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“Disturbed Shougo cursed by goddess to eternally fall in love with girl who always dies.”
Apollo's Song
アポロの歌
7.64
2,384 rank · 8,227 readers · 156 favorites
Shounen
Psychological
Drama
Fantasy
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Synopsis
Disturbed Shougo cursed by goddess to eternally fall in love with girl who always dies.
Shougo is a young man who has a problem with love, not just in humans but even with animals. He is even compelled to kill animals that show each other affection, which lands him in a mental hospital. During therapy, he has a vision where he meets a goddess that dooms him to fall in love with the same girl over and over again, but one of them will always die before they can truly be together.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 6 sampled reviews
7.5
/10
What 6 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 7
σ 0.96
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.96 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.50
Running avg · Apr 2008 → Jan 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Apollo's Song is an interesting manga by the God of Manga himself, Osamu Tezuka. It starts out by introducing Shogo, a kid that hates love so much that kill animals that show any signs of...”
- 7 “Tribulations of love are often immense, yet in this work, they're of cosmic proportions. Our -- sort of -- villainized hero is sent on a metaphysical journey which serves as a punishment for his...”
- 9 “Osamu Tezuka truly is the god of manga. The attention to detail is simply staggering, and he produced his hundreds of thousands of pages of manga over the decades the long, hard way. Sometimes,...”
Verbosity
Short · 17%
Medium · 33%
Long · 50%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 6 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 48m approx
- Published Apr 1970 – Nov 1970
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M1277 catalog