Deep Love series by Yoshi Yuu

Deep Love - Ayu no Monogatari
Based on Yoshi's hit novel series, "Deep Love" depicts the struggling life of Ayu, a 17 years old high school girl who believes neither in a future nor the happiness it could bring her. By selling her body as a teenage prostitute, she's trying to justify her existence, which is as bleak as her heart: it's void of joy, sorrow, love. It's not until her encounter with a kind-hearted old lady that Ayu begins to realize the true meaning of happiness...
http://manga.animea.net/deep-love-ay...onogatari.html

Deep Love - Pao no Monogatari
Being abandoned by his owners, having his mother die of starvation, a puppy who suffered lifelong separation from his siblings wandered around the city. Meeting and parting with kind people, experiencing brutal treatment from unjust people. Pao, who learned to live within the harshness of reality, awaits even more ordeals...
http://manga.animea.net/deep-love.html

Deep Love - Host
The continuation from Deep Love--Ayu no Monogatari. This revolves around Yoshiyuki, the lad who was in need of heart surgery in Ayu's Story. After Ayu's death, it seems that Yoshiyuki wants to learn anything, everything. And thus he tries out for a job as a host and says that he's willing to sell his body...
http://manga.animea.net/deep-love-host.html

Deep Love - Reina no Unmei
The continuation from Deep Love - Ayu no Monogatari. This story is about Reina, a cheerful 19-year-old single mother. During Ayu's Story, Reina was raped in a Karoke bar and eventually gave birth to a baby girl she named Ayu. Now, Reina has fallen in love, but when she told him she had a child, he dumps her! And what's worse is that her daughter, Ayu, accidentally falls down the stairs and during the surgery she becomes blind! What will happen to this once very cheerful mother?
http://manga.animea.net/deep-love-reina-no-unmei.html

Deep Love - Real
The man whose eyes are re-awakening, Yoshiyuki. At the age of 18 years old he lives a life of hopelessness, and thus visits the host club “Platinum” in Shibuya. They all thought it. “Yoshiyuki wouldn’t be suited to a become a host.” At that time, only the number one host Taku looked into his eyes and saw that they were different from those of ordinary men…
http://myanimelist.net/manga/3961/Deep_Love_-_Real
Unfortunately I can't seem to find a place where I could read this series, if anyone find a linkie pwease gimme

This is an absolutely heartbreaking series, you must have lotsa tissues ready cause you'll be crying your eyes out x(
~And I recommend reading it in these order I have place it in~

You know I stopped reading after they got so sad. @_@ They need a label.

DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE DEPRESSED..

I mean I didn't cry... but they were soo sad D:

~_~...WTF???... A very great story.

I just stopped reading it after reading Ayu and Reina's story. It just got really depressing because there's no happy ending for any of the characters, not even the poor dog. I had started reading Pao's and Yoshiyuki's story but it just wasn't my cup of tea...

I wouldn't say the story was great but it does depict real life problems that could occur which is a plus I guess since there are naive people out there that don't think such stuff can occur in areas they live. It's a change from the usually sappy shoujo stuff that are out there.

lol, i gave you a positive rep to balance off that negative rep. In a way it is kind of moving, it's just not moving in a way most people would appreciate, lol.

I can get some idea here and add it to Try-Miracle.

I agree =) Yoshi Yuu's art was really well done and different...you could say a little more mature than seen. The cover art is eye catching and one that I hadn't seen before, which was one of the reasons I picked up the series to read. The storyline caught my attention for a little while but as I said before it the series is depressing after a while.

As for the message.... There was a lot that Yoshi (the author not mangaka) was trying to get across to readers. Aids, prostitution, sexual abuse and whatnot is still big on the other side of the world and it is really well depicted in the manga what can happen and how it can affect a person.

I seriously loved all the stories in this series. Usually, I hate such depressing manga, but the art was so beautiful, and the underlying theme of love despite all the freaking sad stuff they had to go through (especially ayu and little ayu), was really nice

Such a sad manga, but also an excellent work. It makes you wonder how is it possible that such misfortune-upon-misfortune unfortunated people can exist in this world and makes you aware that it's a fact they do. The ending of the series (not sure if it's in Rena or Host) brings a little light of hope on future happiness. I feel like crying even now everytime I recall the story.

A pity that scanlators stalled Pao no Monogatari at its second volume and never ever touched Real.

This is one of those series where you have to take a five minute breather period when it gets to be too much. So many tissues.

Indeed. It was one of the few things that made me cry in years. It seems strange, but the only word to describe Ayu I can find is 'angel'.
This series shows that when you think nothing could get worse, it does indeed.

ahhh ıt looks awesome but ı really cant read depressing sad mangas
thanx for sharing

I read Ayu's Story first thinking it was pretty sad and she was probably the happiest female protagonist in the story.

i almost cried in the aya one...
when she got the.. you know what she looked so.. lifeless and the dog was just.. omg TT_TT
it was a good series(plural lol)

Mmmmmmm, maybe I'm gonna give it a try...

I loved the Deep Love series so much! But a few scenes were just too unbearable (when the main girl/prostitute gets AIDS). It made me cry soooo much!

Also the story about the puppies (Pao's story I believe) just gets WAY TOO MUCH:

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