Danchigai
| Danchigai | |
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Cover of Danchigai volume 1 | |
| だんちがい | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy[1] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Kazusa Yoneda |
| Published by | Ichijinsha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Manga 4-Koma Palette |
| Original run | June 2011 – present |
| Volumes | 4 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Kimura |
| Produced by | Dream Creation |
| Written by | Kazusa Yoneda (original story) |
| Music by | Shusei |
| Studio | Creators in Pack TOKYO |
| Network | TVS, KBS, tvk, Sun TV, AT-X |
| Original run | July 9, 2015 – September 24, 2015 |
| Episodes | 12 + 1 OVA |
Danchigai (だんちがい, lit. "Big Difference") is a Japanese four-panel comedy manga series by Kazusa Yoneda, serialized in Ichijinsha's seinen manga magazine Manga 4-Koma Palette since June 2011. The series has received an anime television series adaptation, which began airing in July 2015.
Plot
The story revolves around Haruki and his four sisters: Mutsuki, Yayoi, Uzuki, and Satsuki. While their life may seem monotonous—aside from the fact that Haruki's sisters don't give him a single opportunity to rest, lecturing him about every perceived mistake and playing tricks on him—Haruki still loves his life.
Characters
- Haruki Nakano (仲野 晴輝 Nakano Haruki)
- Voiced by: Atsushi Abe[2]
- The protagonist of the series. Spends most of his time playing games.
- Mutsuki Nakano (仲野 夢月 Nakano Mutsuki)
- Voiced by: Satomi Akesaka[2]
- The oldest of the five siblings, and the most responsible. When only Haruki is present, however, she becomes much more relaxed and carefree.
- Yayoi Nakano (仲野 弥生 Nakano Yayoi)
- Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu[2]
- Haruki's younger sister. She is athletic and plays sports, and is often violent towards her brother, but still feels affection for him.
- Uzuki Nakano (仲野 羽月 Nakano Uzuki)
- Voiced by: Sora Tokui[2]
- Satsuki's twin sister and one of the youngest of the five. She has an active, outgoing personality.
- Satsuki Nakano (仲野 咲月 Nakano Satsuki)
- Voiced by: Sayaka Horino[2]
- Uzuki's twin and the other youngest sibling. In contrast to Uzuki, she has a much quieter personality.
Media
Manga
Danchigai is written by Kazusa Yoneda, and began serialization in Ichijinsha's Manga 4-Koma Palette magazine in June 2011.[1] The series has also released a number of online chapters on Ichijinsha's website,[2][3] with the fifth chapter being released in July 2015.[4]
Volume list
The series has been collected into four tankōbon volumes.[4]
| No. | Release date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 22, 2012[5] | ISBN 978-4-75-808159-7 [5] |
| 2 | December 22, 2014[6] | ISBN 978-4-75-808226-6 [6] |
| 3 | April 22, 2015[7] | ISBN 978-4-75-808230-3 [7] |
| 4 | September 19, 2015[8] | ISBN 978-4-75-808246-4 [8] |
Anime
An anime television series based off the manga is directed by Hiroshi Kimura, with animation by the animation studio Creators in Pack TOKYO. The series is produced by Dream Creation, with audio production by Dax Production.[1][3] Eriko Itō is in charge of character design, and Masakatsu Oomuro serves as the series sound director.[2][3] The series has four theme songs, one for each female lead. Satomi Akesaka will sing "Early Morning", Mikako Komatsu will sing "Let a good day", Sora Tokui will sing "Gently Mischief", and Sayaka Horino will sing "Princess Durandal".[3][9]
The series, comprising twelve five-minute episodes, began airing on July 9, 2015, and was broadcast on TVS, KBS, Sun TV, AT-X, and tvk.[3][10][11][12] The series was streamed by Crunchyroll worldwide except for Japan.[13][14] It was released on Blu-ray in Japan on September 19, 2015.[15]
Episode list
| No. | Title | Ending Theme | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Building One: The Yumeno Apartments" "Ichi Gōtō Yumeno Danchi" (一号棟 夢野団地) | Let a good day | July 9, 2015 |
| Haruki wakes up after a night of studying to find himself trapped by a sleeping Yayoi. The twins take this as a chance to torment their brother, which wakes Yayoi. She becomes angry at him, and Mutsuki has to threaten to take away their allowances to make them stop fighting. | |||
| 2 | "Building Two: The Twins Homework" "Ni Gōtō Futago no Shukudai" (二号棟 双子の宿題) | Gentle Mischief | July 16, 2015 |
| Both Haruki and Yayoi find the twins spying on them. It turns out that the two have a homework assignment requiring them to write about their family. | |||
