Kodomo no Omocha (Japanese: ???????? , light up. Child Toys ) , also known as Kodocha for short, is a manga series by Miho Obana. The series is adapted as OVA by J.C. and was released on December 16, 1995 by Shueisha under their Ribon Video label. The anime television series was created by Studio Gallop and NAS and aired on TV Tokyo every Friday from 5 April 1996 to 27 March 1998.
In 2002, the manga was published in North America in English by Tokyopop as Kodocha: Sana's Stage . In 2006, Tokyopop lost the license to the manga, making it out of print. In 2005, the first half of the anime series was licensed for North American distribution by Funimation Entertainment and has been released on DVD. In 2012, Funimation announces that their Kodocha DVD will be out of print.
Both the manga and anime have been well received by publications for different media for character and comedic interaction. Manga won 1998 Kodansha Manga Award for sh? Jo. At the American Anime Awards held in 2007, was nominated for the best comedy anime..
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Plot
Some parts of this series are based on the life of Obana.
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Media
Manga
Kodomo no Omocha was initially authorized by Shueisha in Ribon magazine from August 1994 to November 1998. Shueisha collected 51 chapters in ten tanks? volume of the bon from April 1995 to January 1999 The series was published in North America by Tokyopop under the title Kodocha: Sana's Stage from June 25, 2002 to November 11, 2003. In 2006, Tokyopop was unable to renew the license and the English edition. becomes out of print.
In 2010, Obana wrote a crossover story called Deep Clear where Sana and Akito interacted with the character of Honey Bitter . In 2015, Obana wrote a single shot of Kodomo no Omocha for the 60th anniversary edition of the Ribon magazine in September.
Chapters
Deep Clear
The crossover story, Deep Clear , takes place ten years after the end of Kodocha . Shuri, Honey Bitter's Hero Boss, was hired by Rei to spy on Akito because he had parted ways with Sana before. At this point, Sana and Akito get married and expect a child. As he follows Akito, Shuri becomes good friends with Sana. He finally finds out that Akito's reasoning apart from Sana is because he's afraid that he'll die giving birth. When Sana gives birth, Shuri convinces Akito to face her fears by going to the hospital and seeing Sana and her baby. Sana gave birth to a daughter she named after Sari. After the birth of their daughter, Sana and Akito reconciled and began raising their daughters together.
Anime
A Original Animated Video was produced in 1995 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Ribbon.
The anime consists of 102 TV episodes, which aired in Japan every week from April 5, 1996 to March 27, 1998. The opening theme song is "19 O'Clock News" by Tokio (episode 1-44) and "Ultra Relax" by Tomoe Shinohara (episode 45-102); The closing theme song is "Panic" by Still Small Voice (episode 1-39), "DAIJO-BU" by Tomoko Hikita (episode 40-74), and "Pinch (Love Me Deeper)" by Rina Chinen (episode 75- 102 ). The first 51 episodes include the elementary school story arc, while the remaining 51 episodes discuss the story of the secondary school arc.
The series is broadcast partially on American TV in the FUNimation Channel programming block broadcast on color TV and Los Angeles KSCI-DT 18.3 channels. The first opening song, "7 O'Clock News", was replaced with "Ultra Relax".
Reception
Kodocha won the Kodansha Manga Award for best manga in 1998. Jason Thompson found the manga "very strange [...] with nice lines and cute details", calling the ancient art. Holly Kolodziejczak of Animefringe praised this series for its elements such as the mystery and romance that make up a powerful comedy. In addition, like Thompson, he finds artistic quality even when his time is old. Dillon Font from the same site calls it "a very dense part of the manga collection." The reviewers compared it to the anime adaptation "deeply missed the crazy quirkiness that the direction of Daichi's anime's director was injected into an anime series" that might leave the manga "boring." Allen Divers of the Anime News Network recommends it to readers to comment that this is "a solid story about a young young girl who keeps entertaining along the way"
The anime adaptation also received praise with THEIR Anime Reviews' Carlos Ross who claimed "a comedy frenzy was the selling point of this anime, and sold it." Zac Bertschy from Anime News Network praises the characters as being liked and likes animation and music. Reviewing the DVD series 10, Carl Kimlinger from the same website with Bertschy said that while "both show and Sana have slowed down a bit in forty episodes" the material is not as interesting as the previous episode.
References
External links
- NAS web page
- Kodocha (manga) in the Anime News Network encyclopedia
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