Love Celeb

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Love celeb is I think my # 2 if not #1 favorite manga. Written by Shinjou, Mayu with a great story to boot. One thing I really love about this story was it introduced me to such a great artist and writer. Shinjou really does well with all of her works. She is well known for the way she draws her male character. The males contain long necks, fingers, legs, broad shoulders and narrowed eyes and pointy chins. With such a unique artistic talent it is very different from anything else in the manga world. Kirara is a character I can see myself connecting ... with. Everyone at some point in their lives wish to be successful and possibly famous. Kiara is just like us in her dreams in becoming an idol. Like many people she seems to have morals that cause her resist losing her virginity. Many woman/girls dream of finding a man like Gin who teats her well, truly loves her, and has the ability to hold back his desires even if he wishes not to.

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.*

This could be the worst romance manga i read

The story is basically non-existent.
First, it jumps from one point to the next suddenly. At the beginning it is the main character, kirara, trying to become an idol when her manager pushes her into selling her body for fame where she meets Gin. Somehow, after that the story turns into how she falls for him and their tries to have sex.
Second, it has a lot of plot holes, the villains appear randomly and are not given depth at all. They just exist for the sake of the plot.

The characters are also bad. The main guy, ... Gin, is abusive, childish, possessive and so full of himself, he basically pushes himself on the main girl, kirara, until she gives in and

"might have spoilers"
when he wants her to quit the entertainment industry he goes as far as forcing the companies that offered her jobs to withdraw their offers and then putting kiss marks on her so she would be refused from a modelling job especially after he told her that he wants to marry her!!!
"end of spoilers".

Kirara, is a completely stupid girl with no courage to say no. At some points I felt like slapping her for her idiocy. I have no idea how someone would keep on working with a manager that forces you to have sex with a guy you do not like and take on jobs that you feel embarrassed with.

The only redeeming factor in this manga is the art, compared to Mayu Shinju's other mangas, the characters are drawn beautifully and the background however scarce when drawn it is really good

You really can read this manga if you want read almost porn or you are bored