Otomes

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Otomes
Original title オ ト メ ン (乙 男)
transcription Otomes
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Aya Kanno
publishing company Hakusensha
magazine Bessatsu Hana to Yume
First publication 2006 - November 2012
expenditure 18th
Television series
Original title Otomes - Natsu
Otomes - Aki
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
year 2009
Episodes 12
genre Dorama
First broadcast August 1, 2009 - November 3, 2009 on Fuji TV

Otomen ( Japanese オ ト メ ン (乙 男) ) is a manga series by the Japanese illustrator Aya Kanno , which has appeared in Japan since 2006 and has also been implemented as a television series.

The title is a play on words from Japanese otome ( 乙 女 , "girl"), in which the symbol for woman is replaced by that for man and this English is read as men .

content

The student Asuka Masamune ( 正宗 ) is tall, athletic and popular with the girls. He practices judo , karate and kendo and is considered cool and manly. But in reality he, like sweets Shoujo - Manga , everything Cute and cook, knit like. When he was younger, his father left his mother because he always wanted to be a woman. His mother raised him severely afterwards and no longer tolerated Asuka's inclination for anything cute.

When Ryō Miyakozuka ( 都 塚 り ょ う ) comes to school, Asuka immediately falls in love with her. Ryō lives with her father, a police officer and owner of his own dōjō. Asuka cannot keep his true personality a secret from her.

publication

The manga was published from 2006 to 2012 in the Bessatsu Hana to Yume magazine published by Hakusensha . The individual chapters have also been published in 18 anthologies so far. An English translation is published by Viz Media in the US and Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand. Akata / Delcourt publishes a French version and Tong Li publishes the manga in Taiwan. A German translation by Claudia Peter was published in full from October 2010 to December 2015 by Carlsen Verlag .

Adaptation

A dorama based on the manga was created in 2009 under the direction of Masaki Tanimura . The first eight episodes called Otomen - Natsu ( オ ト メ ン （乙 男） 〜 夏 〜 , "Otomen - Summer") were broadcast on Fuji TV in Japan from August 1 to October 26, 2009 , the next four episodes under the title Otomen - Aki ( オ ト メ ン （乙 男） 〜 秋 〜 , "Otomen - Autumn") from October 13th to November 3rd, 2009.

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