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''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...

 

 

* [[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.

* [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals]]: Rio has a teddy bear that she's kept most of her life.

* [[Hikikomori]]: {{spoiler|Sahoko is a recovering hikikomori.}}

* [[It Always Rains At Funerals]]: When {{spoiler|Rio jumps off the school building.}}

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: {{spoiler|Shigeko burns Rio's photo album, and sets her new ''castle'' on fire.}}

* [[One-Gender School]]

* [[Only Six Faces]]

* [[The Scapegoat]]: Shigeko believes that Rio tried to kill her son when he was a toddler. {{spoiler|What really happened is that Rio had cut her wrists, and the boy wandered into the room, slipped in the blood, and fell, hitting his head. Shigeko heard his cries, came into the room, and jumped to the entirely wrong conclusion.}}

* [[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.

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