Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Ikebukuro West Gate Park (Japanese池袋 ウエスト ゲート パーク, Ikebukuro Wesutu Geto Paku ) is a light novel series of the Japanese authors Ira Ishida which appeared in Japan in 2001 and was adapted into a manga and TV series. The work is about the 20 -year-old Makoto Majima and its exciting and often dangerous life in Tokyo.
Content
The 20-year -old Makoto Majima spends his time tearing up girls and meet friends. He often comes to people who seek help and those he can not refuse this. His mother raised him alone and owns a fruit shop where Makoto often have to help out. Makoto is friends with Takashi Ando, the leader of a gang, and Shun Mizuno and Mori Masa, which are also in the gang.
Westgate Park he met Rika Nakamura, a typical Ganguro, know that is his girlfriend. But Rika's best friend Hikaru Shibusawa takes a liking to Makoto. After Rika has, as already several times before, another man for money offered, it is found strangled in a motel. Makoto wants to take revenge for this act and uses his connections to Takashi Ando and his gang of.
Publication
The light novel was published from 2001 to the publisher Bungeishunju in six volumes.
Adaptations
- Tomoya Nagase: Makoto Majima
- Ai Kato: Hikaru Shibusawa
- Ryuta Sato: Masa Mori
- Tomohisa Yamashita Shun Mizuno
- Wakana Sakai: Rika Nakamura
- Yosuke Kubozuka: Takashi Ando
TV Series
2000 TBS produced a 11- part television series on the light novel, was directed by Fuminori Kaneko, Hideki Tsutsumi Yukihiko and Isano. The music was composed by Takefumi Haketa, producer was Aki Isoyama. You used the song Bōkyaku no Sora (忘却 の 空) by Sad For the leader.
The series was broadcast on 14 March 2000 to 23 June 2000, in TBS in Japan.
As of March 28, 2006 TBS sent a continuation of the series under the title Ikebukuro West Gate Park: Soup no Kai (池袋 ウエスト ゲート パーク スープ の 回, Ikebukuro Wesuto Geto Paku: Supo no Kai ). Yukihiko Tsutsumi Directed by, the actors were the same.
Manga
The adaptation as manga was drawn by Sena Arito. First published from July 2001 to 2004, four volumes in Akita Shoten, before the chapters were published in the magazine Young Champion. The manga was published in English at Digital Manga Publishing and in French at Asuka Comics, a German version was published by Carlsen Comics. The German translation is by Alexandra Klepper.
As of July 2006 was followed by another manga, drawn by Masashi Asaki, under the title IWGP - Denshi no Hoshi. The chapter first published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine the publisher Kodansha and then in an anthology.