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“Office lady Yumi moonlights as a prostitute to support her pet crocodile in this manga.”
Pink
pink
7.71
1,880 rank · 10,119 readers · 261 favorites
Josei
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Synopsis
Office lady Yumi moonlights as a prostitute to support her pet crocodile in this manga.
Pink is a manga about a Japanese girl named Yumi, a beautiful girl in her early 20s. During the day, Yumi works as a regular office lady, but by night, she works as a prostitute. Yumi needs her two jobs to make ends meet. She also needs the extra income to feed her unusual pet, a crocodile, which she keeps in her apartment. Working in an office is quite normal for young Japanese women, but keeping a pet crocodile, and being a prostitute makes Yumi stand out. In truth, few girls are like Yumi, however, many readers can empathize with her. Young women love their "something," symbolized by her pet crocodile, and they can also identify with Yumi's "wild at heart" nature. (Source: MU)
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Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
8.4
/10
What 9 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 1.71
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.71 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.56
Running avg · Apr 2017 → Dec 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “Pink appears at first as a beautiful cover that outlines a nice long-haired girl, but as Okazaki describes well, keeps many secrets. The plot involves the daily life of Yumi, who although she seems...”
- 8 “It's really hard to believe that we're looking at a Japanese comic, and even more so that it was created in the 80s: because of its sense of humor, the liveliness of its characters and how openly...”
- 10 “I just read Pink by Okazaki Kyoko and I loved it so so much. Pink was published in 1989 and is about Yumi, a 22 year old office lady who becomes a call girl to be able to afford feeding her pet...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 56%
Long · 11%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 20 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 40m approx
- Published Jan 1989 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M19909 catalog