Marmalade Boy
| Marmalade Boy | ||||
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| Original title | マ マ レ ー ド ・ ボ ー イ | |||
| transcription | Mamarēdo Boi | |||
| genre | Drama, romance, comedy | |||
| Manga | ||||
| country |
 Japan
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| author | Wataru Yoshizumi | |||
| publishing company | Shueisha | |||
| magazine | Ribon | |||
| First publication | May 1992 - October 1995 | |||
| expenditure | 8th | |||
| Anime television series | ||||
| Country of production |
Japan
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| original language | Japanese | |||
| Year (s) | 1994, 1995 | |||
| Studio | Toei animation | |||
| length | 24 minutes | |||
| Episodes | 76 | |||
| Director | Akinori Yabe | |||
| music | Keiichi Oku | |||
| First broadcast | March 31, 1994 - September 3, 1995 on ABC | |||
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Marmalade Boy ( Japanese マ マ レ ー ド ・ ボ ー イ , Mamarēdo Bōi ) is a manga series by the Japanese illustrator Wataru Yoshizumi from 1992 to 1995. It was adapted as an anime television series, film, book series and video game and translated into several languages. The work can be classified into the genres Shōjo , Drama, Romanticism and Comedy .
content
The parents of high school student Miki Koishikawa ( 小 石川 光 希 ) meet the Matsuura family on vacation in Hawaii. They fall in love with each other's partner and so the Koishikawas and Matsuuras decide to divorce and divorce and swap partners, but all of them move into one big house together. Miki is appalled by this, but her new stepbrother Yū Matsuura ( 松浦 遊 ) takes it calmly. He is now in Miki's class and is popular with the girls because of his good looks and behavior. But he annoys Miki again and again, so that she finally compares him to orange jam, which like him is superficially sweet, but contains bitter bits.
Her good friend Meiko Akizuki ( 秋月 茗 子 ) and good friend and tennis partner Ginta Suō ( 須 王 銀 太 ) can hardly help Miki either. When she finally gets along better with Yū and slowly falls in love with him, Ginta becomes jealous because he has been secretly in love with Miki for a long time. Together with Arimi Suzuki ( 鈴木 亜 梨 実 ), Yū's ex-girlfriend, who wants him to herself again, he tries to separate the two. To do this, they pretend a relationship with each other and then actually fall in love with each other. In addition to the two couples, Meiko and other students, such as the student representative Satoshi Miwa ( 三輪 悟 史 ), have to struggle with all kinds of love problems.
publication
The manga appeared for the first time from issue 5/1992 to 10/1995 in individual chapters in the magazine Ribon of the Shueisha publishing house . A second publication took place in the form of eight edited volumes.
All volumes of the series appeared in German for the first time from May 2003 to January 2005 by Egmont Manga and Anime . A second edition has been published as Perfect Edition by Tokyopop since February 2013 . The publisher already brought out the manga in English. Glénat published a French and a Dutch translation, Planeta DeAgostini and Grupo Editorial Vid published a Spanish version, and Planet Manga an Italian and a Portuguese version.
Adaptations
Anime television series
In 1994, the Toei Animation studio , directed by Akinori Yabe, produced a 76-part anime adaptation of the manga. The series script was written by Aya Matsui, the episode scripts by her, Genki Yoshimura, Masashi Noro and Yumi Kageyama, while Yoshihiko Umakoshi was responsible for character design and Kunihiro Chida for artistic direction. Since the adaptation was soon ahead of the plot of the original, new characters were introduced and the plot stretched.
The first broadcast took place from March 31, 1994 to September 3, 1995 on ABC . An English translation was shown by the station Anime Selects, a Spanish one was broadcast several times in Spain and Chile. The anime was also shown in Italy and the Philippines.
Voice actor
| role | Japanese voice |
|---|---|
| Ginta Suō | Jun'ichi Kanemaru |
| Arimi Suzuki | Aya Hisakawa |
| Miki Koishikawa | Mariko Koda |
| Yū Matsuura | Ryotaro Okiayu |
| Satoshi Miwa | Shin'ichirō Ōta |
| Shin'ichi Namura | Tōru Furuya |
| Meiko Akizuki | Wakana Yamazaki |
music
The music for the series was composed by Keiichi Oku . The opening song Egao ni Aitai ( 笑顔 に 会 い た い ) was written by Rie Hamada and the title Suteki na Serenade ( 素 敵 な
Video game
Bandai brought out an adaptation of the manga as a Ren'ai simulation for Game Boy and Super Famicom in 1995.
Books
One of Yumi Kageyama written version of Marmalade Boy as a light novel appeared from July 1994 to March 1996 in the magazine Cobalt Bunko . Wataru Yoshizumi contributed the illustrations. In addition, two art books were published for the manga , Marmalade Boy: Koi no Style Book and Marmalade Boy: Yoshizumi Wataru Illust-shū .
Motion picture
On March 4, 1995, the 23-minute short film Marmalade Boy Eiga ( 「映 画」 マ マ レ ー ド ・ ボ ー イ ) was released in Japanese cinemas. The film tells the story before and after the television series. It was also produced by Toei Animation with director Akinori Yabe and translated into English, Spanish and Italian.
Television series
A 30-episode television series based on the manga was produced and published in Taiwan in 2002. For the series entitled Júzǐjiāng Nánhái ( Chinese 橘子 醬 男孩 ), the plot of the manga has been changed significantly and many characters do not appear here.
reception
According to Anime Encyclopedia , the anime series was an unexpected success in Japan. The resulting longer running time of the series and the stretching of the plot mean, however, that the initial unusual starting point and the humor are soon lost in seemingly endless relationship drama. The AnimaniA calls the manga "humorous, romantic and beautifully drawn" . In addition to Japan, he was also successful in the USA and Italy. According to the manga scene , the anime series offers a wide range of love dramas and relationship problems that would actually affect the viewer. Comparable to a daily soap , the series is entertaining and can be addicting. The music is a bit cheesy, but it goes well with the anime.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition. Berkeley 2006, Stone Bridge Press, p. 401.
- ↑ AnimaniA 12/2003, p. 22.
- ↑ MangasZene No. 9, p. 14 ff.
Web links
- Official Manga Website (Japanese)
- Website of the German manga
- Toei animation about the TV series (Japanese)
- Anime News Network about Manga and Anime Series (English)