is a shōjo

Shojo

The term refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10-18. The name romanizes the Japanese 少女 , literally: "little female". Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative and graphic styles, from historical drama to science fiction — often with a strong...

 manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 series created by Mayu Shinjo

Mayu Shinjo

is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 1994 in Shogakukan's Shōjo Comic with "Anata no Iro ni Somaritai". She continued writing for Shogakukan until 2007, with her works appearing in both Shōjo Comic and their other magazine Cheese!...

. Sakuya Ookochi, the main character from Sensual Phrase

Sensual Phrase

is a shōjo manga series created by Mayu Shinjo. The manga was published by Shogakukan in Shōjo Comic between 1997 and 2000, and collected in 18 bound volumes. It was adapted as a 44-episode anime television series by Studio Hibari and as a series of novels...

, also makes an appearance in this manga, as does Hakuron from the later spin-off Haou Airen

Haou Airen

is a shōjo manga series created by Mayu Shinjo. It is recommended for teen readers in Germany and has been licensed in North America by Viz Media. In Singapore, the Chinese translation is published by Chuang Yi.-Plot:...

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Story

Nakazono Kirara is an aspiring starlet. She used to think she'd do whatever it took to get a starring role in a drama and have a CD. But her manager, Hanamaki, proves her wrong when he sends her into a room full of horny producers to sleep her way into a role! Kirara wants no part of it! She's a virgin, and these guys are scary!! Especially the silver-haired one named Gin... He seems to be in charge. But he lets Kirara leave the party with her virginity and his phone number, and it seems like nothing lost, nothing gained... until Kirara is suddenly the most famous new starlet for no apparent reason!?

Characters

Kirara Nakazono

A 16-year-old aspiring singer-actress. Because of her lack of success, her manager, Hanamaki, tells her to sell her body to a person of authority, who happens to be Gin. Cheerful and clumsy, she has a talent for singing which is proven by Sakuya on his visit to Japan. She likes Gin but she's discouraged to tell him because of their status in life. She wants to quit the business in chapter 20.

Ginzou "Gin" Fujiwara

Very influential in show business, said to be "the most powerful man in Japan". He is the grandson of a prime minister and the son of a rich businessman as well as a politician. He saves Kirara from being ravished by another guy, then afterwards almost ravishes her himself. He thinks that money can buy anything; even a person's heart. But when Kirara comes into his life, his viewpoint on people changes. He's an overly confident person and the only person who can boss him around is Sakuya. He seems to idolize him and want to be just like him someday. He does not understand his own feelings and sometimes wonders why he puts up with Kirara rather than going out with beautiful celebrities. He eventually comes to his senses and realizes his true feelings for Kirara. He searches for Kirara since she was at the place she said but gets irrated and says he shouldn't have fallen in love, and questions her faith in him.

Hanamaki Ryoutaro

Kirara's manager. At first he tells Kirara to give her virginity

Virginity

Virginity refers to the state of a person who has never engaged in sexual intercourse. There are cultural and religious traditions which place special value and significance on this state, especially in the case of unmarried females, associated with notions of personal purity, honor and worth...

 up to Ginzou, but after learning that Ginzou is a "virgin killer" and that he loses interest in his conquests after having sex with them, he then tries to prevent Gin and Kirara from having sex. He gives Kirara sex lessons and punishes her for disobedience. He wants to have Kirara for himself in chapter 20 and when she says she wants to quit the business he says he won't hold back. He's been in love at first sight with Kirara.

Kouki Shirogane

a young actor who makes friends with Kirara caused Gin jelous

Shin Takano

Shin was Gin's rival who takes Kirara as his lover but he lose her to Gin

Makoto Jingu

The son of a rich family who wants Kirara to become his lover and wants Gin's downfall. He is actually a nice guy who only wants to find a suitable bone-marrow donor for his love, Ruriko.

Ruriko
Makoto's sweetheart who treated him as her older brother and suffered from leukemia and dreamed to marry Makoto

Manga

The manga of Love Celeb was collected in seven bound volumes

Tankobon

, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...

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1. ISBN 4-09-138483-8 Published on September 24, 2004
2. ISBN 4-09-138484-6 Published on December 20, 2004
3. ISBN 4-09-138485-4 Published on March 24, 2005
4. ISBN 4-09-138487-0 Published on June 24, 2005
5. ISBN 4-09-138488-9 Published on August 26, 2005
6. ISBN 4-09-138489-7 Published on December 20, 2005
7. ISBN 4-09-130367-6 Published on March 24, 2006

Drama CDs

Love Celeb was adapted as a series of three drama CDs:

1. Released on March 25, 2005
2. Released on July 22, 2005
3. Released on July 22, 2006

External links

• Love Celeb on Mayu Shinju's official website.