Yesterday wo Utatte

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Yesterday wo Utatte
Original title イ エ ス タ デ イ を う た っ て
transcription Iesutadei o Utatte
genre Coming-of-age , drama
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Kei Toume
publishing company Shueisha
magazine Business Jump (1997-2011)
Grand Jump (2011-2015)
First publication December 15, 1997 - June 3, 2015
expenditure 11
Anime television series
► Sing "Yesterday" for Me (2020)

Yesterday wo Utatte ( イ エ ス タ デ イ を う た っ て Iesutadei o Utatte ) is a completed manga series of the Japanese mangaka Kei Toume that appeared between 1997 and 2015 and produced eleven volumes. The manga was published by Shueisha .

The manga series, which can be assigned to the genres of drama and coming-of-age , follows the university graduate Rikuo, the school dropout Haru and the teacher Shinako, shows their relationships to one another and deals with the resulting problems.

In 2020, the manga series was converted into an anime television series that is shown internationally under the name Sing “Yesterday” for Me .

action

Rikuo Uozumi finished college but doesn't know what to do with himself. So he gets through the day with part-time jobs in a Konbini and in a photo studio . Haru Nonaka, a high school dropout and hostess , visits the store regularly with her pet, a crow named Kansuke. Shinako Morinome attended the same college as Rikuo and took courses together. After graduating, she accepted a position as a teacher at a school in Kanazawa . Rikuo developed feelings for her, but never found a way to express them to her. One day Shinako suddenly shows up at Rikuo's workplace.

But even Haru, who fell in love with Rikuo, is confronted with her past when her former classmate Kōichi Minato comes back into her life and reveals his feelings for her. Not only that: there is also a tense climate within Haru's family.

publication

The eleven-volume manga series was published by the Japanese publisher Shueisha , where it was first published in Business Jump magazine between 1997 and 2011 and then in Grand Jump until the series ended . With the release of the thirteenth edition of the Grand Jump on June 3, 2015, the manga ended.

On April 1, 2020, the manga received an additional chapter in the form of a one-shot . This follows Rikuo and Haru after the plot of the main series and also performs mini-stories.

The manga series was published in France from 2003 through the Delcourt publishing house .

Characters

main characters

Rikuo Uozumi ( 魚 住 陸 生 , Uozumi Rikuo )
Rikuo is a 26-year-old college graduate and unsure of what job to do. That's why he earns some money with a part-time job in a Konbini so that he can make ends meet. His hobby is photography . He has feelings for Shinako Morinome, a former fellow student at his college.
Haru Nonaka ( 野 中 晴 , Nonaka Haru )
Haru is 18 years old, dropped out of school and works as a hostess in the “MILK HALL” bar. She has a pet crow which she named Kansuke. She met Rikuo five years before the manga started, but due to the drastic change in her appearance, Rikuo cannot remember the encounter. She fell in love with Rikuo.
Shinako Morinome ( 森 ノ 目 榀 子 , Morinome Shinako )
Shinako was a fellow student at the college Rikuo also attended. Both became friends during their studies. After graduating, she took a position as a teacher at a school in Kanazawa , but moved to Tokyo shortly afterwards . She still has feelings for Rō's older, but now deceased, brother.
Rō Hayakawa ( 早川 浪 , Hayakawa Rō )
Rō is a friend of Shinako's childhood days in Kanazawa. Not getting enough attention from his family due to his older brother's illness, he began to develop an interest in drawing after others discovered his talent. He wants to study art at a university .

Rikuos group of people

Kinoshita ( 木 ノ 下 )
Kinoshita is Rikuo's work colleague at Konbini and a musician in a local rock band. He is by Rikuo with words and deeds, but also can't resist teasing him for his private life.
Takanori Fukuda ( 福田 タ カ ノ リ , Fukuda Takanori )
Takanori is a former fellow student of Rikuo and Shinako. He likes video games . He asks Rikuo to take pictures at his wedding .
Kozue Fukuda ( 福田 梢 , Fukuda Kozue )
Kozue is Takanori's wife, whom he marries in the course of the storyline.
Chika Yuzuhara ( 柚 原 チ カ , Yuzuhara Chika )
Chika is Rikuo's ex-girlfriend who ended their relationship after four months. She is staying with Rikuo for some time because she was thrown out of her rented apartment after she could no longer pay the rent. She plays the piano and was a member of various groups that later split up because of her, which is why she was nicknamed "Destroyer" in local circles.

