Ai Yori Aoshi

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Ai Yori Aoshi
Original title 藍 よ り 青 し
transcription Ai yori Aoshi
genre Romance , drama
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Ko Fumizuki
magazine Young Animal
First publication 1998-2005
expenditure 17th
Anime television series
title Ai yori Aoshi
Original title 藍 よ り 青 し
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2002
Studio JCStaff
length 23 minutes
Episodes 24
Director Masami Shimoda
production Yūichi Sekido , Shōichi Nakazawa , Yūji Matsukura , Go Haruna
music Toshio Masuda
First broadcast April 11, 2002 - September 26, 2002 on Fuji TV
Anime television series
title Ai yori Aoshi - Enishi
Original title 藍 よ り 青 し 〜 縁 〜
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2003
Studio JCStaff
length 23 minutes
Episodes 12
Director Masami Shimoda
production Yūichi Sekido, Shōichi Nakazawa, Yūji Matsukura, Nobu Yamamoto
music Toshio Masuda
First broadcast October 12, 2003 - December 28, 2003 on TV Saitama
synchronization

Ai Yori Aoshi ( Japanese 藍 よ り 青 し , German "bluer than indigo") is a manga series by the Japanese illustrator Kō Fumizuki . The over 3,000-page manga, which can be assigned to his genre and was published from 1998 to 2005, was filmed in two anime series and implemented as computer games.

action

The single student Kaoru Hanabishi ( 花 菱 薫 ) meets his fiancée Aoi Sakuraba ( 桜 庭 葵 ), whose family includes a Depāto . Kaoru was born out of wedlock into the Zaibatsu Hanabishi family. After his father's death, his mother was cast out and he was raised under frequent beatings by his grandfather, the family patriarch. When his mother died, too, nothing kept him from the Hanabishis and he left the family.

Aoi, who asks him to return to the Hanabishis, so that a marriage between the two becomes befitting and acceptable to Aoi's family, he initially considers a bait for the Hanabishis. This misunderstanding is soon cleared up, however, and Aoi moves into his student apartment, where she learns about his tough childhood. When Aoi's governess Miyabi Kagurazaki ( 神 楽 崎 雅 ) and Aoi's mother ask them to forget about this improper engagement, Aoi, otherwise a perfect Yamato nadeshiko , contradicts them for the first time. However, you can convince her to move into a Sakurabas mansion, but in order to avoid a scandal, Kaoru has to live as a tenant in the workers' house and Aoi has to pose as his landlady.

Kaoru's club mates, the half-American Tina Foster ( テ ィ ナ ・ フ ォ ス タ ー ) and the clumsy Taeko Minazuki ( 水 無 月 妙 子 ), who are looking for an apartment, move in with them, the latter as a maid. This makes it difficult for both of them to deepen their relationship, which later becomes even more complicated with the appearance of Mayu Ayuki ( 美幸 繭 ) and the arrival of Taeko's cousin Chika Minazuki ( 水 無 月 ち か ).

Publications

Ai Yori Aoshi appeared from 1998 to August 2005 in individual chapters in the Japanese manga magazine Young Animal , in which, at the same time, Kentaro Miura's Berserk and Katsu Aki's manga Love Story were published. The Hakusensha Publishing House summed up this single chapter as of May 1999, in anthologies together, a total of seventeen of which are published.

The manga was also published in the United States, People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, North America, Spain, Mexico, France, and Germany. Egmont Manga & Anime published the German version of the seventeen volumes.

Adaptations

Anime

A 24-episode anime series based on the manga was animated by the JCStaff studio . Masami Shimoda directed the script and Ken'ichi Kanemaki wrote the script based on the manga . The television series premiered on Fuji TV from April 11th to September 26th, 2002 shortly after midnight (the previous television day) .

A continuation of the first anime series followed under the title Ai Yori Aoshi - Enishi ( 藍 よ り 青 し ～ 縁 ～ , Eng . "Blueer than Indigo - love connection"). This consists of twelve episodes. For this, a preview called Miyuki was produced in which Kaoru the "Santa Claus" appears in the form of Aoi. The staff remained largely the same. This series, like the first, was released on DVD in North America and France. This was also broadcast shortly after midnight on TV Saitama from October 12, 2003 to December 28 , with a one-day time lag on TV Kanagawa and again a day later on Chiba TV .

However, both animes only cover the plot of the first 1-2 years of the manga.

music

For the first season, Towa no Hana ( 永遠 の 花 , dt. "Flower of Eternity") by Yōko Ishida was used as the opening credits . Namo Shirenu Hana ( 名 も 知 れ ぬ 花 , dt. "The flower without a name") from the Indigo were used for the credits , for episode 15 Akai Hana ( 朱 い 花 , dt. “Red flower”) by the Indigo, for Episode 18 I'll Be Home by Satsuki Yukino , the voice actress for Tina Foster, and for episode 24 Towa no Hana by Yōko Ishida.

For Ai Yori Aoshi - Enishi Takaramono ( た か ら も の , dt. "Preciousness") by Yōko Ishida was used as the opening credits . For the guy was I Do! by the Indigo, used for episode 9 Presence by the Indigo and for episode 12 Towa no Hana by Yōko Ishida.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Kaoru Hanabishi Sōichirō Hoshi
Aoi Sakuraba Ayako Kawasumi
Miyabi Kagurazaki Akiko Hiramatsu
Taeko Minazuki Kaori Mizuhashi
Tina Foster Satsuki Yukino
Mayu Miyuki Sayaka Narita
Chika Minazuki Halko Momoi

computer game

In 2003 it was implemented as an adventure for the PlayStation 2 . Later followed Ai yori Aoshi - Haru-Natsu ( 藍より青し~春夏~ , dt "Bluer than Indigo - spring and summer.") And Ai yori Aoshi: Aki Fuyu ( 藍より青し~秋冬~ , dt. "Blueer than Indigo - Autumn and Winter") for the PC.

backgrounds

The title is derived from a line from a poem by the Chinese philosopher Xunzi . There it is called Ao wa Ai yori Idete Ai yori Aoshi ( 青 は 藍 よ り 出 で て 藍 よ り 青 し or Chinese  青出於藍 而 勝於 藍 , Pinyin Qīng chū yú lán ér shèng yú lán ).

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