Kūchū Buranko
Encyclopedia
is a fictional
psychiatrist
in a series of short stories
by Japanese
writer Hideo Okuda, originally published primarily in the literary magazine
All Yomimono from August 2000 to January 2006 and later collected in three tankōbon
: , and . Of these, Kūchū Buranko is particularly acclaimed, having won Okuda the 131st Naoki Prize
(given for a book published in the first half of 2004) but, as of January 2011, only In the Pool has published in English translation.
Works in other media based on the stories include a feature film, television drama, stage play and animated series.
soon after graduation. However, due to claims of his tantrums and quarrels with child patients, he switched to psychiatry instead. Doubts remain about his actual grades.
is a nurse of psychiatry
and an assistant of Irabu. An F-cupped beauty, she is quite taciturn and blunt. She enjoys wearing gaudy and revealing clothing; once during a house call with Irabu, she wore leopard-patterned hot pants.
(the first publishing "All Yomimono", October, 2003 issue,
(the first publishing "All Yomimono", April, 2003 issue)
. It was produced by Fuji Television
and broadcast by them on May 27, 2005.
The cast
The staff
, then toured for the remainder of the month starting in Kōchi, Kōchi
on the 8th and ending in Kamisu, Ibaraki
on the 29th. The original cast included Hiroyuki Miyasako
as Dr. Irabu, Eriko Satō
as Mayumi, Kenji Sakamoto as Kōhei Yamashita, Yumiko Takahashi and Takashika Kobayashi, with supporting roles performed by, among others, the male idols
Takashi Nagayama
as Haruki, Ryūji Kamiyama
and Ire Shiozaki and members of the G-Rockets acro
troupe. It was produced with Dentsu
and sponsored by Dentsu and TV Asahi
.
A video recording was made, which premiered on July 11, 2008 on the television station WOWOW
and has since been rebroadcast several times and released on DVD-Video
on October 24, 2008.
of 11 22-minute episodes based on the Psychiatrist Irabu series of short stories, produced at Tōei Animation
under the series direction of Kenji Nakamura for Fuji Television
's noitaminA
programming block. Though ostensibly an animated series, it's visuals are more specifically an experimental mélange of traditional animation
with rotoscoped or otherwise processed live-action
footage and other imagery. Manabu Ishikawa's series composition adapts the stories to be set in Tōkyō
during about one week from December 17 to Christmas
(corresponding with the original broadcast, which concluded on Christmas Eve
) and for the chief characters of each story to appear also as supporting players in each other's.
The plot of each episode follows a common thread. Irabu is consulted by a patient suffering from a psychological problem or a problem where other medical approaches have been exhausted. Each of the patients' heads are morphed into an animal head in some scenes after Mayumi administers the vitamin shot to them. Each patient somehow ties into one another, for example the first patient meets with the second patient and the seventh patient, all in the first episode.
The series won the Pulcinella
award for Best Television Series in the "Young Adults" (14–17 years) division at the 2010 Cartoons on the bay international animation festival in the province of Genoa
, Italy
, the Gary Goldman
-presided jury of that year commending it as a "unique representation of the complex inner world of adolescents.". Noted animation blog
ger Benjamin Ettinger found it to be lacking in interest in the animation itself and the extreme eclecticism of the visual design no substitute for the finely crafted world of Nakamura and character designer and chief animation director
Takashi Hashimoto's earlier Bakeneko and Mononoke but still highly enjoyable thanks to the excellence on the part of Nakamura and the episode directors with which the material has been handled and highlighted the incorporation of real-life gravure idol Yumi Sugimoto
as Mayumi as a welcome subversion of moe.
The staff
Theme songs
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
psychiatrist
Psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...
in a series of short stories
Short Stories
Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...
by Japanese
Japanese literature
Early works of Japanese literature were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. Indian literature also had an influence through the diffusion of Buddhism in Japan...
writer Hideo Okuda, originally published primarily in the literary magazine
Literary magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...
All Yomimono from August 2000 to January 2006 and later collected in three tankōbon
Tankobon
, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...
