Maid-sama

Maid-sama
Original title	会長 は メ イ ド 様
transcription	Kaichō wa Maid-sama!
Manga
country	Japan
author	Hiro Fujiwara
publishing company	Hakusensha
magazine	LaLa
First publication	December 2005 - September 2013
expenditure	18th
Anime television series
title	Kaichō wa Maid-sama!
Original title	会長 は メ イ ド 様!
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	2010
Studio	JCStaff
length	25 minutes
Episodes	27
Director	Hiroaki Sakurai
music	Wataru Maeguchi
First broadcast	April 2 - September 24, 2010 on TBS
synchronization

Maid-sama ( 会長 は メ イ ド 様! , Kaichō wa Maid-sama! Eng. "The student council chairperson is a maid!") Is a manga series by the Japanese illustrator Hiro Fujiwara , which was published in Japan from 2005 to 2013. The work was adapted as a radio play series as well as an anime television series and can be classified into the genres of comedy , romance and shōjo .

action

The Seika High School was once a boys-only school, but over time it opened up to girls too. The isolation created a harsh climate in the classes, so that the girls find it very difficult to gain a foothold and repeatedly suffer from the humiliation by the boys. The girl Misaki Ayuzawa ( 鮎 沢 美 咲 ) nevertheless manages to assert herself against her classmates and to become the first student representative. Because of her behavior, she is soon seen as a man hater, but is respected or feared. But behind this facade she also fights against various other problems. Among other things, her family, which consists of her mother and little sister, was abandoned by her father and is now sitting on a large pile of debt. To stop the collapse of her own apartment and to help her overworked mother, Misaki looks for a job in a maid café . Since she mainly has to serve male customers there, she tries to keep her job a secret from her classmates.

In the meantime, at school she is often confronted with the heartthrob Takumi Usui ( 碓 氷 拓 海 ), who repeatedly refuses all declarations of love and makes the girls cry. This creates a special form of hatred for him in her. One day, however, Takumi meets Misaki in front of the Maid Café and discovers her secret. Her fears that she would now lose her reputation are not fulfilled, however, as Takumi keeps her secret and protects her because, unlike the other girls, he develops feelings for her. Misaki is also slowly developing feelings for Takumi and an ambivalent love relationship develops, which has to suffer severe setbacks again and again.

In the end, however, Usui Takumi is able to confess his love to Misaki Ayuzawa at a school festival.

Origin and publications

The first chapter of the manga drawn by Hiro Fujiwara initially appeared as a pilot one-shot in issue 2/2006 at the end of December 2005 in LaLa magazine of the Japanese publisher Hakusensha . The serialization then took place from issue 6/2006 (April 24, 2006). The manga ended in the 11/2013 issue of the magazine, which appeared on September 24, 2013. On November 8, 2013 , a special chapter on the series appeared in a special issue of the magazine, LaLa Fantasy .

The individual chapters of the work have been summarized in 18 Tankōbon issues so far (as of February 2014).

• Volume 1: ISBN 4-592-18431-9 , September 5, 2006
• Volume 2: ISBN 978-4-592-18432-4 , February 5, 2007
• Volume 3: ISBN 978-4-592-18433-1 , August 4, 2007
• Volume 4: ISBN 978-4-592-18434-8 , December 5, 2007
• Volume 5: ISBN 978-4-592-18435-5 , May 2, 2008
• Volume 6: ISBN 978-4-592-18686-1 , September 5, 2008
• Volume 7: ISBN 978-4-592-18687-8 , April 3, 2009
• Volume 8: ISBN 978-4-592-18688-5 , September 4, 2009
• Volume 9: ISBN 978-4-592-18689-2 , April 5, 2010
• Volume 10: ISBN 978-4-592-19180-3 , June 4, 2010
• Volume 11: ISBN 978-4-592-19181-0 , August 5, 2010
• Volume 12: ISBN 978-4-592-19182-7 , February 4, 2011
• Volume 13: ISBN 978-4-592-19183-4 , August 5, 2011
• Volume 14: ISBN 978-4-592-19184-1 , February 3, 2012
• Volume 15: ISBN 978-4-592-19185-8 , July 5, 2012
• Volume 16: ISBN 978-4-592-19186-5 , February 5, 2013
• Volume 17: ISBN 978-4-592-19187-2 , August 5, 2013
• Volume 18: ISBN 978-4-592-19188-9 , February 5, 2014

In 2018 the anthology Maid-Sama Marriage was published with seven short stories about characters from the series.

