Gravitation

***Gravitation*** (Japanese: グラビテーション Hepburn: *Gurabitēshon*?) is a boys love manga series written and illustrated by Maki Murakami. The story follows the attempts of Shuichi Shindo and his band, Bad Luck, to become Japan's next musical sensation, and his struggles to capture Eiri Yuki's heart.

The story surrounds an aspiring singer, Shuichi Shindou, and his band, Bad Luck (formed with his best friend Hiroshi Nakano, who is on guitar). Shuichi wants to become Japan's next big star, and follow in the footsteps of the famous idol Ryuichi Sakuma, lead singer of the now-disbanded legendary group Nittle Grasper. One evening, Shuichi is looking over lyrics for a song he was writing when his paper is blown away by the wind and picked up by a tall, blond haired (light brown in the manga) stranger. The man dismisses Shuichi's hard work as garbage, which hurts Shuichi deeply. Despite his anger, he is intrigued by the stranger. This will be their first encounter as Shuichi becomes fascinated by the stranger, who soon turns out to be the famous romance novelist, Eiri Yuki (real name: Uesugi). Both the manga and the anime follow this plot.

## Gutpunch activity

Gravitation is mainly focused on J-Pop and the relationship between Shuichi and Yuki and has mostly comedy/romance character. Hence, most episodes only contain some comedy violence. There are a few dramatic scenes, though, like in episode 6 where Shuichi is kicked in the stomach. It's the only scene within the series.

## Episode 6

After yelling "Yuki is mine!!!!" during Bad Luck's live concert Shuichi thought Yuki would be angry, but to Shuichi's surprise he acts quite differently. Later, Yuki's sister, Mika, stops by Yuki's house to once again try and convince Yuki to come home with her. Shuichi and Mika spend time arguing about Yuki's good and bad qualities, Shuichi always calling Yuki sweet, and Mika disagreeing. In the end he locks them both out of the house out of annoyance. Mika asks Shuichi if he would like to go to get something to eat. During the course of the meal Mika tells Shuichi that he knows nothing about Yuki. This invokes Shuichi's curiosity, as no lover would like to be kept in the dark. While Shuichi and Mika are in the restaurant they are unaware that they are being spied on by Taki Aizawa, lead singer of ASK, Bad Luck's rivals, and a lady friend of his. After Shuichi goes back home to apologize to Yuki about the argument he previously had that night, things go back to normal for a little while until Yuki tells Shuichi to leave, when he tries to delve deeper into the memories of Yuki. Hiro tells Shuichi that he should go apologize to Yuki for whatever he did wrong and while Shuichi is on his way home he runs into Taki from ASK who acts as Shuichi's friend, but is really out to hurt him.

Taki hired some thugs who drag Shuichi into an underground car park and shove him to the ground. As Shuichi is about to stand up to attack Taki, one of the thugs kicks his foot into his gut, making him hold his stomach in pain. Shuchi is restrained by two thugs. One of them carasses his stomach, asking if his tummy was hurting.

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1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation\_(manga)
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation\_(manga)