OZAKI Minami

Koji Nanjo was a famous rock idol who went through life without caring for anybody, with one exception: When he was in fifth grade, he watched a wild-eyed boy playing soccer. The image of that boy's intensity stayed with him into his adulthood. Izumi Takuto was a genius soccer player who bore emotional and physical scars from his mother's murder attempt when he was a child.…

The story of mega-famous pop star Kouji and his surprising but desperate love for soccer player Izumi is told in a long serial manga by Minami Ozaki, as well as two one-hour OAVs: Zetsuai 1989 and Bronze. Their love for each other is obsessive, complete, total, and sometimes frightening in its intensity. Source: AnimeNfo Note: Bronze is the second OVA, set a few years after…

Kouji and Izumi are still playing one step forward, two steps back in their angst-ridden dance of love. The drama is taken to new heights in this series: just how far will Kouji go in his desperate love for Izumi? Will these two ever be together and be happy at the same time? Note: Bronze ended in 2006 after Vol 14 due to the illness of the author. She returned in 2011 with…