Natsu no Arashi!

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Natsu no Arashi!
Original title 夏 の あ ら し！
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Jin Kobayashi
publishing company Square Enix
magazine Gangan Wing , Gangan Joker
First publication August 26, 2006 - September 22, 2010
expenditure 8th
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2009
Studio Shaft
length 25 minutes
Episodes 13
Director Akiyuki Shimbo
production Junnosuke Miyamoto
music Ken Sato
First broadcast April 6, 2009 - June 29, 2009 on TV Tokyo
Anime television series
title Natsu no Arashi! Akinai-chu
Original title 夏 の あ ら し！ 春夏 冬 中
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2009
Studio Shaft
length 25 minutes
Episodes 13
Director Akiyuki Shimbo
production Junnosuke Miyamoto
music Ken Sato
First broadcast October 5, 2009 - December 28, 2009 on TV Tokyo

Natsu no Arashi! ( jap. 夏 の あ ら,! , dt. "Summer thunderstorm!") is a manga written and illustrated by Jin Kobayashi , published from August 26, 2006 to March 26, 2009 in Gangan Wing magazine , then from April 22, 2009 to probably will be published on September 22, 2010 in the successor Gangan Joker . The published chapters of the manga have been combined into eight Tankōbon editions. The animation studio Shaft sat Natsu no Arashi! in 2009 as two 13-part anime television series and in the same year published a 13-part sequel under the title Natsu no Arashi! Akinai-chu .

action

Thirteen-year-old and somewhat stocky Hajime Yasaka spends his summer holidays at his grandfather's house. One day he meets the beautiful waitress Sayoko Arashiyama in a corner café and for him it is love at first sight. When trying to get closer to her, the private detective enters the cafe and claims that Sayoko's family sent him to bring her back, even if he had to use force to do so. With the unexpected help of Hajime, however, she manages to escape and so she hides in his apartment. Only a short time later, however, Hajime realizes that Sayoko is not a normal girl, but the ghost of someone who died in World War II . This manifests itself in her in unusual abilities. For example, she can travel through time through contact with Hajime, which leads to numerous temporal paradoxes in the course of the plot.

Characters

Sayoko Arashiyama ( 嵐山 小 夜 子 , Arashiyama Sayoko )

As a sixteen-year-old girl, the beautiful schoolgirl died during an attack in World War II. She later returns as a ghost with supernatural powers and works as a waitress in the corner café. Your personality fluctuates between polite restraint, adult seriousness and cheerful carelessness.

Hajime Yasaka ( 八 坂 一 , Yasaka Hajime )

As a thirteen-year-old boy of short stature and a big nose, he fell in love with Sayoko. He always has crazy ideas that bring him and his fellow human beings into strange situations. At the same time, he is very cheeky and, due to his bold manner, has to take the beatings of the other employees of the café over and over again.

Kaja ( カ ヤ , Kaya )

She is the ghost of a German exchange student who died in World War II and has had a close friendship with Sayoko since her school days. In contrast to her friend, however, she is much more reserved and does not seem to have got used to modern life.

Jun Kamigamo ( 上 賀 茂 潤 , Kamigamo Jun )

Jun also works as a waitress and a girl posing as a boy. This leads to numerous controversial situations, which are evoked mainly by the owner of the café and Hajime, since they assume that Jun is a young man. So Hajime has to take the blows she has given over and over again. In addition to this main problem, Jun also suffers from an extreme fear of vermin of all kinds.

Sayaka ( さ や か )

As a middle-aged woman is the owner ( master ) of the corner café. In this context she is repeatedly described as an exploiter and a fraud who loudly asserts herself against the employees of the restaurant. So she sets one trap after the other for the detective Hideo Murata and prevents him from going about his job.

Hideo Murata ( 村田 英雄 , Murata Hideo )

Under the code name Gurasan ( グ ラ サ ン , play on words with Sangurasu ( サ ン グ ラ ス ), German "sunglasses"), Hideo is on the road as a private detective. However, the tall and muscular man, who mostly wears army clothing and sunglasses, lacks orders. He is particularly keen on completing orders quickly and by all means. In his private life he is almost starving because the electricity has already been turned off and he no longer even has the money to buy something to eat. In the meantime, he is repeatedly terrorized by an anonymous caller who keeps asking the same question. What is particularly annoying is that the name of the law firm, with which Hideo introduces himself every time the phone is picked up, is very long.

