Kiss me student
| Manga | |
|---|---|
| title | Kiss me student |
| Original title | チ ャ レ ン ジ ャ ー ズ |
| transcription | Charenjāzu |
| country |
 Japan
|
| author | Hinako Takanaga |
| publishing company | Kaiōsha |
| magazine | Hanamaru Manga |
| First publication | 1996-2004 |
| expenditure | 4th |
Kiss me student ( Japanese. チ ャ レ ン ジ ャ ー ズ , Charenjāzu , from English Challengers ) is a manga series by the Japanese illustrator Hinako Takanaga , who also wrote Little Butterfly . The comedic, approximately 730-page manga deals with homosexual love relationships between men and can therefore be assigned to the Shōnen-Ai category.
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When Tomoe Tatsumi comes to Tokyo from Nagoya to take the university entrance exam, he meets the young employee Mitsugu Kurokawa, who is roaming the bars with his friend Taishiro Isogai. Kurokawa helps Tomoe find his way around town and soon falls in love with the naive and cheerful Tomoe. After he was accepted at the university, Tomoe looks for an apartment and decides to live with Kurokawa as a subtenant . But his quick-tempered, older brother Soichi Tatsumi, who is constantly worried about Tomoe, protects and patronizes him, is against it. He fears that Kurokawa is targeting Tomoe and harming him, as he was once almost raped by his professor himself. Still, Tomoe sticks to his decision without knowing that Kurokawa has actually fallen in love with him.
At university, Tomoe meets the extroverted and openly gay American Rick, who is after him. In light of this, Kurokawa confesses his love to Tomoe, which reinforces Soichi's fears. Since Tomoe would like to continue living with him and Kurokawa will not leave the field to Rick, they agree that Tomoe will stay with him but Kurokawa will not come too close to him again. Soichi also has to accept that. After three months, Tomoe also began to feel feelings for Kurokawa and when they talked about it, Kurokawa's mother happened to find out about it. At first she is shocked, but soon she can come to terms with it. When Rick is harassed by his ex-boyfriend Phil Lloyd from America, because he still loves him, Rick protects a relationship with Tomoe. But that becomes too much for him and finally he confesses that he loves Kurokawa.
Soichi, who is still worried about Tomoe, is working on his doctoral thesis in Nagoya, together with his student assistant Tetsuhiro Morinaga, who is secretly in love with him . When Soichi travels to Tokyo to see that his brother is now with Kurokawa, he is overwhelmed by Tomoe and Kurokawa's mother and sent back to Nagoya when he tries to take Tomoe with him to Nagoya. In the meantime Morinaga has become ill there, Soichi has to take care of his work and him. Morinaga confesses his love to him. Without answering, Soichi goes to Tokyo and speaks to his brother there. Finally, Soichi tolerates his relationship and Morinaga as his assistant. Soichi's and Tomoe's 13-year-old sister soon believes that Soichi is dating Morinaga and that Morinaga is cheating on him with someone else. When Tomoe and Kurokawa are called to Nagoya by her because of this, she learns of their relationship and now believes, despite Soichi's explanations, that their two brothers are homosexual.
When Kurokawa and Isogai go to a party with colleagues, a work colleague falls in love with him. She soon finds out that he is with Tomoe, but does not give up and wants to separate the two. At the same time, Tomoe receives the offer to go to the USA as a professor's assistant, which he immediately accepts enthusiastically. Rick, who is also returning to America soon, and Kurokawa's colleague hope the couple will split up soon. In the end, however, they both move to the USA together.
Publications
Kiss me student appeared in Japan from 1996 in individual chapters in the manga magazine Hanamaru Manga and then in anthologies by Hakusensha- Verlag. The first volume and with it the series was originally called Gōkaku Kigan ( 合格 祈願 , dt. "Pray for passing an exam"), but then changes with Volume 2 to Challengers . After most of the series appeared in the magazine and three edited volumes, Hanamaru Manga was discontinued and Kiss me student! canceled. When Kaiōsha publishing house a new edition (published in 2004 Shinsōban ) with an additional fourth volume.
After the commercial success of Kleiner Schmetterling in Germany, Tokyopop decided to translate other works by Hinako Takanga into German as well. From March to July 2006, the four anthologies were published on a monthly basis. In the monthly charts of the most successful manga in German comic and bookstores, the first volume came in eighth place in March 2006, the third volume in May on the fourth and the fourth in July on number three. From March to August 2013 a new German edition was published in two double volumes.
Taifu Comics published a French version.