Love Is Dark, Vol. 1

恋は暗黒。/ Love is Dark #1

by Ao Jyumonji, ＢＵＮＢＵＮ (artist), Zoe Womack (translator)

Sosei Takarai just wanted to be a regular high schooler. He goes to school every day, hiding a job he doesn’t even enjoy, until the class idol, Asumi Shiramori, inexplicably asks him out. Sosei is over the moon, but with all his free time after school and on weekends taken up by his job, he barely gets to see Asumi, let alone go out on dates. Then, one day, he spies his mysterious classmate Kuchina Hitsujimoto at his workplace. Why is she there? Sosei’s job, after all, is as an assassin. His romantic entanglements are bittersweet and painful, and the closer Sosei gets to his dream of normality, the further away it seems. A dark rom-com about a boy who kills and a girl who takes lives with a touch.

Genres: Romance, Light Novel

232 pages, Paperback

First published August 25, 2022

About the author

See also 十文字青.

Reviews

[Carter Green]

4.5 rounded up. I really liked the ending of this one pushing it up from a 4. Definitely interested to see the darker side of the story come up and the progression of their dynamic.

[Omniscient Reader]

thought there would be more actiom