: , and . Of these, Kūchū Buranko is particularly acclaimed, having won Okuda the 131st Naoki Prize
Naoki Prize
The Naoki Prize is a Japanese literary award presented semiannually. The official name is Naoki Sanjugo Prize. It was created in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan, then editor of the Bungeishunjū magazine, and named in memory of novelist Naoki Sanjugo...
(given for a book published in the first half of 2004) but, as of January 2011, only In the Pool has published in English translation.
Works in other media based on the stories include a feature film, television drama, stage play and animated series.
Premise
is a psychiatrist from the Irabu General Hospital. He is fat and pale skinned, with a fetish for administering injections to patients. An unreasonable and rather immature person, he normally ignores Yamashita's plights while challenging him to mid-air trapeze flying due to his self proclaimed "light-weightedness." During his student days, he frequently misunderstood his lectures. Treated as a general nuisance at the School of Medicine, he entered pediatricsPediatrics
Pediatrics or paediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician or paediatrician...
soon after graduation. However, due to claims of his tantrums and quarrels with child patients, he switched to psychiatry instead. Doubts remain about his actual grades.
is a nurse of psychiatry
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
and an assistant of Irabu. An F-cupped beauty, she is quite taciturn and blunt. She enjoys wearing gaudy and revealing clothing; once during a house call with Irabu, she wore leopard-patterned hot pants.
Kūchū Buranko
- is a member of circusCircusA circus is commonly a travelling company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists...
troupe of seven years and is the leader of a flying trapeze team. Both his parents are fellow members. After suffering repeated failures on the trapeze act, he visits a psychiatrist on his wife's and fellow members' advice. Due to his failure during an act, he believes his partner is harassing him. He has been played by Masato SakaiMasato Sakaiis a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival for Kuhio taisa and Nankyoku ryourinin and the award for best supporting actor at the 2008 Nikkan Sports Film Award, at the 33rd Hochi Film Award and at the 51st Blue Ribbon Awards...
in the television drama, Kenji Sakamoto in the stage play and Toshiyuki MorikawaToshiyuki Morikawais a prolific Japanese male voice actor from Yokohama, Kanagawa, was affiliated with Arts Vision. Lately, however, he has become the head of that a voice actor company he founded in Apr 2011. His name is also sometimes mistranslated as Tomoyuki...
in the animated series.
- is an underbossUnderbossUnderboss is a position within the leadership structure of Sicilian and American Mafia crime families. The underboss is second in command to the boss...
of the yakuzaYakuza, also known as , are members of traditional organized crime syndicates in Japan. The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them bōryokudan , literally "violence group", while the yakuza call themselves "ninkyō dantai" , "chivalrous organizations". The yakuza are notoriously...
"Kioi family" from Shibuya. He suffers from such serious trypanophobiaTrypanophobiaTrypanophobia is the extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles. It is occasionally referred to as aichmophobia, belonephobia,...
that he cannot use chopsticksChopsticksChopsticks are small, often tapered, sticks used in pairs of equal length as the traditional eating utensils of China and its diaspora, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Northern provinces of Laos, Thailand and Burma. Generally believed to have originated in ancient China, they can also be found in some...
and must instead use a spoonSpoonA spoon is a utensil consisting of a small shallow bowl, oval or round, at the end of a handle. A type of cutlery , especially as part of a place setting, it is used primarily for serving. Spoons are also used in food preparation to measure, mix, stir and toss ingredients...
at meals. He takes a psychiatric test on his common-law wife's advice.
(the first publishing "All Yomimono", October, 2003 issue,
- is a university lecturer and is a doctor of neurology working in a University-affiliated hospital. His father of law is the Dean of the School of Medicine, which supposedly could aid in his future employment prospects. A classmate of Irabu's during their college days. He has a type of obsessive-compulsive neurosis that compels him to force any place of tidiness into disarray. This disorder is so strong, that with just one glance at it, Ikeyama becomes agonized with the impulse of wanting to strip off his father-in-law's wig. Originally published in the All Yomimono with the title .
