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Japanese manga series by Masahiro Itabashi and Hiroyuki Tamakoshi

Boys Exist...
First volume cover
Genre	Romance[1]
Manga
Written past	Masahiro Itabashi
Illustrated by	Hiroyuki Tamakoshi
Published by	Kodansha
Mag	Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1991 – 1997
Volumes	32
Manga
Boys Be... 2nd Season
Written by	Masahiro Itabashi
Illustrated by	Hiroyuki Tamakoshi
Published by	Kodansha
English language publisher	NA Tokyopop
Mag	Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1997 – 2000
Volumes	xx
Manga
Boys Be... L CO-OP
Written past	Masahiro Itabashi
Illustrated by	Hiroyuki Tamakoshi
Published past	Kodansha
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	2000 – 2001
Volumes	half dozen
Anime tv set serial
Directed by	Masami Shimoda
Written by	Kenichi Kanemaki
Studio	Hal Film Maker
Licensed past	NA Nozomi Amusement
Original network	Wowow
English network	NA Anime Network Body of water AXN Animax
Original run	11 April 2000 – 4 July 2000
Episodes	13
Manga
Boys Be... Adjacent Season
Written by	Masahiro Itabashi
Illustrated by	Hiroyuki Tamakoshi
Published by	Kodansha
Magazine	Mag Special
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	November 2009 – March 2012
Volumes	6
Related works
Boys Exist... Alive , musical Boys Be... Alive -Endeavor Again- , musical
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Boys Be... (stylized as BOYS BE… ) is a Japanese manga serial written by Masahiro Itabashi and illustrated by Hiroyuki Tamakoshi. 3 different Boys Exist... manga series were serialized past Kodansha in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. A fourth serial, Boys Be... Next Flavor, ran in Magazine Special from 2009 to 2012. The 2nd manga serial was licensed in North America by Tokyopop.

The anime get-go aired It was later adapted into a 13 episode anime television set series by Hal Film Maker, which was broadcast on WOWOW from April to June 2000. It was licensed by The Correct Stuf International. The showtime DVD book of the serial was released in North America on February 28, 2006.^{[ citation needed ]} Comcast and several other cable providers accept shown Boys Be On Demand in the United states of america through the Anime Network.

Plot [edit]

The title of the series is explained in the first affiliate where the author refers to the quote "Boys, exist aggressive",^[2] which was said past William South. Clark and has go a popular motto in Japan.^[3]

The anime focuses upon the ups and downs, joys and sorrows of first love and teenage romance. Six students struggle to notice the perfect partner and their adolescent limitations. While several characters are taken from stories in the manga, the story of the anime is unrelated to the manga. Each episode begins and ends with a philosophical quote which sums up the episode's content. The anime, while centered on Kyoichi and Chiharu, revolves around 7 or eight primary characters and their love lives.

Characters [edit]

Main characters [edit]

Kyoichi Kanzaki ( 神崎 恭一 , Kanzaki Kyōichi )

Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura (Japanese); Sam Imperial (English language) ^{[4] [five]}

A typical loftier school student who, in the opening episode, realizes he has feelings for a childhood friend, a track star named Chiharu Nitta. Their human relationship develops slowly in the series, however, it encounters some turbulence when he goes out of the area to do some summertime work, and upon coming back, sees Chiharu kissing another guy. Kyochi is broken hearted and has a brief relationship with Shoko Sayama and dealt with loneliness with the help of another schoolmate. His interests are in the visual arts, mainly cartoon. In the final episode, he travels to Hokkaido to articulate his mind and work on some sketches, and get a new perspective on relationships.

Yoshihiko Kenjo ( 剣城 美彦 , Kenjō Yoshihiko )

Voiced by: Hideo Ishikawa (Japanese); Patrick Seitz (English) ^[v]

Yoshihiko is talented in sports (especially baseball), only has no interest in it whatsoever (in a manner similar to Initial D'southward Takumi Fujiwara). He as well seems to have no interest in girls... until he bumped into Aya Kurihara at the library and kisses him. He meets Natsue Horikawa, who inspires him to keep pursuing baseball game and, in getting to know her, and more of himself, they become a couple. He also spent a whole day with pop idol Jyunna Morio when she escaped from her studio taping.

