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After her best friend breaks off their friendship, Ayumu Shiiba begins to seek comfort through cutting her wrists. As she begins high school she hopes for a fresh start, and even makes friends with a girl named Manami Anzai. As she goes through high school however, she finds herself spiraling into more trouble.
''Life'' is a [[Shoujo]] manga written by Keiko Suenobu that deals with harsh issues such as bullying, manipulation, and suicide. It's had a [[Dorama]] adaptation that ran in 2007, ran for 20 volumes , and has won a Kodansha Manga Award.
It was dropped by its licensor Tokyopop at volume 9<ref>or actually the Japanese publishers of the manga discontinued its license with Tokyopop</ref>, but [[Scanlation|scanlators]] have began to try and finish it.
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=== This series contains examples of: ===
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* [[Art Evolution]]: The art style starts off being somewhat rough but smooths out later.
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Katsumi, and later {{spoiler|Manami}}.
* [[Compressed Adaptation]]: Many changes were made for the Drama adaptation, including changing what Ayumu's [[Self
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Attempts are made by various characters, leading to both [[Interrupted Suicide]]'s and [[Bungled Suicide]]'s.
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Ayumu, though she gets better.
* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Ayumu's name is masculine, and she doesn't think it fits her.
* [[Hime Cut]]: Hirose.
* [[Important Haircut]]: Ayumu has one twice.
* [[Japanese Delinquents]]: Miki Hatori, though she's actually quite nice.
* [[Live Action Adaptation]]
* [[Mind Rape]]: Katsumi does this to Ayumu. Manami does this to everyone.
* [[Nightmare Face]]: [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/life/v09/c035/31.html Manami] ''breathes'' this trope.
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: Ayumu and Hatori have a ''very'' deep friendship.
* [[Self
* [[Shoujo Demographic]]
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: It's this to an earlier manga by the mangaka, "[[Vitamin]]". Both focus on a sensitive girl who gets bullied, a [[Bastard Boyfriend]] who forces himself onto girls, teachers who don't want to acknowledge the issues, parents who don't get their child's problems due to them not talking about it, suicide attempts, {{spoiler|[[Important Haircut|Important Haircuts]]}}. The main difference is how both protagonists react to their bullying for most of the manga, and the fact that ''Vitamin'' takes place in junior high.
* [[Tall Dark and Bishojo]]: Hatori.
* [[Teens Are Monsters]]
* [[The Bully]]: Several characters, {{spoiler|later including Manami}}, in a rather twisted but [[Truth in Television|realistic]] way.
* [[Third Person Person]]: Manami.
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: One of the translations has {{spoiler|Ayumi saying "It's [[Karma]], bitch", at Manami.}}
* [[Yandere]]: Manami.
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