PitaTen
PitaTen ( Japanese ぴ た テ ン ) is a manga series by the Japanese manga artist Koge-Donbo .
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One day on the way to school, the boy Kotaro meets an unusual girl named Misha , who has just moved in next to him. Misha claims to be an angel and wants to replace his deceased mother from now on. Kotaro, whose father is constantly on business trips, doesn't like that at all, as Misha turns out to be a chaotic housework. Then the mysterious Shia moves in with Misha, as both are quite lonely. But Kotaro is more than suspicious of the girl, as he gets a terrible headache around her.
In addition, Kotaro has to prepare for his exam in order to be accepted at a higher school. But most of the time he doesn't come to study when Misha is celebrating one of her parties again. But with the support of his friends Uematsu and Ten-chan, he can do anything.
Characters
Misha , the strange girl who lives next to Kotaro, claims to be an angel. The strange moments pile up and one day she shows her wings to Kotaro. Her greatest wish is to become a real angel and make Kotaro happy. But since she is not yet a real angel, she is not yet trained enough, her attempts to help Kotaro usually turn into catastrophes that only make things worse. She becomes more sensible over time and slowly realizes how she can really help Kotaro.
Kotaro is a pretty cool sixth grader. He lost his mother very early in a car accident in which he was present and only survived because his mother saved him. For him it was a traumatic experience. When Misha shows up and wants to play his mother for him, he is not exactly enthusiastic and clearly shows her what doesn't bother her in the least. Since Kotaro's father is often away on business, he is mostly at home alone and has to look after himself, which he does quite well. Since Misha is his neighbor, it never gets boring with him, but that also means he never has his peace of mind, especially not when he urgently needs her.
Shia is also Kotaro's neighbor and an excellent cook. At first Kotaro has a bad feeling about her, she is scary to him and he always gets a headache when he sees her, but over time he gets to know her really well and also likes her very much.
Nyaa is Shia's cat. She always thinks that Shia is too nice and always forces her to do bad things ...
Ten-chan, Uematsu, Shino, Sasha, Hiroshi and Kaoru
Sasha is Misha's sister and was initially surprised by Kotaro because he could see her. After that, she was very jealous of Kotaro for claiming that Kotaro interfered with Misha's angelic training. In the end, she showed him something terrible, but also the truth.
Ten-chan is a very good student who is very popular at his school. Mostly he hangs out with Kotaro, Uematsu, Misha, and Shia. He is in love with Shia and can't stand Hiroshi's approach to Shia. Hiroshi calls her "Daemon" and claims that it is the truth. Ten-chan is believed to be perfect because he always has very good grades and is very popular, but the reality is that he has problems.
Shino is Kotaro's cousin and is afraid of Shia. She is very fond of Misha. She still lives with her grandfather and sometimes visits Kotaro. In the anime, her father takes her to Kotaru because he has to go to the hospital.
Hiroshi Mitarai hates Ten-chan because he's always one line down on tests. He is a very rich boy from a venerable family. He always wanted to be better than Ten-chan. He loves Misha and doesn't like Shia. The characters of his last name ( 御 手洗 ) mean "toilet", but are then read o-tearai .
Kaoru is Hiroshi's sister and has a crush on Ten-chan. At first she mistook Ten-chan for Kotaro and kept attacking Kotaro. She is a good friend to Koboshi Uematsu and Misha. She is very good at baking sweets.
Publications
Manga
The eight-volume series was published in Japan from 1999 to 2003 in Media Works ' manga magazine Dengeki Comic Gao! and was published in Germany from 2002 to August 2004 by Egmont Manga and Anime .
Anime
In addition to the manga, there is a 26-part anime series based on the manga. The series was produced by BROCCOLI . The series first aired on TV Tokyo between April and September 2002 . The music is from Hikaru Nanase .
Translations exist in Spanish and Portuguese .
Artbook
Several art books have been published on Pita-Ten . The PitaTen Postcard Gashū ( ぴ た テ ン ポ ス ト カ ー ド 画集 ; ISBN 4-8402-2081-6 ) was published in February 2002, PitaTen Tanoshimi Kata Vol. 1 ( ぴ た テ ン の 楽 し み 方 Vol.1; ISBN 4-8402-1968-0 ) in August 2002, Volume 2 ( ISBN 4-8402-2244-4 ) in December 2002, as well as Kogedon PitaTen Gashū ( コ ゲ ど ん ぼ 画集 ぴ た テ ン ; ISBN 4-8402-2542-7 ) in December 2003.
The latter, 122-page art book, was also published in English on May 9, 2006 by Tokyopop USA, as well as in French.
Radio plays and light novel
In 2002 two radio plays were broadcast on Radio Ōsaka and Nippon Cultural Broadcasting . A 3-part light novel , written by Yukari Ochiai with a cover design by Koge-Donbo and illustrations by Rina Yamaguchi , was published by Dengeki G's Bunko from 2002 to 2003 .
Web links
- Anime News Network to manga and anime (English)