KyÅ no Go no Ni
Kyo no 5 no 2 (Japanese今日 の5の2, dt as: "Today in the 5-2 " ) also often written, Kyo no Go no Ni, is a franchise of media, which consists of a His - manga series emerged, which was written and drawn by Koharu Sakuraba. The manga comprised 22 chapters, which appeared from 2002 to 2003 in Bessatsu Young Magazine. The magazine is published by Kodansha and is aimed primarily at an older male audience.
The story mainly focuses on the school life of the class 5-2 (2nd class of the 5th cohort, ie " 5b ") and the elementary students Ryota Satō. They dealt more specifically with the relationships and perceptions of the students and shows their naive but understandable behavior.
The manga was adapted in 2006 as an original video animation (OVA ) with a circumference of 4 episodes and a special. Another adaptation was made in 2008 by the studio Xebec in the form of a 13 -part anime television series. Based on the television series appeared more media such as radio plays or music CDs.
Action
The reason students Ryota Satō and his classmate Chika Koizumi have been friends since early childhood and have each other through a Yubikiri (指切り) promised to marry. In fifth grade, and with the onset of the difficult stage of puberty, there is the well-known misunderstandings and overreaction of pupils. Here come Ryota and his classmates repeatedly in awkward positions in which they do not know quite how to behave and what others think about them.
Characters
Ryota Satō (佐藤 リョータ, Satō Ryota )
Chika Koizumi (小泉 チカ, Koizumi Chika )
Yūki Asano (浅野 ユウキ, Yūki Asano )
Kazumi Aihara (相原 カズミ, Aihara Kazumi )
Natsumi Hirakawa (平川 ナツミ, Hirakawa Natsumi )
Conception
The series is aware of the typical childhood embarrassments, and uses this to involuntarily strange looking situations bring about, but they are kept very close to the real model of reality. Here, the students often try to portray as older and more experienced than they actually are, which is underlined by deliberately acting older, distinctive facial features. This stylistic device is also found in the since 2004 by Koharu Sakuraba drawn manga series Minami- ke again.
Publications
Manga
The original work of Kyo no 5 no 2 was drawn by Koharu Sakuraba manga. It was in the year 2002-2003 within the by Kodansha published his magazine Bessatsu Young Magazine published. The 22 chapters were published on 11 November 2003 as a tankōbon (ISBN 4-06-361178-7 ). The book showed Chika on the cover and contained specially for the book written additional chapter to the Supplementary Lesson - were called " Today in Tennis Club" and Invitation.
With the broadcast of the television series of the manga was reprinted since September 29, 2008 in Weekly Young Magazine.
1 OVA
The manga was adapted in 2006 by Shinkūkan as a four-part OVA, which was directed by Makoto Sokuza and whose screenplay by Miki Okitsu was written. The music was composed by Toru Yukawa and arranged.
The OVA was presented by a sixty second trailer on February 20, 2006., The four DVDs were published during the period 24 March 2006 to 21 March 2007. Each of the episodes was also offered in a special edition that was provided with additional extras. Later, on 30 January 2008, all four DVDs were offered as a set, that a further fifth DVD and a CD containing. On the DVD, an additional chapter Kagaijugyō (课外 授业) and interviews of employees were housed. The CD containing the three theme songs of OVA and all the radio - plays, which were included on the special edition DVD of the third.
In the opening credits of the title Baby Love for all consequences of OVA was used. In the credits were the title Yakusoku (约束, the first two episodes) to hear and Sakura Iro Kaze (桜 色 风). All three titles were interpreted from May Kadowaki, Mamiko Noto and Mikako Takahashi.
Anime
The manga Kyo no 5 no 2 was a second time adapted by studio Xebec as anime. Directed by Tsuyoshi Nagasawa and from a screenplay by Takamitsu Kouno a 13-part television series that was produced by Starchild Records was born. The accompanying background music was composed and arranged by Takamitsu Kouno. The series grabbed the manga, with the exception of the later addition publish chapter completely.
The series was first broadcast on the channel TV Tokyo on 5 October 2008 to 28 December 2008. The series of 25 December 2008 have been published until March 25, 2009 to four DVDs Later, each containing three episodes except for the last DVD. Along with the DVDs also a fanbook (ISBN 978-4-06-375627-2 ) was released December 22, 2008 by Kodansha.
On October 6, 2009, an additional 4-part OVA was named Kyo no 5 no 2: Hōkago (今日 の5の2放 课后) published.
Music
In the anime six different titles for opening and closing credits were used. The leader was always entitled Nisemono (ニセモノ) underlaid by Friends and was used in all episodes. An exception was the last episode that had no leader and Nisemono used in the credits. The grouping Friends consisted of the seiyū Yū Kobayashi, Asami Shimoda, Mako Sakurai, Satomi Akesaka, Yōko Honda and Kana Asumi. For the guy 5 different titles were used, which are listed below:
- Secret base - Kimi ga Kureta Mono ( secret base ~君 が くれ た もの~, episode 1-3 )
- Daibakuhatsu NO.1 (大 爆 発NO.1, episode 4-5 )
- Natsu Matsuri (夏 祭り, Episode 6 )
- Yuyake Iro (ユウヤケイロ, episode 7-9 )
- Negai (願い, Episode 10-12 )
For the titles secret base - Kimi ga Kureta Mono and Daibakuhatsu NO.1 are cover versions of the same title of the band ZONE.
Synchronization
Radio plays
King Records released an adaptation as a radio play series. The first CD entitled Kyo no 5 no 2 Drama CD vol.1 (今日 の5の2ドラマCD vol.1, KICA -951 ) included eight shorter pieces and was released on 25 December 2008. The second radio play of the series was released on 25 February 2009 under the title Kyou no 5 no 2 Drama CD vol.2 (今日 の5の2ドラマCD vol.2, KICA -952 ) and consisted of nine shorter pieces. The speakers were the same as in the anime television series.
Music releases
Based on the works of the franchise, particularly its films, several music productions have been released on CD. The first was the Maxi Single Baby Love / Yakusoku ( Baby Love /约束, AVCA - 22708 ) was released by Avex Tracks on 23 March 2006. It contained the title Baby Love in three different versions. The title Yakusoku was once interpreted by the seiyū of OVA May Kadowaki, Mamiko Noto and Mikako Takahashi. In another version it was sung by Sweet Kiss and lay in a third version as an instrumental before.
Based on the anime television series, the single Nisemono (KICM-3175) was published on 5 November 2008 by King Records. It contained the two titles Nisemono and secret base - Kimi ga Kureta Mono, which were interpreted by Friends. All titles from the series were published January 7, 2009 on the album Best Friends ( KICA -950 ), which also appeared under the label King Records and contained 12 tracks all of which were sung by Friends.
An original soundtrack was released on 10 December 2008 under catalog number KICA - 945th It passed 28 individual pieces of the background music used in the anime and six other pieces were shortened for the TV series versions of the theme songs.