Desire Climax

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Desire Climax
欲情(C)MAX (Yokujou Climax)
Genre	Drama, Romance, Mature, Harem
Manga
Author	Ayane Ukyou
Publisher	Shueisha
Demographic	Shōjo
Magazine	Margaret Comics
Original run	2004 – 2006
Volumes	7

Desire Climax (欲情(C)MAX, Yokujou Climax^?) is a shōjo manga series by Ayane Ukyou. It started serialization in Shueisha's Margaret manga magazine in 2004, and has been completed and bundled in 7 tankōbons.

[edit] Story

The Omori family are poor. Mio Omori's father died when she was young, and her mother has been hospitalised for some time with an unspecified illness. She lives alone with her little brother Hina(ta), doing a number of part-time jobs just to get by. One night, when going home after work, she encounters upon a violent young man who tells her he'll 'buy her', after stealing her first kiss.

The next day her mother tells Mio that their landlord has offered her a job as a maid. Mio hesitates, but her mother insists she takes the job, as she feels this is safer than some of the late-night work Mio has been doing. To her horror, Mio finds out that the violent guy who stole her kiss is none other than Shoei Jinnai, the son of their landlord and the most popular and high-achieving student at her high school; so much so that he is widely known as 'Prince Jinnai'

Mio starts to work for the Jinnais and the Prince's behaviour towards her grows worse. He also starts to blame her for 'forgetting something'. Mio finds a ring in the forest between her house and the Jinnai's. This seems to trigger some memories of the past, and during a fever-induced dream while ill she remembers what happened in the past between herself and the Prince.

It transpires that as children they were very close, partly as a result of the friendship of their fathers and partly because Mio's mother agreed to act as Shoei's 'wet nurse' or mother figure. One day, while playing together in the forest they switched their clothes, and agreed to switch identities as part of a game. When a stranger appeared asking for 'Shoei Jinnai', Mio answered and was kidnapped. She was returned after a day, but Shoei was so disturbed by this event that he shouts at Mio, tells her that he hates her, saying she should never have come back, and ignores her afterwards. (Later, Mio surmises Shoei resented her return because he wanted her mother to be his, forever.) Mio's trauma is profound and triggers her memory loss.

After learning the truth about their past, Mio, at the direction of her mother, makes an effort to re-educate the Prince. Spending this much time with him, her feelings for him grow powerful, though somewhat confused. He molests her (with varying degrees of resistance) from time to time, although it's not altogether obvious how vehement her pleas of "No" and "Don't" are as time goes on.

In his own strange way, the Prince starts to treat her as his girlfriend. He even tells Mio he loves her. When they finally start dating, Mio's brother Hinata becomes extremely jealous. He tries to interfere with their relationship, and even goes as far as trying a rather ham-fisted attempt to seduce the Prince. When Mio catches them kissing, she runs home, but not for long, as the next morning their house is destroyed by fire on the Prince's order.

Forcing Mio and Hinata to live with the Jinnais. Mio announces she would rather run away than live with the Jinnais. Hinata confuses things yet further when he kisses Mio and confesses his (more than brotherly) love for her. The Prince steps in, but Mio doesn't want to be with either of them and flees. The Prince finds her in the process of being solicited by a rather creepy middle-aged man and drags her back; during the argument that follows Mio finally tells him she doesn't like the way he treats her and this actually brings them closer together.

Meanwhile, Hinata has also run away, going to live with his pimp; he has actually been working as an escort for some time, without Mio knowing. With the help of the Jinnai 'oniwaban' (actually the gardener) Hayato, Mio finally manages to talk to Hinata on the phone. During this conversation Hinata reveals to Mio that the Jinnais have been helping the Omori family financially for some considerable time, and suggests a family connection is the principal reason for this. Mio confronts her mother, who confesses she has been raising Mr Jinnai's illegitimate child as her own. Mio surmises that this means the Prince is her brother and tells him so. Both Mio and Shoei are distraught and end up consummating their relationship. It then turns out that that it is Hinata who is the Prince's brother.

