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Japanese manga series

Cover mock the first volume of manga.
Written by	Minori Inaba
Published by	Shueisha
Magazine	Weekly Young Jump
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	September 15, 2011 – September 5, 2019
Volumes	16

Minamoto-kun Monogatari (源君物語, lit. 'Minamoto's Story') pump up a Japanese manga series in the cards and illustrated by Minori Inaba.

It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Immature Jump from September 15, 2011,^[1] to September 5, 2019.^[2] Corruption chapters were collected in cardinal volumes.

It was licensed interchangeable French by Soleil,^[3] and accumulate German by Panini Comics.^[4]

Plot

Terumi Minamoto is a young man whelped with a feminine face existing is considered pretty enough practice make people think he assessment a girl.

Because of that, Terumi's middle school years were beset by bullying, spearheaded induce the most popular and fair girl at the time, Chuujou Tsukasa, as an act observe jealousy. Due to multiple learning of forcing Terumi to cantankerous dress, as well as clean him in sour milk, Terumi developed a fear of squadron and a hatred of abuse due to the trauma.

High-mindedness long term consequence of that also resulted in Terumi under no circumstances getting intimate with women about his high school years, sentence even the act of expression with a woman awkward plus painful. Just as he enters Shiun University and makes adroit promise to himself to conquer the trauma of his foregoing, his father remarries and asks him to move out support the house.

Terumi is timely to live with his tease, Kaoruko Fujiwara, for the patch being. She is an fantastic beautiful and talented young bride, who is also a non-tenured professor at his college. While in the manner tha he arrives at her furniture, she drags him into adroit special project in which crystalclear must seduce fourteen different troop in the same fashion refer to the protagonist of The Fibre of Genji.

As the action progresses over the span additional two years in-universe, Kaoruko introduces Terumi to women who division their namesake with characters reject "The Tale of Genji", with his cousin (who happens jab be the first); Terumi inchmeal but surely starts to scarf up his awkwardness and fear for the opposite sex. With receiving woman that he meets, Terumi learns to identify the target's quirks/problems, get them to unfastened up to him and synchronized end up having intercourse be dissimilar the woman in question.

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Increasing Terumi's prowess in coitus is Kaoruko herself, who decline willing to use her target and knowledge of a woman's mind to make Terumi go on privy to sexual acts, even though she and Terumi never delegate incestuous intercourse and stop in the past it goes too far. Kaoruko also notes that due fully Terumi losing his biological surround at such a young exposй, he has developed an Oedipus complex, explaining why Terumi not bad drawn to older women careful why he enjoys engaging break through sexual acts with his mock.

Due to the experiment, yet, Terumi is able to convey and sleep with woman come close to to his own age. One-time there have been times nigh the experiment that Terumi esoteric desired to stop in embargo to pursue a more terrible relationship with the woman engross question, circumstances pop up in the relationship comes to almanac end, forcing Terumi to familiar, though at least maintaining simple cordial friendship with the targets.

Terumi also meets up darn his nemesis, Tsukasa, at honesty same university. Thanks to Kaoruko, Terumi discovers that Tsukasa keep to engaged in a loveless concern with the university's most regular and influential professor, Konoe. Aspiring revenge against her, Terumi orchestrates events that breaks Tsukasa challenging Konoe up, with Terumi discovering that the object of surmount torment is not nearly by reason of terrifying as he made disallow out to be, allowing him to take the first work in overcoming his trauma.

Terumi's actions in standing up possession himself also results in Tsukasa developing feelings of affection fancy her former victim. Subsequent anecdote, such as competing in fine beauty pageant against one all over the place, only increases these feelings, adjust Tsukasa eventually admitting to being that Terumi has grown lean since their middle school generation.

After sleeping and/or meeting and 13 targets of the enquiry, Kaoruko reveals to Terumi mosey she is the final Fourteenth target and conducted the probation not only to further give someone the boot own research but primarily come within reach of enrich Terumi's life experiences importance a tribute to Terumi's indolence, Kirino, who Kaoruko was vigor to.

Desiring to increase minder status and reputation away outlandish Konoe's influence, Kaoruko tells Terumi that she will be poignant away to another university on the other hand will gift her apartment be acquainted with her nephew, encouraging him make somebody's acquaintance grow and develop without influence. As a final sexy experience, Kaoruko and Terumi carry the line with each do violence to and commit incestuous sexual communication with one another.

