Perfect girl
| Perfect girl | |
|---|---|
| Original title | ヤ マ ト ナ デ シ コ 七 変 化 ♥ |
| transcription | Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge |
| genre | Comedy , shōjo |
| Manga | |
| country |
 Japan
|
| author | Tomoko Hayakawa |
| publishing company | Kōdansha |
| magazine | Bessatsu Friend |
| First publication | October 13, 2000 - January 13, 2015 |
| expenditure | 35/36 |
| Anime television series | |
| Country of production |
Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| year | 2006 |
| Studio | Nippon animation |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 25th |
| Director | Shin'ichi Watanabe |
| production | Jun Togawa , Shinsaku Hatta , Takashi Watanabe |
| music | Hiromi Mizutani , Yasuharu Takanashi |
| First broadcast | October 3, 2006 on TV Tokyo , TV Aichi |
Perfect Girl ( Japanese ヤ マ ト ナ デ シ コ 七 変 化 ♥ , Yamato nadeshiko Shichi Henge ♥ ) is a manga series by the Japanese illustrator Tomoko Hayakawa . It was published from 2000 to 2015, comprises around 5500 pages and is aimed primarily at young girls, so it can be assigned to the Shōjo genre. Perfect Girl was implemented as an anime .
action
The adolescent Sunako Nakahara ( 中原 ス ナ nicht ) has not cared about her appearance since a boy rejected her and has withdrawn from the outside world. Her aunt instructs the four pretty boys Kyohei, Ranmaru, Yukinojo and Takenaga to turn Sunako into a real lady. As a thank you, the aunt promises the boys that if they manage to do it, they can live in a large villa for free.
When the boys discover that Sunako is a neglected schoolgirl whose favorite hobby is horror films and who grows bangs over her face, they don't know what to do. Since Sunako sees a skeleton and an anatomy doll as her only friends, she is not thrilled that she has to share her beloved, gloomy home with four beloved and beautiful boys from now on. In order not to have to pay the rental costs, the boys try everything to make Sunako a real lady.
Manga
The series is by Tomoko Hayakawa . The less important characters, like many other manga artists, are drawn by their assistants. From October 13, 2000 to January 13, 2015, the manga was published in Japan in individual chapters in the manga magazine Bessatsu Friend . The Kōdansha publishing house also publishes these individual chapters in edited volumes; 35 have appeared so far, with the final volume due to appear on February 13, 2015. By early 2006, the first fourteen volumes had sold over five million times in Japan, by autumn of the same year the first sixteen volumes had sold over six million times and by January 2015 the 35 volumes in Japan had sold over 9.3 million times.
The manga is also being published in North America, Singapore and Germany. The German translation of 20 anthologies was published by Tokyopop from December 2004 to December 2008 . The publication was discontinued in 2009 because the Japanese publisher ended its collaboration with Tokyopop. The manga has been continued by Egmont Manga and Anime since December 2009 , so far up to volume 32. Del Rey publishes the English-language edition under the title The Wallflower in the USA and Canada.
Adaptations
Anime
From October 3, 2006 to March 27, 2007, the Japanese television station TV Tokyo broadcast an anime television series based on the manga. The anime, directed by Shin'ichi Watanabes and produced by the animation studio Nippon Animation , consists of 25 episodes. The character design was designed by Yasuko Sakuma and the artistic direction was Yumi Kudō.
ADV Films released the anime in North America, Great Britain and in January 2008 under the label Universum Film in Germany. However, the German release was canceled after a DVD that included the first five episodes. Madman Entertainment released them in Australia and New Zealand and TV5 showed them on TV in the Philippines.
Voice actor
| role | Japanese voice ( seiyū ) | German voice |
|---|---|---|
| Ranmaru Morii | Hirofumi Nojima | Timm new |
| Kyohei Takano | Showtaro Morikubo | Tommy Morgenstern |
| Takenaga Oda | Tomokazu Sugita | Jaron Lowenberg |
| Sunako Nakahara | Yukiko Takaguchi | Tanya Kahana |
| Yukinojō Tōyama | Yūya Yamauchi | Florian Klein |
music
The music for the series was composed by Hiromi Mizutani and Yasuharu Takanashi . Kiyoharu sang the opening credits slow . The songs Carnation by Kiyoharu and ∞Changing∞ by Bon-Bon Blanco were used for the two end credits .
Real television series
In early 2010, the manga was converted into a real television series . It comprises ten episodes and was broadcast on TBS in Japan under the name Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge ( ヤ マ ト ナ デ シ コ 七 変 化 ). Kazuya Kamenashi and Aya Ōmasa played the main roles.
reception
Jason Thompson describes the series as a successful sitcom that lives from its funny main character, whose madness - especially that of the main character - increases in the course of the series. Your four male companions serve primarily as " eye candy " for the readers. You can tell from abrupt changes in the drawing style, which the draftswoman also admits that the less important figures are drawn by her assistants.
The specialist magazine MangasZene writes of a “firework of gags” , which is supported by the frequent use of super deformed drawings. There are “sympathetic, crazy characters in weird situations” and also pretty girls and boys, so there is something for everyone. The AnimaniA emphasizes the very simple drawing style of Tomoko Hayakawa, which is rare for Shōjo-Manga and which is particularly evident in the many slapstick scenes. These are "created with only fleeting strokes and are partly reminiscent of sketches" . The illustrator shows her skills especially in the scenes in which Sunako transforms into a pretty girl. The story is not very innovative and contains frequent repetitions of the topics and no "solid character and story development" . Nevertheless, she can sometimes surprise with new sides of the characters and the reader is concerned from the start with the question of whether Sunako “can win the heart of one of the boys” . But it offers " optically [...] above all nicely drawn bishons and SD representations" and is sure to please "fans of inexperienced comedy" . The anime series, on the other hand, was unsuccessful and animated woodenly. In addition, "an uninspired character and background design as well as exaggerated slapstick scenes" would spoil the actually interesting story. The German synchronization was also unsuccessful and seemed "also a bit listless" .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . New York 2007, Del Rey. P. 391 f.
- ↑ ComiPress
- ↑ Official website for the anime series ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/01/14/the-wallflower-shoujo-manga-ends-its-15-year-serialization
- ↑ Anime no Tomodachi Newsletter No. 398, 01-09
- ↑ a b AnimaniA 01-02 / 2008, p. 18 f.
- ↑ MangasZene No. 24, p. 35
- ↑ AnimaniA 01-02 / 2005, p. 32.
Web links
- Manga and Anime on Anime News Network (English)