| 3 | "Building Three: Mutsuki's True Colors" "San Gōtō Mutsuki no Sugao" (三号棟 夢月の素顔) | Early Morning | July 23, 2015 |
| Haruki comes home to find Mutsuki asleep in his room. She rapidly changes into her usual, more formal self when Yayoi and the twins arrive. When he finds her relaxing in his room again after her bath, he bemoans the fact that he is the only one she acts nonchalantly around. | |||
| 4 | "Building Four: Curry and Rice" "Yon Gōtō Karēraisu" (四号棟 カレーライス) | Princess Durandal | July 30, 2015 |
| The siblings go grocery shopping together. Mutsuki is given a basket of free food after the twins attract customers while praising the store's food samples. Taking offense at Haruki's suggestion that they would need a mild curry mix, the twins insist on buying a spicy one. At dinner, they are surprised to find it palatable; however, Mutsuki reveals that she had secretly purchased a mild. | |||
| 5 | "Building Five: Satsuki's Anime Clock" "Go Gōtō Satsuki no Anime Tokei" (五号棟 咲月のアニメ時計) | Princess Durandal | August 6, 2015 |
| Haruki arrives home with a manga magazine and finds Satsuki waiting for him. Uzuki comments that Satsuki doesn't even need a clock to know when an anime is on. Haruki is then surprised when she passes up on watching the first episode of an anime she enjoys to play with Uzuki. Later, however, she watches it three times on reruns, and he wonders why she isn't getting tired of it. | |||
| 6 | "Building Six: The Siblings' Multiplication" "Roku Gōtō Shimai no Kakezan" (六号棟 姉妹のかけ算) | Let a good day | August 13, 2015 |
| Haruki arrives home and Mutsuki offers to help him with his homework. He turns her down because she is bad at teaching (he doesn't tell her this). Helping Yayoi prepare for a math exam, he deduces that her problem is in her grasp of multiplication. When bedtime comes, she is still having trouble. The next day, when she returns from school, she refuses to show him her test results. After a brief struggle, they fall and he lands on top of her, just as Mutsuki walks in, causing a misunderstanding. | |||
| 7 | "Building Seven: The Apartment Complex's Pool Opening" "Nana Gōtō Danchi de Pūru Biraki" (七号棟 団地でプール開き) | Early Morning | August 20, 2015 |
| Yayoi becomes jealous when the twins have swimming practice. She sets up a inflatable wading pool in the middle of their apartment and she, Haruki, and Mutsuki all get in it. Later, when the twins get home, they find the three have caught a cold due to the unseasonable swimming. | |||
| 8 | "Building Eight: Definitely Siblings" "Hachi Gōtō Shimai desu ne" (八号棟 姉妹ですね) | Gentle Mischief | August 27, 2015 |
| After reading a manga, Satsuki begins to worry that she and Uzuki may not actually be twins due to their dissimilar looks. Haruki convinces her otherwise by showing her that Mutsuki looked very much like her when she was younger. Uzuki then begins to wonder the same thing, but Mutsuki convinces her with a picture of their grandmother. Finally, Yayoi arrives home, bemoaning the fact that she can't be related to any of them due to her receiving poor test scores when they all do very well. | |||
| 9 | "Building Nine: For the Love of Pranks" "Kyū Gōtō Itazura Daisuki" (九号棟いたずら大好き) | Gentle Mischief | September 3, 2015 |
| Uzuki begins acting strangely over dinner, even switching seats with Yayoi. Haruki catches on and begins to grow paranoid that she has spiked their dinner somehow. After being pressured into taking a bite he realizes there is nothing wrong with it. After dinner he finds Uzuki in his room where she asks him to read a book with her. Again growing suspicious, Haruki is put off by her innocent behavior. After she leaves, Satsuki drags him over to show him an anime episode she shows Uzuki the other day, wherein the younger sister character acts kindly and proclaims her sibling love to her brother, then runs off exclaiming it was a prank. Satsuki believes this was the explanation for Uzuki's unusual behavior which relieves Haruki that her 'prank' was so simple. The next day Uzuki confirms Satsuki's suspicions while Haruki pretends to be dumbfounded. | |||
| 10 | "Building Ten: Mutsuki's Request" "Jū Gōtō Mudzuki o• ne• ga• i" (十号棟 夢月お•ね•が•い) | Early Morning | September 10, 2015 |
