Golden Boy (Manga)
Golden Boy (spelled in capital letters ) is a manga by Tatsuya Egawa , which was published in Japan from 1992. The work belongs to the Etchi genre and has been adapted as an anime .
content
Golden Boy is about Kintaro Oe, a 25-year-old college dropout who travels through Japan on his mountain bike to study in "the school of life".
He has taken on various jobs throughout history. Among other things, in a software company with a dominant boss, or as an election worker for a stubborn politician and a scheming daughter. He also works for a restaurant owner whose naive daughter is harassed by a fraudster.
In the respective businesses, he meets pretty young women, to whom he quickly feels drawn. The work situation described in each case determines the scope of the action. Although Kintaro succeeds in getting the girls and employers enthusiastic about himself in every episode, there is never a love affair or a permanent job, as they only discover their deeper passion for Kintaro when he has been fired on false accusations .
publication
The manga was published in Japan from 1992 to 1998 in the manga magazine Super Jump by Shūeisha and then in ten anthologies.
The German manga was published in December 2001 by Carlsen Comics in a translation by Marcus Wehner. Volume 6 has an age recommendation from 18 years. A French version was published by Dybex .
From 2010 to 2011 the manga was known as Golden Boy II - Sasurai no Obenkyō Yarō: Geinōkai Ōabare Hen ( GOLDEN BOY II 〜 さ す ら い の お 勉強 野 野 芸 芸 能 界 大 暴 れ 編 〜 , "Golden Boy: The wandering, student boy Welt des Showbusiness ”) in the Business Jump magazine and these chapters are summarized in two edited volumes.
Anime adaptation
In 1995, the APPP studio produced the six-part original video animation Golden Boy: Sasurai no Obenkyō Yarō ( GOLDEN BOY さ す ら い の お 勉強 野 郎 , dt. "Golden Boy: The wandering, student boy") based on the manga. Directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo, the character design was created by Toshihiro Kawamoto and the artistic director was Toshihiro Kawamoto. The episodes were released in Japan from October 27, 1995 to June 28, 1996.
The anime has been translated into English, French, Russian, and Spanish, among others. The German version was broadcast by MTV from March 28 to June 9, 2001 . It was also released on DVD by Dybex .
synchronization
The German dubbing comes from Arena Synchron .
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Kintaro Oe | Mitsuo Iwata | Timmo Niesner |
| Company boss | Hiromi Tsuru | Heath Domanowski |
| Chie | Mika Kanai | Berenice Weichert |
| Reiko Terayama | Sakiko Tamagawa | Diana Borgwardt |
| teller | Gorō Naya | Erich Rauker |
music
Joyo Katayanagi composed the music for the anime. The opening title is My Golden Boy from Computer Jockeys and the ending title Study A Go! Go! by Golden Girls.
reception
AnimaniA magazine criticizes the manga as being undemanding in terms of content compared to the anime and only suitable for hentai fans. The manga is one of the works that bring the medium into disrepute and it is surprising that Carlsen Comics has taken this into its program. The anime, on the other hand, is characterized by frivolous wit and flat humor.
Malindy Hetfeld from Splashcomics writes of "disgusting sex scenes" and level jokes in the manga, so that this is only interesting for hentai fans. Later volumes are better, but the plot is often confused. The quality of the drawings is also decreasing more and more.
In the funime , the anime is referred to as a “wacky sex comedy with an interesting story” , which, however, is not for everyone. The character design is described as conventional, even if it turns into "repulsive-realistic" with Kintaros grimaces .
Web links
- Golden Boy in Anime on DVD
- Golden Boy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Anime News Network about the manga and anime (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b AnimaniA No. 12/2003, p. 24 f.
- ↑ Funime No. 19/2001, p. 13
- ↑ Malindy Hetfeld: Review of Volume 3. Splashcomics, January 11, 2003, accessed April 15, 2009 .
- ↑ Malindy Hetfeld: Review of Volume 4. Splashcomics, January 22, 2003, accessed April 15, 2009 .
- ↑ Malindy Hetfeld: Review of Volume 5. Splashcomics, January 13, 2003, accessed April 15, 2009 .
- ↑ Malindy Hetfeld: Review of Volume 6. Splashcomics, November 7, 2003, accessed April 15, 2009 .
- ↑ Review of the anime by Michael Borgwardt from Funime No. 6, on the website of Anime no Tomodachi