Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru

Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru
Original title	俺 の 彼女 と 幼 な じ み が 修羅 場 す ぎ る
transcription	Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru
Logo of the anime
genre	Harem , romance , comedy
Light novel
country	Japan
author	Yūji Yūji
illustrator	Ruroo
publishing company	SoftBank Creative
First publication	February 15, 2011 - ...
expenditure	9 + 1
Manga
country	Japan
author	Yūji Yūji
Illustrator	Nanasuke
publishing company	Square Enix
magazine	Gangan Joker
First publication	June 22, 2011 - ...
expenditure	4th
Anime television series
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	2013
Studio	A-1 Pictures
length	23 minutes
Episodes	13
Director	Kanta Kamei
music	Masatomo Ōta
First broadcast	January 6 - March 31, 2013 on Tokyo MX , Tochigi TV , Gunma TV , TV Kanagawa
synchronization

Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru ( Japanese 俺 の 彼女 と 幼 な じ み が 修羅 場 す ぎ る , Ger . "My girlfriend and childhood friend argue too much"), Oreshura for short ( 俺 修羅 ), is a series of light novels by Yūji Yūji which was also adapted in several manga , radio plays and as an anime series.

The word Shuraba in the title, translated here as “dispute”, actually means a “bloody / difficult battle” or “bloodbath” and refers to the place ( ba ) where the Asura (Japanese Shura ) fought with Sakra .

action

At the center of the plot is the 15-year-old Eita Kidō ( 季 堂 鋭 太 ). Because his parents divorced a year earlier, both found a new love and left Eita with his aunt, Eita has since rejected romances and love. Instead he devotes himself entirely to school in order to later become a doctor. This for the reason to be able to help his childhood friend ( osananajimi ) Chiwa Harusaki ( 春 咲 千 和 ), who due to an accident one year before can no longer practice her hobby Kendō and was a support to him and to him about the loneliness as his parents left him, helped away. Chiwa is also called " Chihuahua " (Japanese chiwawa ) because of her petite figure, although she is a big (meat) eater , and loves Eita.

One day his school has a new student named Masuzu Natsukawa ( 夏川 真 涼 ), who previously lived abroad. Because of her attractiveness, she receives a large number of love letters. She approaches Eita and asks him to become her boyfriend, not because she loves him, but because she sees him as a like-minded person who also abhors love and as her (false) friend, other boys would no longer bother her. Eita refuses at first, but Masuzu blackmailed him with his old diary that she happened to get her hands on. This comes from Eita's high school days when he still suffered from severe Chūnibyō , that is, he had a youthful "delusion" that he was a reborn superhero from space, which is extremely embarrassing to him today. He complies with Masuzu and learns the Masuzu, who appears to be a gentle and polite girl on the outside, but is extremely manipulative on the inside. This is how Masuzu becomes his (false) girlfriend ( kanojo ).

Khiva is very hostile towards Masuzu. During one of their quarrels, Khiva defiantly expresses that she would become more popular than Masuzu and find a much better friend than Eita. This fails and Masuzu apparently wants to help her, for which she founds a school club. She calls this "Association for girls to stage themselves" ( 自 ら を 演出 す る 乙 女 の 会 , Mizukara o enshutsu suru otome no kai ), 自 演 乙 の 会 for short (read as Jien'otsu no kai , roughly: “Association of the sock puppets "). Chiwa joins this in order to be closer to Eita and to prevent Masuzu from being alone with Eita again.

Himeko Akishino ( 秋 篠 姫 香 ), who suffers from Chūnibyō, is added later. When Eita had a brief relapse into his middle school delusions, he was observed by Himeko, who built his delusions into hers and now sees herself as his friend from a previous life, i.e. in her words as his "ex-girlfriend" ( 元カ ノ , motokano ).

The fourth in the league is Ai Fuyuumi ( 冬 海 愛 衣 ), a member of the disciplinary committee. In this role she initially wanted to close Masuzu's club, but then joins it. The reason for this is that she is also a childhood friend of Eita, but before Khiva, had to move 10 years ago and only recently came back. As children, they vowed to marry each other. Therefore she sees herself as his "fiancée" ( 婚約 者 , kon'yakusha ).

publication

The novel series is written by Yūji Yūji and illustrated by Ruroo. It has been published by Imprint GA Bunko from SoftBank Creative since February 2011 . So far (as of July 2015) 10 volumes have been published:

1. Feb 15, 2011, ISBN 978-4-7973-6396-8
2. June 15, 2011, ISBN 978-4-7973-6561-0
3. Sep 15 2011, ISBN 978-4-7973-6678-5 (normal), ISBN 978-4-7973-6679-2 (limited with insert)
4. Dec 15, 2011, ISBN 978-4-7973-6815-4
5. July 14, 2012, ISBN 978-4-7973-6971-7 (normal), ISBN 978-4-7973-6972-4 (limited with insert)
6. Jan 15, 2013, ISBN 978-4-7973-7284-7
7. Feb. 16, 2013, ISBN 978-4-7973-7285-4 (Volume 6.5 with short stories)
8. Feb. 15, 2014, ISBN 978-4-7973-7555-8
9. July 14, 2014, ISBN 978-4-7973-7735-4
10. Jan. 14, 2015, ISBN 978-4-7973-8264-8

By January 2012, the series of novels had sold more than 230,000 times. From November 2012 to November 2013, 190,000 more copies were sold, making it number 21 of the best-selling light novel series of the year.

The novels are also published in South Korea by Novel Engine.