Origin and publications

The artist Jin Kobayashi was for his work School Rumble and his successor School Rumble Z known. While he was still implementing School Rumble , he began working on Natsu no Arashi in 2006 ! . Since August 26, 2006, the manga appears in magazines published by Square Enix , first in Gangan Wing , which was discontinued with the May issue on March 26, 2009, from April 22, 2009 in the successor Gangan Joker . On August 21, 2010, it was announced in this magazine that the manga would end in the following October issue. So the manga ended on September 22nd, 2010 and Kobayashi started on his next work Ichiro Heian! to work.

By November 2010, all 50 chapters of the manga were combined into eight tankōbon editions and published.

Together with the 6th volume, a book about the manga series was published on September 18, 2009.

  • Natsu no Arashi! Comic Guide 6.5 ( 夏 の あ ら し！ コ ミ ッ ク ガ イ ド 6.5 , September 18, 2009, ISBN 978-4-7575-2676-1 )

Anime

In November 2008, the adaptation of Natsu no Arashi! announced as an anime television series. Directed by Akiyuki Shimbō and based on the script by Katsuhiko Takayama, the anime was produced in the Shaft animation studio . The characters were designed by Kazuhiro Ota based on the drawings by Jin Kobayashi .

From April 6 to June 29, 2009 shortly after midnight (and thus on the previous television day ), the series, comprising 13 episodes, was broadcast weekly on the Japanese television channel TV Tokyo and also on other channels with a time delay.

Starchild Records announced that the series would be continued in the fall of 2009. It was launched from October 6th to December 29th, 2009, also shortly after midnight, under the name Natsu no Arashi! Akinai-chū ( Japanese 夏 の あ ら し！ 春夏 冬 中 ) and produced by Studio Shaft and broadcast on TV Tokyo and other broadcasters.

Both series were also offered as a simulcast with English subtitles by the streaming service Crunchyroll .

Conception

The series often uses expressionistic or unrealistic elements. The backgrounds are often deliberately shifted against the movement of the "camera" and many scenes have a shadow that fills the entire image in the form of a polygon, outside of which the surroundings are depicted in a strongly darkened manner.

Inside the corner café, where a large part of the action takes place, the entire parquet converges in a star shape to a point, while abstract representations of pictures by well-known artists hang on the walls, which are exchanged depending on the situation. For example, an allusion to The Scream by Edvard Munch is shown when disaster threatens in a scene.

In the ninth episode, numerous cameo appearances by characters from other characters at the same time or anime that had already ended crept into the series. So the main characters from K-On changed! or Idolmaster: Xenoglossia as guests. Hinako from the OVA Issho ni Training: Training with Hinako was to be seen as the motif of the murals. There were also other characters from various anime productions. Among them was Maria Holic , a series that made numerous cameos.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Sayoko Arashiyama Ryōko Shiraishi
Hajime Yasaka Yūko Sanpei
Kaja Kaori Nazuka
Jun Kamigamo Chiaki Omigawa
Sayaka Hitomi Nabatame
Hideo Murata Hiroki Yasumoto
Yayoi Fushimi Ai Nonaka
Kanako Yamazaki Yui Horie
Takeshi Yamashiro Tomokazu Sugita

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-21/natsu-no-arashi-manga-to-end-in-september
  2. ↑ School Rumble's Kobayashi Launches Ichiro Heian! Manga. In: Anime News Network. April 8, 2011, accessed November 20, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Jin Kobayashi's Natsu no Arashi to be Animated in 2009. Anime News Network , November 23, 2008, accessed May 9, 2009 .
  4. ↑ StarChild: 夏 の あ ら し！ 第 2 期 （仮） . Retrieved June 29, 2009 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ Natsu no Arashi! Anime Gets 2nd Season Green-Lit (Updated). June 29, 2009, accessed June 29, 2009 .
  6. ↑ Crunchyroll to Simulcast Natsu no Arashi on April 5. In: Anime News Network. April 5, 2009, accessed November 20, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Crunchyroll Adds Natsu no Arashi 2 TV Anime Sequel. In: Anime News Network. September 30, 2009, accessed November 20, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Natsu no Arashi Cameo Café. In: Sankaku Complex. June 2, 2009, accessed June 23, 2009 .

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