(the first publishing "All Yomimono", April, 2003 issue)
- is a pro-baseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
player and is ten-year veteran third basemanThird basemanA third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in baseball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base — the third of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run...
. He suffered from yipsYipsYips or the yips is an expression used to describe the apparent loss of certain fine motor skills seemingly without explanation in one of a number of different sports....
, and he leaves the first team by pretending to have an injured right shoulder.
- is a popular novelist known for her stories which "express the subtleties of the hearts of today's urban men and women." While working on her newest story, she becomes ill at ease with writing new material. After relapsing into a continued state of compulsive vomiting from which had previously been cured, she consults psychiatry.
In the Pool (film)
is a 2005 feature film based on three of the stories collected in the book of the same name in which Irabu is played by Suzuki Matsuo.Kūchū Buranko (television film)
is a 2005 one-off television drama based on the story of the same name in which Irabu is played by Hiroshi AbeHiroshi Abe (actor)
is a Japanese model and actor.He began his career as a model, but he successfully made the transition to acting, becoming one of the most regularly visible presences in Japanese media. He is a 1988 graduate of Chuo University.-Career:...
. It was produced by Fuji Television
Fuji Television
is a Japanese television station based in Daiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX, based on the station's callsign "JOCX-DTV". It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the ....
and broadcast by them on May 27, 2005.
The cast
- Ichiro Irabu (Hiroshi AbeHiroshi Abe (actor)is a Japanese model and actor.He began his career as a model, but he successfully made the transition to acting, becoming one of the most regularly visible presences in Japanese media. He is a 1988 graduate of Chuo University.-Career:...
) - Mayumi (Yumiko ShakuYumiko Shaku, born in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese actress and model. Her management is Tommy's Artist Company.- TV Dramas :*2011: BOSS...
) - Kohei Yamashita (Masato SakaiMasato Sakaiis a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival for Kuhio taisa and Nankyoku ryourinin and the award for best supporting actor at the 2008 Nikkan Sports Film Award, at the 33rd Hochi Film Award and at the 51st Blue Ribbon Awards...
) - Hiromi Yasukawa (Hitomi Sato)
- Seiji Ino (Kenichi Endo)
- Elly (Sachiko KokubuSachiko Kokubuis a Japanese actress and fashion model. She has starred several TV dramas and movies. She had the starring role in the 2004 horror film Tokyo Psycho.- Filmography :* Nurse no osigoto 3 * Onmyoji * Tokyo Psycho...
) - Uchida (Seiji Iinuma)
- Yoshimatsu (Yutaka MatsushigeYutaka Matsushigeis a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival for Dear Doctor.-Selected filmography:-External links:...
)
The staff
- Planning： Akihiro Arai, Kenichiro Yasuhara（Fuji Television）
- Script： Hiroshi Hashimoto
- Producer： Shizuo Sekiguchi, Fumi Hashimoto（Kyodo TelevisionKyodo Televisionis a Japanese television production company founded on 1958-07-28 as . It is a subsidiary of Fuji Television, one of the largest television networks in Japan...
） - Direction： Masanori Murakami（Kyodo Television）
- Production： Fuji Television, Kyodo Television
Kūchū Buranko (play)
is a 2008 play by Yutaka Kuramochi based on the story of the same name. The original production by theatre company Atelier Duncan was directed by Masahiko Kawahara and ran for 21 performances from April 20 to May 5, 2008 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art SpaceTokyo Metropolitan Art Space
The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space is a Japanese concert hall and theater located in Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo, operated by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture.- External links :...