Adaptations

Radio plays and radio show

Hobirecords adapted the novel series as a radio play. The two CDs were released on July 29 and October 28, 2011.

In addition, a radio show with the speakers of the radio play has been broadcast on their website at irregular intervals since April 28, 2011. On the occasion of the anime, a new radio show started on December 14, 2012 with the voice actors of the anime.

Manga

There are four manga adaptations of the novel, each written by the original author Yūji Yūji. They were drawn by different mangaka, each based on the character design by Ruroo.

A true-to-novel adaptation called Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru has been published since June 22, 2011 from issue 7/2011 in the Manga magazine Gangan Joker by Square Enix . The drawings are from Nanasuke. Since December 2011 this has been summarized in 4 anthologies ( Tankōbon ) so far (as of January 7, 2013) :

1. December 15, 2011, ISBN 978-4-7575-3433-9
2. April 21, 2012, ISBN 978-4-7575-3571-8
3. July 14, 2012, ISBN 978-4-7575-3656-2
4. December 22, 2012, ISBN 978-4-7575-3833-7

The sister magazine Young Gangan has published the Yonkoma manga Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru 4-koma ( 俺 の 彼女 と 幼 な じ み み が 修羅 場 す ぎ る 4 コ マ ) with the drawings by Morimo since October 21, 2011 (issue 21/2011) . This tells the story in a comic strip format. The chapters have so far been compiled in an anthology that appeared on July 14, 2012 ( ISBN 978-4-7575-3658-6 ).

Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru + H ( 俺 の 彼女 と 幼 な じ み が 修羅 場 す ぎ る + H ) was published from October 25, 2011 to October 25, 2012 in issues 1/2011 to 11/2012 of Big Gangan Comics magazine . Two anthologies of this manga drawn by Shin'ya Inase were published on July 14, 2012 ( ISBN 978-4-7575-3657-9 ) and December 22, 2012 ( ISBN 978-4-7575-3850-4 ).

The same magazine has been running Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru: Ai ( 俺 の 彼女 と 幼 な じ み が 修羅 場 す ぎ る 愛 ), drawn by Mutsutake , since December 25, 2012 (issue 1/2013) .

Anime

The animation studio A-1 Pictures adapted the novel as a 13-part anime television series directed by Kanta Kamei . The character design and animation direction was done by Mai Ōtsuka.

The music comes from Masatomo Ōta . The opening credits are Girlish Lover sung by Mizukara o enshutsu suru otome no kai , ie the voice actors of the four series protagonists, while the credits W: Wonder tale is played by Yukari Tamura .

The first broadcast took place from January 5, 2013 sharp midnight, ie the beginning of January 6, 2013, to March 31 on the channels Tokyo MX , Tochigi TV , Gunma TV and TV Kanagawa . TV Saitama , Chiba TV , TV Aichi , RKB Mainichi Hōsō , Hokkaidō Hōsō , and from January 10th Asahi Hōsō , from January 13th BS11 and from January 17th AT-X followed within three hours .

An English subtitled version was simulcast to the Japanese premiere on Crunchyroll in the United States , Canada , the United Kingdom , Ireland , Australia , New Zealand and South Africa . The series was licensed by Aniplex USA.

synchronization

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
	radio play	Anime
Eita Kidō	Junji Majima	Ryōta Osaka
Khiva Harusaki	Aki Toyosaki	Chinatsu Akasaki
Masuzu Natsukawa	Khiva Saitō	Yukari Tamura
Himeka Akishino	-	Hisako Kanemoto
Ai Fuyuumi	-	Ai Kayano

Web links

• Light Novel website (Japanese)
• Manga website (Japanese)
• Oreshura Yonkoma Manga website (Japanese)
• Manga Oreshura + H website (Japanese)
• Manga Oreshura Ai website (Japanese)
• Anime website (Japanese)
  • Website of the broadcaster Asahi Hōsō (Japanese)
• Light Novel , 1st Manga and Anime on Anime News Network (English)

References and comments

1. ↑ 月刊 ビ ッ グ ガ ン ガ ン . No. 2/2012 . Square Enix, S. 70 .
2. ↑ Top-Selling Light Novels in Japan by Series: 2013. In: Anime News Network. December 1, 2013, accessed April 6, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Entry at the Korean National Library ( MARC format)
4. ↑ ド ラ マ CD 俺 の 彼女 と 幼 な じ み が 修羅 場 す ぎ る . Hobirecords, accessed January 7, 2013 (Japanese). 
5. ↑ ド ラ マ CD 俺 の 彼女 と 幼 な じ み が 修羅 場 す ぎ る 第二 巻 . Hobirecords, accessed January 7, 2013 (Japanese). 
6. ↑ NEWS. 2012.12.14WEB ラ ジ オ 「ラ ジ オ の 婚約 者 と 幼 な じ み が 修羅 場 す ぎ る」 第 1 回 配 信 開始！ . In: TV ア ニ メ 「俺 の 彼女 と 幼 な じ み が 修羅 場 す す ぎ る」 公式 サ イ ト . December 14, 2012, Retrieved January 7, 2013 (Japanese). 
7. ↑ Patrick Macias: Crunchyroll to Stream "Oreshura" Anime. In: Crunchyroll. January 2, 2013, accessed January 7, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Oreshura. Aniplex USA, accessed May 16, 2013 . 

Remarks:

1. ↑ Jien'otsu is 2channel -lang with which one accuses someone of playing several people at the same time in an internet forum (see sock puppet ).
   Source: 自 演 乙 . In: ニ コ ニ コ 大 百科 . Retrieved January 7, 2013 (Japanese).