History Manga / BitterVirgin

* BreakTheCutie: Hinako, before the start of the series and shown in flashback.

* NobodyThinksItWillWork: While Yuzu and Kazuki give up their pursuit of Daisuke, they do so feeling that he and Hinako are bound to break up sooner or later; if not because of internal issues with their relationship, then because Daisuke's mother will eventually find out about Hinako's history and despise her for it. Meanwhile, Daisuke and Hinako themselves believe that the other will eventually find a more suitable partner, but hope to make the most of their relationship until then.

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Hinako's mother begged Hinako not to move away after she gave birth, desperately apologizing for not believing her about the sexual abuse. The story was set in motion when Hinako ignored her pleas and moved to Daisuke's town.

* NobodyThinksItWillWork

* SecretSecretKeeper: Daisuke learns about knows Hinako's darkest secret when he pretends to be the priest at an abandoned church and hears her confessional. [[spoiler:Kazuki and Yuzu]] learn about her past though overhearing it as well. The only person Hinako knowingly tells her secret to (at first) is [[spoiler:Izumi, when she reflexively tries to reject Izumi's claims that she has no idea the older woman could be feeling after losing a child]].

* SecretSecretKeeper: Daisuke learns about knows Hinako's darkest secret when he pretends to be the priest at an abandoned church and hears her confessional. [[spoiler:Kazuki and Yuzu]] learn about her past though overhearing it as well. The only person Hinako knowingly tells her secret to is [[spoiler:Izumi, when she reflexively tries to reject Izumi's claims that she has no idea the older woman could be feeling after losing a child]].

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Hinako's mother begged Hinako not to move away after she gave birth. The story was set in motion when Hinako ignored her pleas and moved to Daisuke's town.

* SecretKeeper: Asymmetric, as Hinako does not know Daisuke knows. [[spoiler: Kazuki and Yuzu also become this kind of keeper later]]. On the other hand, [[spoiler: Izumi]] is Hinako's ''symmetric'' keeper, since she willingly told her what had been going on.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Daisuke knows Hinako's darkest secret, and there's no way he can let anyone know, even Hinako herself.

* RealityEnsues: Acting withdrawn and avoiding people, even if you're just traumatized and scared, is going to make a few people annoyed with you, as seen with Daisuke (at the start) and Yamamoto.

* VillainHasAPoint: Maybe he doesn't exactly earn the title of "villain", but when [[spoiler: Yamamoto grabs Hinako in the final chapter,]] setting himself up pretty nicely as one more in a long line of abusive bastards, [[spoiler: he makes her realise that, without intending to, understandable though her reaction was, she has truly hurt the feelings of some of the guys in her class]]

* WhamLine: Hinako's confession in the church, while expected by the audience (This happened in the '''first''' chapter.), definitely has this effect on Daisuke. Quite aside from the face he pulls, there is the subsequent alteration in his character.

* WhatYouAreintheDark: When Izumi and Kazuki meet, Izumi gets a labor pain and Kazuki gets concerned; this proves to Izumi that Kazuki isn't overly cruel but just clingy to Daisuke. [[spoiler: Later on things get more significant: Kazuki blackmails Daisuke into a date, but sees that he's unhappy and still thinking of Hinako and lets him off, apologizing for what she did. Near the end of the story, she tells Daisuke about another attack on Hinako.]]

* RealityEnsures: Acting withdrawn and avoiding people, even if you're just traumatized and scared, is going to make a few people annoyed with you, as seen with Daisuke (at the start) and Yamamoto.

* FollowInMyFootsteps: Despite Daisuke's vehement refusal, Nana Suwa can't quite let go of her hope that he'll take over the restaurant. (Prior to Izumi's departure, she got the same spiel).

* Foil: Izumi and Hinako are this to each other. [[spoiler: Both suffered the loss of a child, Hinako through her baby being taken from her and Izumi through a miscarriage. However, while Hinako became withdrawn and distant from people to the point of avoiding them, Izumi is able pull herself together and stay brave and open with people, and she counsels Hinako to do the same.]]

When it comes to men, Hinako Aikawa has problems - problems which she confesses to an empty and abandoned church. Unbeknowest to her, her classmate, local TheCasanova Daisuke Suwa, was hiding in said church to dodge his henpecking Childhood Friend Yuzu Yamamoto and his wanna-be girlfriend Kazuki Ibuse. At first he tries to shoo Hinako away, but eventually relents. He expects to hear a minor confession, and instead receives the shock of his life in learning of [[AbusiveParents years of abuse]] Hinako suffered. Sexual abuse from her stepfather that got her pregnant not once, but ''twice'', and resulted in at least one birth to a child one year prior, when Hinako was fifteen.

Kusunoki reveals, in the last volume, that most of the manga was inspired in her ''own'' stillbirth; fortunately, she had two healthy kids afterward.

* AllMenAreRapists: Due to the extremely small cast, Daisuke and his unnamed friend are pretty much the only guys who appear who aren't sexual abusers of some flavour.