, then toured for the remainder of the month starting in Kōchi, Kōchi
Kochi, Kochi
is the capital city of Kōchi Prefecture on Shikoku island of Japan.Kōchi is the main city of the prefecture with over 40% of its population. As of May 31, 2008, the city had an estimated population of 340,515 and a density of...
on the 8th and ending in Kamisu, Ibaraki
Kamisu, Ibaraki
is a city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.Kamisu was a town but proclaimed city on August 1, 2005, when it merged with the town of Hasaki, from Kashima District....
on the 29th. The original cast included Hiroyuki Miyasako
Hiroyuki Miyasako
is a Japanese actor and comedian, and plays the boke in Ameagari Kesshitai. He won the award for Best Supporting Actor at the 28th Hochi Film Awards for Thirteen Steps and Wild Berries.-Filmography:*Thirteen Steps *Wild Berries...
as Dr. Irabu, Eriko Satō
Eriko Sato
, originally a glamour model, is a Japanese actress.She was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, and raised in Tokyo. She was given the Best Actress award at the 2008 Yokohama Film Festival....
as Mayumi, Kenji Sakamoto as Kōhei Yamashita, Yumiko Takahashi and Takashika Kobayashi, with supporting roles performed by, among others, the male idols
Japanese idol
In Japanese culture, are media personalities in their teens and early twenties who are considered particularly attractive or cute and who will, for a period ranging from several months to a few years, regularly appear in the mass media, e.g...
Takashi Nagayama
Takashi Nagayama
is a Japanese actor. He is probably best known for his roles as Eiji Kikumaru in The Prince of Tennis musical series, Tenimyu, when he replaced Yamazaki Ichitaro , and Tōshirō Hitsugaya in "Rock Musical Bleach". During his run in Tenimyu, he garnered the nickname "Nagayan", which he is still...
as Haruki, Ryūji Kamiyama
Ryuji Kamiyama
is a Japanese vocalist and actor currently part of the J-pop group Run&Gun. He was born in Tokyo.He was part of the casts of Musical Air Gear with his fellow band members...
and Ire Shiozaki and members of the G-Rockets acro
Acro dance
Acro dance is a style of dance that combines classical dance technique with precision acrobatic elements. It is defined by its athletic character, its unique choreography, which seamlessly blends dance and acrobatics, and its use of acrobatics in a dance context...
troupe. It was produced with Dentsu
Dentsu
is one of the largest advertising agencies in the world. Its headquarters are located in the Dentsu Building in the Shiodome district of Minato, Tokyo....
and sponsored by Dentsu and TV Asahi
TV Asahi
, also known as EX and , is a Japanese television network headquartered in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The company writes its name in lower-case letters, tv asahi, in its logo and public-image materials. The company also owns All-Nippon News Network....
.
A video recording was made, which premiered on July 11, 2008 on the television station WOWOW
WOWOW
WOWOW was the first private satellite broadcasting and pay TV station in Japan. It has its headquarters on the 21st floor of the Akasaka Park Building in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo...
and has since been rebroadcast several times and released on DVD-Video
DVD-Video
DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD discs, and is currently the dominant consumer video format in Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia. Discs using the DVD-Video specification require a DVD drive and a MPEG-2 decoder...
on October 24, 2008.
Welcome to Irabu's Office
is a 2009 animeAnime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
of 11 22-minute episodes based on the Psychiatrist Irabu series of short stories, produced at Tōei Animation
Toei Animation
Toei Animation Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co., Ltd. The studio was founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films . In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name...
under the series direction of Kenji Nakamura for Fuji Television
Fuji Television
is a Japanese television station based in Daiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX, based on the station's callsign "JOCX-DTV". It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the ....
's noitaminA
Noitamina
– "Animation" written backwards – is a Fuji Television programming block, devoted to anime, originally broadcast each Thursday night from 24:45 to 25:15 . It was launched with the intention of expanding the target audience beyond the typical young male demographic...
programming block. Though ostensibly an animated series, it's visuals are more specifically an experimental mélange of traditional animation
Traditional animation
Traditional animation, is an animation technique where each frame is drawn by hand...
with rotoscoped or otherwise processed live-action
Live action
In filmmaking, video production, and other media, the term live action refers to cinematography, videography not produced using animation...
footage and other imagery. Manabu Ishikawa's series composition adapts the stories to be set in Tōkyō
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
during about one week from December 17 to Christmas
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
(corresponding with the original broadcast, which concluded on Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve refers to the evening or entire day preceding Christmas Day, a widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus of Nazareth that takes place on December 25...
) and for the chief characters of each story to appear also as supporting players in each other's.
The plot of each episode follows a common thread. Irabu is consulted by a patient suffering from a psychological problem or a problem where other medical approaches have been exhausted. Each of the patients' heads are morphed into an animal head in some scenes after Mayumi administers the vitamin shot to them. Each patient somehow ties into one another, for example the first patient meets with the second patient and the seventh patient, all in the first episode.
The series won the Pulcinella
Pulcinella
Pulcinella, ; often called Punch or Punchinello in English, Polichinelle in French, is a classical character that originated in the commedia dell'arte of the 17th century and became a stock character in Neapolitan puppetry....
award for Best Television Series in the "Young Adults" (14–17 years) division at the 2010 Cartoons on the bay international animation festival in the province of Genoa
Province of Genoa
The Province of Genoa is a province in the Liguria region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Genoa.It has an area of 1,838 km², and a total population of about 900,000...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, the Gary Goldman
Gary Goldman
Gary Wayne Goldman is an American Film Producer, Director, Animator, Writer and voice actor, he is well known for working on films with Don Bluth like Anastasia, An American Tail and The Land Before Time...
-presided jury of that year commending it as a "unique representation of the complex inner world of adolescents.". Noted animation blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
ger Benjamin Ettinger found it to be lacking in interest in the animation itself and the extreme eclecticism of the visual design no substitute for the finely crafted world of Nakamura and character designer and chief animation director
Animation director
An animation director is the director in charge of all aspects of the animation process during the production of an animated film or animated segment for a live-action film...
Takashi Hashimoto's earlier Bakeneko and Mononoke but still highly enjoyable thanks to the excellence on the part of Nakamura and the episode directors with which the material has been handled and highlighted the incorporation of real-life gravure idol Yumi Sugimoto
Yumi Sugimoto
is a Japanese model, actress, gravure idol and singer.-Modeling career:Sugimoto began her career in modeling during elementary school, when she was chosen in a Grand-Prix semi-audition for the girls manga magazine Ribon.-Acting career:...
as Mayumi as a welcome subversion of moe.
The staff
- Screenplay: Manabu Ishikawa, Isao Murayama, Tomoko Taguchi
- Art design: Shoji Tokiwa
- Color setting: Rumiko Nagai
- CG director: Nobuhiro Morita
- Photography director: Kazuhiro Yamada
- Sound director: Yukio Nagasaki
- Music: Hideharu Mori
- Assistance of the direction: Kimitoshi Chioka
Theme songs
- Opening theme: "Upside Down" by Denki GrooveDenki Grooveis a Japanese technopop group influenced by YMO and Kraftwerk, founded in 1989. It is a part of Sony Music Japan's Ki/oon Records sublabel. Current members are Fumitoshi Ishino and Masanori Taki...
- Ending theme: "Shangri-La (Y.Sunahara 2009 Remodel)" by Denki Groove
Characters
- as Big & Middle Irabu
- as Little Irabu
- Dr. Irabu is son of the founder of the Irabu General Hospital. Irabu is a psychiatrist with a care-free, eccentric, and childlike personality. He changes appearance throughout scenes. In his first form, he is slightly overweight wearing bright clothes under his labcoat with a large green bear head that can change expression to suit his. "Middle Irabu" is slimmer, wearing his normal attire. In this form he has long blond hair, red glasses, and a pair of green bear ears. His personality in this form is notably effeminate. His final form is "little Irabu" (him as a boy), with an over sized lab coat, and shorts instead of trousers. He is quite mellow in this form, but can get ecstatic.
- Irabu has a strange angle to his line of medicine, insisting that all his patients have a vitamin shot (Irabu has a fetish for injections) and insisting that his patients face their problems head on. He is seen by other psychiatrists as obscene and childish, although his treatments seem to work.
- Performed by: Yumi SugimotoYumi Sugimotois a Japanese model, actress, gravure idol and singer.-Modeling career:Sugimoto began her career in modeling during elementary school, when she was chosen in a Grand-Prix semi-audition for the girls manga magazine Ribon.-Acting career:...