| Haruki wakes up in the middle of the night to find Mutsuki leaning over him. After he calms down Mutsuki reveals she has a favor to ask of him: she wants him to kiss her. Despite initial misunderstandings, Mutsuki reveals she has to kiss someone at school as part of a play for the school festival and wants to practice with Haruki beforehand. Haruki desperately tries to get out of his situation, however Mutsuki remains adamant in her decision to practice with him. Moments before they are about to kiss Haruki pushes her away, exclaiming that they shouldn't (all the while questioning whether she has incestuous love for him), which causes Mutsuki to run out of the room. Haruki runs after her to apologize, only to find her realizing that she had mixed up the scripts for Snow White and Cinderella (her sudden realization being the cause for her storming out of his room), and that the play she was supposed to be performing didn't have a kiss scene at all. | |||
| 11 | "Building Eleven: How Yayoi Nurses" "Jū Ichi Gōtō Yayoi no Kanbyō" (十一号棟 弥生の看病) | Let a good day | September 17, 2015 |
| Yayoi finds Haruki lying on the floor in the middle of the night weak with a cold. Despite initial reluctance she helps him back into bed. The next day the twins tease Yayoi about how she seems less upbeat due to the lack of Haruki's presence due to being bedridden, which she fervently denies. Later Haruki wakes to find Yayoi tending to him (having skipped after-school activities just to get home early). As she is wiping the sweat off his chest the rest of the family walk in, misinterpreting the situation as Yayoi kissing Haruki. | |||
| 12 | "Building Twelve: The Bond Between Haruki and His Sisters" "Jū Ni Gōtō Haruki to Shimai-tachi no Kizuna" (十二号棟 晴輝と姉妹達の絆) | September 24, 2015 | |
| Yayoi barges into Haruki's room requesting to play a game with him, something which initially makes Haruki nervous as she is not normally this gentle. However as he goes to choose a game for them to play he finds that she has fallen asleep on his bed. Yayoi remarks how she wants to sleep in his room, to which a panicking Haruki drags her back to her own bed assuming she has some kind of fever. As he leaves the twins drag him to the bathroom demanding that he watch them use the toilet, later calling it a prank. After some waterworks Haruki finally returns to his room, only to find Mutsuki sleeping in his bed. The others soon follow, claiming that they all want to sleep in his room for the night. As Haruki reflects on each the members of his family and the good times he's had with them, he realizes that with his room packed, he himself has nowhere to sleep. The next day it is revealed that he reason they all slept in his room was due to watching a scary movie the night before. | |||
| OVA | "Building Thirteen: I Want to go to the Public Bath" "Jū San Gōtō Sentō Yukitai ̄" (十三号棟 銭湯行きたいー) | September 19, 2015 | |
References
- 1 2 3 "Danchigai 4-Panel Comedy Manga Gets TV Anime". Anime News Network. February 20, 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Satomi Akesaka Leads Danchigai Comedy Anime's Cast". Anime News Network. May 13, 2015. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Green, Scott (May 21, 2015). ""Danchigai" Anime Visual and Broadcast Information Revealed". Crunchyroll. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
- 1 2 "Danchigai". Ichijinsha (in Japanese). Retrieved July 23, 2015.
- 1 2 "だんちがい (1) (4コマKINGSぱれっとコミックス)". Amazon.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved July 23, 2015.
- 1 2 "だんちがい (2) (IDコミックス 4コマKINGSぱれっとコミックス)". Amazon.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved July 23, 2015.
- 1 2 "だんちがい(3) (IDコミックス/4コマKINGSぱれっとコミックス)". Amazon.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved July 23, 2015.
- 1 2 "だんちがい 4 (IDコミックス 4コマKINGSぱれっとコミックス)". Amazon.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved September 17, 2015.
- ↑ "Danchigai TV Anime to Have 4 Theme Songs by Cast". Anime News Network. May 20, 2015. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
- ↑ "Danchigai TV Anime of 5-Minute Shorts Premieres on July 9". Anime News Network. May 23, 2015. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
- ↑ "Danchigai". Dream Creation (in Japanese). Retrieved July 24, 2015.
- ↑ Komatsu, Mikikazu (June 20, 2015). "VIDEO: "Danchigai" TV Anime 1st CM Introduces Four Nakano Sisters". Crunchyroll. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
- ↑ Luster, Joseph (July 9, 2015). "Crunchyroll to Stream "Danchigai" Anime". Crunchyroll. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
- ↑ "Crunchyroll to Stream Danchigai, School-Live! Anime". Anime News Network. July 9, 2015. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
- ↑ "Danchigai - News". Dream Creation (in Japanese). Retrieved July 24, 2015.
External links
- Danchigai official manga website (Japanese)
- Danchigai official anime website (Japanese)
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