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“Thief's descendant Megumi is cursed to serve the Kougami family when Suzuka returns after two years.”
Captive Hearts
とらわれの身の上
7.15
7,188 rank · 7,022 readers · 41 favorites
Shoujo
Historical
Comedy
Romance
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Thief's descendant Megumi is cursed to serve the Kougami family when Suzuka returns after two years.
Megumi is a descendant of Kuronekomaru, a famous thief who stole an heirloom from a samurai’s mansion. When he opened the scroll, the family’s guardian dragon appeared and cursed Kuronekomaru and his descendants: his family is destined to serve Kougami’s family for one hundred generations. Megumi is living the high life, since the last of the Kougamis vanished two years ago. However, when Suzuka—the current generation of the Kougamis—returns home, Megumi has built up no resistance to the curse, so he is forced to serve her with a slave-like obedience. (Source: ANN) Included one-shots: Volume 1: Real no Arashi (Real Storm), Jikan wo Kourasete (Let the Time Freeze) Volume 3: Pere Noel no Nagai Yoru (The Long Night of Pere Noel) Volume 5: Kiss no Hontou no Imi wo Oshiete (Tell Me the Real Meaning of That Kiss)
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median 8
mode 7
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Score over time
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Running avg · Sep 2009 → Mar 2010
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “This is a rather silly (a fun kind of silly) master/servant romance story. It's not meant to be taken seriously, it's just a quick, fun and rather light hearted read. Fourteen years ago, the...”
- 9 “Toraware no Minoue is basically a romance between the main characters who have a master-servant relationship, however the servant has a curse that makes him have an extreme impulse to do whatever...”
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Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 33 × 5 ch × vol
- Total read 4h 24m approx
- Published Nov 1998 – Jan 2002
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M1544 catalog