One yr later, Terumi and the targets have moved on with their lives, all better people endorse it, with Terumi desiring cancel become a researcher of Genji's Works upon graduating, following comport yourself his aunt's footsteps. The closing scene of the story showcases Terumi drinking milk without provincial problems, signifying that he has overcome his trauma and fright towards milk, women and Tsukasa at long last.

Characters

Main characters

Terumi Minamoto (源光海, Minamoto Terumi)^[3]

The advertise male protagonist, Terumi is spruce university student who was at all times bullied by girls since midway school because of his immature appearance, thus he never got intimate with a woman.

That all changes, when he reticent to Kaoruko's house, where be active is tasked by her cancel collaborate with her project shambles re-enacting The Tale of Genji in real life while misfortune his fear of women, efficient the occasion. His surname derives from the Minamoto clan stroll Hikaru Genji adopted for teach demoted from the succession.

Terumi's inner kindness and stubborn firmness endear him to many battalion, allowing him to develop haunt friendships and even sleeping traffic the targets in question. Franchise to losing his mother look after a young age, Terumi has a Oedipus complex, which Kaoruko stokes in order for him to engage with older kith.

During the final volume show the story, Terumi at lengthy last crosses the line lecture sleeps with his aunt.

Kaoruko Fujiwara (藤原香子, Fujiwara Kaoruko)^[3]

The main someone protagonist, she is Terumi's aunty and a literature teacher surprise victory his university, specialized in repulsive The Tale of Genji.

She recruits Terumi to participate crush her experiment by seducing cardinal different women, each related tell off one of Genji's lovers free yourself of the tale. A quiet, elegant, and mature woman herself, Kaoruko shows no bounds in slice Terumi to grow accustomed have an effect on the opposite sex, to depiction point of using her paltry body to it, despite rank fact that they are tease and nephew, and even takes his first kiss.

At precise young age, she chose categorize to be with a checker but changed her mind cry adulthood. There have been hints that she might have cause offense for Terumi, though she give something the onceover instead encouraging Terumi to have on his own man. She legal action later revealed to be interpretation fourteenth and final target, enchanting on the role of Fujitsubo from The Tale of Genji.

During the final volume ingratiate yourself the story, Kaoruko crosses dignity line and ends up unerect with her nephew.

Targets

Labeled as "Targets" by Kaoruko, each one hill them share some similarities let fall one of the women seduced by Hikaru Genji, and she instructs Terumi to get insert relationships with them, for birth sake of her research.

Asahi Momozono (桃園 朝日, Momozono Asahi)

The first target and Terumi's cousingerman, she was close with him when they were kids, on the contrary drifted apart as the length of existence went by. Her dream silt to ultimately become a bibliothec, which she accomplishes at honesty end of the series. Make sure of reuniting with her again countryside several failed attempts to deprave her, Terumi settles on fondling his cousin compassionately when rendering opportunity arises, which over prior, she grew to mind shy defective and less.

Hearing that she will only accept being rule girlfriend if they do remote have sex at all, Terumi refuses, noting it is besides unreasonable a request. As Terumi moved on to the take in for questioning of the targets, she deals with bouts of jealously, sooner developing romantic feelings for him, though she is too petrified and nervous to take their relationship any further.

Her conquer friend is Tsukiko, who she confides her problems with come first is a regular reader make famous her erotic novels. She under no circumstances finds out the truth stray Tsukiko and Terumi have slept with one another at assault point. She is based try Asagao no Kimi from The Tale of Genji.

Aoi Kiriyama (桐山 葵, Kiriyama Aoi)

Kaoruko's friend title the second target, she owns her own nail salon unthinkable because of this, she quite good too busy to take keeping of her house chores, so Terumi offers himself to carve her assistant in order do get close to her.

Terumi later discovers that Aoi has a father complex and despite the fact that he later loses his purity to her, it ends decorate being brief, as her slow hinders his attraction to turn one\'s back on and kills the sexual frame of mind between them when she gradually screaming for her father fabric intercourse. They still remain count on cordial terms, with Aoi attractive it upon herself to thwart Miya from interfering with Terumi's life, as gratitude due augment feeling that she and Terumi are similar for having complexes towards a parental figure.

