Tona-Gura!
| Tona-Gura! | |
| File:Tonagura.jpg Right to Left: Hatsune and Yuuji; Kazuki and Marie | |
| Genre | Shounen, Comedy, Romance, Ecchi |
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| Created by | Yasutomo Yamada |
| Manga | |
| Tonagura! | |
| Written by | Hidetaka Kakei |
| Published by |  JIVE Ltd. |
| Anime | |
| Tonagura! | |
| Directed by | Tatsuya Abe |
| Studio | Domu |
Tonagura! (となグラ！) is the title of a fictional Japanese comedy/romance story created by Hidetaka Kakei centering around four childhood friends and the romantic relationship between two of them.
Tonagura! originally began as a manga series and was released on December 7, 2004. The anime is based on this manga and was released July 8, 2006.
Plot
Template:Spoiler A childhood friend, Yuji, is coming home after a 10-year absence and Kazuki is eager to meet him again, hoping that he has become a handsome guy. In actuality, he’s become a very dirty pervert. In spite of her disappointment, he is making a move on her. Moreover, her older sister, Hatsune, tries to help their love along. Meanwhile, Yuji’s little sister, Marie, delights in shooting him with a paint gun.
Characters
- Kazuki Arisaka (有坂香月 Arisaka Kazuki, ), (Seiyū - Akemi Kanda)
- She is the heroine of the story. Basically, she had an unrequited love for Yuuji Kagura when they were young. She's always dreamed that Yuuji would one day grow up to be a handsome, suave young man. When she finally meets him again ten years later she is disappointed to find that's he has become a hentai. Kazuki is a skilled member of her school's swimming club. Her cooking skills leave much to be desired, however; although she can make her dishes look very good, she tends to add ingredients that end up turning innocuous food into culinary disasters capable of dropping the person eating it where they stand.
- Yuuji Kagura (神楽勇治 Kagura Yuuji, ), (Seiyū - Hiroyuki Yoshino)
- The main protagonist of the story. Yuuji was once a sweet innocent little boy that Kazuki Arisaka was in love with. That is until he left for 10 years only to come back as a very big pervert. He is constantly finding himself in situations where Kazuki is half-dressed, is constantly has perverted fantasies, and sometimes ends up touching girls where he shouldn't be touching them. Despite this, it seems that he does has a nice, non-perverted side (rarely seen) to him that actually values Kazuki's friendship.
- Niina Isokawa (磯川ニーナ Isokawa Niina, ), (Seiyū - Ayumi Tsuji)
- Niina is a blond-haired girl who goes to the same class as Marie. She has an American mother, a Japanese father, and a great deal of energy. She's physically very active and extremely friendly, quickly attaching herself to Marie to the latter's initial displeasure.
- Marie Kagura (神楽まりえ Kagura Marie, ), (Seiyū - Erino Hazuki)
- Yuuji's younger sister. Kazuki described her as being a crybaby when she was younger. Now that she has grown up she isn't quite the crybaby she used to be. Now she can be found pelting her older brother with paint balls with the gun found hidden in her teddy bear Seiyu and her other puppets when her brother is acting like a pervert. Marie is mortally afraid of cats and insects, although she will actively flee bugs yet is nearly paralyzed by the presence of cats.
- Kousuke Machida (町田洸介 Machida Kousuke, ), (Seiyū - Shinji Kawada)
- Chihaya Suzuhara (鈴原ちはや Suzuhara Chihaya, ), (Seiyū - Misaki Sekiyama)
- Kazuki's friend who apparently likes to spy on people. She apparently speaks with a Kansai dialect and is much more receptive to Yuuji's perverted nature than Kazuki, claiming 'all boys are like that'. She also doesn't object to being the object of his attention and even goes so far as to give minor displays.
- Miu Serizawa (芹沢美宇 Serizawa Miu, ), (Seiyū - Shizuka Itou)
- Hatsune Arisaka (有坂初音 Arisaka Hatsune, ), (Seiyū - Sayaka Ohara)
- Kazuki's older sister, who is constantly trying to get Kazuki and Yuuji together and inadvertently puts them both into embarrassing and perverted situations. There are some indications that she considers the mishaps and the blowouts following them funny. Hatsune is good at everything she does, from cooking to sports, and is extremely well-endowed. Hatsune frequently engages in cosplay around the house and can, from time to time, be quite frightening to the people around her. Unlike her younger sister and Marie, Hatsune is perfectly unafraid of insects - or anything else.
- Arisaka-san (有坂さん Arisakasan, ), (Seiyū - Kenta Miyake)
- Kazuki's and Hatsune's father, a professor of cultural anthropology.
- Kagura-san (神楽さん Kagura san, ), (Seiyū - Keiji Fujiwara)
- Marie's and Yuuji's father. Told Marie to shoot her brother with paint balls every time he does something perverted. Apparently he is a hunter, although this is questionable. It has been stated in the anime that he is a press photographer as his day job, with a side job as treasure hunter. Marie and Yuuji note his treasure hunting job always felt more like his main occupation, as it caused the family to relocate time and again, whenever Kagura-san got bored with one site and started looking for the next.
Manga
- December 7 2004 -- ISBN 4-86176-054-2
- June 7 2005
- January 7 2006 -- ISBN 4-86176-266-9
- July 7 2006 -- ISBN 4-86176-311-8
Anime
Episodes
Theme songs
- Opening Theme: "DRAMATIC☆GIRLY" by Akemi Kanda, Sayaka Ohara, Erino Hazuki, Misaki Sekiyama & Ayumi Tsuji
- Ending Theme: "Aitai Kimochi Kara~Placid Time~" by Akemi Kanda and Sayaka Ohara
References
External links
- Template:Jp icon Tonagura! Official Anime Website
- Tona-Gura! ({{{type}}}) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Tona-Gura! ({{{type}}}) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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