Manga: Backstage Prince
Title: Backstage Prince
Genre: Drama // Romance
(Licensed) Publisher: Viz
Volumes: Two
Synopsis: (taken from Wikipedia because I’m lazy)
Akari is an average high school girl who fails to see why the other girls in her school are so interested in Ryusei, a young talented kabuki actor also attending their school. Akari happens to run into Ryusei at school and accidentally ends up bruising Ryusei in the stomach with her bookbag. By chance, Akari ends up following a cat all the way to a kabuki theatre and runs into Ryusei once again.
To make up for her mistake, she volunteers to become Ryusei’s assistant until he is healed. The reclusive and socially inept Ryusei accepts only because she gets along with his pet cat, the very one she followed all the way to the theatre. When Ryusei is finally better, Akari realizes she has fallen in love with him and Ryusei has also come to reciprocate.
However, their relationship is put to the test by Ryusei’s profession and popularity and those who disapprove of their relationship, especially Ryusei’s strict father and Naoki, another kabuki actor who loves Akari.
Now on to rambles! This was a manga I randomly picked off the shelf because the title intrigued me. XD I’m a sucker for the sappy stuff, I admit. But I read the entire thing and just had to buy it. It wasn’t till I brought volume 2 home a week or so later hat I realized it was the last and I mentally sobbed for what I wanted to go on forever. Well, also cheered, because even though the stories were awesome, they it did play around in circles. XD But it was still enjoyable. This manga will forever have a time-honored space on my manga shelf.
The content warning will contain spoilers.
Suggested Age level: 12+
Language: Moderate, good ol’ white-out would take care of this quickly.
Adult/suggestive content: While on a date Ryusei and Akari get into a situation where it could have led to something bad happening, but because they are both good kids, they got out in the nic-of time. Akari also gets stranded at Ryusei’s while on a school trip and is forced to spend the night, and though nothing happened, her friends thought so, and teased her a bit when she got home.