When all of this is revealed, Mr Jinnai insists upon Mio and Hinata moving into his home, with Hinata finally being accepted as his second son. Hinata's reasons doing this become clear on the evening his is revealed to the rest of the Jinnai family, especially as this is the same night that Shoei reveals that he wants to marry Mio. Mr. Jinnai takes the news in a seemingly joking manner and decides that Mio should help Hina settle into the household. Shoei promptly refuses and his father indicates that they should have a discussion about this later.

Because both brothers have declared they want Mio, she suffers from torment at the hand of the other servants, although sometimes Hina comes to her rescue. At the beginning of the summer vacation, Shoei kidnaps Mio and takes her to their "love nest". To their surprise, Hinata gets a second floor built onto their apartment and moves in.

[edit] Characters

Mio Omori

Seventeen years old, her birthday is on December 1, her starsign is Sagittarius and bloodtype O. Mio is a poor, very hardworking girl, Mio lives with her brother, Hinata, while their mother is in hospital. Due to an incident in her childhood, in which she was kidnapped in place of Shoei, she lost her memory of her friendship with him. In a meeting many years later, Shoei offers to buy her, claiming she now "belongs to him". She is in love with Shoei.

Shoei (Prince) Jinnai

His birthday is on May 22, his starsign is Gemini and bloodtype AB. Shoei is Mio's closest childhood friend and the scion of a very wealthy family, although Mio initially doesn't recall their past together. His father is the Omori family's landlord. He is popular, athletic, intelligent and handsome, adored by many girls in school, despite his cruel, cold demeanor. He is deeply in love with Mio. He manipulates events so that Mio is first forced to work in his home as a maid, then to live there. Spoiled and extremely wealthy, he lacks in compassion, consideration and empathy towards others. Mio later takes it upon herself to re-educate him to be a better person. Later they become a couple.

Hinata (Hina) Omori

Mio's little brother, though not it transpires by blood. He is in fact the illegitimate son of Mr. Jinnai and is the Prince's half-brother. Originally, At some point Hinata seems to have believed Mio was Mr. Jinnai's child. It's not clear how he found out or how long he's known about his origins, but it is a fact that he's been in love with his "sister" for a while. On many occasions, Hinata has demonstrated a chilling cruel streak and a manipulative personality; he wants Mio and is apparently willing to use tricks and lies to separate her from the Prince. He has even gone so far as too trick a half-blind Shoei into thinking he was Mio so he could seduce him. Unknown to Mio, he has been working as a male escort (prostitute). After running away from home, Hinata moved in with his pimp, before moving into the Jinnai house.

Mr. Tomoe

Hina's pimp. Hina moves in with him after running away. Later, Mio moves in with him too after he offers her a job and tells her that Hina is staying with him. Mio does not know Mr. Tomoe is Hina's pimp. He also seems to know a lot about Hina and Mio's family issues with the Jinnais, showing Hinata where to find his birth mother.

Hayato

Prince's oniwaban (spy) is nineteen years old. Since his real job serves little purpose most of the time, he acts as the gardener for Jinnai house. He is very friendly and listens to Mio's problems, though he usually seems to know more than he lets on.

Akiko

Mio and Hinata's mother. She is very sickly and stays in the hospital. Shoei also has a close relationship with her, because she was his wet nurse (mother figure) when he was a child. There is some evidence of their closeness when she calls him by his given name and that he frequently visits her at the hospital of his own accord.

Mr. Jinnai

Shoei's father and Hinata's biological father. Mr. Jinnai is usually very carefree and extremely gentle, so much so that Mio says she can't refuse his most unusual requests. He also has been shown to become very serious and even frightening at times of stress. Afterwards, of course, he immediately reverts to his usual character. At some point in the past, he and Mio's father were very close friends, and Mr. Jinnai wishes to keep caring for Mio and her family because of it.

Jun-chan

A friend of Mio's from school.

[edit] Volumes

1. ISBN 4-08-847819-3 published in January 2005
2. ISBN 4-08-847855-X published in May 2005
3. ISBN 4-08-847888-6 published in September 2005
4. ISBN 4-08-846021-9 published in January 2006
5. ISBN 4-08-846066-9 published in June 2006
6. ISBN 978-4-08-846090-1 published in September 2006
7. ISBN 978-4-08-846102-1 published in October 2006