Makoto Kurumizawa ( 胡桃沢 マコト , Kurumizawa Makoto )

Voiced by: Akira Ishida (Japanese); Liam O'Brien^[4] (English language) ^[5]

Makoto is the epitome of a girl-obsessed guy, keeping an electronic database of the good-looking girls at Otowa-no-Mori with him, and checking with his guide books and magazines for love advice. Early in the serial, he was trying to peep at a brusque-skirted schoolgirl every bit she was climbing the stairs of an overpass, and his scooter crashed into a mini-truck. He and so had a crush on the nurse intern. Later on, he used a computer dating plan which paired him up with Erika Kawai. Since he lacked existent dating feel, Makoto went on a mock appointment with Yumi. Nevertheless, his bodily date doesn't become as well when Erika sees a photograph of him together with Yumi, and promptly dumps him. Makoto ends up being comforted by Yumi when she offers him her self-made cookies, and he realises that they had a proficient time together during the mock date, and they stop upward becoming a couple.

Chiharu Nitta ( 新田 千春 , Nitta Chiharu )

Voiced by: Kazusa Murai (Japanese); Amy Kincaid (English language) ^[five]

Chiharu is Kyoichi'south athletic love interest, running for their schoolhouse's rail and field team. She has been Kyoichi's friend since babyhood, but she also has difficulty expressing love, somewhen making her move at the end of the first episode by holding Kyoichi's mitt while they are out. When she goes out to summer preparation with the rail squad, she is wooed by a higher guy named Okazaki, and struggles with whether she really has a human relationship with Kyoichi. Okazaki connected his advances to which they spent a night together at a lookout point, though she says nothing happened between them. She wanted to continue her tryst a secret, but Kyoichi, coming in to visit, saw them kissing, hence a rift formed between them that lasted all summer. Towards the stop of the series, as she sees her friends get into relationships, she considers whether to reconcile.

Yumi Kazama ( 風間 有美 , Kazama Yumi )

Voiced by: Miki Nagasawa (Japanese); Jennifer Sekiguchi^[four] (English) ^[5]

Yumi is a spectacles daughter with a sarcastic mental attitude on relationships, usually to counter her friend Aki's idealistic sayings. She likes to occasionally dress in odd clothes, such as a sea otter costume at the embankment and an animal hat during New Year'south Eve. After accidentally destroying Makoto'due south laptop, she tries to railroad train Makoto on how to engagement her friend Erika Kawai, and even goes on a mock appointment where she holds up X signs and razzes Makoto whenever he makes a fault. Just in the course of the mock date, she realizes she is having a proficient time, that Makoto has some practiced qualities, and she ends upwards falling in love, feeling somewhat lonely that Erika gets to date him for existent. All the same, as fate would have information technology, Makoto's date with Erika did non go well, and she ends up comforting him with her cocky-baked cookies, and they concluded up being a couple.

Aki Mizutani ( 水谷 亜紀 , Mizutani Aki )

Voiced by: Yuri Shiratori (Japanese); Michelle Ruff (English) ^[5]

Aki has a rather idealistic view of romance. In the opening episode, she talks about how she roughshod in love with a guy on the railroad train in ii minutes. In ane of the episodes, she reunites with her onetime middle-school classmate that she used to spend a bunch of time with on his photography hobby and who was totally clueless that she liked him. Her boyfriend is now working in Hokkaidō, and they maintain a long-distance relationship. In the New year'southward Eve episode, she gets worried that the world might actually terminate.

Supporting and guest characters [edit]

Sayaka Kanzaki ( Kanzaki Sayaka )

Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (Japanese); Karen Thompson (English)

She is Kyoichi'southward smart-alecky sis who loves to tease him. She takes over the Kanzaki household when their parents aren't around.

Mizuki Takano ( Takano Mizuki )

Voiced past: Junko Noda (Japanese); Tara Platt (English language) ^[6]

When Makoto broke his leg due to a scooter accident, he was confined to the hospital where Mizuki was an intern, and she became his nurse. At start, Makoto's beat on her causes trouble equally she makes embarrassing mistakes in front of her superiors. Eventually she warms up to him.

