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'''''Hana no Namae''''' (English: "The Name of the Flower") is a Japanese [[Shojo]] [[Manga]] by the mangaka Saitou Ken.

 

The story details the life of Chouko Mizushima, a teenage girl whose parents both die in a car crash. Depressed and refusing to speak, she goes to live with a distant relative, Mizushima Kei, who is a famous post-modern novelist, who has two prestigious awards, whose books have a power to express deep feelings of loneliness and despair. He himself suffers from such feelings and living together Chouko learns to go on and once again becomes a happy girl. But as they become closer, feelings develop and Chouko has to decide whether she wants to brave the kind of loneliness that loving the depressed Kei would bring, And Kei has to decide whether to pull himself out of the dark abyss or risk dragging Chouko down with him.

 

* [[Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl]]: Kei is the brooding boy, Chouko is the gentle girl.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Kei {{spoiler|he was an illegitimate child, his mother worked herself to death and may have committed suicide, and his family disowned and hated him, and his first girl friend was using him and became sadistic to punish him for being so depressing or something, and then messily broke up with him, nearly destroying him. The guy has reason to be depressed, but he's a dick about it.}}

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