Seishun Shiterukai!
| Seishun Shiterukai! | |
| 青春してるかい! | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Romantic comedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Ryō Azuki |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Magazine | Ribon |
| Original run | 1998 – 1999 |
| Volumes | 2 |
Seishun Shiterukai! (青春してるかい!) is a manga series by Ryō Azuki about a sixteen-year-old girl who graduated in Australia and returns to Japan to teach English in Shishimaru High School. As the homeroom teacher of class 1-B, she gets into some various types of troubles.
Plot
Usami Rika, a 16-year-old girl, comes to Japan to teach English and become a homeroom teacher in Shishimaru High School. She's really happy to be a teacher until she finds out that something goes wrong in this school. At first, she saw Sahara Reo gives a large amount of money to Shirou Ookami, both her students in class 1-B. Later she finds out one of the top students, Watanuki Kumiko, steals some of the mid-year test paper in the staff room. She then realizes the culprit of the test question selling is Sahara Reo who kisses her as a bribe to shut Rika up.
Characters
- Usami Rika
- She’s an energetic 16-year-old teacher who just comes back to Japan from Australia. She already graduated from a university and chooses to be a teacher because she was influenced by her teachers back in Australia. She’s actually kind of a genius. She can memorize all names, faces, and registration numbers of all students in Shishimaru High School. She also can write in Swahili and Arabic.
- She has two kangaroos named Kanta (male) and Garuko (female). She is often called Rika-chan by her students who treat her rather as friends than a teacher. She teaches English in Shishimaru high school. Rika always dreamt of a wonderful youth life that she got from old films her mother had and imagining things that she always pretends as if it’s the truth. She does some strange funny attacks in the series, just like ‘Chalk Missiles’ and such.
- She’s Sahara Reo’s old friend, but they don’t remember each other.
- Sahara Reo
- The class committee member, class registration 7.
- The male main character of this story who is the second top student of the year. He’s very popular among the girls, even among his seniors. He’s the culprit behind the rumor of test paper question selling and uses both Watanuki Kumiko and Shirou Ookami in this dirty job. Later, Rika ended his bad doings and he started to get a crush on Rika because of her simple kindness.
- He hated school because of his past. His parents teach overseas and he lived with his uncle who is the principal of Shishimaru High School, Kagetora Sahara. He’s phobic of kangaroos because he was kidnapped by a kangaroo when he went to Australia with Kagetora. Rika’s the one who saved him and he got a crush on Rika that day and promised himself that later, he’s the one who will protect Rika. He was then kidnapped again by the same kangaroo and loses his memories of that day.
- Shirou Ookami
- The ‘bad guy’ of the class, class registration 4.
- He used to be a member of the volleyball team and very good at it, but then took a fight with his seniors and caused his seniors to be taken to the hospital because his seniors picked on the juniors too much. After that Reo made sure he wasn't expelled and from that on, Ookami stayed loyal to Reo. He seems to have a crush on Rika.
- Despite his outer appearance, he dislikes exerting violence towards girls. Through the story, he’s called ‘Bancho’, ‘Gangster’ and ‘Wolf’ by Rika. His name ‘Shirou Ookami’ can be translated to ‘White Wolf’.
- Watanuki Kumiko (Jimiko)
- Class committee member, class registration 40.
- She’s the top student of Shishimaru and she always feeds the school’s rabbits. She’s Rika’s first friend and helped Rika several times. She always wears nerdish glasses and braids her black hair.
- Reo takes a chance on her because previous months ago, when she was doing the math test, she couldn’t remember the formula and she cheated. Reo tells her that he knew what she had done in the test and threatened her that if she did not obey him, he would spread that Jimiko became the top student because of cheating.
- Sahara Kagetora
- The easy-going principal of Shishimaru School, who is the uncle of Reo. He often drinks tea, uses Japanese clothing and a Japanese fan while he designated his room to be Japanese styled. He loves to tease his nephew and uses his power as the principal to do some weird things. He seems not to age in the story. He’s the one who reveals Reo’s kangaroo phobia to Rika and the one who reveals where Reo is throughout the game he and Rika were in.
- Miketani
- Kagetora’s tea-time companion. She wears glasses and seems to be easy-going and a close friend to Kagetora. She lives in the teacher’s hostel along with Rika. She’s the one who takes care of Rika when she’s caught and the one who makes the report for the International Education Committee.
Manga
The Seishun Shiterukai manga was published by Ribon Mascot Comics, Shueisha. In 2004, Seishun Shiterukai was published in Indonesia by m&c! under the same name.
External links
- Seishun Shiterukai! (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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