supporting

Kashima, Haruomi

Supporting

Reviews

Aug 6, 2007

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Recommended

Preliminary (10/54 eps)

10 volumes of mostly one-off chapters, revolving around ten male/male pairs somehow connected to Blue Boy (a host club). Volume four opens with a \"semi/uke\" chart; those who hate relationships with rigidly defined roles will probably want to stay away. But if you like that sort of thing or don\'t mind it, the series is a fun read, and the payoff in the last few volumes, when certain earlier events fall wonderfully, beautifully, perfectly into place, is HUGE.