* WhatYouAreintheDark: When Izumi and Kazuki meet, Izumi gets a labor pain and Kazuki gets concerned; this proves to Izumi that Kazuki isn't overly cruel but just clingy to Daisuke. [[spoiler: Later on things get more significant: Kazuki blackmails Daisuke into a date, but sees that he's unhappy and still thinking of Hinako and lets him off, apologizing for what she did. Near the end of the story, she tells Daisuke about another attack on Hinowa.]]

* ParentalIncest: Hinako's abuser was her stepdad.

* FragileFlower: Hinako again.

* UnstoppableRage: When Daisuke finds [[spoiler:a lowfife attempting to rape Hinako again in an alley]] he goes ''mental,'' nearly [[spoiler:''beating the creep to death'' with a 2x4]]. Hinako needs to give him an emergency CooldownHug to prevent [[spoiler:murder being done]].

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Kazuki and Daisuke's relationship isn't the worst example, but her abuse of him (stalking, verbal abuse, harassment, false accusations, manipulation, etc) is treated as nothing more than an annoyance by most of the characters. Izumi seems to be the only character with anywhere near the appropriate attitude to this behaviour. Particularly off-putting when one considers that the story as a whole revolves around Hinako's attempts to recover from abuse.

* RapeLeadsToInsanity: on the border in some ways. While Hinako is far from "insane", she quite understandably suffers from a number of psychological problems, including androphobia[[note]]fear of men[[/note]], male-specific haphephobia[[note]]fear of touch[[/note]], gymnophobia[[note]]fear of being seen nude(due to her scar in this case)[[/note]], and learned helplessness[[note]]a tendency to shut down and let bad things happen as a result of repeatedly being unable to stop similar trauma in the past[[/note]]. Though Hinako at one point says that immediately following rape a person would not be completely calm and in control, the manga doesn't really suggest that lacking these problems would make her less of a victim; it simply makes clear that none of these things should be at all surprising in the wake of such prolonged abuse.

** Though Hinako's mother could never make up for what her daughter went through, props to her when she finally accepts the truth and chases the stepfather out of the house with a knife.

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: In Daisuke's ImagineSpot in volume 3, anyway. The series as a whole [[spoiler: completely, utterly averts it. Oh God, Izumi!]]

* BerserkerTears: When Daisuke beats the ever-loving ''shit'' out of a thug who [[AttemptedRape attempted to rape]] Hinako. He's mortified for "looking so uncool" in front of her, but she's clearly touched.

%% LuminescentBlush: Oh, Daisuke.

%% RapeAsDrama: Milked for ''all'' it's worth.

* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: A horribly abused 15-year-old is allowed to run off and live on her own for a year? Really?

Kusunoki reveals, in the last volume, that [[spoiler:most of the manga was inspired in her ''own'' stillbirth; fortunately, she had two healthy kids afterward]].

** Kazuki is a milder example; some of her treatment of Daisuke, especially the false rape accusation, would generally be enough to warrant police attention, let alone that of the school authorities. However, this is sadly also [[TruthInTelevision Truth In Manga]], because women and girls getting off scott-free for making false rape accusations is quite common.

** Kazuki is a milder example, some of her treatment of Daisuke, especially the false rape accusation, would generally be enough to warrant police attention, let alone that of the school authorities.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Hinako and Daisuke are together at the end. Kazuki and Yuzu accept this and step aside. But ''no one'', including the couple themselves, expects the relationship to last, both of them feeling the other could do better,]] although thankfully it's left up in the air and ''really'' depends on what you think will happen.

* AdultsAreUseless: Hinako's mother is in denial about her abuse for a LONG time. Contrast that with Daisuke's [[OpenMindedParent mother]], Nana.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Subverted by [[spoiler:Yuzu]], but eventually played straight.
** Daisuke, throughout the manga. He gradually comes to develop a crush on Hinako, but resolves himself to secrecy when she flat-out tells him the reason she's (relatively) comfortable with him is that he doesn't see her "as a woman". He spends most of the manga terrified that she'll fear him if she finds out he's in love with her.
* KarmaHoudini: Beyond being chased out of the Aikawa house, Nagashima is never punished for his crimes. As we all know, this is sadly [[TruthInTelevision Truth In Manga]].
** Kazuki is a milder example, some of her treatment of Daisuke (especially the false rape accusation) would generally be enough to warrant police attention, let alone that of the school authorities.

* LuminescentBlush: Oh, Daisuke.
* MomentOfWeakness: When Hinako obliviously drops a JustFriends on Daisuke, he angrily blurts out he knows her dark secret. Lucky for all involved, she wasn't listening to him at that precise moment. He still feels horrible for even doing so afterwards.

* RapeAsBackstory: Guess who.
* RapeAsDrama: Milked for ALL it's worth.

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding]]: [[spoiler: Hinako and Daisuke are together at the end. Kazuki and Yuzu accept this and step aside. But ''no one'', including the couple themselves, expects the relationship to last, both of them feeling the other could do better,]] although thankfully it's left up in the air and ''really'' depends on what you think will happen.

* {{Confessional}}

* [[{{Woobie/Anime}} The Woobie]]: Hinako, too.