Nineteen 19

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Nineteen 19
First volume cover, featuring Kazushi Kubota
GenreRomance[1]
Manga
Written byShō Kitagawa [ja]
Published byShueisha
ImprintYoung Jump Comics
MagazineWeekly Young Jump
DemographicSeinen
Original run1988 – 1990
Volumes12
Madhouse
ReleasedJuly 27, 1990
Runtime42 minutes

Nineteen 19 is a Japanese

Madhouse
was released in July 1990.

Synopsis

Kazushi Kubota is a 19-year-old college student meets again his junior high school first love at a club, Masana Fujisaka, a medical student who models as a side job, and had recently broken up with her longtime boyfriend. Kubota sees the perfect opportunity to ask her out.

Characters

Kazushi Kubota (久保田 一至, Kubota Kazushi)
Voiced by: Masaya Onosaka[2]
Masana Fujisaka (藤崎 雅菜, Fujisaki Masana)
Voiced by: Hiromi Tsuru[3]

Media

Manga

Nineteen 19, written and illustrated by

wideban volumes, released from January 1989 to February 1991.[5][6]

A prologue chapter to a sequel, titled 19 Forever, was published in Shueisha's

crowdfounding platform Trigger in 2017.[7] A collected volume, which contains the prologue and the three chapters, was released as an ebook on April 6, 2018.[8]

Original video animation

The manga was adapted into an

Madhouse, directed by Koichi Chigira, with character designs by Naoyuki Onda [ja], scripts by Yuji Kawahara and music by Hiroshi Sakamoto. It was released on July 27, 1990.[1]

Reception

In The Anime Encyclopedia: A Century of Japanese Animation, by Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy, they wrote: "[a] tale of yuppie love isn’t what most Westerners expect from the Madhouse team, renowned abroad for horror like Wicked City, but this exudes quiet charm and elegance."[9] Justin Sevakis of Anime News Network wrote: "Nineteen19 is a reflection on a simpler time, on youth, and first loves. It's a rare, fashionably-idealized look at what it means to be a single guy, and a window on a world and a pop culture that doesn't exist anymore, if it ever really existed at all."[10]

See also

  • Hotman, another manga series by the same author

References

  1. ^
    Madhouse. Archived
    from the original on July 24, 2021. Retrieved July 24, 2021.
  2. ^ 小野坂 昌也 (in Japanese). Aoni Production. Archived from the original on July 24, 2021. Retrieved July 24, 2021.
  3. ^ 鶴ひろみ (Hiromi Tsuru). Voice Artist Database (in Japanese). GamePlaza -Haruka-. Archived from the original on November 16, 2015. Retrieved January 11, 2024.
  4. ^ 13歳でデビュー！天才漫画家の38年にわたる筆脈 【4/18（木）～24（水）】きたがわ翔、初の原画展「アナログ」を開催 『19〈NINETEEN〉』『B.Bフィッシュ』『C』『ホットマン』 など (Press release) (in Japanese). Creek & River Co., Ltd. March 8, 2019. Archived from the original on July 24, 2021. Retrieved July 24, 2021 – via PR Times.
  5. ^ "19 <Nineteen> 1". Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on December 4, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  6. ^ "19 <Nineteen> 12". Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on December 4, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  7. ^ きたがわ翔『19 FOREVER』が遂に完成！ 漫画家とファンの熱き想いがクラウドファンディングで結実 (in Japanese). Creek & River Co., Ltd. December 22, 2017. Archived from the original on July 24, 2021. Retrieved July 24, 2021.
  8. ^ ～19 FOREVER～ NINETEEN 19 (in Japanese). Sho Studio. ASIN B07BYSNN81.
  9. ISBN 978-1611720181. Archived
    from the original on August 20, 2023. Retrieved July 24, 2021.
  10. ^ Sevakis, Justin (January 4, 2007). "Nineteen19 - Buried Treasure". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on July 24, 2021. Retrieved July 24, 2021.

External links

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