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Slow Start
Cover of Slow Start volume 1 by Houbunsha featuring (from top to bottom): Tamate, Hana, Kamuri, and Eiko.
スロウスタート
(Surou Sutāto)
GenreComedy, Slice of life[1]
Manga
Written byYuiko Tokumi
Published byHoubunsha
MagazineManga Time Kirara
DemographicSeinen
Original run2013 – present
Volumes5
Anime television series
Directed byHiroyuki Hashimoto
Written byMio Inoue
Music byYoshiaki Fujisawa
StudioCloverWorks
Licensed by
Original networkTokyo MX, GYT, GTV, BS11, TVA, KTV
Original run January 7, 2018 – March 25, 2018
Episodes12

Slow Start (スロウスタート, Surou Sutāto) is a Japanese four-panel manga series by Yuiko Tokumi, serialized in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara since 2013. It has been collected in five tankōbon volumes. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by CloverWorks aired between January 7 and March 25, 2018.[2][3]

Premise

Following an unfortunately timed case of the mumps, middle school student Hana Ichinose ends up missing all of her high school exams. Unable to stay in her hometown, Hana moves into her cousin's apartment building and spends a gap year as a "middle school rōnin", before finally attending high school a year later than planned. The series follows Hana as she spends time with her new friends, Eiko, Kamuri, and Tamate, without letting on that she is a year older than them.[4]

Characters

Hana Ichinose (一之瀬 花名, Ichinose Hana)
Voiced by: Reina Kondō[5]
Hana is a shy, modest girl who is good at studying, though not athletic. After catching mumps and missing out on her high school entry exams, she was forced to take a gap year and moved into her cousin's apartment building before attending Hoshio Private Academy as a first year. As a result, she is very self-conscious about her current standing and that she does not have anyone of her old school friends in her company, and is therefore very glad to build up an immediate friendship with Eiko, Kamuri and Tamate.
Eiko Tokura (十倉 栄依子, Tokura Eiko)
Voiced by: Tomomi Mineuchi[5]
Eiko is a tall, gentle and level-headed girl with a natural charisma which has made her very popular with her peers without any effort. She likes making accessories, and has a crush on her homeroom teacher Kiyose Enami.
Kamuri Sengoku (千石 冠, Sengoku Kamuri)
Voiced by: Maria Naganawa[5]
Kamuri is a childlike girl whose physical development greatly lags behind her actual age. She is an old friend of Eiko from elementary school, whom she adores, and becomes timid around others whenever Eiko is absent. Whenever she is addressed with a sensitive topic, she somehow manages to twitch her hair ribbon as an expression of her feelings. Her main hobbies are eating and sleeping (the latter of which is perhaps the primary reason for her belated development), although she is an extremely fast runner at sports. Her name is derived from kanmuriwashi.
Tamate Momochi (百地 たまて, Momochi Tamate)
Voiced by: Ayasa Itō[5]
Tamate is a bubbly, cheerful girl from Hana's class who likes to be friends with everyone she meets. She is notable for her protruding upper-jaw incisors, and likes to be called "Tama" because she does not like her full name's association with the word tamatebako. She lives with her two grandmothers and enjoys cooking.
Kiyose Enami (榎並 清瀬, Enami Kiyose)
Voiced by: Manami Numakura[6]
Hana's homeroom teacher, who appears leathargic all the time and uninterested in performing her job. It is because of these traits that she becomes an object of interest for Eiko Tokura.
Shion Kyōzuka (京塚 志温, Kyōzuka Shion)
Voiced by: M.A.O.[6]
Hana's adult cousin and the landlady of a boarding house, where Hana resides for the duration of her high school period. She is pretty and extremely well-endowed, but behaves more like a teenager than an adult woman. Her favorite hobby is taking a close interest in Hana's private life.
Hiroe Hannen (万年 大会, Hannen Hiroe)
Voiced by: Maaya Uchida[6][7]
A resident of the apartment building Hana and Shion live in. After an experience not dissimilar to Hana's led her to miss her university exams, the guilt of lying to her peers caused her to become a shut-in. She soon starts to become more confident after meeting Hana and is one of the few people who knows about her situation.
Miki Tokura (十倉 光希, Tokura Miki)
Voiced by: Tomori Kusunoki[8]
Eiko's younger sister, who is a year younger than her. She is supportive of her older sister and makes her soup everyday. Her similarity in appearance to Eiko is what led Kamuri to choose to go to Hoshio Private Academy.
Hazuki Ichinose (一之瀬 葉月, Ichinose Hazuki)
Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa[8]
Hana's mother.
Takeru Ichinose (一之瀬 健, Ichinose Takeru)
Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama[8]
Hana's father.

Media

Manga

The manga series by Yuiko Tokumi began serialization in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara in 2013. As of January 2018, the series has been compiled into five tankōbon volumes.[9] An anthology comic was released on February 27, 2018.[10]

Anime

An anime television series adaptation, directed by Hiroyuki Hashimoto and produced by CloverWorks, aired in Japan between January 7 and March 25, 2018. Mio Inoue supervised the series' scripts and Masato Yasuno designed the characters.[2] The opening theme is "ne! ne! ne!" by STARTails☆ (Reina Kondō, Tomomi Mineuchi, Maria Naganawa, and Ayasa Itō) and the ending theme is "Kaze no Koe wo Kikinagara" (風の声を聴きながら, While Listening to the Wind's Voice) by Sangatsu no Phantasia.[3] Aniplex of America have licensed the anime and are streaming it on Crunchyroll.[11] The series ran for 12 episodes.[7][12]

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No. Title[a] Original air date

Note

  1. ^ All English episode titles are taken from Crunchyroll.

References

  1. ^ "Aniplex of America to Stream New Slice of Life Comedy, Slow Start, on Crunchyroll in January 2018". Anime News Network. December 13, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Slow Start TV Anime's Visual, January Premiere Revealed". Anime News Network. July 31, 2017. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Slow Start Anime's TV Ad Reveals January 6 Premiere". Anime News Network. December 9, 2017. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  4. ^ http://slow-start.com/#story00
  5. ^ a b c d "Slow Start TV Anime Reveals Main Cast, Key Visual". Anime News Network. September 26, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
  6. ^ a b c "Slow Start Anime Videos Introduce 3 More Characters". Anime News Network. November 23, 2017. Retrieved November 23, 2017.
  7. ^ a b "3 More Slow Start Anime's Character Videos Streamed in English". Anime News Network. January 6, 2018. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  8. ^ a b c http://slow-start.com/#character
  9. ^ "スロウスタート 漫画の殿堂・芳文社" (in Japanese). Houbunsha. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
  10. ^ https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2018-03-01/20-creators-contribute-to-slow-start-anthology-comic-book/.128336
  11. ^ "Aniplex USA to Stream Slow Start Anime on Crunchyroll". Anime News Network. December 13, 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  12. ^ "BD/DVD". Retrieved January 6, 2018.
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