Il Gatto Sul G

Alt title: G-Senjou no Neko

Vol: 3; Ch: 20
2002 - 2007
3.704 out of 5 from 131 votes
Rank #18,124
Il Gatto Sul G

Riya Narukawa is a high school freshman with a tremendous talent for the violin and an equally large bag of mental issues. After injuring his own hand to compromise his playing ability, he winds up on the doorstep of college student Atsushi Ikeda, a nice guy who's maybe too nice and generous. He takes Riya in for the night and helps him with his hand injury. Atsushi realizes there is much more to Riya than is on the surface, and learns just how difficult Riya's life actually is. Not only does he have a personality disorder, but there's an aggressive senior at his school who has his eye on him. Atsushi becomes a sort of safe haven for Riya, an escape from the life of music he's been bound to.

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PurplePeopleEater
7

I enjoyed the story, especially the psychological elements. The story alone in probably an 8, but I give it a 7 because sometimes it was confusing. I got confused sometimes if it was Black or White (the MC's two personalities) who was present often times and which was which. I feel they could have been more defined.  The main character has MPD (multiple personality disorder) also known as DID (dissociative idenity disorder). This disorder is typically caused by some sort of trauma during youth, often abuse as it was in this case. The mind creates an alternate personality to help deal with the stress of the trauma and to protect itself. Technically, the disorder is rather controversial and some say it doesn't even exist. The MC comes from a family of well known musicians. His father is a famous violinist. The father had a child only so he could make the child a prodigy, but his methods were strict and abusive and resulted in some unfortunate events leading to the split in the MCs personality. One of the personalities is good at the violin, is obdient, goes to school, and devotes his life to music. The other skips school and hates the violin. He also hates that everyone likes the other personality and calls him a fake. This other personality decides to slice his fingers with a blade so he won't be able to play anymore. He collapses outside the apartment of a college student who is overly good natured and can't help but take him in. At first the two don't get along. The the college student develops a relationship with the personality he refers to as black. The guy moves in with the MC as a house keeper and the relationship develops, but the unstableness of the MC and the switching of personalities cause problems. Still, the college student feels determined to protect the MC no matter what. Things become further complicated when White sleeps with a different guy and Black sleeps with the college guy.  Overall, the beginning felt a bit rushed and confusing. Then I could barely even read the last chapter because I disliked how things were turning out. I get to attached to stories I suppose.  The art is pretty normal. It was a bit harder to tell some characters apart especially in certain scenes, but I'm not very good at that to start with.  I think it's a good story as long as you like the more serious, somewhat sad, type of stories with a psychological element like I do. If you want something fun and light though, you are absolutely in the wrong place.

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