In Germany, the manga has been published under the title Maid-sama since September 2008 in the magazine Daisuki of the Carlsen Manga publishing house and was published from January 2009 to March 2015 in a total of 18 tankōbon issues. Maid-Sama Marriage was also released in August 2019 . Outside of Japan, Tokyopop also publishes the manga in English in both the United States and Canada . It is also translated into Chinese and Taiwanese by Chuang Yi , Ever Glory Publishing and Jonesky and published in Singapore , China and Hong Kong .

Adaptations

Radio plays

In Japan three radio plays appeared under the original title of the manga, Kaichō wa Maid-sama ( 会長 は メ イ ド 様 ). They were released in April 2007, October 2007 and May 2008. In addition, they appeared from February to March 2008 in LaLa DX as a supplement to the magazine. The speakers were identical to those of the anime version.

Anime

Directed by Hiroaki Sakurai , the manga was released by animation studio JCStaff as the anime television series of the same name, Kaichō wa Maid-sama! adapted. The character design was created by Yuki Imoto based on the drawings in the manga. Satoshi Motoyama was responsible for the sound.

The adaptation was first announced in the October 2009 issue of LaLa magazine . The first broadcast took place from April 2 to September 24, 2010 at night (and thus on the previous television day ) on the TBS station and with a one to two week offset also the stations CBC and MBS and nationwide BS-i . At the same time, Animax India also started broadcasting.

The anime was released on DVD in 4 DVD boxes by the anime label Kazé in Germany.

music

The title My Secret was played in the opening credits of the series . It was sung by Saya Mizuno ( 水 野 佐 彩 ). In the credits the tracks Yokan and Mugen Loop were played, both by heidi. interpreted and arranged. Geneon Universal Entertainment Japan took over the production of all three titles .

synchronization

The German synchronization of the television series took place at TV + Synchron Berlin . The dialogue director was Sabine Sebastian , who was also responsible for the dialogue book .

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )	German speaker
Misaki Ayuzawa	Ayumi Fujimura	Nicole Hannak
Takumi Usui	Nobuhiko Okamoto	Dirk Stollberg
Shōichirō Yukimura	Hiro Shimono	Amadeus Strobl
Naoya Shirakawa	Hiroyuki Yoshino	Oliver Bender
Ikuto Sarashina	Tetsuya Kakihara	Alessandro Alioto
Ryūnosuke Kurosaki	Yūichi Nakamura	Andi Krösing
Sakura Hanazono	Kana Hanazawa	Laura Elßel
Shizuko Kaga	Yuu Kobayashi	Julia Zimth
Aoi Hyōdō	Yuki Kaida	Anja Rybiczka
Satsuki	Rie Tanaka	Melanie Hinze
Erika	Mariya Ise	Angelina Geisler
Subaru	Kana Ueda	Giovanna Winterfeldt
Honoka	Kana Asumi	Catherine of Daake 1
		Inken Baxmeier 2
Suzuna Ayuzawa	Kaori Ishihara	Lisa May-Mitsching
Minako Ayuzawa	Ayako Kawasumi	Sabine Sebastian
Torah Igarashi	Kenichi Suzumura	René Dawn-Claude
Hirofumi Koganei	Fumihiro Okabayashi	Fabian Hollwitz
Kanade Maki	Tomoaki Maeno	Squidward Meilinger

Other roles include Jan Makino , Dirk Petrick , Konrad Bösherz , Katja Strobel and Holger Klein .

annotation

¹ = speaker in episodes 1 to 7.
² = speaker in episodes 8 to 26.

Web links

• Website of the manga at the Japanese publisher Hakusensha (Japanese)
• Website for the German translation of the manga at Carlsen Manga
• TBS website for anime implementation (Japanese)
• Anime News Network about the manga and anime (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hiro Fujiwara's Maid Sama! Shōjo Manga to End in 3 Chapters . Anime News Network, June 23, 2013
2. ↑ Hiro Fujiwara to Publish Maid Sama! 1-Shot Next Month . Anime News Network, October 21, 2013
3. ↑ List of Manga volumes at the publisher (Japanese)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Maid-sama in the German synchronous card index , accessed on June 24, 2019.