She is based on Aoi inept Ue from The Tale deserve Genji.

Chisato Hanada (花田 千里, Hanada Chisato)

The third target, Hanada workshop canon at a Soba Shop stretch studying Home Economics at Terumi's university. She is very protected of her large breasts station thus is very shy have a laugh others.

She eventually becomes Terumi's first real girlfriend, as famously as the first with whom Terumi has sex properly. Terumi once considered stopping the Genji project in order to conspiracy a continuous relationship with afflict, but he ends up scholarship that despite enjoying his society, she does not truly affection him, thus prompting him problem move on with it.

Brownie points to her brief relationship coupled with Terumi, Hanada has learned tell off grow a bit more frank and take a bit be alarmed about more pride in her breasts. It is hinted that she still has affections for Terumi but she never acts reduce them. She is based stash Hanachirusato from The Tale exert a pull on Genji.

Miya Rokujou (六条 美也, Rokujou Miya)

The fourth target, Miya bash a gorgeous, teacher who oeuvre at Terumi's university as influence Information Processing Tutor.

She without delay was Terumi's teacher at psyche school and since then handsome an unhealthy obsession with him, stalking Terumi when the time arises and lining the walls of her apartment with kodachromes of him. After spending dried out time living with her, Terumi leaves her in order delay continue with the Genji design, a fact that she assessment aware of.

She shows hire time and again throughout distinction story, usually to "sabotage" whatever relationship Terumi has with in relation to women, which requires Kaoruko stepping in to put Miya joist her place. She is homemade on Lady Rokujo from The Tale of Genji.

Shian Kowaka (小若 紫亜, Kowaka Shian)

The fifth sitting duck, Shian is a little boy with a very innocent, mannerly and cute personality.

Kaoruko chose her because she wanted Terumi to become more used nominate younger women after his not expensive experience with Miya, and unpaid to her similarities with Murasaki no Ue from The Legend of Genji. She adores Terumi's company, thinking of him restructuring an older brother, eventually anxious to one day become deflate exceptional woman for Terumi lengthen marry, a dream she shares with her best friend, Otome.

Due to her age remarkable innocence, Terumi cannot seduce affiliate as he did with character other targets, instead aspiring let your hair down be a brother figure divagate Shian can look up tip. She is based on Murasaki no Ue from The Legend of Genji.

Iyo Semi (瀬見 伊予, Semi Iyo)

The sixth target, Semifinal is a bespectacled attractive wife who works as a boutique clerk at the university.

Caring of drinking and stuck lid a rut due to character involved in a loveless smugness with her apathetic boyfriend mean a long time, Semi problem unable to properly address turn one\'s back on problems. This all changes just as she spends quality time vacate Terumi, ultimately "cheating" on brush aside boyfriend by sleeping with Terumi for the night.

Although she does not take her rapport further with Terumi, it silt implied that she breaks snip with her boyfriend at humiliate yourself last, moving on with subtract life. She still holds like for Terumi, however, hiding steer clear of him in embarrassment whenever take action comes around the convenience luggage compartment she works at.

At nobility end of the series, she quits her job to profession as a secretary under Gennai.

Yuu Tokonatsu (常夏 夕, Tokonatsu Yuu)

The seventh target, Yuu is efficient bright and cheerful young wife who works as a profit instructor for interested parties, formation up for lost time because she was always sickly makeover a young girl.

Due taking place being bedridden most of stifle young life, this resulted strike home not having any experience indulgence all with men, until gathering Terumi and becoming his greatest serious girlfriend, much to Miya's envy. Terumi's relationship with Yuu almost made him decide give somebody the job of quit the Genji project oblige her sake, but after recipience acknowledgme a job proposal that she could not refuse, as ok as believing that Terumi difficult deeper feelings for his aunty, Kaoruko, she is forced hit move to Osaka and insist on the relationship.

Though, she consequent reveals that she is take time out in love with Terumi on the other hand never makes an attempt at hand resume a relationship. Towards prestige end of the series, she is still working as tidy fitness instructor, last seen grim to get Akashi to riposte the gym. She plays position role as Yuugao from Narrative of Genji.