Haru's group of people

Kōichi Minato ( 湊 航 一 , Minato Kōichi )
A former student of photography and a temporary classmate of Haru in high school . He fell in love with Haru, but could not reveal this to her because Haru left school. After discovering that he had taken the wrong subject, he dropped out of college. He worked briefly with Rikuo in the same photo studio. Minato leaves Japan in the course of the plot and confesses his feelings to Haru.
Kyōko Sayama ( 狭 山 杏子 , Sayama Kyōko )
Kyōko is the owner of the MILK HALL bar where Haru works as a hostess .
Izawa ( 居 沢 )
A former classmate of Kyōko who has feelings for Kyōko.
Amamiya ( 雨 宮 )
Izawa's work colleague who has kept an eye on Haru since they first met.
Mimori ( み も り )
Amamiya's childhood friend.
Yōko Akimoto ( 秋 本 陽 子 , Akimoto Yōko )
Haru's birth mother.
Shōgo Kawashima ( 川島 省吾 , Kawashima Shōgo )
Haru's stepfather .
Kansuke ( カ ン ス ケ )
Haru's pet, a crow .

Shinakos group of people

Yū Hayakawa ( 早川 湧 , Hayakawa Yū )
Rō's older brother and Shinako's first great love. He died of heart disease before the manga started.
Morita ( 杜 田 )
A work colleague from Shinako at the school.
Takako Kinoshita ( 木 ノ 下 楼 子 , Kinoshita Takako )
A student of Shinako and the little sister of Kinoshita.
Izumi Fukamachi ( 深 町 泉 , Fukamachi Izumi )
Takako's classmate and president of the film club.

Rō's group of people

Katsumi Takishita ( 滝 下 克 美 , Takishita Katsumi )
Rō's classmates in the preparation course for the entrance exams.
Rio ( 莉 緒 )
A model who works at Rō's school. She is in a relationship with Rō.
Misato Kuzuhara ( 葛 原 未 里 , Kuzuhara Misato )
A participant in the preparatory course. Katsumi has her eye on her.
Natsuki Nakahara ( 中原 夏 樹 , Nakahara Natsuki )
A participant in the prep course and in a relationship with Funatsuka.
Funatsuka ( 船 塚 )
A student at Rō's school and Natsuki Nakahara's friend.

Anime television series

On April 12, 2019, it was announced that the manga series would be converted into an anime television series. The director is Yoshiyuki Fujiwara , who has already performed works such as New Game! , Sword Art Online and Attack on Titan missed an anime adaptation. The production took place in the studio Dōga Kōbō . The first of a total of 18 episodes was shown on Japanese television on April 4, 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shueisha Starts Semi-Monthly Manga Mag for Grown-Ups. Anime News Network , September 18, 2011, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Crystalyn Hodgkins: Kei Toume's Sing 'Yesterday' for Me Manga to End in June. Anime News Network, April 19, 2015, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Rafael Antonio Pineda: Sing 'Yesterday' for Me Manga Gets Special Chapter on April 1. Anime News Network, March 18, 2020, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Clap de fin for Sing Yesterday For me. Manga-news.com, April 15, 2015, accessed May 22, 2020 (French).
  5. ↑ Rafael Antonio Pineda: Kei Toume's Sing 'Yesterday' for Me Manga Listed With TV Anime. Anime News Network, April 12, 2019, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Rafael Antonio Pineda: Sing 'Yesterday' for Me Anime Reveals Staff, Visual, Spring 2020 Debut. Anime News Network, November 19, 2019, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Liz Adler: 10 Things You Never Knew About Sing "Yesterday" For Me. CBR.com, May 3, 2020, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Jennifer Sherman: Sing 'Yesterday' for Me Anime Reveals Teaser, 18-Episode Length. Anime News Network, January 21, 2020, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Rafael Antonio Pineda: Sing 'Yesterday' for Me Anime Reveals Cast, April 4 premiere. Anime News Network, January 21, 2020, accessed May 22, 2020 .