Ai-Ren

Ai-Ren[愛人] is a series by Tanaka Yukata. This five volume manga is serialized Magazine it serialize(s/d) in (and if possible, dates and issue numbers it was serialized in the Seinen magazine Young Animal (Hakusensha) since 1999.

Brief Synopsis
Ikuru is going to die soon. He lives today, because of another girl's body parts that were grafted to him long ago. The parts that had once saved his life now threatens to kill his life. Weighed by the pain and lonliness of his condition and his dilemma, he decides to request the companionship of an AGH-RMS, an "Ai-Ren." These artifically generated humans have their personality and disposition artificially engineered to specification. Their origins are a mystery, but they currently serve to comfort terminally ill patients. When Ikuru's AGH-RMS first arrives, he is surprised by her decisively childish naivite. He names her "Ai" and rediscovers life, love, and how moments he once took for granted can take new meaning when shared with someone else.

However, the futuristic human society seems to be on the edge of an unavoiadable apocalypse while Ikuru and Ai live in their own sweet little bit of paradise. Ikuru finds solace in Ai's love, but AGH-RMS can only maintain their engineered persona and memories for a short time. Ai faces death too.

Characters
The introspective main character of the series. He seems like the stereotypical character of a Ren-ai game, but he is also very intelligent and cynical at times. Ever since the traffic accident, which killed his parents and left him living on borrowed time, Ikuru is haunted by memories of his death and his body's self-destruction, which leaves him occasionally unable to eat and paralyzed in place.
 * Yoshizumi Ikuru

He is good at cooking and housekeeping. Ikuru grows a vegetable garden in his yard, where he later nurtures tomato plants with Ai. He is very kind and tolerant by nature, but he often feels left out from the rest of the world.

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External Link
Yukata Tanaka' Website: