Shishunki Miman
| Manga | |
|---|---|
| title | Shishunki Miman |
| Original title | 思春期 未 満 お 断 り |
| transcription | Shishunki Miman Okotowari |
| country |
 Japan
|
| author | Yuu Watase |
| publishing company | Shogakukan |
| magazine | Shōjo comic |
| First publication | June 1991-1992 |
| expenditure | 3 |
Shishunki Miman ( Japanese 思春期 未 満 お 断 り , Shishunki Miman Okotowari , German: "Forbidden for pre- pubescent ") is a manga series by the Japanese artist Yuu Watase . The manga was accompanied by the two sequels Zoku Shishunki Miman Okotowari (Japanese. 続 ・ 思春期 未 満 お 断 り , German "Continuation - Forbidden for prepubescent ") and Shishunki Miman Okotowari Kanketsuhe (Japanese. 思春期 未 満 お 断 り ・. 完結 編 “For Pre-pubescent prohibited - final volume ”) and a series of novels.
action
The girl Asuka Higuchi ( 樋 口 飛鳥 ) never met her father. She was raised by her mother alone and was in a gang in middle school. After her mother dies, she moves to Tokyo to look for her father. There she meets her half-siblings, Manato Sudō ( 須藤 真 斗 ) and Kazusa Sudō ( 須藤 和 沙 ). But they don't know anything about their father either. Now the three go to high school, where their father is supposed to be chairman, but never shows himself there. Her younger brother Manato, like Asuka, used to be in a gang and has been protecting his little sister Kazusa since childhood. Asuka resents this for living with them.
Asuka continues to hope to find her father again and takes on a protective role for her younger siblings. Asuka protects Kazusa from Tōru Hayami ( 速 水 透 ), who is after Kazusa. She will also rival the student president Yōko Kamiya ( 神 谷 陽 子 ) in gymnastics and in courting for manato. Asuka also tries to get her father's attention through her success in sports. Thanks to her physical strength and assertiveness through her past in the gang, she can assert herself against Hayami and Kamiya. After a while they make friends with her and she also settles in with her siblings' household.
Now only Kazusa is still negative towards Asuka - she is afraid of losing her brother to Asuka. Doubts also arise as to whether Manato is really related to both. Asuka is drawn to him and is torn between her feelings and the possibility that they are siblings after all. A new teacher appears at the school, Mr. Yashiro ( 矢 城 先生 , Yashiro-sensei ). He advertises Asuka and her friends for his new training group. After Manato leaves his karate club because of his comrades attacking women and Asuka is thrown out of the gymnastics club because of her past in a corridor and the devastation of the changing room that is attributed to her, both finally join Yashiros AG. After some hard training, a diet and the support of Kamiya, Asuka can return to the gymnastics group. During this time, Manato realizes that he has fallen in love with Asuka. However, she rejects him because he could be her brother.
When Asuka falls and tears her Achilles tendon, her athletic success, which she hoped to get her father's attention, is at stake. However, with the support of her friends and siblings as well as Mr. Yashiros, she can make great strides. On the day of the gymnastics competition, she is not yet healthy, but then steps up as a successor with an injured foot. Mr. Yashiro then confesses to her that he is her father and was hired as a teacher to watch her. Since he was constantly absent until recently because of a leukemia treatment, he was unsure how to behave towards her and the other two. He also says that Manato is not his son, but that of an acquaintance he has taken in. Since Manato and Asuka are actually not siblings, they confess their love and become a couple. Kazusa now also recognizes Asuka as part of the family.
Zoku Shishunki Miman Okotowari
After learning that Yashiro's real name is Takashi Sudo and that he is her father, it turns out that the latter is not related to Manato. Whose father was the real Yashiro, who died a long time ago. Takashi took his name and adopted his son Manato.
Origin and classification in the work of Watase
Yuu Watase developed ideas for the story and characters of Shishunki Miman when she was in middle school, around the age of 15 - the same age as the protagonists. At 20, having already published a few short stories, she developed the ideas for the series. She chose the topic of gymnastics mainly because the jerseys had something erotic about them. But she didn't want to portray the sport realistically, otherwise Asuka would have been given a smaller stature that was more suitable for gymnastics. Initially it was planned that she would do karate together with Manato. That was rejected because otherwise they would be too similar.
Many of the characters from Shishunki are similar to those from Yuu Watase's later work, Fushigi Yūgi . Outwardly there are great similarities between the main characters Asuka and Manato and Miaka and Tamahome from Fushigi Yūgi. According to Yuu Watase, however, these are purely superficial. Asuka is much more adult and experienced than Miaka, while Tamahome is less carefree and more responsible than Manato.
publication
From 1991 the manga by Yuu Watase was published in the Shōjo Comic magazine of the Shōgakukan publishing house. The chapters were also published in three anthologies, the last volume also contains the short story Dilemma of a Virgo . In 1993 Shishunki Miman Okotowari appeared as a sequel to Shōjo Comic and summarized in three volumes. In 2000, the sequel Shishunki Miman Okotowari Kanketsuhe was brought out in the same magazine , which also appeared in an anthology in which two other short stories were printed.
The manga was published from September 2006 to February 2007 by Glénat publishing house in France . As of April 2008, Egmont Manga and Anime will publish all seven volumes of the three mangas in German .
Adaptations
Yuu Watase and Megumi Nishizaki ( 西 崎 め ぐ み , Nishizaki Megumi ) wrote and illustrated four novels for the Shishunki series together in 1994. These are titled Tokubetsu-hen ( 特別 編 , dt. "Special volume"), Netsuai-hen ( 熱愛 編 , dt. "Band passionate love"), Hyōsetu-hen ( 氷雪 編 , dt. "Band ice and snow") and Bangai-hen ( 番外 編 , dt. "Volume Extra Edition") and were published by Shogakukan.
Shōjo Comics also published a collection of songs that were composed for the manga.
reception
AnimaniA magazine writes that the style of Yuu Watase's early work is already very mature and comparable to her current style. Visually, the manga is still heavily influenced by the 1980s in terms of clothing and style. The panel layout is very dynamic, and there is also space for the draftsman for smaller action sequences. The figures are very similar to those of later works, but are well coordinated. With the “ casual, cheerful and turbulent family drama”, Yuu Watase proves her thematic versatility. Reading is worthwhile for fans of the illustrator as well as of the genre.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Comments by Yuu Watase in Shishunki Miman , Volume 3.
- ↑ Yuu Watase's margin notes, Fushigi Yūgi, Volume 2.
- ↑ AnimaniA 4/2001, p. 33
- ↑ Animania 05/2008, p. 41.
Web links
- Anime News Network about the manga series