Nosatsu Junkie

Charming Junkie (Japanese悩殺 ジャンキーNōsatsu Junkie ) is a manga series of the Japanese illustrator Ryoko Fukuyama. They can be assigned to the shōjo genre.

Action

The main characters are Naka Kaburagi and supermodel Umi Kajiwara. Naka, which actually is very pretty, but the crooks smile of her parents had inherited, gets from her heartthrob rebuffed, since this is a "Umi - Maniac " and says Nakaz face would make him afraid. Naka who wants revenge, summarizes the plan, Umi to elicit the secret of her smile and to get on the cover of all the magazines. It makes Umi agency identified and is believed spite of her face, but not without reason: she finds out Umi's secret: This is in fact no sweet girl, but a boy. The two make a deal: Naka holds tight, but worried Umi their jobs. The two get repeatedly in the hair, but make friends but slowly. Later Naka Kaburagi falls in love with Umi. You are finally a couple.

Characters

Naka Kaburagi

Naka is actually very sweet when she's not nervous and not smiling. If it does namely, all think of the serial killer who was recently shown on television or was seen on wanted posters. Because of their inherited Ganovenvisage she gets a basket of her senpai after she confessed her love to him after seven months of unrequited love. Only they, Ikue and the head of the agency " junk " know of Umi's secret.

Umi Kajiwara

Umi is very successful because he smiles so flawless. He is modeling as a girl, what does it matter that he has previously stepped in for his involuntary nervous neighbor. This was namely the first shoot under such pressure that they ran away. Him have a stroke than Naka finds out that he is a boy in reality. He tries to silence with many model contracts. This does not mean that they are treated well, on the contrary, he suggests, kicks and treated her like a servant. He is the student speaker, and has great grades, even though he always skips. He, slowly but surely recognizes that he is in love with Naka. But there are further complications.

Ikue Tsutsumi

Ikue is an award -winning young cameraman who comes to Umi's secret in the first volume during a casting camps. He loves strawberries and eats therefore only of products in which they are contained. In the second volume he is still 17, in the third, however, already 18 He's high school students and has an ex - girlfriend who went to the Morizono, Nakaz and Umi's school. He is the one who manages to make beautiful pictures of Naka for the first time and then falls in love with this.

Azu Nagafuji

A new star in the modeling industry. It occurs in the third volume, and seems to be in love with Tsutsumi, being jealous of Naka because Tsutsumi almost exclusively photographed. Her father is chief of Tsustumis agency where she works, and has good contacts, which enabled her to win every audition. She was on her 4 years in France and therefore has a strong accent. She goes to the same school as Tsutsumi.

Mihane Nagafuji

She is the sister of Azu Nagafuji, she goes to the second class of high school and spent two years as the image model of the brand " Heki " was thrown out at the Umi after one day. Mihane got out himself, shortly after her ex-boyfriend Ikue Tsutsumi photographer was. After a long pause, she again began to model and became the partner of Umi.

Publications

The manga was released in Japan from 2003 to 2008 in separate chapters in the manga magazine Hana to Yume. The Hakusensha publishing house brought this single chapter out in 16 anthologies. The volumes sold in Japan a total of 50,000 times.

Charming Junkie was published in German by the July to September 2006 issue of the manga magazine Daisuki. The series was released in October 2006 in the label Daisuki presented at Carlsen Comics in anthologies. All 16 volumes have been published. Tokyopop published the series in the U.S. and Tong Li in Taiwan.

Radio drama adaptation

As a supplement to the Hana to Yume Mangazin a radio drama CD was released on the basis of the manga.