I "s

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I "s ( Japanese ア イ ズ aisu ) is a completed manga series by the Japanese illustrator Masakazu Katsura , who among other things also wrote Video Girl Ai . The manga, which can be assigned to the Shōnen genre and was filmed in two anime series, was published in Japan from 1997 to 1999 and comprises over 2,700 pages The romantic drama is about a young student who falls in love with a classmate.

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Sixteen-year-old Ichitaka goes to Wanda High School and has been in love with his classmate Iori since he first saw her. When Iori appears in a magazine in a bathing suit, other boys at his school are drawn to the girl too. Ichitaka and Iori , who take part in the school's theater group in their free time, are supposed to work alone as class representatives, which initially pleases him. When he and Iori are alone, however, he becomes nervous and cannot express himself. So after a while, the popular but rather shy Iori thinks that Ichitaka even hates her.

His best friend and classmate Teratani Yasumasa tries to help him all the time, but most of the time he doesn't succeed. Suddenly, Ichitaka's elementary school friend Itsuki , who lived in the USA for several years , also appears . Even after countless attempts to confess his love to Iori , he fails again and again and so a friendship slowly builds up between the two, which gives Ichitaka the courage and support not to give up.

Publications

I "s appeared in Japan from April 1997 to May 2000 in individual chapters in the weekly manga magazine Shōnen Jump , which has editions of up to three million copies per issue , in which, at the same time, Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter and Eiichirō Odas One piece published. the Shueisha Publishing House summed up this single chapter from September 1997, in fifteen anthologies together. on the front pages of these anthologies female main characters of the manga series can be seen.

The manga series was also published in France, Spain, the USA, Argentina, Mexico, Italy and Germany, among others. The first volume was initially published in German from the February to May 2005 issue in the manga magazine BANZAI! followed as a reading sample of the edited volumes published by Carlsen Comics since June 2005 . All 15 anthologies in the BANZAI presented series have been published. The fifth, tenth and fifteenth volumes of the German edition come with a slipcase for five volumes.

success

The German translation is considered commercially successful, as the fifth and eighth volume placed in the top 15 of the best-selling mangas in German book and comic stores within one month in their month of publication.

Film adaptations

From December 2002 to March 2003, a two-part original video animation based on the manga series was published in Japan under the title From I "s - Mō Hitotsu no Natsu no Monogatari (フ ロ ム ア イ ズ ~ も う ひ と つ の 夏 夏 の 物語 ~) . Directed by Yousei Morino , who was previously involved in some animes with pornographic ( hentai ) or implied erotic ( fanservice ) content. The two episodes were produced by Studio Pierrot .

From November 2005 to June 2006, a second film version of the manga was published in Japan under the title I "s Pure (ア イ ズ ピ ュ ア) directly on DVD, as was the case with the first film version without prior television broadcast. Also produced by Pierrot, this includes anime Series six episodes, directed by Mamoru Kanabe , best known for anime such as Elfen Lied and Panda-Z: The Robonimation .

Anime Virtual released both OVA series in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on two DVDs. On March 30th, 2009 a complete edition with all 4 DVDs was published, on which all 6 episodes of I "s Pure and both episodes of From I" s are.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manga Charts February: EMA with two titles in front , Splashcomics, March 8, 2006
  2. ↑ Manga Charts in June: EMA dominates , Splashcomics, July 7, 2006