Sakamichi no Apollon

Sakamichi no Apollon
Original title	坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン
transcription	Sakamichi no Aporon
Logo of the anime
genre	music
Manga
country	Japan
author	Kodama Yuki
publishing company	Shogakukan
magazine	Flowers
First publication	September 28, 2007 - January 28, 2012
expenditure	9
Anime television series
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	2012
Studio	MAPPA Tezuka Productions
length	24 minutes
Episodes	12
Theme music	OP Playball by YUKI ED Altair by Motohiro Hata
Director	Shin'ichirō Watanabe
music	Yōko Kanno
First broadcast	April 13 - June 29, 2012 on Fuji TV
synchronization

Sakamichi no Apollon ( Japanese 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン , Sakamichi no Aporon , Eng . "The Apollon from the Hang") is a manga series drawn by Kodama Yuki and was published in the Shojo manga magazine Flowers of the Shogakukan publishing house . It was adapted as an anime television series in 2012 , the English title of which is Kids on the Slope .

action

Due to his father's work situation, Kaoru Nishimi ( 西 見 薫 ) had to move from Yokosuka to Sasebo in Kyushu in the summer of 1966 to live with his paternal aunt. There he met the energetic Sentarō Kawabuchi ( 川 渕 千 太郎 ) and his sandpit friend Ritsuko Mukae ( 迎 律 子 ). When Sentarō learns that Kaoru can play the piano , he urges the rather withdrawn Kaoru to play jazz with him in the basement of Ritsuko's father's record shop . Kaoru didn’t like this idea very much at the beginning, because up until this point he saw school education as part of his life and regarded jazz as barbaric. However, over time Kaoru can win more and more from jazz and befriends, among others, Sentarō and falls in love with Ritsuko. However, she rejects him because she is in love with Sentaro.

Anime

In 2012 the manga was filmed by MAPPA and Tezuka Productions and directed by Shin'ichirō Watanabe as an anime television series.

The first broadcast of the total of 12 episodes took place from April 13th to June 29th, 2012 shortly after midnight (and thus on the previous television day ) in the aminoA program block on Fuji TV . With up to a week offset followed by other stations of Fuji Network Systems (FNS) as Tōkai TV , Saga TV , TV Nishi-Nippon , Sakuranbo TV , Akita TV , Kagoshima TV , TV Kumamoto , Fukushima TV , TV Shin-Hiroshima , TV Ehime , Niigata Sōgō TV , Sendai Hōsō , Kansai TV , Iwate Menkoi TV , TV Shizuoka and TV Nagasaki , as well as from April 29th nationwide by satellite on BS Fuji and from August 20, 2012 on Hokkaidō Bunka Hōsō .

At the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival, the series was named "particularly worth seeing" by the jury.

The song Playball was sung and texted by YUKI as the opening credits, and Altair was sung and written by Motohiro Hata as the credits . Like the soundtrack , the music comes from Yōko Kanno , who already worked with director Watanabe on an earlier jazz-heavy series, Cowboy Bebop .

synchronization

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Kaoru Nishimi	Ryōhei Kimura
Sentaro Kawabuchi	Yoshimasa Hosoya
Ritsuko Mukae	Yūka Nanri

Episode list

The names of the respective episodes are taken from known jazz pieces.

episode	title	Original interpreter
1	Moanin '	Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
2	Summertime	George Gershwin
3	Some Day My Prince Will Come	Frank Churchill / Dave Brubeck
4th	But not for me	George Gershwin
5	Lullaby of Birdland	George Shearing
6th	You don't know what love is	Don Raye / Gene De Paul
7th	Now's the time	Charlie Parker / Miles Davis / Dizzy Gillespie Curly Russell / Max Roach
8th	These Foolish Things	Harry Link / Jack Strachey / Holt Marvell
9	Love Me or Leave Me	Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn
10	In a sentimental mood	Duke Ellington / Irving Mills / Manny Kurtz
11	Left alone	Sometimes Waldron
12	All blues	Miles Davis

Publications

Print media

Manga

The manga was published from the 11/2007 issue of September 28, 2007 to the 3/2012 issue of January 28, 2012 in the Shōjo manga magazine Flowers . From April 25, 2008 to April 26, 2012, the chapters were summarized in 9 anthologies ( Tankōbon ) at the Shogakukan publishing house:

• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン 1 . April 25, 2008, ISBN 978-4-09-131670-7 .
• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン 2 . October 10, 2008, ISBN 978-4-09-132174-9 .
• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン 3 . March 10, 2009, ISBN 978-4-09-132268-5 .
• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン 4 . August 10, 2009, ISBN 978-4-09-132626-3 .
• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン 5 . 0January 8, 2010, ISBN 978-4-09-133019-2 .
• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン 6 . June 10, 2010, ISBN 978-4-09-133198-4 .
• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン 7 . February 10, 2011, ISBN 978-4-09-133650-7 (normal edition), ISBN 978-4-09-159087-9 (limited edition with attached postcard)
• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン 8 . November 10, 2011, ISBN 978-4-09-134115-0 .
• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン 9 . April 26, 2012, ISBN 978-4-09-134465-6 .

The following special editions were also published:

• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン Official Fan Book (フ ラ ワ ー コ ミ ッ ク ス ス 〔ス ペ シ ャ ル〕) . November 9, 2012, ISBN 978-4-09-134829-6 .
• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン BONUS TRACK サ ン ト ラ CD 付 特別 版 . November 9, 2012, ISBN 978-4-09-159113-5 , with soundtrack CD
• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン BONUS TRACK ; November 9, 2012, ISBN 978-4-09-134793-0 .

Various

• ピ ア ノ ピ ー ス 坂 道 の メ ロ デ ィ / ア ル タ イ ル ア ニ メ 「坂 道 の ア ア ポ ロ ン」 か ら . 0August 6, 2012, ISBN 978-4-86414-461-2 , music collection
• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン オ フ ィ シ ャ ル ロ グ ブ ッ ク . September 25, 2012, ISBN 978-4-05-405482-0 , Official Logbook

DVD / Blu-ray Disc

• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン 第 1 巻 . July 27, 2012, JAN 4988104071811, episodes 1-3
• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン 第 2 巻 . August 22, 2012, JAN 4988104071828, episodes 4-6
• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン 第 3 巻 . September 28, 2012, JAN 4988104071835, episodes 7-9
• 坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン 第 4 巻 . October 19, 2012, JAN 4988104071842, episodes 10-12

CD

To manga appeared September 16, 2009 Kids on the Slope: Original Soundtrack ( 坂道のアポロンオリジナル·サウンドトラック ) and anime on April 25, 2012, the anime "Kids on the Slope": Original Soundtrack ( アニメ「坂道のアポロン」オリジナル・ サ ウ ン ド ト ラ ッ ク ), as well as the anime "Sakamichi no Apollon": Original Soundtrack: more & rare. ( ア ニ メ 「坂 道 の ア ポ ロ ン」 オ リ ジ ナ ル ・ サ ウ ン ド ト ラ ッ ッ ク プ ラ ス more & rare ) on July 25, 2012.

In addition, on August 22, 2012, the web radio was edited as an anime "Sakamichi no Apollon - Mukae Record / Chika Stage Tsūshin" Radio CD Vol.1 ( ア ニ メ 「坂 道 の ア ア ポ ロ ン ~ ム カ エ レ コ ー ド ・ 地下 ス タ 通信 通信」 オ オ CD ) released.

reception

The manga won the 2011 Shogakukan Manga Prize. The German magazine AnimaniA calls the anime a "high quality animated story about friendship, music and first love". Particular importance was attached to the authentic soundtrack, which, together with the “unplugged sounding” opening and closing songs, went well with the story in the 1960s. Although the plot only offers “everyday drama”, it “quickly and deeply casts a spell” on the viewer.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yuki Kodama's Sakamichi no Apollon Shōjo Manga Gets Anime. In: Anime News Network . December 26, 2011, accessed December 20, 2012 . 
2. ↑ 16th Japan Media Arts Festival - Anime. Retrieved January 8, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Apollon Reunites Cowboy Bebop Director, Composer Kanno. In: Anime News Network. January 26, 2012, accessed December 22, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Inazuma Eleven, Apollon Win Shogakukan Manga Awards . In: Anime News Network . ( animenewsnetwork.com [accessed March 13, 2017]).
5. ↑ Back in the Summer of '66 . In: AnimaniA 06-07 / 2012, p. 64f.

Web links

• Official website of the anime series (Japanese)
• Manga and Anime at Anime News Network (English)