Mayo Chiki!
| Mayo Chiki! | |
|---|---|
| Original title | ま よ チ キ! |
| transcription | Mayo Chiki! |
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| Logo of the anime | |
| genre | Romantic comedy |
| Light novel | |
| country |
 Japan
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| author | Hajime Asano |
| illustrator | Seiji Kikuchi |
| publishing company | Media Factory |
| First publication | November 21, 2009 - July 23, 2012 |
| expenditure | 12 |
| Manga | |
| country |
Japan
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| author | Hajime Asano |
| Illustrator | NEET |
| publishing company | Media Factory |
| magazine | Gekkan Comic Alive |
| First publication | July 27, 2009 - November 27, 2013 |
| expenditure | 7th |
| Manga | |
| title | Mayo Mayo! |
| Original title | ま よ マ ヨ! |
| country |
Japan
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| author | Hajime Asano |
| Illustrator | Yū Eichi |
| publishing company | Kadokawa Shoten |
| magazine | Nyantype |
| First publication | November 30, 2010 - October 29, 2011 |
| expenditure | 2 |
| Anime television series | |
| Country of production |
Japan
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| original language | Japanese |
| year | 2011 |
| Studio | feel. |
| length | 23 minutes |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Director | Keiichirō Kawaguchi |
| music | Yukari Hashimoto |
| First broadcast | July 8th - September 30th 2011 on TBS |
Mayo Chiki! ( jap. ま よ チ キ! ) is a light novel series by the Japanese author Hajime Asano with illustrations by Seiji Kikuchi . The first volume was published in November 2009. Eleven other volumes of the series of novels been published by Media Factory under the label MF Bunko J .
Mayo Chiki! was adapted by two manga series as well as by an anime television series of the same name .
action
The tales of Mayo Chiki! focus on the environment of the high school student Kinjirō Sakamachi ( 坂 町 近 次郎 , Sakamachi Kinjirō ), who one day makes an unusual discovery. The butler Subaru Konoe ( 近衛 ス バ ル , Konoe Subaru ), entirely in the service of the rich Suzutsuki family and their daughter and student Kanade Suzutsuki ( 涼 月 奏 , Suzutsuki Kanade ), turns out to be a woman before the eyes of the protagonist. The reaction from Subaru, who wants to kill him most, is correspondingly strong. Eventually he discovered the secret that Kanade does not have a male butler, which is completely contrary to the tradition of the two families. Subaru is only allowed to perform this task as long as no one is aware of this without bringing shame on their family.
Subaru's first attempts to get rid of him, however, survived due to daily, involuntary training with his younger sister Kureha Sakamachi ( 坂 町 紅 羽 , Sakamachi Kureha ) harmless. Emulating her mother, she is obsessed with becoming a great fighter, which is why she repeatedly abuses Kinjirō as a test subject. Since Subaru was unsuccessful in eliminating him, her mistress Kanade finally also gets Kinjirō's discovery and finds that Kinjirō is "allergic" to women, which is usually expressed in immediate nosebleeds. Kanade, who can be described as quite sadistic, therefore devises the plan that Kinjirō should keep Subaru's secret and, in return, Subaru should help him to overcome his allergy through a kind of desensitization.
As a result of this situation, Subaru and Kinjirō fall in love, which is understood at school as a love between two boys. He is not only confronted with the accusation of being gay, but is also despised by the two Subarus fan clubs, which consist of girls, who see him as competition for his favor. While the first of these two fan clubs opposes the apparently homoerotic relationship between Subarus and Kinjirōs, the second club from Fujoshis tries to support the young, freshly awakening happiness of the two, and if necessary duels with the first group.
As the couple gets closer and closer, this process is hindered again and again by all sorts of misunderstandings and by the need to maintain Subaru's camouflage: in addition to the fact that both cannot publicly show themselves as a couple and that Kinjirō's sister Kureha is head over heels Subaru falls in love, also because Kanade apparently also develops feelings for Kinjirō, although it never really becomes clear to what extent she just enjoys living out her sadism on him.
Origin and publications
Light novel
The Mayo Chiki! Series of novels aimed primarily at a male audience . was written by the Japanese author Hajime Asano . The illustrations typical of light novels , which are inserted as individual pages between the plot sections, were drawn by Seiji Kikuchi .
The first volume was released in Japan on November 21, 2009 by Imprint MF Bunko J published by Media Factory . All twelve volumes (as of October 20, 2015) have been published there:
- Vol. 1: ISBN 978-4-8401-3084-4 , November 25, 2009
- Vol. 2: ISBN 978-4-8401-3155-1 , January 25, 2010
- Vol. 3: ISBN 978-4-8401-3278-7 , April 23, 2010
- Vol. 4: ISBN 978-4-8401-3453-8 , July 23, 2010
- Vol. 5: ISBN 978-4-8401-3550-4 , October 25, 2010
- Vol. 6: ISBN 978-4-8401-3697-6 , January 25, 2011
- Vol. 7: ISBN 978-4-8401-3894-9 , April 25, 2011
- Vol. 8: ISBN 978-4-8401-3940-3 , June 24, 2011
- Vol. 9: ISBN 978-4-8401-4240-3 , September 22, 2011
- Vol. 10: ISBN 978-4-8401-4367-7 , January 25, 2012
- Vol. 11: ISBN 978-4-8401-4547-3 , April 25, 2012
- Vol. 12: ISBN 978-4-8401-4639-5 , July 23, 2012
The series ended as planned with Volume 12.
Manga
Building on the light novel series, two manga adaptations were made. Like the original, the former is titled Mayo Chiki! and was drawn by NEET. It was printed in the monthly manga magazine Comic Alive from the September 2010 issue (July 2010). In terms of content, the manga is a retelling of the novel series. The individual chapters of this adaptation have been combined into seven tankōbon issues:
- Vol. 1: ISBN 978-4-8401-3387-6 , October 23, 2010
- Vol. 2: ISBN 978-4-8401-4003-4 , June 23, 2011
- Vol. 3: ISBN 978-4-8401-4037-9 , September 22, 2011
- Vol. 4: ISBN 978-4-8401-4495-7 , July 22, 2012
- Vol. 5: ISBN 978-4-8401-4750-7 , November 22, 2012
- Vol. 6: ISBN 978-4-8401-5057-6 , May 23, 2013
- Vol. 7: ISBN 978-4-04-066243-5 , January 23, 2014
A second adaptation as a manga appeared under the title Mayo Mayo! ( ま よ マ ヨ! ) And was drawn by Yū Eichi . The action is based on a comparable scenario. However, the male protagonist was replaced by the female, lesbian main character Hinata Yaoi , who is supposed to work as a servant in Kanade Suzutsuki's villa and who promptly falls in love with Subaru. The manga series appeared in the magazine Nyantype , edited by Kadokawa Shoten , from the 14th issue (end of November 2010). The chapters have been summarized in two tankōbon:
- Vol. 1: ISBN 978-4-04-715727-9 , June 25, 2011
- Vol. 2: ISBN 978-4-04-120084-1 , January 26, 2012
Web links
- Media Factory website for the light novel series (Japanese)
- Website of the magazine Nyantype about Manga Mayo Mayo! (Japanese)
- Website from music producer King Records about the anime (Japanese)
- TBS TV station website about the anime (Japanese)
- Entry of the manga Mayo Mayo! and anime in the Encyclopedia of Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mayo Chiki! Light Novel Scheduled to End With Next Volume. In: Anime News Network. April 25, 2012, accessed April 26, 2012 .