Kyotaro Ichikawa is a disgruntled loner student who is often reading a murder encyclopedia and learning about human anatomy. He fantasizes about murdering his popular classmates, with the beautiful class idol, Anna Yamada, being his prime target. However, when he observes that Anna is rather quirky in her own way, and when she becomes increasingly friendly towards Kyotaro, he gradually warms up to her and they start to become closer and eventually fall in love.
Anna's mother. She appears at first to be strict in public due to Anna's behaviour, but is an overall nice woman who dotes on her daughter at home and approves of Anna's crush on Kyotaro.
- Anna's father. A tall, quiet man who works as a French chef. He plays video games when off work.
- Kyotaro and Kana's mother.
- Yamada and Kyotaro's new classmate during their final year. She is a tall and beautiful girl with blonde hair. Her classmates see her as a cool beauty, but in truth, she also has a cute and clumsy side, just like Anna. She is close friends with Kanna.
- Nickname . Anna and Kyotaro's classmate during their final year. She always wears a black mask and twin tails. Kanna is greatly interested in others' love lives to the point of throwing a flash mob for a new couple, despite their embarrassment.
- Anna's 19-year-old model colleague, who is also her stalker. She always laments the distance between her and Anna and thus strives to get more information from Anna's friends, much to Kyotaro's dismay. She owns a summer house in Kamakura, Kanagawa as a means to reduce her tax payment.
- Class 3-1's homeroom teacher and also PE teacher. Kyotaro sees her as a stereotypical annoying PE teacher with an overly competitive side to her.
Media
Manga
The series is written and illustrated by Norio Sakurai. It started serialization in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine on March 8, 2018.[6] On April 10, 2018, the series was transferred to the Champion Cross manga website.[7] On July 10, 2018, Akita Shoten merged Champion Cross with their newly created manga website, Manga Cross. When the websites merged, it was transferred to Manga Cross.[8] As of April 2024, 10 volumes have been released.
In December 2020, Seven Seas Entertainment announced they licensed the series for English publication.[9] The series is also licensed by Tong Li Publishing in Taiwan.[10] Individual chapters of the series are called kartes.
Volumes
Anime
In August 2022, it was announced that the manga would receive an anime television series adaptation.[11] The series is produced by Shin-Ei Animation and directed by Hiroaki Akagi, with scripts written by Jukki Hanada, character designs handled by Masato Katsumata, and music composed by Kensuke Ushio.[12] It aired from April 2 to June 18, 2023, on the programming block on TV Asahi and its affiliates.[13] The opening theme is, performed by Yorushika, while the ending theme is, performed by Kohana Lam.[14] At Anime NYC 2022, Sentai Filmworks announced that they licensed the series and is streaming it on Hidive.[15] Plus Media Networks Asia to carried the anime in Southeast Asia, to be premiered on Aniplus Asia.[16]
On December 10, 2023, an animated collection of shorts based on the spin-off series posted on the author's Twitter account, titled "Twi-Yaba", was released in a standalone episode with the official English title of "Bonus Dangers".[17] The shorts within the special last a few minutes each. Each short contains either a standalone gag, view into their daily lives, or a holiday special.[18]
A second season was announced after the airing of the twelfth episode, and aired from January 7 to March 31, 2024, on the same programming block.[19] The opening theme is, performed by Atarayo, while the ending theme is, performed by Kohana Lam.[20] The opening animation is storyboarded and directed by Tetsurō Araki, who is known for directing the anime series Attack on Titan,[21] and produced with the assistance from Wit Studio.Some scenes take place at Meguro Station and Senzoku Station.[22]
Light novel
A spin-off light novel written by Kota Nozomi with illustrations by Sakurai and sune is set to be released under Media Factory's MF Bunko J imprint on September 25, 2024.[23]
Reception
Manga
In 2019, the series ranked fourth in the Next Manga Awards in the web manga category.[24] In 2020, the series ranked first in the same category.[25] The series ranked third in the 2020 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook.[26] It also ranked fourth in the fourth Tsutaya Comic Awards.[27] It ranked thirteenth in Japanese bookstore Honya Club's employee recommendations.[28] It was also nominated for the Manga Taishō in 2020.[29] It ranked fourth in a 2020 poll asking people what manga they most wanted to see adapted into an anime.[30] It ranked first in the same poll in 2021.[31]
Anime
In June 2023, TV Asahi announced during their end-of-year fiscal results that the anime adaptation has recorded the highest global sales for an anime program in the NUMAnimation programming block.[32]
The anime adaptation initially received mixed reviews from critics. Reviewing the first episode, Vrai Kaiser of Anime Feminist described it as mostly "harmless-to-charming school rom-com shenanigans" when Ichikawa's murder fantasies fade away, and said that they would give the series a "cautious wait-and-see" approach, saying it wasn't to their taste, comparing it to the "choppy start" of Teasing Master Takagi-san.[33] Kaiser also said that after three episodes, their optimism was born out, being accurate and sweet to the age group, but that the show's handling of sex as "hit-or-miss for some audiences."[34] Kaiser also argued that the series had "stumbling blocks" in the first season, but that it ends in a "really nice place" and on a "really beautiful place of feeling," and with an appealing "element of naturalness."[35] However, another post on the site gave the series a "yellow flag" for some early monologues by Ichikawa, arguing they "veer too close to actual violent misogyny".[36]
Reviews for Anime News Network took a different perspective. In a Spring 2023 anime preview guide, James Beckett said that the show's premiere was "irritatingly good" and said his defenses crumbled due to the series' "relentless onslaught of cuteness," calling the series "absurdly freaking cute," but hoped that Kyotaro's pension for murder was toned down, while Rebecca Silverman said the first episode blended good humor with an expected "warm emotional undercurrent" and comedic moments, and praised the plot for being "good enough," while criticizing the character designs. In contrast, Nicholas Dupree and Richard Eisenbeis were more critical. Dupree said the series is build upon "pure, undiluted cringe humor," noted that Ichikawa is an "uncompromisingly honest presentation of...an edgelord teenager" while noting that Yamada is "pretty charming." Eisenbeis said that while the story and characters make sense and the animation is fine, he said that the series made him cringe, and said while the series has a "well-written protagonist" and great coming-of-age message, he would watch if it didn't have "awkward humor."[37] Later, MrAJCosplay, in a review on the same site, listed the series as one of their favorite anime in 2023, arguing that the series is a "very simple slice-of-life story," with a satisfying slow-burn romance, with every episode having some importance or dramatic weight, and said they couldn't "wait to see how much further the lovable goofballs will go." In another review, they praised the series "immaculate production values and a very ambient soundtrack."[38] [39]
Alan Moody of THEM Anime Reviews reviewed the first season. He said that while Kyotaro resembled Nishikata from Teasing Master Takagi-san, Kyotaro is a loner and his "countenance is mildly creepy," while arguing that Yamada differs from Takagi, as she is "statuesque, towering over Kyotaro". He also said that the series comedic timing is "nearly perfect," and that while the series is not "intellectually astute as Takagi-san, the cast...make up for much of that by their charm." He further added that due to the "mild sexual innuendo" in the series, it had mature themes as a result, while Hidive says the series is TV-14, and noted that Lovely Complex is a similar series, and noted the spinoff Twi-Yaba as a related series.[40]
The second season of the anime became the first anime in the history of the anime polling sites Anime Corner and Anime Trending to be ranked first for an entire season.[41] [42]
External links
Notes and References
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