Aya Kurihara ( Kurihara Aya )

Voiced by: Misato Fukuen (Japanese); Rachael Lillis (English) ^[7]

A female person student who had a run-in with Yoshihiko when he looked for a ball that went through the library'due south window. When he crawled to look for it, he knocked the stool where she was standing while putting a book back into its proper shelf. He caught her and unintentionally got a experience of her "lumpy" side, but she was grateful for the rescue, and rewarded him with a kiss on the lips. The potential romance was cut short when she transferred back to France, every bit she was just an commutation student, and Yoshihiko learned the kissing is just a European custom, although it turns out Aya has a different view on the romance.

Tsuyoshi Ueno ( Ueno Tsuyoshi )

Voiced by: Yuuji Ueda (Japanese); Kevin Hatcher (English) ^[eight]

Tsuyoshi was a classmate of Aki from their third twelvemonth of junior loftier. He has a passion for photography, and often spends long hours for the perfect shot, bringing Aki along. But in high school, he lost his passion for photography, until he meets Aki over again and she puts some sense into him. They form a long-altitude relationship, and he is now working in Hokkaidō. His inspiration is none other than Aki herself.

Daisuke Nitta ( Nitta Daisuke )

Voiced by: Yasunori Matsumoto (Japanese); David Earnest (English) ^[9]

He is Chiharu's cousin and Nao'southward overprotective brother, and is Kyoichi's and Makoto's boss at the summer resort. He is and so overprotective (because of her frail wellness) that he did not meet his dearest sister grow up. Mostly he is in conflict with the fresh Makoto.

Nao Nitta ( Nitta Nao )

Voiced past: Chie Sawaguchi (Japanese); Carrie Vicious (English) ^[9]

She is Chiharu'south beautiful just frail cousin (prone to sunstroke) with an overprotective blood brother who lives by the sea. Makoto tried courting her, only her blood brother is e'er a pace ahead of him.

Natsue Horikawa ( Horikawa Natsue )

Voiced by: Manabi Mizuno (Japanese); Sonia Scrancia (English) ^[10]

She dreams of continuing at the pitchers' mound during the almanac Koushien (Japanese High Schoolhouse Baseball Championship). Trouble is, she is a girl, and girls are not immune to participate in the tournament. This daughter with immature emotional swings did guide Yoshihiko out of his disinterest in the sport, and they get a couple.

Yuki Okazaki ( Okazaki Yuki )

Voiced by: Shinichiro Miki (Japanese); Jason Miller (English language) ^[xi]

He is the charming fellow Chiharu Nitta met during summer training camp. He is a city slicker with a beat for nature and many hobbies such as collecting beetles and angling. At first Chiharu shrugged him off, but because she was lonely, and she's in a fight with Kyoichi, she nigh gave in. Though he had a girlfriend waiting in the city, he continued his advances and managed to make Chiharu fall for him, though, during a date at a spot overlooking the city, Chiharu says nothing happened between them.

Shoko Sayama ( Sayama Shoko )

Voiced by: Yuka Imai (Japanese); Zarah Little (English) ^[12]

She is a renegade student hoping to brand information technology big in the music business organisation. She and Kyoichi get involved later she recruits him to call up her confiscated minidisc role player. During the time with Kyoichi, she was planning to audition for lead singer in a J-pop band, but loses conviction when she sees a younger rival. She asks Kyoichi out one nighttime, but he doesn't come, and she wanders the street soul searching. At the end of the series, she is on the radio with her latest single called "Hatsukoi" ("First Love").

Erika Kawai ( Kawai Erika )

Voiced by: Michiko Neya (Japanese); Jennifer Rau-Ramirez (English) ^[13]

Erika is a good friend of Yumi's and the girl that Makoto's latest matchmaking software selected. Erika comes from a fairly wealthy family and supposedly has refined tastes according to Yumi. Erika and Makoto proceed a engagement, simply she notices Makoto has a lot of notes from "grooming" with Yumi, and that Yumi really does like Makoto, and so she quickly dumps him.

