Pietà

Pieta is a Josei Girls Love manga by Nanae Haruno. It revolves around a student named Rio Sakaki, who is suicidally depressed. Her father is distant, and her stepmother is emotionally abusive. She can't remember her early childhood, when her sister and biological mother left. Her therapists, Doctors Shoumitsu and Kyouko Minori, do their best to help her situation. Everything changes when Rio meets classmate Sahoko Higa, and they fall in love. With Sahoko's support, it seems like everything in Rio's life is changing for the better...

For works of art depicting the Lamentation of Christ, see Pietà Plagiarism.


 * Abusive Parents: Rio's stepmother Shigeko is cruelly dismissive and seems to be fixated on destroying Rio emotionally, and her father is almost completely apathetic to her.
 * Bifauxnen: Rio, to an extent.
 * Break the Cutie: Shigeko deliberately tries to crush Rio's spirit whenever she can, and.
 * Broken Bird: Rio.
 * Distant Finale
 * Driven to Suicide: Rio attempts suicide often.
 * Freak-Out: has one when ; when the Minoris are discussing it in the next chapter, Shoumitsu mentions that she hasn't completely recovered from the emotional shock.
 * I Did What I Had to Do: Shigeko's rant to Shoumitsu about reeks of this.
 * Girls Love
 * Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Rio has a teddy bear that she's kept most of her life.
 * Hikikomori:
 * Hoist By Her Own Petard:
 * It Always Rains At Funerals: When
 * Laser-Guided Karma:
 * Mama Bear: Shigeko sees herself as this; she's determined to make a happy home for herself and her biological child and sees Rio as a dangerous impediment to her happiness.
 * Manipulative Bitch: Shigeko.
 * One-Gender School
 * Only Six Faces
 * Personality Blood Types
 * Pietà Plagiarism: When.
 * The Scapegoat: Shigeko believes that Rio tried to kill her son when he was a toddler.
 * Schoolgirl Lesbians: Implied; Rio and Sahako have some tender moments but nothing's shown beyond kissing, and Sahako calls Rio her girlfriend when talking to Shoumitsu near the end.
 * Stepford Smiler: Shigeko.
 * There Are No Therapists: Averted. The Minoris care far more for Rio than her actual family, and have flirted with adopting her for many years.
 * Wicked Stepmother: Shigeko.