Haru no Houtai Shoujo

[SoFarGone]

Author and Artist: Satou Mito

Genre: Drama, Romance, Supernatural, Tragedy

Description:
Haru, a fun, lovable, easygoing guy, has a problem: he nearly burnt his girlfriend to death along with 5 buildings with his bare hands. What will happen to this human torch?

The first six chapters pretty good surprisingly. So far three of the characters introduced are named after seasons.

Natsu (Summer)
Haru (Spring)
Aki (Autumn)

Spoiler for superpowers:

Hope they start explaining where these powers are coming from. It seems like Natsu have regeneration or something.

[Randrak42]

Man, you gotta feel sorry for Haru.

And Natsu...she actually seems to be really good at manipulating people but I dunno, I feel that she really does love Haru a lot. Now if that love is obsessive or not, that remains to be seen but so far she just seems like a girl lying and manipulating others to protect the one she loves.

And I gotta say...it's weird if Haru is the real arsonist. If the fire only comes out when he's nervous and loses control then wouldn't it have been more likely that his house would have burnt down by now? Yet it always ends up being some other building.
Call me crazy but Haru doesn't strike me as the kind of guy that would notice his fire powers activating and would run into a random house just to throw off suspicion. Something is definitely going on here.

[SoFarGone]

I could see that as a plothole but hopefully that gets explained as well.

[frubam]

Spoiler for 9:

Seems like the chars got powers based on something they wished they had. Aki's new power will supposedly be to "understand the feelings of others", which I expect to come into play when she wishes to know why Natsu is protecting Haru. I think the more interesting aspect here is Natsu's and Haru's powers. Assuming they got their powers in the same way(i.e. was given to him/her when they wanted power to 'do' something), what could possess Haru to want to burn something down? And, assuming Natsu's power is illusion, what happened to make her want to deceive someone in that way?

[Mach56gs]

Great stuff.

I think Natsu's power is much more.... Terminal...

Something that sustains her and is obviously linked to the bandage around her bleeding eye....

Which ain't good...

[@GEMC]

The black haired was annoying this chapter

[Mach56gs]

I know... I hate self-righteous types.

[Mach56gs]

Heeeyyoooo! We learned Natsu's power!

It was what everyone suspected.

And now the story reaches its pinnacle. What will happen? Oh dears!

[Sejuro]

Originally Posted by Mach56gs

Heeeyyoooo! We learned Natsu's power!

It was what everyone suspected.

And now the story reaches its pinnacle. What will happen? Oh dears!

I assume that you are referring to the latest RAW (16), can you please elaborate on what exactly Natsu power is (illusion?)?

EDIT: The next chapter (17) will be the last one and from the looks of it, tragic end awaits us.

[Mach56gs]

Originally Posted by Sejuro

I assume that you are referring to the latest RAW (16), can you please elaborate on what exactly Natsu power is (illusion?)?

EDIT: The next chapter (17) will be the last one and from the looks of it, tragic end awaits us.

Six years late, but ah well, I reread this manga out of nostaliga. It was certainly a good one!

Spoiler for Story:

Natsu's power is to heal, but only to a limited degree and as Haru suspected, these sort of powers were slowly going out of control until someone died. However, due to the ax, I think that plot point was dropped. Instead, Natsu simply wasn't able to recover her eye because she was knocked out? It's not very clear. Still, I loved their relationship and how it showed a really wonderful couple that loved each other dearly in spite of making human mistakes. A very happy ending! This author/artist is pretty darn good at these sort of tragic stories that manage to turn out to be happy in the end. Sad they never got broke out into the scene. (Yet)