Seitokai Yakuindomo
| Seitokai Yakuindomo | |
 Japanese cover of Seitokai Yakuindomo volume 1 | |
| 生徒会役員共 | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Tozen Ujiie |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Magazine | Magazine Special (former) Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | June 2007 – present |
| Volumes | 8 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiromitsu Kanazawa |
| Studio | GoHands |
| Original network | TV Kanagawa |
| Original run | July 4, 2010 – September 26, 2010 |
| Episodes | 13 + 7 OVAs |
Seitokai Yakuindomo (生徒会役員共, lit. Student Council Staff Members) is a shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Tozen Ujiie. The series premiered in the June 2007 issue of Magazine Special magazine and is ongoing. Chapters are collected and published in collected volumes by Kodansha, with eight volumes released as of February 2013 in Japan. A 13-episode anime adaptation produced by GoHands aired in Japan on TV Kanagawa between July 4 and September 26, 2010.[1]
Plot
Takatoshi Tsuda joins Ōsai Academy, a co-ed high school that until recently had been an all-girl school, where he is asked to join the student council as vice-president and a male representative.
Characters
Main characters
- Takatoshi Tsuda (津田 タカトシ, Tsuda Takatoshi)
- Voiced by: Shintaro Asanuma
- The main character of the story, he chooses to attend a former all-girl school simply because it is close to his home. On the first day at the school, he is forced to join the student council as vice president and male representative. He normally acts as a tsukkomi to Shino and Aria's perverted innuendo and comments, and becomes so used to it that he would actually feel odd if they did not make such jokes.
- Shino Amakusa (天草 シノ, Amakusa Shino)
- Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa
- The student council president and a second-year student. She is serious and diligent, talented in most subjects, and is also very popular among the student body. However, she is almost always thinking of perverted things, even suggesting that one of her main reasons to be interested in Tsuda is curiosity about information not covered in health classes. She fears heights and insects, and has a complex about her chest, which is exacerbated by the fact that Aria happens to be better endowed than she is. She later develops some feelings for Takatoshi.
- Aria Shichijō (七条 アリア, Shichijō Aria)
- Voiced by: Satomi Satō
- Also a second-year student, the student council secretary, and Shino's best friend. She is the most mature character in appearance, and comes from an affluent family. However, her mind tends to follow the same paths as Shino, possibly more so, and seems especially interested in bondage and anal play. She is airheaded at times, the consequence of being absurdly rich and overly pampered. Being better endowed than her fellow student council members exacerbates Shino's complex about her chest.
- Suzu Hagimura (萩村 スズ, Hagimura Suzu)
- Voiced by: Sayuri Yahagi
- A first-year, 16-year-old (17 later in the manga) genius return student with an IQ of 180. She is the student council treasurer, and the most mentally mature of the characters, but she is very sensitive about her body, which still appears to be that of an elementary school student. Many of the jokes involve Suzu's focus on her childish appearance or lack of height, which cause her to fly into a rage whenever it is mentioned. Being both first-years and the more sane members of the group, she develops a rather close relationship with Tsuda (to the point that she totally believes him when he mentions his sister's disconcerting behavior).
Secondary characters
- Kotomi Tsuda (津田 コトミ, Tsuda Kotomi)
- Voiced by: Asami Shimoda
- Takatoshi's younger sister, who ultimately also ends up attending Ōsai for its proximity to home. She is considerate and caring toward others, but is curious and enthusiastic about adult matters as well, to the point of frequently behaving similarly to Shino (both brought Takatoshi adult manga when he was sick).
- Ranko Hata (畑 ランコ, Hata Ranko)
- Voiced by: Satomi Arai
- The head of the school's newspaper club, who has a habit of taking photos of the student council members to sell around the school, usually without the knowledge of those being photographed and occasionally faked. She often tends to get caught. She is given a dead-pan, monotone voice in the anime, which strongly contrasts with the other girls' excitable temperaments.
- Naruko Yokoshima (横島 ナルコ, Yokoshima Naruko)
- Voiced by: Yuu Kobayashi
- A teacher at Ōsai Academy, who happens to be the advisor of the student council. She is incredibly perverted, even more so than Aria and Shino, and aggressively seeks out younger guys, including her male students. She is often portrayed as unreliable and useless from the point of view of an educator.
- Mutsumi Mitsuba (三葉 ムツミ, Mitsuba Mutsumi)
- Voiced by: Chiaki Omigawa
- The leader of the school's judo club, and Takatoshi's classmate. She is a very strong and skilled fighter, and very dedicated to leading her club, but is also simple-minded. She develops a crush on Takatoshi later in the series and, despite her remarkable potential and drive towards the martial arts, states that her dream is to simply become a bride. She is kind and innocent, often misinterpreting the perverted comments of Aria and Shino.
