Deep Love

Deep Love is a Japanese cell phone novel series written by Yoshi, and is officially the first in its literary genre. The series includes four novels which were later published by Stars Publishing from December 2002 and July 2003. The series launched with Deep Love: Ayu no Monogatari, followed by Deep Love: Host, Deep Love: Reina no Unmei, and Deep Love: Pao no Monogatari. After 2.6 million book copies were sold in Japan, the Deep Love novels were adapted into five manga series: three illustrated by Yū Yoshii, and one each drawn by Tetsu and Akiyo Kurosawa. Deep Love has also had two live-action series air on TV Tokyo: Ayu no Monogatari (2004) and Host (2005). A live-action film was released in theaters in 2004. Literary critic Minako Saitō panned the novels, suggesting that if it had been entered into a new writer competition in a literary magazine, it would have been rejected in the first round. She goes on to say that there might not even be any need to review such a work.