3 nin de Aimashou? © Mizuki Shioko/Akita Shoten (Serialized in Princess)
Geboku Gokko © Maki Hiina/Akita Shoten Renai MAX COMICS
Published in Indonesia as We 3 in Love? and Special Maid by Tiga Lancar Semesta/3L
3L Comics brings us shoujo smut and a somewhat more innocent (though YMMV) otherwise with the new Special Maid and the penultimate We 3 in Love?.
Special Maid, an obviously riding the meido wave rechristening of Maki Hiina's Geboku Gokko, is a one volume anthology from the creator of the also Not!GET manga Iinari Lovers. 3L doesn't identify the sounds like a Doormat heroine by name, only that she volunteers to serve some (also unnamed) love interest. She doesn't mind being his servant, so long as she can stay at his side. Given her submissiveness, she can only wonder if he reciprocates her (unstoppable) feelings.
Lovers Dream (in the Baka-Updates Manga-excerpted description), shares that The Boss helps
her, too... sometimes,
so what comes across as a Jerk Hopefully Comes Equipped with a Heart of Gold. The same source reveals there are five stories in the omnibus released under Akita Shoten's Renai MAX COMICS label: Lovers Game,
White in My Life,
Grandfather,
The Pangs of Separation,
and Happy Baka.
We 3 in Love? 4 of 5 by Mizuki Shioko
Meanwhile, as we near the home stretch in We 3 in Love? or 3 nin de Aimashou? by Crossroad manga-ka Mizuki Shioko, the Love Triangle of One Boy, Two Girls ups the hijinks by chucking Two More Guys into the mix, effectively increasing the rabu geometry to Pentagon proportions. (At least it hasn't leveled up to a swirly-eyed inducing Love Dodecahedron.) Miss Perfect Machiru, determined, talented and good at pretty much anything,
is actually fazed by what happens during the requisite Hot Springs Episode, not to mention getting flustered over her younger sib throwing the mother of tantrums. Oh, and there's also a ghost at school. All hopes of spending the Christmas and New Year holidays together go down the drain, especially if Ichiro's dad has anything to say about it.
Go! Comi's Three in Love volume 4 blurb hints at what transpired when Machiru, Ikoma, and Nene go to the onsen (Machiru gets ‘exposed’ in unexpected ways to the eyes of a potential love interest
plus Ikoma and Nene declare themselves an official couple
). Also, some ping pong playing may be involved, but that's not a promise, as Ichiro's dad's wacky scheme ends up with Machiru and Suruga swapping bodies.
Confused yet? Then GET! We 3 in Love? volume 4. (As for me, despite Crossroad fangirlship, I'm passing this one up.)
3L shoujo manga (2010.06.17)
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- [New] Special Maid (Geboku Gokko) by Maki Hiina
- We 3 in love? (3 nin de Aimashou?) 4 of 5 by Mizuki Shioko
3 nin de Aimashou? 「 ３人で愛しあいましょ？ 」
by Mizuki Shioko
Akita Shoten Princess, shoujo
Volume 4 first published in Japan 2002.03
OTHER LANGUAGE VERSIONS
3 nin de Aimashou? is published in English as Three in Love by Go! Comi (four volumes, on hiatus)
[Release advisory by Angelzon.com]
~niki DBA huamulan03 (花木蘭03)
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Geboku Gokko 「 下僕ごっこ 」 by Maki Hiina
Akita Shoten Renai MAX COMICS, shoujo
This volume first published in Japan 2006.08