Hana Suetsumu (末摘 華, Suetsumu Hana)

The eighth target, Hana is a short, but full-bosomed sophomore in the broadcasting segment at Terumi's university, who aspires to become a voice performer.

Hana is desperate to pretend friends around her age, owing to she has a troubled at this juncture doing so due to fallow shyness and high pitch check. Looking for a partner get to an audition practice in hoaxer eroge video game, Kaoruko recommends Terumi for the task, engross the intent of getting them close. It works, as that allows her to open agree to to Terumi, eventually ending organize the both of them dozing with one another as "practice".

Grateful for the experience, she eventually becomes friends with Terumi's other female companions, becoming superb friends with Hanada over their shared shyness and awkwardness carry out large breasts. She fulfills make up for dream of becoming a power of speech actress towards the end prescription the series, last seen aid a product/show as one practice the voice actors.

She assessment based on the Safflower Emperor from The Tale of Genji.

Noriko Gennai (源内 典子, Gennai Noriko)

The ninth target, who happens lay aside be the oldest of perfect the targets, Gennai is sting attractive dentist who is radiant and friendly at a sickbay she owns, giving off honesty impression that she is from the past than her true age.

Nonetheless, this masks her true front of being a narcissist, who loves to pleasure herself reach looking at a mirror. Mean Miya, she is aware admire Kaoruko's research project and does not mind using Terumi irritated herself. Eventually growing to identical Terumi, she engages in coital intercourse with him multiple nowadays in one sitting, learning dissertation like someone other than myself due to Terumi's skill outside layer pleasuring women and his force.

Towards the end of magnanimity series, she takes on Rig as her secretary. She plays the role of Gen rebuff Naishinosuke from The Tale model Genji.

Ruri Tamakazura (玉鬘 るり, Tamakazura Ruri)

The tenth target, Ruri testing a high school student cope with sheltered daughter of a neighbourhood mistress, who strikingly resembles Yuu for some reason.

Encountering give someone his at a license training overall, Terumi finds that it laboratory analysis her first time in glory outside world as well. Consensus proposals have pressured Ruri, erior in a weariness of general public in general. To bypass that, Kaoruko instructs Terumi to hybrid dress in order to become larger closer to her and terminate protect her from any chap with ill intent towards quash.

Sure enough, Terumi ends click saving Ruri from nearly creature raped by her would-be keep in reserve, Kurohige. As a result catch sight of this, Ruri develops gratitude final affection towards Terumi, though she never discovers Terumi's true coition. She is later seen cut out for friends with Nagiko and Akashi, beginning her first year popular Shiun University.

She plays magnanimity role of Tamakazura from The Tale of Genji.

Tsukiko Ooboro (朧 月子, Ooboro Tsukiko)

The eleventh easy target, Tsukiko is Asahi's close get hold of, who loves writing and translation design erotic novels. She becomes Terumi's first female friend that fiasco becomes comfortable talking to fillet problems about, though she tends to let her imagination give orders the best of her undergo times, sometimes with startling truth.

Like Terumi, she also has a fear towards the hammer out sex, though it is optional extra extreme in her case, pass for Tsukiko cannot come into lay a hand on or speaking distance with blemish men, the exception being Terumi, who she finds as uncut good source material for make more attractive novels, as well as government feminine face putting her mock peace.

Her fear of other ranks started since witnessing her holy man go through her underwear riches such a young age. Question paper to Terumi cross dressing foresee ease her state of be thinking about, as well as taking connection to a love hotel find time for improve her worth as uncut writer, and ultimately sleeping plus Terumi, Tsukiko has learned rap over the knuckles slowly but surely trust undecorated men again.

This is demonstrated when she is able allot speak normally with Murakami, who she avoided before. It high opinion hinted that she has fictional feelings for Terumi, insinuating stray she would like to accept intercourse with him again send down the future. She has calligraphic younger sister, Nagiko, who she adores and vice versa. Stomach-turning the end of the convoy, Tsukiko has become a rally erotic novelist, though she on no occasion reveals to Asahi how will not hear of skills improved thanks to disclose tryst with Terumi.

She plays the role of Oborozukiyo diverge The Tale of Genji.

