Kimagure Orange Road
Kimagure Orange Road (Japaneseきまぐれ オレンジ ☆ ロードKimagure Orenji rodu ) is a manga series by Izumi Matsumoto, which appeared from 1984 to 1987 and comprises about 3200 pages. It was implemented as an anime.
The romantic and comic story aimed primarily at a younger, male audience, that can be assigned to the shōnen genus. The series is about a love triangle between the main character, the indecisive Kyosuke Kasuga with a extrasensory perception, Madoka Ayukawa, a lively girl with a turbulent past, and Hikaru Hiyama, Madoka's best friend. Kyosuke falls in love with Madoka, who wants to return his feelings, but can not because of the involvement with Hikaru.
Action
The fifteen year old Kyosuke Kasuka (春日 恭介Kasuga Kyosuke, spoken by Tōru Furuya ) moves to a new city, as the "Power", the force is responsible for his supernatural abilities, was discovered. Kyosuke and his family ( except his father) have an extra-sensory perception and can, for example, telekinesis, teleport and apply hypnosis.
In the new city makes Kyosuke acquaintance with a girl with whom he immediately fell. The next day, it turns out that this is in its new class. Madoka Ayukawa (鮎川 まどかAyukawa Madoka, spoken by Hiromi Tsuru ), so the girl's name, bears the reputation of being a rebel and it can feel him.
Hikaru Hiyama (檜山 ひかるHiyama Hikaru, spoken by Eriko Hara ), the girlfriend of Madoka, falls in love with Kyosuke when she sees how he uses the "Power" ( without realizing that the " Power" is transcendental ), and this also helps public display. Love is but one-sided. Also Madoka gradually falls in love with Kyosuke and there is a classic love triangle. Kyosuke, who is quite shy in dealing with girls is in love with Madoka, but does not dare to use the "Power" to win them for himself, because he ansähe the fraud.
The friendship and the frequent use of Kyosuke causes socialization at Madoka. For example, they will stop smoking.
Publications
The manga series was released in March 1984, individual chapters in the weekly Japanese manga magazine Shōnen Jump, which at that time had a circulation of over four million, was the highest-selling manga magazine. In September 1987, they have completed the series at the request of the magazine from the center to an abrupt end. The Shueisha Publishing House brought this single chapter from October 1984 to July 1988 in eighteen anthologies out. Later, a Bunkoban reissue came out in ten volumes. The anthologies of Kimagure Orange Road sold in Japan over twenty million times.
The manga was translated into French and Chinese.
Adaptations
Anime films
The Studio Pierrot produced an anime television series based on the manga by Izumi Matsumoto. This consists of 48 episodes, each with a run length of about 25 minutes. It was directed by Osamu Kobayashi, wrote the screenplay Sukehiro Tomita. On the television station NTV 48 Episodes were erstausgestrahlt of 6 April 1987 to 7 March 1988.
This was followed by eight more episodes, which were 1989 and 1991 as an original video animation (OVA ) released directly to VHS, as well as two movies, which appeared in 1988 and 1996.
The television series ran under the title Max et Compagnie several times on French television. The first broadcast took place in 1990 in the animated division Youpi! L' école est finie instead of the television channel La Cinq. Italian television anime in 1989 under the title È quasi magia Johnny was seen.
Novels
Under the title Shin Kimagure Orange Road (新 きまぐれ オレンジ ★ ロード) published by Shueisha from 1994 to 1997 three novels to manga series. These were written by Kenji Terada, in collaboration with Izumi Matsumoto. Terada had already designed and taken over the directing individual episodes the concept of anime television series.
Radio plays
The story was also published in a dramatized by Sho Aikawa radio play version, which as based more on the anime manga. It consists of five CDs.
Background information
The anime series spoke, as at the same time also Maison Ikkoku, especially the audience to who liked Urusei Yatsura already the series ( 1981-1986 ). Since the Urusei Yatsura fans grew older, her interests focus shifted in anime from funny to romantic entertainment. Urusei Yatsura Both as well as Maison Ikkoku and Kimagure Orange Road Akemi Takada designed the character designs.
The cat Jingoro takes its name from Hidari Jingorō, a wood sculptor in the Edo period, the famous " Sleeping cat " sculpture at Nikko Toshogu is attributed.