Princess Princess
| Princess Princess | |
|---|---|
| Original title | プ リ ン セ ス ・ プ リ ン セ ス |
| transcription | purinsesu purinsesu |
| genre | Shōjo , comedy |
| Manga | |
| title | Bakuman. |
| Original title | バ ク マ ン。 |
| country |
 Japan
|
| author | Mikiyo Tsuda |
| publishing company | Shinshokan |
| magazine | Wings |
| First publication | August 2002 - April 2006 |
| expenditure | 5 |
| Anime television series | |
| Country of production |
Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| year | 2006 |
| Studio | Studio Deen |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Director | Keitaro Motonaga |
| music | Kaoru Mizuki |
| First broadcast | April 5, 2006 on TV Asahi |
Princess Princess ( Japanese プ リ ン セ ス ・ プ リ ン セ ス , purinsesu purinsesu ) is a manga series by the Japanese artist Mikiyo Tsuda . It belongs to the Shōjo genre and is an indirect continuation of Tsuda's The Day of Revolution (1999). In 2006 Studio Deen produced an adaptation of an anime television series, a dorama series and a computer game for Princess Princess .
action
Tōru Kōno ( 河野 亨 ) changes to the Fujimori boys' school two months after the start of the school year. The students there have developed the tradition of choosing the prettiest boys to be school princesses due to the lack of girls. Toru is unexpectedly elected a princess, but unlike others, asked if he would like to take on the role. After initial resistance, he agrees, as he enjoys privileges as a “school princess”. So now he always goes to school in clothes, make-up and wig. Instead, like the other princesses, he is housed in his own apartment, receives pocket money and does not have to share the bathroom with all the other students. The princesses cheer on the school teams, appear at events and are supposed to exude a bit of femininity in the school.
Kōno bank neighbor Yujirō Shihōdani ( 四方 谷 裕 史 郎 ) is the school's "East Princess"; the rebellious Mikoto Yutaka ( 豊 実 琴 ) is the "West Princess". However, the latter actually doesn't want to have anything to do with it and is afraid of making himself look ridiculous in front of his girlfriend. The east and west princesses split the school into two camps, each of which worship their favorite princess.
Publications
Manga
Princess Princess was published in Japan from 2002 to 2006 in individual chapters in the manga magazine Wings . The Shinshokan publishing house also published these individual chapters in five anthologies. In 2006 Shinshokan published an additional volume under the title Princess Princess + . The Artbook Princess Princess Premium followed in 2007, which contains illustrations as well as several short stories in manga form.
The manga was published in German from September 2005 to December 2006 in five volumes by Egmont Manga and Anime , as the German translation of The Day of Revolution was a success. In December 2007, Princess Princess + and Princess Princess Premium appeared on EMA. The series has also been translated into English, French and Portuguese.
Anime
A 12-part anime series based on the manga ran on Japanese TV Asahi from April 5 to June 21, 2006 . In the production of Studio Deen led Keitaro Motonaga Director, concept and screenplay come from Akemi Omode . The character design was created by Atsuko Nakajima and the artistic direction was with Kunihiro Shinoda .
The complete series was released in 2007 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Poland on the anime label Anime Virtual in two mediabooks with 2 DVDs each. From September 2, 2007, the series was broadcast in Germany on Animax . English, French and Dutch dubbing appeared on commercial media.
synchronization
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Tōru Kono | Jun Fukuyama | Ricardo Richter |
| Mikoto Yutaka | Tetsuya Kakihara | Konrad Bösherz |
| Yujirō Shihōdani | Romi Park | Dirk Petrick |
music
The music for the series is by Kaoru Mizuki . The opening credits were underlaid with Kimi to Deatte Kara ( キ ミ と 出 逢 っ て か ら ) by Atsushi Miyazawa and the closing song is Hohoemi wo Agetai ( 微笑 み を あ げ た い ) by team-F.
Dorama
In the 2006 summer season, TV Asahi launched the Princess Princess D dorama series , which is also based on the manga. The protagonist is Mikoto. The character of Otoya Hanazono, who is dissatisfied with the school princesses and therefore sets up the group of dark princesses to compete with them, is newly introduced.
computer game
In October 2006 Marvelous Interactive released the game Princess Princess: Himetachi no Abunai Hōkago ( プ リ ン セ ス ・ プ リ ン セ ス 姫 姫 ち ち の ア ブ ナ い い 課後 ). The visual novel was designed for the PlayStation 2 platform .
Connection to other works
The character Mikoto Yutaka is the friend of the main character Megumi from The Day of Revolution . This previous series was released in Japan from 1999 to 2000. In it, she appears as a 15-year-old who learns that he is genetically a girl and is therefore undergoing a sex change. The secondary character Akira Sakamoto , class representative of Kōno and Shihōdani, also takes the lead role in the single volume Family Complex . The average boy, Sakamoto grows up among overwhelmingly attractive siblings. This frustrates him until he realizes that his siblings are not only benefiting from their looks.
Between Tsuda's Princess Princess and Eiki Eiki's Train Train , both Mangaka also drew cross-over, first Eiki Eiki with Tore × Puri ( ト レ × プ リ ), which was reprinted in Princess Princess Volume 3, and then Tsuda with Puri × Tore in Train Train Band 2.
reception
The MangasZene calls the series the "right reading material for fans of absurd school comedies with plenty of bishons and romantic dresses" . The style is characterized by many close-ups, generous panels and intensive use of grid foils . In the anime, the outfits of the three protagonists shone all the more in color and the Japanese dubbing roles are appropriately cast. The dorama is not convincing: what "came across as funny in the anime or manga " looks pretty silly in real life . The actors of the protagonists would also not have the same charm of their drawn role models.
The Animania certifies the series a "fast-paced, clean subscribed comedy style" . The turbulent and extremely entertaining comedy also shines with detailed and cute drawings . As a frequently used element, the small super-deformed faces are praised in speech bubbles, which further clarify the mood of the characters.
Jason Thompson, on the other hand, writes that the series is extraordinarily boring, the story is dialog-heavy and leads nowhere. Most of the time, the pretty characters typical of the genre talk about the school rules without actually acting or doing anything.
Web links
- Official homepage for the anime series (Japanese)
- Entry at Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c MangasZene No. 35, pp. 18f.
- ↑ a b Animania 10/2005, p. 41.
- ↑ a b Animania 12/2007, p. 76ff.
- ↑ Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . Del Rey, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8 , pp. 282 .