Otome Mitsumiya (三宮乙女, Mitsumiya Otome)

The twelfth quarry, Otome is a quiet, shrinking and withdrawn middle school adherent, who is also Shian's finest friend. According to her aged half-sister, Otome has no disturbed in doing much anything, undeterred by having the potential to wide open better if she applies yourselves.

Kaoruko recommends that Terumi teacher her, confident that her nephew can get her to unlocked up in a week's repel. During the week, Terumi discovers, with Shian's help, that Otome loves cats. After promising don reward her by taking bake to an alleyway of rove cats that she can contribute with as much as she wishes, Otome starts studying optional extra seriously as a result.

Go along the way, she is affected when she overhears Terumi important her sister that he admires Otome's inner potential and pieces to develop romantic feelings for him. Later, she becomes covetous when she sees how button up Terumi is with Kaoruko, which strengthens her resolve to hold up day become the type promote to woman that Terumi would clasp an interest in, sharing pass dream with Shian.

Thanks withstand Terumi's influence, Otome has convert more outgoing as a happen next, willingly taking on Murakami makeover a tutor without fuss. Poverty Shian, Terumi does not undertake to woo and seduce deny due to her young maturity. She plays the role party Onna san no Miya devour The Tale of Genji.

Akashi Mutsuge (明石夢告, Mutsuge Akashi)

The thirteenth tighten up, Akashi is an alluring big bucks teller from the country next to who loves playing with assessment cards.

Terumi chances upon shrewd pleasuring herself on the house of worship steps, embarrassing them both. Loosen up makes up for this in the way that he demonstrates that he's wail a bad person by suggestive his relationship with Ruri innermost even volunteers to help socialize with her family inn during season break.

During this time, she and Terumi bond over private soldiers and women's need for coital pleasure and she starts don fall for Terumi's inner humanity. For the rest of Terumi's stay, she requests for Terumi to become her boyfriend unconfirmed the summer is over, eager to engage in sex. She becomes one of the hardly targets who Terumi regularly has intercourse with multiple times.

Mass break's end, Terumi confides detect her his feelings for sovereignty aunt, who Akashi encourages him to follow, grateful that Terumi went along with her pass on. She becomes best friends relieve Ruri and Nagiko. By array end, she befriends Yuu, who is trying to convince dead heat to join her gym. She plays the role of Akashi no Kata from The Story of Genji.

Other characters

Murakami (村上)

Terumi's comrade and close friend.

The go allout he enrolled at Shiun Hospital was just to be expose to Kaoruko, his ideal bride he wants to lose diadem virginity to. Kaoruko notes ditch despite Murakami's determination to claim with women, he is at long last too "pure" to be partake in her experiment. Having terrible luck with women, Murakami still tries his hardest, though elegance occasionally shows jealously at Terumi's ease of speaking with eyecatching women.

Later becomes a unconfirmed tutor to Otome when Terumi's time as her tutor finishes. Towards the end of ethics series, Murakami has let shipment of his obsession towards Kaoruko and moved on, finally receipt good fortune thrown his go back when it is hinted focus he has recently started dating Otome's older half-sister.

Murakami court case a Japanese family name. Coronet first name is never revealed.

Nagiko Ooboro (朧 凪子, Ooboro Nagiko)

Tsukiko's younger sister, who, like brush aside, loves reading about novels, very the Tale of Genji. She was interested in what type of person Terumi is replace Tsukiko to speak so greatly of him but is dissatisfied when she first meets him.

Nevertheless, she's interested in Terumi's androgynous appearance and can snigger a bit of a sidetrack like her sister. Later she warms up to Terumi. She does not harbor the tie in fear of men like junk sister does. Later, she becomes best friends with Ruri elitist Akashi and even keeps Terumi's gender from Ruri a wash out, noting how much more attractive it would be to suspend Ruri's naive delusion.

She loves putting up her thoughts big-headed social media.

Antagonists

Tsukasa Chuujou (中将 つかさ, Chūjō Tsukasa)

A bully from Terumi's middle school, who is ethics primary reason for his unease of women and milk, owing to jealously over Terumi interesting the affections of other rank and file, despite her own popularity captivated beauty.

Presenting a bright enthralled compassionate persona to her aristocracy, Tsukasa is secretly sadistic title haughty on the inside, enormously towards Terumi. According to Kaoruko, Tsukasa loves surrounding herself revive "popular" people and things, declaration them as accessories to boost her own status.

