Gakuen Heaven

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Gakuen Heaven ( Japanese 学園 ヘ ヴ ン , gakuen hevun , eng . "School Heaven") is a media franchise that includes the computer game Gakuen Heaven: Boy's Love Scramble! the company Spray began in 2002. More games, a manga and an anime followed . The works are classified in the genre Shōnen-Ai (Boys Love).

content

The games and other adaptations take place at Bell Liberty Gakuen (short: BL Gakuen, where BL usually refers to Boys Love), a remote boys' school. The young Keita Itō ( 伊藤 啓太 ), who comes from a wealthy family, is transferred to the renowned school. There he is received in a friendly way and gradually gets to know his classmates. Including the older chairman of the student council, Tetsuya Niwa ( 丹羽 哲 也 ), the handsome Kaoru Saionji ( 西 園 寺 郁 ), Kazuki Endō ( 遠藤 和 希 ), who inherited the position of chairman of the school from his grandfather, and the cool Hideaki Nakajima ( 中 嶋英明 ), Deputy Student Council Chair.

Little by little, love and hate relationships develop between the characters. At the same time, it is about a secret that lies hidden in Keita's past.

Publications

Computer games

The first game was released on August 2, 2002 by SPRAY, Visual Art’s Boys Love game brand in Japan for the PC. The character design of the game was created by You Higuri .

In November 2003, July 2004 and February 2005 three games for the PlayStation 2 followed by the same publishers.

Light novel

Since October 2002, a light novel on Gakuen Heaven by Tamami has been published by Biblos in Japan .

Manga

From March 2004, the Biblos publishing house in Japan published a manga on the games, which was drawn by You Higuri . The chapters first appeared in the Be × Boy magazine and later at irregular intervals in five edited volumes .

The manga was published in English by Tokyopop's Imprint Blu . Four volumes in German were published by Carlsen Comics from June 2006 .

Anime

Television series
Original title 学園 ヘ ヴ ン BOY'S LOVE HYPER!
Gakuen Heaven: Boy's Love Hyper!
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
year 2006
length 25 minutes
Episodes 13
genre Shōnen-Ai
music Kazuya Nishioka
First broadcast April 1, 2006 - June 24, 2006 on AT-X
synchronization

In 2006, the Tokyo Kids studio produced a 13-part anime television series for the games, directed by Yukina Hiiro . The character design was created by Yumi Nakayama . The series aired from April 1, 2006 to June 24, 2006 by AT-X in Japan.

An English version of the anime is distributed by Media Blasters.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Keita Ito Jun Fukuyama
Tetsuya Niwa Katsuyuki Konishi
Kaoru Saionji Hiroshi Kamiya
Kazuki Endo Takahiro Sakurai
Hideaki Nakajima Toshiyuki Morikawa

music

The music for the series was composed by Kazuya Nishioka. School boys by Yamato were used for the opening credits, while the credits were highlighted with a panorama by Masāki Fujioka.

Radio plays

Five radio plays on the franchise were released on CD in Japan. There are also two mini radio plays.

musical

From July 25th to 30th, 2008 the musical "Gakuen Heaven" Musical - Bell Liberty Prince ( 「学園 ヘ ヴ ン」 ミ ュ ー ジ カ ル 〜 ベ ル ル リ バ テ ィ ★ プ aufgeführt ン ス 〜 ) was performed.

reception

Christel Scheja from Splashcomics speaks of a less than original plot of the manga, but You Higuri implemented it in good drawings and a balanced relationship between tension and eroticism. The manga also contains more explicit scenes than the artist's earlier works, but this is not overstrained.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christel Scheja: Review of the first volume. Splashcomics, May 20, 2006, accessed April 21, 2009 .

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