Okane ga Nai

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English: No Money!

Japanese: お金がないっ

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Mar 26, 2002 to ?

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Yaoi

Authors: Shinozaki, Hitoyo (Story), Kousaka, Tohru (Art)

Serialization: Comic Magazine LYNX

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Ranked: N/A²

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MangaComic Magazine LYNXShinozaki, Hitoyo (Story), Kousaka, Tohru (Art)

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Synopsis

Yukiya Ayase is a gentle, kind hearted, and innocent university student. The only relative he has left, his cousin Tetsuo, betrays Ayase by selling him to the highest bidder in an auction with hopes of making an enormous profit to be able to pay off his debts. Somuku Kanou, a bad-tempered (though very rich) loan shark, comes to Ayase's rescue and buys Ayase for an impressive 1.2 billion. Kanou apparently knows Ayase from something that happened between them in the past, but Ayase cannot remember who Kanou is nor does he understand why he "saved" him. In a desperate effort to keep Ayase close to him, Kanou demands the debt be repaid in full and suggests the perfect way to do it: by selling his body to Kanou for 500,000 each time. Ayase is horrified in the beginning, but something soon begins to grow between them that can't be bought for any price.

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Related Manga

Spin-off:	Henshin Dekinai
Adaptation:	Okane ga Nai

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Characters

Ayase, Yukiya

Main

Kanou, Somuku

Main

Kuba, Homare

Main

Ishii, Tetsuo

Main

Someya, Kaoruko

Supporting

Kuba, Misao

Supporting

Honda, Soichiro

Supporting

Yamato, Takanohashi

Supporting

Gion, Toranosuke

Supporting

Kanou, Old Man

Supporting

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Mar 26, 2010

29 of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 7

blushjoy (All reviews)

45 people found this review helpful

Stuck between drama and comedy, but never quite becoming one or the other, Okane ga Nai is a rather clumsy but enjoyable yaoi. Reading it, I feel that the creator is never entirely sure what category it really fits into.

The series starts abruptly, exploding onto the pages with a rape by the end of the first chapter. Our seme, Kanou buys a boy named Ayase (at the perfectly legal age of 18) at an underground auction, ostensibly to save the kid. Being a big shot guy in the money business, handsome, powerful and rich, he's used to getting what he wants when he wants it. When Ayase refuses his advances and frustrates him, Kanou rapes him. In his mind, the rape is a way of forcing his 'love' on the boy. However, he is also rather kind to Ayase, worrying about him getting sick and taking care of him. So Ayase, who has long been alone and poorly treated by his cousin, despite being horrified by the rape is somewhat drawn to the kindness and protection offered to him by Kanou.

Put that way, it seems to me like the brilliant beginning of a very dramatic, psychological manga that goes where readers may not be comfortable, exploring human feelings and emotions as we watch the destructive and painful, not quite love, not quite hate relationship between Kanou and Ayase.

But this never happens. Ayase is weepy, girly and clingy. He grates on my nerves; after being raped by Kanou he apologizes for scratching him under the eye? Really?

The creator can't seem to decide if Kanou is a jerk or not. He claims to love Ayase and want to protect him. And he does, more or less. Then he humiliates him by forcing Ayase to beg when he needs to 'come', then throwing it in his face how much sex between them turns him on. I found that somewhat more of a turn-off than the rape, as the rape was more spur-of-the-moment, something he immediately regrets while this was a more calculated and a premeditated attempt to manipulate the kid.

Then there's the element of humor. Though honestly funny, the funny bits don't quite fit into the darker bits. So I'm never sure quite how to feel towards everything. It's confusing.

And yet I gave it a pretty decent rating. Why? Well, accepting it for what it is, the way you accept a trashy swashbuckling romance novel, it's quite good.

The art is top notch. Kanou is handsome and toweringly tall. Ayase is pretty with beautiful eyes and gorgeous hair. The bed they share is like triple king sized. XD The scale of the whole thing is so over-the-top you just can't take it seriously, but I mean that in the nicest way possible.

The adventures and scrapes Ayase gets into, always being saved at the last moment by Kanou are full of fun and swooning moments. So if you're a bit squeamish to read a truly violent manga, Okane ga Nai offers all the naughtiness and perverted fun, without being depressing or too dark or too gory. It's darker than your average fare, with the rape, but handled in such a light-hearted, humorous way that everything turns out ok somehow.

So if a manga where rape is tolerated and even considered romantic turns you off or disgusts you, which is perfectly understandable, then this is not for you. If you like squealing with girlish (or boysih) delight over cute boys being ravished by older, powerful men, then you'll be sure to have some fun. I certainly enjoyed it overall, though it's not on my best ever list by a long shot.

For a manga with a similar idea, but without the rape (think a not entirely unwelcome hand job), check out Junjou Romantica, which features a similar pushy, dominant seme and high school kid, only in this case the kid is boyish and hot-tempered himself and their relationship actually makes sense and the humor is hysterical and totally fitting.

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Jun 25, 2011

42 of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 5

glassapple (All reviews)

26 people found this review helpful

Okane Ga Nai had the potential to be an intriguing and emotional story. Unfortunately, the plot line can be summed up in two words: Fan. Service.

The story begins well enough, if not a bit cliche,but the chapters are filled with cycles of boy-in-trouble/upset, boy gets rescued, boy is raped, boy cries. Rinse, repeat. Characters are flat and entirely two dimensional, with little to no growth throughout. Ayase's constant tears also grates on my nerves. The only good point about OGN is its art: Ayase is the typical girly, slender type, and Kanou is the possesive, dominating "master". The characters are pretty, and backgrounds wonderfully read more

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Oct 7, 2007

Unknown of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 10

AngelAoi (All reviews)

26 people found this review helpful

I personally adored this read, it was so beautifully drawn, and the characters had stunning detail to them, the beautiful expressions and attention to detail, made each new scene more moving or some other chapters to be very steamy.

At first i felt alittle sorry for Ayase in his situation but later came to realise Kanou's reasoning, and wanted Ayase to accept and understand Kanou more earlier, but each small step into Ayases understanding meant a new step into the story and relationship.

Making me fall even more in love with the two, and the extreme love within them and how much they deep down cared for read more

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Jan 13, 2009

39 of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 8

vaberella (All reviews)

15 people found this review helpful

This is a good read. All of it hasn't been translated yet, I'm up to volume 7 currently but I like it. However I haven't yet seen this as a romance.

I see this as control, obsession, and power. Kanou exudes power and is extremely controlling of his environment and his life, so what he wants he gets. He wants Ayase and then finds the perfect opporunity presented when Ayase's cousin sells him off to pay a debt. Kanou buys Ayase and then violently rapes him.

This is not love people. For those to assume that Kanou loves read more

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