Takuya Yokota ( Yokota Takuya )

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese); Yuri Lowenthal (English) ^[xiv]

Takuya is a schoolmate of Kyoichi, and they piece of work together function-time at the video store. He wears a cantankerous-shaped earring, which Kyoichi notices after he's been hounded by the same dream involving windmills and downed airplanes. Though soft-spoken and one of the most handsome men at his school, Takuya doesn't have a girlfriend, though he was interested in someone. He is and so shy he drowns in loneliness, simply plant the courage to express what he feels for that someone. Makoto thought Kyoichi is getting desperate when he notices he was spending likewise much time with him.

Jyunna Morio ( Morio Jyunna )

Voiced by: Rika Komatsu (Japanese); Wendee Lee (English) ^[fifteen]

She is a famous pop idol. Her image is plastered on everything from TV commercials selling bottled water to magazine covers. Yoshihiko mistakes her for a generic girl in a Santa suit distributing flyers. For the balance of the twenty-four hour period, Yoshihiko became her unwitting "reindeer" . Earlier in the serial, Yoshihiko and his girlfriend Natsue went to ane of her concerts.

Chiharu Reicha ( Reicha Chiharu , also Chiharu XXXX)

Voiced by: Megumi Hayashibara (Japanese); Kirsten Potter (English) ^[16]

She is a Japanese-Finnish girl that Kyoichi met when he travel to Hokkaidō, acting as his impromptu tourist guide that "accuse 1 kiss per transaction." She's more flirtatious, more daring, and freer than the Chiharu he knows, and rides a Harley-Davidson Softail motorcycle.

Episode list and thematic quotes [edit]

Each episode in the Boys Be anime is related to a season and also has a quote^[17] associated with information technology.