- Chiri Nakazato (中里 チリ, Nakazato Chiri)
- Voiced by: Yukika Teramoto
- A tomboyish friend of Mutsumi who is one of the original founders of the Judo Club.
- Kaede Igarashi (五十嵐 カエデ, Igarashi Kaede)
- Voiced by: Emiri Katou
- The president of the disciplinary committee at Ōsai Academy, who has a strong sense of justice and morals. She has extreme androphobia.
- Sayaka Dejima (出島 サヤカ, Dejima Sayaka)
- Voiced by: Mutsumi Tamura
- Aria's personal maid, a skilled chef who particularly enjoys doing the laundry. She is very protective of Aria, being the keeper of the key to her chastity belt, and seems to have a fetish for anything that Aria has touched or worn, as well as unwashed underwear in general.
- Nene Todoroki (轟 ネネ, Todoroki Nene)
- Voiced by: Hekiru Shiina
- A member of the Robot Research Club who loves to build both complex robots and vibrating sex toys, usually wearing one throughout the day. She is a personal friend of Suzu.
- Toki (時さん, Toki-san)
- Voiced by: Miho Hino
- Kotomi's first friend she made since entering high school, who looks and sounds like a delinquent. Despite her scary and anti-social appearance, she is incredibly clumsy and shows no signs of a rebellious nature; in fact, the only reason she leaves her shirt loose was because she accidentally tucked it into her underwear one day and was embarrassed about it.
- Misaki Amano (天野 ミサキ, Amano Misaki)
- Voiced by: Yukika Teramoto
- A younger childhood friend of Shino who is very familiar with her twisted way of thinking from their past in an elementary school organization, where Shino was also president. Misaki seems about as level-headed as Takatoshi.
Media
Manga
Seitokai Yakuindomo began as a four-panel comic strip manga written and illustrated by Tozen Ujiie. The manga began serialization in the June 2007 issue of Kodansha's Magazine Special and ran in that magazine until the July 2008 issue, where it was thereafter transferred to Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine starting with the 34th issue of 2008 sold in September. The first tankōbon volume was released on August 12, 2008 under Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine KC imprint; as of August 2012, seven volumes have been released.
Volume list
| No. | Release date | ISBN | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 12, 2008 | 978-4-06-384030-8 | |
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| 2 | May 15, 2009 | 978-4-06-384142-8 | |
| 3 | January 15, 2010 | 978-4-06-384240-1 | |
| 4 | August 17, 2010 | 978-4-06-384347-7 | |
| 5 | April 15, 2011 | 978-4-06-384479-5 | |
Anime
A 13-episode anime TV series produced by GoHands and directed by Hiromitsu Kanazawa aired in Japan between July 4 and September 26, 2010 on TV Kanagawa. The anime began airing at later dates on Chiba TV, TV Saitama, Sun TV, KBS, Tokyo MX, TV Aichi, and AT-X.[2] Two pieces of theme music are used for the anime: one opening theme and one ending theme. The opening theme is "Yamato Nadeshiko Education" (大和撫子エデュケイション) by Triple Booking (a reference to the author's previous work Idol no Akahon), made up of Yōko Hikasa, Satomi Satō and Sayuri Yahagi—the voices of Shino, Aria and Suzu. The ending theme is "Aoi Haru" (蒼い春) by Angela.[3] Six BD/DVD volumes were released between August 4 and October 27, 2010.[4] Certain scenes in the anime were censored for broadcast on TV, but the BD/DVD releases have the option of turning the majority of the censoring on or off.[citation needed] Original video animation episodes of the anime have been shipping with the limited editions of the manga volumes, beginning with the fifth volume released on April 15, 2011.[5]
Episode listing
| # | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
Internet radio show
An Internet radio show to promote the anime titled Anime 'Seitokai Yakuindomo' ga Zenbu Wakaru Radio, Ryakushite Zenra! (アニメ『生徒会役員共』が全部わかるラジオ、略して全ラ!) produced by Animate TV began streaming online on July 14, 2010.[6] The show does not have any fixed hosts, but members of the voice cast from the anime take turns hosting the show every week.
References
- ^ "Seitokai Yakuindomo Manga Gets TV Anime Green-Lit". Anime News Network. April 24, 2010. Retrieved July 6, 2010.
- ^ "放送情報" (in Japanese). StarChild. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
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- ^ "BD/DVD" (in Japanese). StarChild. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
- ^ "Seitokai Yakuindomo Manga Gets Original Anime DVD". Anime News Network. December 25, 2010. Retrieved December 25, 2010.
- ^ "アニメ『生徒会役員共』が全部わかるラジオ、略して全ラ!" (in Japanese). Animate TV. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
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External links
- Manga official website Template:Ja icon
- Anime official website Template:Ja icon
- Seitokai Yakuindomo (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia