Aiten Ryōō Monogatari
Aiten Ryōō Monogatari(The Tale of Aiten,Master of Underworld) is a manga by Ryūsuke Mita.The manga was serialized in Afternoon from 1998 to 1999.
The Story
The story takes place in modern-day Tokyo. Kotono Mitsuyoshi is on the train when she sees a man getting hurt by a mysterious person.When she gets home,her parents tell her there is going to be a boy staying at their home. Then she meets a strange kid called Aiten whose job to judge those who sin.
Ryūsuke Mita usually creates comedy manga. Like his best known work,Dragon Half,Aiten Ryōō Monogatari has humor but the storyline often gets gritty. The manga even has disturbing pictures of Hell. Even the theme of the manga is Hell. To make matters worse,it ended prematurely.
Characters
Kotono Mitsuyoshi
- The shy 15-year-old main character of Aiten Ryōō Monogatari.
Aiten
- The titular character. Aiten is part of a homestay program.
Chiaki Ogishima
- A dark-skinned 16-year-old that has a major flirt and quite a lebsian bent. Chiaki spends a lot with someone called Miss Ohbara.
Miss Ohbara
- A blonde girl that at first,none other than Chiaki's underling but later she is revealed to be kinder and wiser. Her role is even more important. In the first chapter Kotono meets Aiten Ohbara-chan has a beauty-mark on her face but it disappears afterwards.
Tsubasa
- A huge X-files fan. Probably can not tell the difference between fantasy and reality.
Hotaru-chan
- Kotono's young friend,probably eight years old.