Kimagure Orange Road

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Kimagure Orange Road ( Japanese き ま ぐ れ オ レ ン ジ ☆ ロ ー ド Kimagure Orenji Rōdu ) is a manga series by Izumi Matsumoto , which was published from 1984 to 1987 and has about 3200 pages. It was also implemented as an anime .

The romantic-comic story is aimed primarily at a young, male audience, so it can be assigned to the Shōnen genre. The series is about a love triangle between the main character, the indecisive Kyosuke Kasuga with an extrasensory perception , Madoka Ayukawa, a lively girl with a turbulent past, and Hikaru Hiyama, Madoka's best friend. Kyosuke falls in love with Madoka, who wants to reciprocate his feelings, but cannot because of the involvement with Hikaru.

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Fifteen-year-old Kyōsuke Kasuka ( 春日 恭介 Kasuga Kyōsuke , spoken by Tōru Furuya ) moves to a new city because the "power", the force responsible for his supernatural abilities, was discovered. Kyōsuke and his family (except for his father) have extrasensory perception and can use telekinesis , teleport and hypnosis , for example .

In the new city Kyōsuke made the acquaintance of a girl with whom he fell in love. The next day it turns out that this is in its new class. Madoka Ayukawa ( 鮎 川 ま ど か Ayukawa Madoka , spoken by Hiromi Tsuru ), the girl's name, has the reputation of a rebel and lets it feel.

Hikaru Hiyama ( 檜 山 ひ か る Hiyama Hikaru , voiced by Eriko Hara ), Madoka's friend, falls in love with Kyōsuke when she sees him using the "power" (without realizing that the "power" is psychic), and also displays this in public. However, love is one-sided. Madoka also gradually falls in love with Kyōsuke and a classic three-way relationship develops. Kyōsuke, who is quite shy when dealing with girls, is in love with Madoka, but does not dare to use the "power" to win her over, as he sees it as a fraud.

Friendship and frequent contact with Kyōsuke cause Madoka to socialize. For example, she quits smoking.

Publications

The manga series appeared from March 1984 in individual chapters weekly in the Japanese manga magazine Shōnen Jump , which at that time had a circulation of over four million, making it the best-selling manga magazine. In September 1987 the series ended abruptly at the request of the magazine. The Shūeisha- Verlag published these individual chapters from October 1984 to July 1988 in eighteen edited volumes. A new edition of the Bunkoban was later published in ten volumes. Kimagure Orange Road's anthologies have sold over twenty million copies in Japan.

The manga has been translated into French and Chinese.

Adaptations

Anime adaptations

The Pierrot studio produced an anime television series based on the manga by Izumi Matsumoto. This consists of 48 episodes, each with a length of about 25 minutes. Directed by Osamu Kobayashi , the screenplay was written by Sukehiro Tomita . The 48 episodes were first broadcast on the NTV television station from April 6, 1987 to March 7, 1988.

Eight more episodes followed, which were released directly on VHS as Original Video Animation (OVA) in 1989 and 1991 , as well as two cinema films that were released in 1988 and 1996.

The television series ran several times on French television under the title Max et Compagnie . It was first broadcast in 1990 in the Youpi! L'école est finie of the La Cinq television channel . The anime was shown on Italian television from 1989 under the title È quasi magia Johnny .

Novels

Under the title Shin Kimagure Orange Road (新 き ま ぐ れ オ レ ン ジ ★ ロ ー ド) Shūeisha published three novels on the manga series from 1994 to 1997. These were written by Kenji Terada in collaboration with Izumi Matsumoto. Terada had already drafted the concept for the anime television series and took over the direction of individual episodes.

Radio plays

The story was also published in a radio play version dramatized by Shō Aikawa , which is more based on the anime than the manga. It consists of five CDs.

Background information

The anime series, like Maison Ikkoku at the same time , mainly appealed to viewers who already liked the Urusei Yatsura series (1981–1986). As Urusei Yatsura's fans got older, their focus of interest in anime shifted from funny to romantic entertainment. Akemi Takada created the character designs at Urusei Yatsura as well as Maison Ikkoku and Kimagure Orange Road .

The cat Jingoro takes its name from Hidari Jingorō , a wood sculptor of the Edo period , to whom the famous "sleeping cat" sculpture on the Nikkō Tōshō-gū is ascribed.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.narinari.com/Nd/2007067511.html
  2. ↑ http://news.www.infoseek.co.jp/entertainment/movie/story/03gendainet07022870/
  3. ↑ Helen McCarthy, Jonathan Clements: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . P. 338.