Love Mode is a yaoi manga series by Yuki Shimizu.
It was first serialized in the Japanese monthly yaoi magazine Be x Boy in 1995
In addition, seven volumes of have been released, with one of them Love Mode: Host Hen covering the story in volumes 6 and 7; Fly Me To Heaven, Thunder Honey and 'Sweet Trap.
Plot
Love Mode itself is a compilation of several stories (most often short) involving various degrees of gay couples. Every one of these couples is linked to an establishment known as the Blue Boy. The Blue Boy is a gay host club where anyone wielding enough money can hire out a very attractive man either to pretty up a party or for sex. Most of the couples consist of either hosts/ex-hosts, clients/ex-clients, or both.
Though all of the couples get a considerable amount of spotlight, without a doubt, the main focus of the story is the once dysfunctional Aoe family and their lovers. Aoe Reiji himself owns the Blue Boy and is the only main character to appear in all eleven volumes.
Characters
- Sakashita Izumi
- Sixteen years old, first appearance
- Takamiya Katsura
- Twenty-eight years old, first appearance
- Aoe Reiji
- Twenty-eight years old, turns twenty-nine at the end of Volume 7, first appearance
- Shirakawa Naoya
- First appearance
- Yanase Izumi
- First appearance
- Iketani Arashi
- First appearance
- Aoe Kiichi
- Thirty-one years old, first appearance
- Kashima Haruomi
- Twenty-eight years old, first appearance
- Kashima Shuei
- Twenty-seven years old, first appearance
- Takimura Rin
- First appearance
- Ian Sanders
- Seventeen years old, first appearance
- Katsuki Kyosuke
- First appearance
- Kuniaki Jinnai
- Thirty-six years old, first appearance
- Saginuma Tomoki
- Fourteen years old, first appearance
- Amagai Seiichi
- First appearance
- Aoe Shougo
- Reiji and Kiichi's father, and the person responsible for the existence of the Blue Boy. A coldly manipulative and sadistic person, he enjoyed profiting off the misery and ruin of others. He had a very abusive and exploitative relationship with his sons and only considered how they might be useful to him. He paid more attention to Reiji, whom he believed could both run the family business and carry on the Aoe name. He saw Kiichi only as ab object to be used to further his own business and personal interests. One instance of this is when he imprisoned him on the family grounds for a few years. Though Shougo ended up leaving everything to Reiji, Reiji only took hold of the businesses and gave the Aoe estate to Kiichi.
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