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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Manga series</div> <table class="infobox" style="width: 22em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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data-file-width="200" data-file-height="300" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">English cover of <i>I Shall Never Return</i> volume 1</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#DDF; padding:0.3em; line-height:1.3em; font-weight:normal;"><span class="t_nihongo_kanji"><span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja"><span style="font-size:120%">ぼくはこのまま帰らない</span></span></span></span><br />(<span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">Boku wa Konomama Kaeranai</i></span>)</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yaoi" class="mw-redirect" title="Yaoi">Yaoi</a></td></tr> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="background:#CCF; font-weight:bold;">Manga</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Written by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kazuna_Uchida&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kazuna Uchida (page does not exist)">Kazuna Uchida</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Published by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shufu-to-Seikatsu_Sha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shufu-to-Seikatsu Sha (page does not exist)">Shufu-to-Seikatsu Sha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohzora_Publishing" title="Ohzora Publishing">Ohzora Publishing</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">English publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><div class="nowrap"><span style="font-style:normal;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Northern_America" title="Northern America">NA</a>:</span> <span style="width:10.8em; display:inline-block;" class="wrap"><a href="/wiki/Aurora_Publishing_(United_States)" title="Aurora Publishing (United States)">Aurora Publishing</a></span></div></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Original run</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap">October 1992</span> – <span class="nowrap">September 1996</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Volumes</th><td class="infobox-data">5</td></tr> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="background:#CCF; font-weight:bold;"><a href="/wiki/Original_video_animation" title="Original video animation">Original video animation</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Katsumi_Minokuchi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Katsumi Minokuchi (page does not exist)">Katsumi Minokuchi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Studio</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/J.C.Staff" title="J.C.Staff">J.C.Staff</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Licensed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><div class="nowrap"><span style="font-style:normal;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Northern_America" title="Northern America">NA</a>:</span> <span style="width:10.8em; display:inline-block;" class="wrap"><a href="/wiki/Media_Blasters" title="Media Blasters">AnimeWorks</a></span></div></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data">June 21, 1994</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Runtime</th><td class="infobox-data">40 minutes</td></tr> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tbody></table> <p><i><b>I Shall Never Return</b></i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a>: <span lang="ja">ぼくはこのまま帰らない</span>, <a href="/wiki/Hepburn_romanization" title="Hepburn romanization">Hepburn</a>: <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Boku wa Konomama Kaeranai</i></span><span style="margin-left:.09em">)</span></span> is a <a href="/wiki/Yaoi" class="mw-redirect" title="Yaoi">yaoi</a> <a href="/wiki/Manga" title="Manga">manga</a> series by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kazuna_Uchida&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kazuna Uchida (page does not exist)">Kazuna Uchida</a>. The first volume was published in Japan in October 1992 by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Shufu-to-Seikatsu_Sha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shufu-to-Seikatsu Sha (page does not exist)">Shufu-to-Seikatsu Sha</a>. It spanned six volumes until its conclusion in September 1996. <a href="/wiki/Ohzora_Publishing" title="Ohzora Publishing">Ohzora Publishing</a> reprinted the volumes from April 1997 through October 1997. <a href="/wiki/Aurora_Publishing_(United_States)" title="Aurora Publishing (United States)">Aurora Publishing</a> licensed the series for an English language release in North America in 2007. <i>I Shall Never Return</i> is available in English on the Internet from the <a href="/wiki/Netcomics" title="Netcomics">Netcomics</a> publisher.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The plot is about a love triangle between a cheerful young man, Ritsuro, his troubled friend Ken who works as a <a href="/wiki/Male_prostitution" title="Male prostitution">rent boy</a>, and Ritsuro's girlfriend Moeko. </p><p><i>I Shall Never Return</i> was adapted into a 40-minute <a href="/wiki/Original_video_animation" title="Original video animation">original video animation</a> by <a href="/wiki/J.C.Staff" title="J.C.Staff">J.C.Staff</a> and released in Japan on January 27, 2006. <a href="/wiki/Media_Blasters" title="Media Blasters">Media Blasters</a> licensed the OVA for distribution in North America and releasing it on February 13, 2007. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Story">Story</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=I_Shall_Never_Return&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Story"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A delinquent teenager with divorced parents named Ken Amafuji longs to tell his best friend Ritsurou Yoshinari, how he really feels. In the way of that admission is Ritsurou's girlfriend, Moeko. One day, he decides to drop out of high school and gets Ritsurou to live with him. The story begins when Ken has a <a href="/wiki/One-night_stand" title="One-night stand">one-night stand</a> with Moeko so he can get closer to Ritsurou. