Toritsu Mizusho!

Toritsu Mizusho!
Genre	Comedy, Ecchi
Manga
Written by	Hikaru Murozumi (story) Shinobu Inokuma (art)
Published by	Shogakukan
Anime

The School of Water Business (都立水商！ Toritsu Mizusho!) is a manga series created by Hikaru Murozumi and drawn by Shinobu Inokuma, the author of Salad Days. It is set in a fictional trade-school, that focuses on Mizu shōbai, located in Kabuki-cho of Shinjuku, Tokyo

The school's focus is to give students that are on their last chance in the school system. Classes are divided into occupations such as, Hostesses, Hosts, "Managers" (from waiters to actual managers), "Geibaa" (Gay Bar but is a more comedic view of males dressing and acting like females) and, finally, "soapgirls." The School of Water Business is an ecchi series but has shown far less skin than some of the "softer" translated series. The series is mostly a romantic comedy but also mixes in many positive messages about life, work, friendship, and other topics.

Characters

The volume number denotes the character's first appearance. The actor/actress is the person that was casted for the character in the TV special.

• Keisuke Tanabe (田辺 圭介) - Sociology Teacher (Vol. 1) - Takashi Fujii
• Akane Yoshioka (吉岡 あかね)- Fuzoku Course Director (Vol. 1)
• Shigeo Yagura (矢倉 茂) - Headmaster (Vol. 1) Naoto Takenaka
• Akemi Kondo (近藤 明美) - Hostess Course Director (Vol. 1) - Chisato Morishita
• Toshihito Takei (竹井 俊仁) - Host Course Director (Vol. 1)
• Makoto O0no (大野誠) - Gay Bar Course Director (Vol. 1) - Takaya Yamauchi
• Tadao Kurosawa (黒沢 忠夫) - Manager Course Director (Vol. 1) - Hironobu Nomura
• Michiko Yazawa (矢沢　道子) - Music Teacher (Vol. 6)
• Mari Oda (Mari Koyama in TV version) (小田 真理) - Fuzoku Student (Vol. 1) - Saki Seto
• Daichi Nagasawa (長沢 大地) - Manager Student (Vol. 1) - Ryoji Morimoto
• Masashi Ito (伊東 雅史) - Athletics Director (Vol. 1)
• Izumi Eto (江藤 いずみ) - Student (Fuzoku) (Vol. 1)
• Kikuzo Sakuma (佐久間 菊蔵) - Chairman of the Tokyo Metropolitan School Board (Vol. 1) - Renji Ishibashi
• Teppei Suga (須賀 鉄平) - Gay Bar Student (Vol. 1)
• Ryoko Akagi (赤木 良子) - Fuzoku Student (Vol. 3)
• Mayuko Maruyama (丸山 真由子) - Hostess Student (Vol. 4) - Misako Yasuda
• Sawa Sugabayashi (杉林 佐和) - Manager Student (Vol. 5)
• Sanae Yamashita (山下早苗) - Hostess Student (Vol. 6) - Becky
• Reira Yamaguchi () - Hostess Student (Vol. 8) - Risa Kudo
• Miwa Nagasawa (長沢 三葉) - Hostess Student (Vol. 9)
• Ayame Hanao (花尾 あやめ) - Hostess Student (Vol. 9)
• Nakajima Komachi (中嶋 小町) - Hostess Student (Vol. 11)
• Etsuko Yamaguchi - (TV only) - Mariko Tsutsui
• Moe Akiba - (TV only) - Aki Hoshino
• Kyoto - (TV only) - Kenji Anan

External links

• Offical site at Young Sunday (Japanese)
• Official Live action special site at NTV (Japanese)
• School of Water Business ({{{type}}}) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Live action special at ANN