	Episode #	Championship	Quote
Leap Chapter	1	Cherry Blossoms	"Cherry blossoms, the noble flower, witness to many an encounter over time. Ruddy blossoms, the vain blossom, take watched many a cheerio. And again this year they blossom to watch over a lot of faint only painful feelings in the season of beginnings called spring." Official translation (English dub): "Cherry-red blossoms, the regal flowers that has witnessed countless encounters throughout the ages. Ruby-red blossoms - the short-lived blooms that have seen so many goodbyes. The blossoms will sentinel over this year'southward heartfelt emotions as well. And open their buds again.... In Spring."
Leap Chapter	2	Memorial Essence	"Overnice memories have their own scent. Whenever you are veiled in its smell, Your eye can always render to your unforgettable past. Together with your ain scenery that volition never fade." Official translation (English language dub): "Every special retention has associated with a scent. When you're surrounded by that odor - your heart can e'er return to that unforgettable moment. And you tin see it clearly in your memories - where the colors are forever bright."<
Spring Chapter	3	After Kiss	"There are many books in the library. Each book has a wonderful story that will never happen in reality. But when you autumn in love, reality becomes a story far more than beautiful than whatsoever book can tell." Official translation (English dub): "There are many books at the library. Each and every one contains a fantastic tale - stories that could never exist in reality.... But, when you autumn in love, reality changes and becomes far more astonishing than whatsoever story."
Early Summer Affiliate	four	Bittersweet Pelting	"No one can terminate the period of time. Just a moment captured in the frame of the centre will never disappear. That will be shown at the bottom of their hearts, and will always give off a great feeling. Sweet...and bitter." (Official translation (English dub): "No one in this world can finish the flow of time. However, a single moment captured in a photograph will never disappear. It will always decorate your heart and will ever stir your soul - sweetly..and warmly."
Summertime Chapter	5	Feeling Blue	"The color blue has a soothing effect on people. All their stresses and troubles are absorbed by the bluish. Awakening honest souls which have no lies. Summer is the season...that is colored in blue." Official translation (English language dub): "The color blue has the power to soothe the soul. It washes away all our worries and stress. Blue awakens the honest and innocent hearts. Summer..... Summer - the flavor when the color blue - thrives."
Summer Chapter	6	Baseball Lovers	"Not many people know when love really starts... More than a friend, but non quite lovers. A delicate relationship like this changes gradually once it is noticed, and keeps on blossoming, Simply similar the changing seasons." Official translation (English language dub): "Very few can identify the beginning of beloved. When people become more than friends only less than lovers - such an indefinable relationship changes slowly over fourth dimension - like the changing of the seasons."
Summer Affiliate	seven	[The] Current of air-Bong	"The summer days blow through fiercely. With the buried feeling that something is going to happen... Over a summer storm, Before long, the season will change..." Official translation (English dub): "A summerday goes past like a stiff gust of air current, leaving yous with a feeling that something is going to happen. As the summerstorms come to an end, gradually, the flavor alter."
Autumn Chapter	8	Swallow	"With summer's raucous noises, a simple dream seen in spring has turned into a uncomplicated heartbreak. The melancholy autumn wind speaks quietly of its meaning...Your heart'south truthful cocky..." Official translation (English dub): "A fleeting springdream, engulfed by the hectic Summertime, has go a pocket-size painful scar - and now a sorrowful autumnbreeze whispers of the story behind the hurting.... The story of who you really are."
Autumn Chapter	9	Leaves	"In the fall it is said that the reason why leaves fall down from the co-operative is to make way for new leaves to grow. No matter how sad the fallen leaves look, there volition always be new sprouts in the spring. Peradventure, emptiness in the middle is something like to that." Official translation (English dub): "Autumn - they say the sometime leaves autumn away from the branches to make way for the new leaves to arrive. Nomatter how lonesome you might feel watching leaves fall - recollect - new leaves will always return in the Spring. Perhaps the emptiness yous experience in your heart - is just like those falling leaves."
Autumn Affiliate	x	Solitary Cross	"All sound has died out, and the common cold, dark night fills the room. Unable to go to sleep, holding on to the covers. Of a sudden, that's when it strikes, every bit if my chest was being crushed in pain and wanted to cry. A painful and uneasy feeling. Yes, from the depths of my heart, a affair called "loneliness" will come up..." Official translation (English dub): "All sounds ceases. When the icecold dark-air fills the room, I lie awake, holding my blanket. And that's when it happens - I experience like crying - like my heart is slowly breaking. A sorrowful - an unshakeable loneliness. That sense of loneliness raises from the shadows in my heart."
Winter Affiliate	11	First Snowfall	"Snow covers everything in white. It covers the sadness, softly. If there is happiness, it decorates it beautifully. The snowfall continues to fall..." *Official translation (English dub): "Snowblankets, everything in white. If at that place is sorrow - snowfall will gently embrace you. If there is happiness, snow will decorate it gently. Silently - the snow keeps falling."
Winter Chapter	12	Finish to Outset	"An catastrophe will come to everything in this earth. It may be a fate that i could never avoid." Official translation (English dub): "All things must come to an end in this globe. Everything reaches its natural conclusion. Information technology'southward inevitable - it's fate." In the end of the episode, the quote continues; "- Just as long as there is dark - morning will always come up."
Next Season Chapter	13	Let It Exist	"There is zip that really changes, there is aught that really ends. It'due south hard to admit, simply that is reality. One season ends, and another flavour begins." Official translation (English dub): "Nothing stays the same. Every story has its catastrophe. Information technology'south hard to accept sometimes, but that'southward the reality. One season ends and another begins."

End of Last Episode

• It must only be a affair of a moment once it's gone... (Makoto)
  • Official translation (English language dub): In one case it passes, information technology will experience like information technology went by in a wink. (Makoto)
• We should probably exist able to laugh at it someday. (Yumi)
  • Official translation (English dub): Anytime - you await back at it and express joy. (Yumi)
• But the feeling will stay forever in the depths of the heart. (Yoshi)
  • Official translation (English dub): But that feeling - that feeling will never disappear. You'll always carry it deep in your eye. (Yoshi)
• It's precious, simply here for now. It'southward our season. (Aki)
  • Official translation (English dub): The most of import season is the ane we're in now. It's our flavor. (Aki)
• Then, i season ends, and a new one begins... (Chiharu (Nitta))
  • Official translation (English dub): And with the ending of one season - another new 1 begins. (Chiharu (Nitta))

Music [edit]

