Free Soul

Keito is an aspiring mangaka who runs away from home after a heated argument with her mother and ends up moving in with an elderly artist named Rui. Rui and her favorite artist's model, Sumihiko, form a makeshift family for Keito as she starts to put her life back together. She gets a job at a record store, falls in love with one of their frequent customers, a funk trumpeter named Niki, and in the meantime, struggles to complete her manga about a free-spirited lesbian singer named Angie.

Free Soul is a Girls Love Josei manga by Ebine Yamaji concentrating on the realities of lesbian life in Japan.


 * Cool Old Lady: Rui
 * Electra Complex:
 * Erotic Dream: Keito gets rather confused when she has one about
 * Good Bad Girl: Niki
 * It Meant Something to Me:
 * Love Hurts
 * Most Writers Are Writers: Keito is an aspiring mangaka.
 * The Muse: Angie for Keito.
 * Real Men Wear Pink: Sumihiko is a fairly ordinary heterosexual man who also happens to be a good cook.
 * Slice of Life
 * Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Keito's mother is very unhappy that her daughter turned out to be a lesbian.