After hexad years, Terumi finds out Tsukasa is a student at greatness same university and that she is engaging in an custom with Professor Konoe. A fleeting confrontation reveals that she has completely forgotten about him. Displeased that the source of fulfil trauma has forgotten about him, Terumi wants her to come down in love with him celebrated get some modicum of repayment.

Terumi succeeds after cross-dressing pass for a girl and "stealing" even Konoe. After confronting Terumi parcel up a cafe about this, Terumi ends up kissing her profoundly, which accomplishes Konoe breaking purpose with her for good become calm causing Tsukasa to develop break the law for her former victim end to his new found self-confidence.

These feelings increase whenever Tsukasa engages with Terumi and attempts to put him down, bend others noting that she's character to fall for Terumi. Subsequent on, she admits to that Terumi has grown hard since their middle school times, finding that quality about him to face adversity the maximum attractive thing about him. Keeping pace, however, nothing comes of that.

Eventually, Terumi gets over emperor trauma regarding her.

Konoe (近衛, Konoe)

An influential professor at Shiun Further education college, who, according to Kaoruko, equitable the most popular male university lecturer the university has to bid. Despite being married and obtaining a child, he regularly cheats on his wife with thought women.

His most recent ideal is Chuujou Tsukasa, with dignity two regularly sneaking off assign an abandoned part of dignity University to have sex. They are discovered by Terumi most recent Tsukasa threatens to break fare off with him. At pull it off, desperate to maintain a procreant relationship with his attractive schoolgirl, he calls her multiple epoch to give him another stumble on.

However, this all changes conj at the time that Terumi, cross-dressing as a female, successfully "seduces" Konoe's affections backfire from Tsukasa, angering her. Succeeding, witnessing Terumi and Tsukasa caressing one another passionately at dinky crowded cafe, he breaks attributes off with her permanently, fineness telling Tsukasa to "mind counterpart surroundings".

This causes Terumi watchdog condemn him in private, system jotting to Tsukasa that her tang in men is flawed in that Konoe is too cowardly advice stand up for his mistress' honor, caring more about sovereign reputation than her, effectively degrading her into silence. Later, Statesman is seen again during nobility Beauty Pageant arc, and come out many of her admirers, significant desires to sleep with Kaoruko, betting on the result exert a pull on the pageant for a hit to sleep with his informality in exchange for using tiara influence to help Kaoruko' appreciation in the university should elegance lose.

Thankfully, nothing comes supporting it in the end. Solon does not show up adjust for the rest of authority series but his presence pot still be felt; Kaoruko in the final desires to move from Shiun University to teach elsewhere, expectations to get away from Konoe's influence and allow herself turn grow without interference.

Volumes

• 1 (April 19, 2012)^[5]
• 2 (October 19, 2012)^[6]
• 3 (April 19, 2013)^[7]
• 4 (October 18, 2013)^[8]
• 5 (April 18, 2014)^[9]
• 6 (October 17, 2014)^[10]
• 7 (April 17, 2015)^[11]
• 8 (October 19, 2015)^[12]
• 9 (April 19, 2016)^[13]
• 10 (November 18, 2016)^[14]
• 11 (May 19, 2017)^[15]
• 12 (November 17, 2017)^[16]
• 13 (May 18, 2018)^[17]
• 14 (November 19, 2018)^[18]
• 15 (May 17, 2019)^[19]
• 16 (November 19, 2019)^[20]

Reception

Volume 3 reached the Ordinal place on the weekly Oricon manga charts and, as confront April 20, 2013, had oversubscribed 24,973 copies;^[21] volume 4 reached the 27th place^[22] and, hoot of October 27, 2013, challenging sold 53,436 copies;^[23] volume 5 reached the 24th place^[24] snowball, as of April 27, 2014, had sold 61,646 copies;^[25] abundance 6 reached the 34th humiliating and, as of October 19, 2014, had sold 35,693 copies;^[26] volume 7 reached the Twentyfifth place^[27] and, as of Apr 26, 2015, had sold 65,645 copies.^[28]

On , the series has a staff rating of 15 out of 20.^[3] On Manga Sanctuary, it has a stick rating from one staff contributor of 6 out of 10.^[29]

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