: Embodiment

Author: Akizuki Junichi
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: Men who fall in love will make any sacrifice to possess a woman. Akizuki Junichi, with his rich experience with women, uses a light and (lively) pen to describe an immortal love story. Tsukiko meets Akiba Daisaburo at a bar by chance and soon becomes his mistress. As a successful and mature man, Akiba completely transforms the rural girl Tsukiko. He teaches her how to dress, how to speak, takes her on trips, teaches her to appreciate the world, and learn to enjoy the pleasures of life and body. He pays for her education and even funds the opening of a shop for her. Under Akiba's continuous temptation and guidance, Tsukiko becomes charming and increasingly beautiful, evolving from a girl from Hokkaido into a mature modern urban woman with her own independent opinions and career. In Akiba's view, Tsukiko is like his work, something he created himself. He believed he would always possess Tsukiko, and that she would be satisfied as a result. But he was wrong. He did not realize that a truly mature woman also has an independent soul. Eventually, one day, Tsukiko left, leaving Akiba. In the letter she left for him, she wrote: "These years, I have lived in indescribable loneliness and unease. Men are not gods; one cannot expect men to save oneself. I thank you, your kindness will never be forgotten."