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characters">Characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=I_Shall_Never_Return&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Ritsurou Yoshinari</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">吉成律亮</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Yoshinari Ritsurou</i></span>)</span> <span style="font-weight: normal">Voiced by: <a href="/wiki/Kazuya_Ichijou" class="mw-redirect" title="Kazuya Ichijou">Kazuya Ichijou</a></span></li></ul> <dl><dd>Ritsurou is a sophomore in high school and one of the main protagonists of the series who is somewhat involved in a love triangle between his longtime girlfriend/classmate Moeko and his best friend Ken-(who harbors romantic feelings for him) who he has known since middle school. At first, he was constantly annoyed and stressed from Ken's delinquency and laziness and was often confused about how Ken really feels about him; once he fully understands Ken's feelings and the hardships that he was forced to endure, he declares his feelings to him and two engage in passionate lovemaking. Before he moved out to live with Ken, he lived with his mother and younger sister Nami-(who attends middle school); he works as both a clerk at a local convenience store and a waiter at an Italian restaurant-(despite the fact that teenagers in Japan are not allowed to get jobs, unless they get special permission from their parents or school).</dd></dl> <ul><li><b>Ken Amafuji</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">海部フジケン</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Amafuji Ken</i></span>)</span> <span style="font-weight: normal">Voiced by: <a href="/wiki/Kouichi_Toochika" class="mw-redirect" title="Kouichi Toochika">Kouichi Toochika</a></span></li></ul> <dl><dd>Ken is Ritsurou's best friend who secretly worked in the <a href="/wiki/Male_prostitution" title="Male prostitution">escort business</a> until he gave it up so that he can get involved in a more normal and healthier dating relationship. His parents divorced when he was thirteen after his father had an affair with another woman-(his father's whereabouts are unknown while his absent mother is living in <a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a> and has gotten remarried) which affected him greatly and now lives on his own in an apartment until he got Ritsurou to move in with him as his roommate-(later his lover). After he nearly attempted to seduce Ritsurou, who then lashed out at him for his carelessness as well as his affair with Moeko-(for the second time), he angrily tells his friend to go home and be with Moeko who then complies and leaves. After a brief moment and contemplation, Ritsurou not wanting to lose the person that he cares about-(Ken) runs back to Ken's apartment and admits his true feelings for him; which results in the boys making out and having sex in Ken's bedroom.</dd></dl> <ul><li><b>Moeko Kohashi</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">小橋萌子</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Kohashi Moeko</i></span>)</span> <span style="font-weight: normal">Voiced by: <a href="/wiki/Yuko_Nagashima" class="mw-redirect" title="Yuko Nagashima">Yuko Nagashima</a></span></li></ul> <dl><dd>Moeko is Ritsurou's longtime girlfriend who had cheated on him with his best friend Ken as well as having sex with him. Despite her past mistakes, she still loves and cares about Ritsurou; when she learns about Ritsurou and Ken's homosexual relationship after catching the boys kissing under some cherry blossom trees-(in the manga she saw them kissing in a hospital room when Ken got assaulted by a former client), she becomes distraught and retaliates by cutting her hair short and to show Ritsurou the emotional pain and suffering that she had to go through. After her break up with Ritsurou, there's an assumption that she has developed a crush for her school teacher Hiroto.</dd></dl> <ul><li><b>Kazuyoshi Iwasaki</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">岩崎和義</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Iwasaki Kazuyoshi</i></span><span style="margin-left:.09em">)</span></span> <span style="font-weight: normal">Voiced by: <a href="/wiki/Kazunari_Tanaka" title="Kazunari Tanaka">Kazunari Tanaka</a></span></li></ul> <dl><dd>A classmate of Ritsurou and Moeko. He's had some history with Ken as the two of them where close friends before he dropped out of high school</dd></dl> <ul><li><b>Hiroto Yumioka</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">ヒロトゆみおか</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Yumioka Hiroto</i></span>)</span></li></ul> <dl><dd>Hiroto is a handsome 28 year-old history and homeroom teacher at the high school that Ritsurou, Ken-(formerly until he dropped out), and Moeko attend.</dd></dl> <ul><li><b>Nami Yoshinari</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">吉成ナミ</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Yoshinari Nami</i></span><span style="margin-left:.09em">)</span></span></li></ul> <dl><dd>Nami is a middle school student and Ritsurou's younger sister.</dd></dl> <ul><li><b>Michiru Kubota</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">クボタミチル</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Kubota Michiru</i></span>)</span></li></ul> <dl><dd>Michiru is a friend and classmate of Moeko's from school.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=I_Shall_Never_Return&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Moeko has been described as "more than a convenient prop" to the plot, which is unusual for female characters in BL works, which is unusual since her character is important to the overall character development of both male characters. Ritsuro and Ken's switching seme and uke roles has been remarked on as interesting in "a work of this vintage", and as a device showing the confused emotions of their relationship.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rape scenes in the second volume have been described as being for "full emotional, not sensual, impact".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Erin F. of PopCultureShock described it as "amazingly dramatic".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The OVA has been described as a "love letter" to the fans of the manga, and as a 'snapshot' of the manga story.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span 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no Kantai</a></i> (1993–2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Super_Dimension_Century_Orguss" title="Super Dimension Century Orguss">Super Dimension Century Orguss 02</a></i> (1993–1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shonan_Junai_Gumi" title="Shonan Junai Gumi">Shonan Junai Gumi</a></i> (1994–1997)</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">I Shall Never Return</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fish_in_the_Trap" title="Fish in the Trap">Fish in the Trap</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Captain_Tsubasa" title="Captain Tsubasa">Captain Tsubasa: Holland Youth</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Level_C" title="Level C">Level C</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Heroic_Legend_of_Arslan" title="The Heroic Legend of Arslan">The Heroic Legend of Arslan</a></i> (1995, #5–6)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Galaxy_Fr%C3%A4ulein_Yuna" title="Galaxy Fräulein Yuna">Galaxy Fräulein Yuna</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kodocha" title="Kodocha">Kodocha</a></i> 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