• Soundtrack produced past Exist-FACTORY
• Opening Theme: Daijobu by Aki Maeda
• Ending Theme: Minna Ga Iine by Aki Maeda
• Final Episode Opening Theme: Hatsukoi past Yuka Imai - the get-go remake of a vocal from 1983 by Kozo Murashita
• Episode 8 Ending Theme: My Tomorrow by Yuka Imai
• Episode 8 Insert: Where Is My Paradise by Yuu Asakawa
• Episode 8 Insert: Memoria by Kazuko Hamano
• Episode 8 Insert: Truth past Kasumi Matsumura
• Episode ane Insert: Naisho no Kimochi by Aki Maeda

Video games [edit]

2 Boys Be... video games were released past Kodansha for the PlayStation:

• Boys Be... Kono Koi no Yukue (03/28/97)
• Boys Exist... Second Season (09/22/99)

Another i was released by Sunsoft for the PlayStation 2:

• Typing Renai Hakusho: Boys Be... (03/xiv/02)

References [edit]

1. ^ "Boys Be... DVD Drove Box Set". Nozomi Entertainment. Retrieved June 17, 2018.
2. ^ Boys Exist... manga, chapter 1: Report 1: Summertime of '91, From the Southern Island
3. ^ Refsing, Kirsten (Baronial 2004). "Review of Maki, John M., A Yankee in Hokkaido: The Life of William Smith Clark". H-US- Japan, H-Cyberspace Reviews.
4. ^ ^{a b c} Harris, Jeff (2008-06-09). "Boys Be DVD Box Set Review". IGN. p. 2.
5. ^ ^{a b c d eastward f} "Cherry Blossoms". Boys Be.... Episode 1. Manga Amusement. Upshot occurs at 21:33 (JP cast) 22:45 (EN cast). Retrieved 2014-07-08 .
6. ^ "Memorial Essence". Boys Be.... Episode 2. Manga Entertainment. Effect occurs at 21:34 (JP cast) 22:48 (EN cast). Retrieved 2014-07-08 .
7. ^ "Afterward Kiss". Boys Be.... Episode iii. Manga Amusement. Event occurs at 21:47 (JP cast) 23:02 (EN bandage). Retrieved 2014-07-08 .
8. ^ "Bloodshot Rain". Boys Be.... Episode 4. Manga Amusement. Upshot occurs at 21:38 (JP cast) 23:02 (EN cast). Retrieved 2014-07-08 .
9. ^ ^{a b} "Feeling Bluish". Boys Exist.... Episode 5. Manga Entertainment. Event occurs at 21:23 (JP cast) 22:35 (EN bandage). Retrieved 2014-07-08 .
10. ^ "Baseball game Lovers". Boys Be.... Episode 6. Manga Amusement. Event occurs at 21:47 (JP cast) 22:58 (EN bandage). Retrieved 2014-07-08 .
11. ^ "Wind Bell". Boys Be.... Episode 7. Manga Entertainment. Event occurs at 21:47 (JP bandage) 22:58 (EN cast). Retrieved 2014-07-08 .
12. ^ "Swallow". Boys Be.... Episode 8. Manga Entertainment. Event occurs at 22:58 (JP cast) 24:26 (EN cast). Retrieved 2014-07-08 .
13. ^ "Leaves". Boys Be.... Episode 9. Manga Entertainment. Event occurs at 21:46 (JP cast) 23:01 (EN cast). Retrieved 2014-07-08 .
14. ^ "Solitary Cross". Boys Be.... Episode 10. Manga Amusement. Event occurs at 21:37 (JP cast) 22:51 (EN cast). Retrieved 2014-07-08 .
15. ^ "Get-go Snow". Boys Be.... Episode xi. Manga Entertainment. Event occurs at 21:38 (JP cast) 22:51 (EN bandage). Retrieved 2014-07-08 .
16. ^ "Let It Exist". Boys Be.... Episode thirteen. Manga Entertainment. Event occurs at 21:17 (JP bandage) 22:38 (EN cast). Retrieved 2014-07-08 .
17. ^ "Boys Be... Quotes". Archived from the original on 2018-02-26. Retrieved 2016-11-10 .

External links [edit]

• Official site from Geneon Entertainment
• Official site from the Right Stuf International
• Comics Worth Reading vol. ii review
• Mania.com anime vol. 1 review
• u.k..dvd.ign.com DVD box set review
• Boys Exist... Quotations
• Boys Exist... (manga) at Anime News Network'due south encyclopedia

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