Bitter Virgin, a seinen manga edited by Square-Enix has one of the most shocking starts I’ve ever read.
Suwa Daisuke is the typical high schooler playboy, tired of living on the countryside of Japan. One day, while doing a delivery for his family’s restaurant , he stops to rest in an abandoned church. Meanwhile , a female classmate of Daisuki, Aikawa Hinako, enters the church too. Due to the startle, Daisuki enters in the confessional try to pretend being a priest. But Hinako does something he wasn’t expecting; she enters the confessional too and makes her confession: She was sexually abused by her step father, got pregnant and made an abortion. Even so, her mother let the abuses continue and got pregnant again. Due to the risk of being unable to bear childrens again if she made a second abortion, instead she had the baby and gave him to adoption.
From this incident, we see the change of attitude from Daisuke with Hikano. He starts to subconciously to protect her and can’t stop thinking about her. He even stop caring about his current “girlfriend” , Ibuse Kazuki, who will lead to a clash between the 2 girls.
This 1st volume shows well the potential of Bitter Virgin. The quality of drawing is above average and the plot is well developed, pending between the drama and the romance. We have the typical womanizer main hero who changes personality, the girl with the tragic past and the other girl who wants the main hero love and will do anything to get it. Let’s see how the other volumes will be, but from the looks of it, this is a another good series coming from the manga publishing section of Square-Enix.
