Bara no Tame ni
Bara no Tame ni (For the Roses’ Sake) is a romance manga for adult women by Akemi Yoshimura. It was serialized in Shogakukan’s Petit Comic from 1992 to 1998 and collected in 16 volumes. A nine-volume reprint (shinsōban) came out between 2000 and 2001. The series won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo in 1994.
The story follows Yuri Makurano, an unattractive girl who learns her mother is famous actress Shoko Hanai after her grandmother’s death. Yuri moves in with her mother’s family—Sumire, Aoi, and Fuyo Hanatashiki—and is treated like a maid at first. She grows close to the family and secretly falls for Sumire, though her love isn’t returned. Later she discovers that her only blood relative in the family is Aoi, her half-brother.
The manga was adapted into a Taiwanese TV drama called The Rose (2003), directed by Chu Yu-ning, which won a Golden Bell Award in 2004.
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