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Untold fact of Izumo Kunisaki (國崎出雲の事情, Kunisaki Izumo no Jijyō) is a ongoing Japaniese manga series written and illustrated by Aya Hirakawa (ひらかわあや, Hirakawa Aya). The series began on January 2009 in the Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine. Before the series, a one-shot by the same title was featured on Weekly Shonen Sunday in Febuary 2008, as a prototype. This article is written mostly about the series, as major changes were made between the one-shot and the series.

Plot

Izumo Kunisaki, a boy with lovely features often mistaken as a girl, is an Onna-gata (female role) actor in the Japaneise traditional stage play Kabuki. Despite his talent as a female role actor, he desires to be the "man of man". The series is a comedy following Izmo's school and actor life.

Characters

Actors of Kunisaki-ya

Izumo Kunisaki (國崎 出雲, Izmo Kunisaki)

The main character of the story. Onna-gata (女形,female role) Kabuki actor and first year student of a performing art course in Shijyogawara High School.

Born to a Kabuki-performing family Kunisaki-ya (國崎屋,Kunisaki family), he began his acting career in his childhood, but was away from performing due to his parent's separation and his own antipathy for playing female roles. With his feminine looks, he is a genius female role actor, and attracts both male and female characters in and out of the stage. He dislikes cross-dressing, but is often forced to wear female clothing. He works part-time as a maid in a Maid cafe. In school he proves to have good sense in sports, and excellent cook.

Kagato Sumeragi (皇 加賀斗, Kagato Sumragi)

An Onna-gata actor in Kunisaki-ya. As a senior　apprentice,　Kagato teaches Izmo female role performance. He is a talented actor with beautiful features and delicate health. He falls ill before his stage in chapter 1, forcing Izmo to fill in and re-start his Onna-gata career. He often cross-dresses as a "study of Onna-gata", but Izmo suspects he only likes it.

Yakumo Kunisaki (國崎 八雲, Yakumo Kunisaki)

Izmo's father and the present head of Kunisaki-ya. He loves his son, apparently too much, getting sexually aroused by Izmo dressed in female costumes.

Haruichi (春一, Haruichi)

Natsuki (夏希, Natsuki)

Akihiko (秋彦, Akihiko)

Fuyumasa (冬政, Fuyumasa)

Senior apprentices in Kunisaki-ya.

Kabuki Actors

Sae Togashiki (栂敷 紗英, Sae Togashiki)

Son of a distinguished Kabuki family Togashiki-ya, and a tachi-yaku (立役,male role) actor. Second year student of the performing art course in Shijyogawara High School. He comes to believe Izmo is a girl after performing with him in the play Narukami, as he touches Izmo's breasts and find it soft (actually it was a donut). He has a crush on Izmo ever since.

Kuroe Minamoto (源 玄衛, Kuroe Minamoto)

Son of Kabuki family Minamoto-ya, and a tachi-yaku actor. First year student of the performing art course in Shijyogawara High School. Having childish features, he had played only child roles until his age of 15, as he was afraid the audience will not accept him as an adult. Izmo encourages him to play his first adult role in the play Kamakura Sandai Ki .

Umeki Sugawara (菅原 梅樹, Umeki Sugawara)

First son of Kabuki family Sugawara-ya, one of the most potent families in the Rien (梨園,Kabuki world). tachi-yaku actor, and second year student of the performing art course in Shijyogawara High School. As a heir of his family, he was promised good roles but eventually spoiled by it, having rough manners and not showing up for practice. Actually, he began to act this way to give his younger brother more chances.

Matsuki Sugawara (菅原 松樹, Matsuki Sugawara)

Second son of Kabuki family Sugawar-ya, tachi-yaku actor, and first year student of the general course in Shijyogawara High School. He is also a regular customer in the Maid Cafe where Izmo works part-time. Matsuki hated his older brother Umeki, for his rough behavior and loss of respect for Kabuki. Dispute between the brothers came to a solution after Izmo served to bridge them in the play Kagotsurube.

Shijyogawara High School

Yuzuha Nakamura (仲村 柚葉, Yuzuha Nakamura)

A childhood freind of Izmo, and daughter of Kabuki family Nakamura-ya. She is not a Kabuki actress, as Kabuki is only performed by men, but knows a lot about Kabuki and the Rien She belongs to the first grade of performing art course as well as Izmo, and is hinted as a TV talent of some sort. Calls Izmo "Ikkun". A fan of Kagato.

Yuzuha's Papa

Yuzuha's father, renown Kabuki actor, and president of Shijyogawara High School. He believes Kabuki should be performed in the traditional way, and thinks Izmo is making too much arrangements.

Satsuki Kumedera (粂寺 皐, Satsuki Kumedera)

Student guidance teacher of Shijyogawara High School. She strictly keeps an eye on her students, but she doesn't hide her being a sexual pervert getting excited by Izmo. A Kabuki fan in her childhood, she was hurt by haughty behavior of an actor she liked, and was away from seeing Kabuki until she was ordered to check Izmo's performance in the play Sannin Kichiza.

Ren (蓮, Ren)

Kei (圭, Kei)

Izmo's classmates. They are idols belonging to the "Johnney's" production, much like the Johnny & Associates production in real world.

They are special friends to Izmo, because they do not treat him like a girl.

Kabuki performed in the story

Kuruwa-bunsho (廓文章, Love Letter from the Licensed Quarter)

Izmo performs Yugiri, a famous courtesan of 17th century Osaka.

Narukami (鳴神, Thunder god)

Izmo as Kumono Taemanohime, a pretty princess-spy with a mission from the Imperial Court.Sae as Narukami, a priest who captured the water dragon to dry up the world.

Kamakura Sandai Ki (鎌倉三代記, Three generations in Kamakura)

Izmo as Toki-hime, a princess who must kill her father to marry her lover. Kuroe as Miuranosuke, Tokihime's fiancée.

Sannin Kichiza (三人吉三, Three Kichizas)

Tale of three thieves with the same name (Kichiza). Izumo as Ojyo-Kichiza (Lady Kichiza), Sae as Osho-Kichiza (Monk Kichiza), Kuroe as Obo-Kichiza (Boy Kichiza).

Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame (籠釣瓶花街酔醒, "Kagotsurube" (name of sword in the play))

Izmo as Yatsuhashi, a beautiful Oiran of Yoshiwara. Matsuki as Jirozaemon, a rich, ugly man who falls in love with Yatsuhashi. Umeki as Einojyo, Yatsuhashi's lover.

Comic list

1. 國崎出雲の事情, Volume1 at Amazon.co.jp (in Japanese)First Published 2010/4/16 ISBN 9784091222701
2. 國崎出雲の事情, Volume2 at Amazon.co.jp (in Japanese)First Published 2010/7/16 ISBN 9784091224767
3. 國崎出雲の事情, Volume3 at Amazon.co.jp (in Japanese)First Published 2010/10/18 ISBN 9784091226273

External Links

• Untold fact of Izumo Kunisaki at Weekly Shōnen Sunday (in Japanese)