Happy World!

Happy World!
ハッピーワールド
(Happii Waarudo)
Genre Action, Romantic comedy
Manga
Written by Kenjirou Takeshita
Published by Shueisha
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Ultra Jump
Original run February 24, 2001July 19, 2006
Volumes 11
Original video animation
Directed by Takashi Ikehata
Studio KSS, Zexcs
Released December 13, 2002 June 27, 2003
Runtime 27 minutes
Episodes 3

Happy World! (ハッピーワールド Happii Waarudo) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Kenjirou Takeshita. It was serialized in Shueisha's Ultra Jump. The manga was adapted into an original video animation by KSS with animation work done by Zexcs.[1]

Plot

Takeshi Ōmura is an average middle schooler cursed with the bad fortune, as his everyday life is a misery; his house burns down, he sets his hand in dung, he gets chased by a wild dog and all sorts of activities that ruin his life. One day, he is visited by an angel with the name of Elle, and she claims that she came down from the heavens to aid Takeshi in his misfortune. To get rid of his bad luck, he places his bad luck in a small ball with the help of Elle and throws it out of sight. As Elle leaves and Takeshi continues his daily life, he finds the ball again and decides to wait for a person to pick it up. Unfortunately, a young girl sees the ball and moves into a path of a moving truck. Takeshi, realizing that he wouldn't be happy if he didn't save the girl, touches the ball and shouts that he would be the successor of the bad luck if saved by Elle. The angel transports them to a backyard of a house and becomes a human (experiencing gravity and a tangible body). From then on, Elle lives at the Ōmura household (and adopting the name to her own), and attends Takeshi's school.

Characters

Main

Others

She enjoys making clothes and often tries to get Takeshi to wear dress's she apparently doesn't understand why this is a problem for him. Voiced by: Ai Uchikawa

Media

Manga

Happy World! is written and illustrated by Kenjirou Takeshita. It was serialized in Shueisha's Ultra Jump, ending the serialisation at 72 chapters. Shueisha published the manga's 11 bound volumes between February 24, 2001 and July 19, 2006.[2][3]

Volume listing

No.Release date ISBN
1 February 24, 2001[3]ISBN 978-4-088-76128-2
  • 1. The Angel Has Come to My Hopeless Self
  • 2. Be a Good Girl
  • 3. Family Game
  • 4. Train, Train
  • 5. Ring
  • 6. School Heaven
  • 7. Runner
  • 8. Every Little Thing, Every Precious Thing
2 October 24, 2001[4]ISBN 978-4-088-76222-7
  • 9. Looking at Flowers
  • 10. Boobies
  • 11. Super Fast Spinner!
  • 12. The Shadows of Youth
  • 13. A Useless Guy
  • 14. Fighting Club
  • 15. To Win or to Lose
3 May 17, 2002[5]ISBN 978-4-088-76305-7
  • 16. To Become a Manga Artist
  • 17. Angel's Egg
  • 18. Bubbles
  • 19. Good Morning Baby!
  • 20. Your Song is My Song
  • 21. Invincible!
  • 22. Hell
4 November 19, 2002[6]ISBN 978-4-088-76373-6
  • 23. Drifting Classroom
  • 24. Demonic Gluttony
  • 25. Demonic Kiss
  • 26. Demonic Creature
  • 27. A Little Love Melody
  • 28. My Summer Vacation
  • 29. The One and Only Idol
5 August 19, 2003[7]ISBN 978-4-0887-6482-5
  • 30. Glass Boy
  • 31. One-Night Gigolo
  • 32. Bitterness
  • 33. Hero - it's the time to become a hero
  • 34. Exciting Zoo
  • 35. There Friday: Decisive Battle
6 February 19, 2004[8]ISBN 978-4-088-76575-4
  • 36. A Festival by 10 People
  • 37. Fighting Without Humanity and Justice
  • 38. An Area of Shadows
  • 39. Cruel Angel's Thesis
  • 40. After the Festival
  • 41. Play Banned
7 June 18, 2004[9]ISBN 978-4-088-76632-4
  • 42. Dream Within a Dream
  • 43. The School Block's Cafe
  • 44. Being a Guy is Tough
  • 45. I Want a Kiss
  • 46. Wounded Angel
  • 47. She's Not an Angel: Tohma Sariel!!!
8 February 18, 2005[10]ISBN 978-4-088-76733-8
  • 48. We're Angels!
  • 49. Christmas Love
  • 50. Kill Me With Eros
  • 51. The Distance of the Stars
  • 52. Shooting Stars
  • 53. Below the Many Stars
  • 54. Orihime and Hikoboshi
9 October 18, 2005[11]ISBN 978-4-088-76845-8
  • 55. Let's Search for Fragments of Stars
  • 56. Words as a Gift
  • 57. Dad Returns
  • 58. The Storm-Bringing Man
  • 59. God Help Me!
  • 60. The Twilight of the Gods
10 March 17, 2006[12]ISBN 978-4-088-77060-4
  • 61. Wings, Please!
  • 62. Let's Talk About Old Times
  • 63. To the Small Ones
  • 64. Mother at the Quay
  • 65. Full Metal Jacket
  • 66. Hell Change
11 July 19, 2006[2]ISBN 978-4-088-77121-2
  • 67. You Can't Put it into Words
  • 68. The Men's Journey
  • 69. At the End of the World
  • 70. Even if the World Falls from the Sky...
  • 71. Happy World!
  • 72. A Happy End

OVA

Directed by Takashi Ikehata, a 3-episode original video animation was created by KSS for Happy World!. The OVA uses two pieces of theme music. "Kami-sama no Okuri mono ~Naked Angel~" (神様の贈り物〜Naked Angel〜) by Millio is the opening theme, while "Shiawase Biyori" (幸せ日和) by Satomi Hanamura is the ending theme. On August 9, 2002, an animation CD was released for Happy World!, containing both opening and ending themes.[13] The first episode was released on a DVD by Happinet Pictures on December 13, 2002[14] and on VHS on December 20, 2002.[15] The second episode was released on DVD on March 28, 2003.[16] The third episode was released on DVD on June 27, 2003.[17]

Episode listing

# Title Original air date
01 "An Angel Came to Me When I Was Hopeless"  December 13, 2002
02 "Chase the Chance"  March 28, 2003
03 "Over the Rainbow"  June 27, 2003

References

  1. "Zexcs' animation work at its official website" (in Japanese). Zexcs. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
  2. 1 2 "Happy World 1 (1) (ヤングジャンプコミックス)" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  3. 1 2 "Happy World 11 (11) (ヤングジャンプコミックス)" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  4. "Happy World 2 (2) (ヤングジャンプコミックス)" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  5. "Happy World 3 (3) (ヤングジャンプコミックス)" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  6. "Happy World 4 (4) (ヤングジャンプコミックス)" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  7. "Happy World 5 (5) (ヤングジャンプコミックス)" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  8. "Happy World 6 (6) (ヤングジャンプコミックス)" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  9. "Happy World 7 (7) (ヤングジャンプコミックス)" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  10. "Happy World 8 (8) (ヤングジャンプコミックス)" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  11. "Happy World 9 (9) (ヤングジャンプコミックス)" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  12. "Happy World 10 (10) (ヤングジャンプコミックス)" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  13. "Happy World". cdjapan.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  14. "Happy World!(1) [DVD]" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
  15. "Happy World!(1) [VHS]" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
  16. "Happy World!(2) [DVD]" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
  17. "Happy World!(3) [DVD]" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-05-16.

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