Aoharu × Machinegun

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Aoharu x Machinegun
Cover of Aoharu x Kikanjū volume 1 by Square Enix
青春×機関銃
(Aoharu x Kikanjū)
GenreAction, Comedy, Military (Airsoft)
Manga
Written byNAOE
Published bySquare Enix
English publisher
MagazineMonthly GFantasy
DemographicShōnen
Original runJanuary 2013 – present
Volumes9
Anime television series
Directed byHideaki Nakano
Written byKenji Konuta
Music byAsami Tachibana
StudioBrain's Base
Licensed by
Original networkTBS, MBS, CBC, TUT, BS-TBS, TBS Channel 1
Original run July 3, 2015 – September 18, 2015
Episodes12 (List of episodes)

Aoharu x Machinegun (Japanese: 青春×機関銃, Hepburn: Aoharu x Kikanjū) is a Japanese manga series by NAOE, serialized in Square Enix's shōnen manga magazine Monthly GFantasy since January 2013 and collected in seven tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation was announced and began airing on July 3, 2015.[1]

Characters

Toy Gun Gun

Hotaru Tachibana (立花 蛍, Tachibana Hotaru)
Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu

Hotaru is the Student Council President of her highschool and is known for her brute strength, good reflexes, and a strong sense of justice. She claims to not let "evil doers" get away with their evil deeds, and is often noted to enjoy picking fights for the sake of what's right. Early examples include her beating up a student who was extorting money from a helpless classmate, and desiring revenge after learning that her best friend, Kanae, was conned by a Host (later going after said host on her quest for justice). She is often mistaken as male due to her appearance. She is next door neighbors with Masamune. Hotaru uses illeism, referring to herself as "Tachibana".

Masamune Matsuoka (松岡 正宗, Matsuoka Masamune)
Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno

Masamune works as a Host, and is responsible for introducing Hotaru to the world of "Survival Games". He, together with his childhood friend, Tooru, form an alliance called the "Toy ☆ Gun Gun Team". He is unaware of the fact that Hotaru is actually female. To repay the damages caused by Hotaru to the club at which he works at, he offers her the chance to become a member of his team. Because of his past, he has abandonment issues, which later cause him to kick Hotaru out of the team, fearing she will leave him like his former friends/teammates and mother did. However, after Hotaru helps him face his past through a one-on-one challenge, he lets her rejoin. After Hotaru rejoins the team he develops feelings for her, but struggles with them as he does not know that Hotaru is female. There was a moment in his past where, after being abandoned by his mother, he grew suicidal. Nagamasa introduced him to survival games to convince him to live on.

Tōru Yukimura (雪村 透, Yukimura Tōru)
Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Tooru is a manga artist who specializes in adult oriented erotic comics. He is Masamune's childhood friend, both of them having shared the same dream of pursuing soccer as a career when they were young. He lives in the same apartment block as his teammates. Due to his past, when he was betrayed by friends he trusted, he has low self-confidence and often worries that Masamune might abandon him. He is also the most sensitive to others, being the first one to notice changes in the member's moods.

Haruki Hosokawa (細川 春樹, Hosokawa Haruki)

Haruki was the third member of Toy Gun Gun before Hotaru, who blamed Masamune for making him hate survival games. In truth, Haruki was overwhelmed by his younger twin brother Haruka during TGC and left the team because he felt that he wasn't strong enough. He intended to return to the team after he had trained significantly, but was surprised to hear that Hotaru had filled his spot. Although first antagonistic towards Hotaru, he eventually warms up to her and was brought back into the team as their fourth member. Haruki is also the only one of the team to find out that Hotaru is female. He wears a gas mask during his games.

Hoshishiro

Nagamasa Midori (緑 永将, Midori Nagamasa)
Voiced by: Kazuyuki Okitsu

Nagamasa is the leader of the survival game team Hoshishiro, which is the name of the hospital he works as a doctor at along with his teammates Fujimon and Ichi. He initially appears to be a very kind man, but he is the object of Tooru and Masamune's resentment due to what took place in the past. It is revealed that he beat up two former Toy Gun Gun players, but it was all within the rules of TGC. He and Masamune used to be close partners, but after being told by another survival game player that Masamune was also a strong vanguard, Nagamasa was convinced to end their partnership. Although brutal during survival games, Nagamasa is known to show kindness outside of it. He knows that Hotaru is a girl but kept a secret though it ended being a blackmail for Hotaru.

Takatora Fujimoto (藤本 高虎, Fujimoto Takatora)
Voiced by: Ryōhei Kimura

Nicknamed Fujimon, he is a member of Hoshishiro and works at hospital alongside the rest of his teammates. He fights using a minigun and can move fast despite the weight of his weapon. Due to his earnest and easy-going personality, he gets along well with Hotaru and often expresses concern for the Toy Gun Gun members.

