Pastel (manga)

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Pastel is a manga series by Toshihiko Kobayashi . The manga can be classified into the genres of Shonen , Comedy and Romanticism.

action

The 16 year old boy Mugi Tadano ( 只 野 麦 ) lives almost alone because his mother has died and his father Ken Tadano ( 只 野 健 ) is constantly traveling as a photographer. When his girlfriend leaves him because she is going to Tokyo, he is lovesick and all the more lonely.

Therefore his good friend Kazuki Sanmiya ( 三 宮 一 機 ) invites him to his aunt's pension on an island. There they earn some extra money and Kazuki introduces Mugi to the girl Yū Tsukisaki ( 月 咲 ゆ う ). By chance, Mugi saw her naked, but she doesn't mind. They become friends and Mugi falls in love. But when Kazuki again arranges that Mugi sees Yū while he is moving and that he rejects all guilt, Yū is upset and leaves the island.

When he got home, Mugi notices that his father is back again. When he is looking for him, he finds Yū, again naked, in the bathroom. It turns out that she and her sister Tsukasa Tsukisaki ( 月 咲 つ か さ ) are orphans, daughters of a former friend of Mugi's father, who are now supposed to live with them. So now they both live together again and Mugi tries to get closer to Yū.

publication

The manga has been published in Japan since November 2002 by Kodansha in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine . In 2003 the series switched to Magazine Special . The individual chapters have so far been summarized in 32 anthologies .

The publisher Del Rey published the manga in English in the US and it will appear in Chinese at Tong Li Comics in Taiwan.

The German edition has been published by Planet Manga since 2005 . By September 2007, 15 volumes had been published in Germany. The publication was stopped due to poor sales.

reception

According to the specialist magazine AnimaniA , the plot largely corresponds to that of the previous work, Parallel , and the characters are only slightly changed. The story contains plenty of fan service and the main female character in particular is often staged in detail. In contrast, the male characters are simply designed. So he doesn't offer Manga anything new after Parallel , but is technically successful.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AnimePro on the manga
  2. ^ Statement in the publishing forum on the discontinuation of the publication
  3. ↑ AnimaniA 4/2005, p. 34

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