The Wallflower (manga)

Perfect Girl (Japaneseヤマト ナデシコ 七 変化 ♥, Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge ♥ ) is a manga series of the Japanese illustrator Tomoko Hayakawa. It appears since 2000, so far includes about 2,700 pages and is aimed primarily at young girls, so the shōjo - genus can be assigned. Perfect Girl was made into a anime.

Action

The young Sunako Nakahara (中原 スナコ) cares for a boy she has rejected, no longer about her appearance and withdraws from the outside world. Her aunt instructed the four pretty boy Kyohei, Ranmaru, Takenaga Yukinojo and to make Sunako a proper lady. To thank the aunt promises the boys that they may, if they make it, for nothing in a large villa living.

When the boys discover that it is Sunako is a neglected student whose favorite hobby horror movies are and that can be the bangs grow on her face, she did not know what to do. Since Sunako sees a skeleton and an anatomy doll as her only friends, it is itself also not thrilled that she has to share her beloved, gloomy home from now on, with four popular and handsome boy. In order not to have to pay the rent, the boys try everything to make Sunako into a proper lady.

Publications

Since 2000, the manga in Japan appear in individual chapters in the manga magazine Bessatsu Friend. The Kodansha publishing house brings out these individual chapters in edited volumes; so far are 34 published. By early 2006, the first fourteen volumes in Japan sold more than five million times, until the autumn of the same year, the first sixteen volumes had sold over six million times together.

The manga is laid in North America, Singapore and Germany. The German language translation of 20 anthologies published from December 2004 to December 2008 at Tokyopop. The publication was set in 2009, as the Japanese publisher has finished working with Tokyopop. The manga is continued at Egmont Manga and Anime in December 2009, previously to band 32 Del Rey publishes the English-language edition under the title The Wallflower in the U.S. and Canada.

Adaptations

Anime

From 3 October 2006 to March 27, 2007, the Japanese broadcaster TV Tokyo radiated an anime television series based on the manga. The anime, which was directed Shin'ichi Watanabe and the animation studio Nippon Animation was produced, comprising 25 episodes. The character design was designed by Yasuko Sakuma and the art direction was Yumi Kudō.

ADV Films released the anime in North America, the UK and in January 2008 under the label Universum Film in Germany. The German publication, however, was for a DVD, which includes the first five episodes, canceled. Madman Entertainment, she released in Australia and New Zealand and TV5 they showed on TV in the Philippines.

Voice Actors

Music

The music of the series was composed by Hiromi Mizutani and Yasuharu Takanashi. The preload Title slow sang Kiyoharu. For the two Broadcast songs Kiyoharu Carnation and ∞ Changing ∞ by Bon -Bon Blanco were used.

Real TV Series

Beginning of the year 2010, the manga turned into a real TV show. It includes ten episodes and was broadcast on TBS in Japan Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi under the name Henge (ヤマト ナデシコ 七 変化). Kazuya Kamenashi, and Aya Omasa played the main roles.

Reception

The trade magazine manga scene writes of a " firework of gags," which will further supported by frequent use of Super - Deformed drawings. There would be " sympathetic batty characters in oblique situations " and also pretty girls and guys, so something for everyone be it. The AnimaniA emphasizes the for shōjo manga rare, very simple animation style of Tomoko Hayakawa, as is apparent, especially in the many slapstick scenes. These are " only with volatile strokes erstelltund partly reminiscent sketches ". Can you show the graphic artist especially in the scenes where Sunako turns into a pretty girl. The story contains frequent repetitions of topics and no " sound great character and story development ," " lowbrow comedy fans " but surely delight offer. The anime series was animated, however, failed and wooden. Nor would it " an uninspired character and background design, and an exaggerated slapstick scenes " which actually spoil interesting story. The German synchronization was not successful and will assist " also somewhat listless ".