Ichi Akabane (赤羽 市, Akabane Ichi)
Voiced by: Eri Kitamura

Ichi is Hoshishiro's sniper. She appears to work as a nurse in the same hospital with Nagamasa and Takatora. She is the newest member of the team, brought in after Haruka's departure. As such she is unaware of the team's history, nor of Nagamasa's past with Masamune.

Haruka Hosokawa (細川 春花, Hosokawa Haruka)

Haruka is Haruki's younger twin brother, who was the original third member of Hoshishiro until Haruki stopped playing survival games. Haruka has an obsession with his brother, and feels guilty for being the reason why Haruki quit survival games. He eventually returns to Hoshishiro, but unlike the other members of the team he expresses distrust for Nagamasa, finding it difficult to tell what he's planning. He hates when other people call his brother 'Haruharu'

Others

Hanako Sagara (相楽 華子, Sagara Hanako)
Voiced by: Kana Ueda

Hanako is a close friend of Masamune. During a practice match, Hotaru temporarily becomes a member of her team and she instructs her to observe how the game is played.

Kanae Yajima (矢島 鼎, Yajima Kanae)
Voiced by: Yui Horie

Kanae is Hotaru's friend, and is the only one who knows of Hotaru being a girl (besides Haruki and Nagamasa, who find out later).

Media

Manga

Aoharu x Kikanjū is written and illustrated by NAOE. It started serialization in Square Enix's shōnen manga magazine Monthly GFantasy as a one-shot, on June 18, 2012,[2] and later as a full-fledged series, on January 18, 2013. As of June 28, 2015, 7 tankōbon volumes have been released in Japan.

No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 July 28, 2013 [3]978-4-7575-4020-0——
2 July 28, 2013 [4]978-4-7575-4021-7——
3 November 27, 2013 [5]978-4-7575-4152-8——
4 April 27, 2014 [6]978-4-7575-4298-3——
5 September 28, 2014 [7]978-4-7575-4431-4——
6 February 28, 2015 [8]978-4-7575-4574-8——
7 June 28, 2015 [9]978-4-7575-4680-6——

Anime

An anime television series adaptation produced by Brain's Base and directed by Hideaki Nakano premiered on July 2, 2015[a] at TBS. It also aired at CBC at the same date[a] and at MBS, TUT, and BS-TBS at later dates.[10] The anime is licensed by AnimeLab in Australia and New Zealand is streaming in simulcast on their website as it airs in Japan.[11] The anime has also been licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks.[12]

Episode List

TBS uses an after-midnight programming schedule, so that the first broadcast took place on July 2, 2015 at 25:46, which was July 3 at 1:46 am JST. The same with CBC, where it was broadcast an hour and a minute after the premiere.

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No. Title Original air date[13]

Notes

  1. ^ a b TBS uses an after-midnight programming schedule, so that the first broadcast took place on July 2, 2015 at 25:46, which is July 3 at 1:46 am JST. The same with CBC, where it was broadcast an hour and a minute after the premiere.

References

  1. ^ "Aoharu x Kikanjū Survival Games Manga Gets TV Anime". Anime News Network. February 26, 2015. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
  2. ^ "Monthly G Fantasy Comics 2012 July Issue". CDjapan.
  3. ^ "青春×機関銃（1） at Square-enix.co.jp" (in Japanese). Square Enix. Retrieved 2015-07-12.
  4. ^ "青春×機関銃（2） at Square-enix.co.jp" (in Japanese). Square Enix. Retrieved 2015-07-12.
  5. ^ "青春×機関銃（3） at Square-enix.co.jp" (in Japanese). Square Enix. Retrieved 2015-07-12.
  6. ^ "青春×機関銃（4） at Square-enix.co.jp" (in Japanese). Square Enix. Retrieved 2015-07-12.
  7. ^ "青春×機関銃（5） at Square-enix.co.jp" (in Japanese). Square Enix. Retrieved 2015-07-12.
  8. ^ "青春×機関銃（6） at Square-enix.co.jp" (in Japanese). Square Enix. Retrieved 2015-07-12.
  9. ^ "青春×機関銃（7） at Square-enix.co.jp" (in Japanese). Square Enix. Retrieved 2015-07-12.
  10. ^ "Aoharu x Kikanjū TV Anime Adds Ryohei Kimura, Yui Horie to Cast". Anime News Network. June 7, 2015. Retrieved June 12, 2015.
  11. ^ AnimeLab Simulcast Line-Up For Summer 2015
  12. ^ "Sentai Filmworks Acquires Ushio & Tora, Gate, School Live, Wakaba Girl, Aoharu X Machinegun Anime". Anime News Network. July 2, 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
  13. ^ "Aoharu x Kikanjū" (in Japanese). Aoharu x Kikanjū Production Committee.

External links

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