Otomen (????(??)) is a Japanese romantic comedy manga written and illustrated by Aya Kanno, which began in Bessatsu Hana to Yume in late 2006 and concluded on November 26, 2012. The series has been adapted into a live action TV drama. The series has been one of the best-selling sh?jo properties in America, since being licensed by Viz Media. The series is also licensed in France by Delcourt and in Spain by Planeta DeAgostini.
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Plot
Asuka Masamune is the coolest, manliest guy in his whole school. He excels in judo and karate, and as captain of the kendo team he reached the national championship tournament. However, he has a secret: the things he really loves are sweets, cute things, cooking, sh?jo manga and sewing. He hides this part of his life from everyone else until he meets a girl named Ryo Miyakozuka, the daughter of a martial artist and heir to his dojo.
Title
The title, "Otomen" is a pun made of the Japanese word otome (??), meaning "young lady" or "mistress", and the English word "men". The characters in the series refer to Asuka as an "otomen" and even he himself has done so.
Love Chick
Love Chick (?????, Rabuchikku) is a fictional sh?jo manga by Jewel Sachihana that runs in the fictional manga magazine Hana to Mame (a parody of Hana to Yume). Juta Tachibana bases its story on the relationship between Asuka and Ryo, with the lead characters even sharing names pronounced the same but applied to the opposite genders. However, Asuka's name in Love Chick is written in katakana rather than the kanji used for Asuka's name in Otomen, and Ryo's name is written in kanji rather than in hiragana name in Otomen. Note: Querbeet's fansub of the live-action calls this fictional manga "Love-Tic", which is what the actors sound like they are saying. Also, in the French version, the manga's called Love Tic.
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Characters
Media
Manga
The manga is written and illustrated by Aya Kanno and was serialized in the sh?jo manga magazine Bessatsu Hana to Yume from 2006 to November 26, 2012. Serial chapters were collected in eighteen tank?bon volumes by Hakusensha Viz Media licensed the series for its Shojo Beat imprint. French publisher Delcourt licensed Otomen and released its first volume in September 2008. As of January 2010, eight volumes have been released. In Spain, the publisher Planeta DeAgostini has licensed the series as Otomen with its first volume released in December 2008. As of April 2011, nine volumes have been released. The German publisher Carlsen Verlag has made eighteen volumes available in the ePub format.
Volume list
Live-action drama
The July 2009 issue of Hana to Yume magazine, in which Otomen runs, announced that a live-action drama had been green-lit, and would premier on Japanese television on August 1, 2009. Kaho portrays Ryo, and Masaki Okada plays Asuka. The ending theme song is "?????lover soul?" sung by Kou Shibasaki. A photobook for the live action series by Hakusensha in September 2009 for 1000 yen, entitled Otomen (Otsu Otoko) Ofisharu Foto Bukku (????(??)????????????) (ISBN 978-4-594-06045-9).
- Masaki Okada as Asuka Masamune
- Sara Takatsuki as young Asuka
- Kaho as Ryo Miyakozuka
- Nanami Hinata as young Ryo
- Ryo Kimura as Hajime Tonomine
- Koji Seto as Yamato Ariake
- Kazuma Sano as Juta Tachibana
- Mirei Kiritani as Miyabi Oharida
- Tomohiro Ichikawa as Kitora Kurokawa
- Emi Takei as Kuriko Tachibana
- Kanako Yanagihara as Yumeko Hanazawa
- Nobuhiko Takada as Ryo's father
- Shingo Tsurumi as Asuka's father
- Mirai Yamamoto as Asuka's mother
- Tokimasa Tanabe as Nakajima
- Sawabe Yu as Isono Katsuo
Reception
Similar to Kanno's earlier works, the series has become quite popular, scoring high on both Tohan and Oricon's weekly comic charts. The seven volumes available in Japan as of May 2009 have sold over 2.5 million copies. The series was listed as being the 3rd best-selling sh?jo property, along with the 13th over-all manga property, in America for the first quarter of 2009.
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