- A sullen nurse who serves as Irabu's assistant. She wears a revealing nurse's uniform and uses her sex appeal to distract patients while giving injections. In the episode "friends" it's revealed that she prefers to be alone because it is easier, and that she's into men who are lone wolves, like her. She doesn't have a cell phone, but uses one at the end of episode 6 to contact with Yuta, the patient from the "Friends" episode.
- A psychiatrist who is not actually part of the story but frequently halts scenes and pops in via a door-like cut from the stopped picture to provide medical commentary.
- Performed by: Toshiyuki MorikawaToshiyuki Morikawais a prolific Japanese male voice actor from Yokohama, Kanagawa, was affiliated with Arts Vision. Lately, however, he has become the head of that a voice actor company he founded in Apr 2011. His name is also sometimes mistranslated as Tomoyuki...
- He is an aerialistAerialistAn aerialist is an acrobat who performs in the air, on a suspended apparatus such as a trapeze, rope, cloud swing, aerial cradle, aerial silk or aerial hoop....
who repeats failure.
- Performed by: Takahiro SakuraiTakahiro Sakuraiis a voice actor who was born in Aichi. He is a member of 81 Produce; his height is .Many of his roles are handsome men. However, he has also voiced reluctant heroes as well as the occasional villain...
- He is a public servant at the ward office who has a constantly erect penis, due to emotional issues at work and with his ex-wife.
- Performed by: Shin-ichiro Miki
- He is a romance novelist suffering from OCD, he believes that he has already done the ideas that come to his head for new books.
- Performed by: Daisuke NamikawaDaisuke Namikawais a Japanese voice actor who is affiliated with Across Entertainment.He started acting in 1984. He is sometimes mistaken for fellow voice actor Daisuke Hirakawa, as their names only differ by one character when written in kanji. Despite his wide range of voice casting, he is usually cast as young,...
- He is a pro-baseball player troubled with yipsYipsYips or the yips is an expression used to describe the apparent loss of certain fine motor skills seemingly without explanation in one of a number of different sports....
, brought on by a younger and popular contender for his spot.
- performed by: Hiroaki HirataHiroaki Hiratais a male seiyū from Tokyo. He stands at 175 centimeters , and is a member of Gekidan Subaru.He is most known for the roles of Sanji , Sha Gojyo , and the Narrator of Digimon Adventure...
- He is a college lecturer and is a doctor of neurology, he has Compulsive obsessions to do destructive and strange things.
- Performed by: Miyu IrinoMiyu Irinois a Japanese voice actor born in Tokyo.He is a good friend of voice actor Mamoru Miyano. He is nicknamed "Miyu-Miyu" by CLAMP members....
- He is a high school student, who has a mobile phone addiction.
- Performed by: Hiroki TakahashiHiroki Takahashiis a Japanese voice actor best known for the role of Eiji Kikumaru in The Prince of Tennis, Kenji Harima in School Rumble and Katsuya Jonouchi in Yu-Gi-Oh. He works at Big Shot/Interchannel. He also has voice acted in some yaoi Drama CD's such as Love Neco, and Koi cha no Osahou...
- He is a yakuza, who has an obsessive compulsive fear of edges.
- Performed by: Mitsuo IwataMitsuo IwataMitsuo Iwata is a seiyū who was born in Tokorozawa, Saitama. He is married to fellow seiyū Rikako Aikawa. Mania.com praised him as "truly one of the greatest seiyū". Otakunews.com complimented him for the role of Tetsuya from Outlanders...
- He is diagnosing him as obsessive-compulsive neurosis by himself.
- Performed by: Wataru HatanoWataru Hatano, is a seiyū who works for 81 Produce.His name is often mistakenly written as 波多野 渉 or 羽田野 渉. At the second annual Seiyū Awards in 2008, Wataru won the Best Male Rookie Award for his roles as Sam Houston in Toward the Terra and Tenshi Yuri in Saint Beast: Kouin Jojishi Tenshitan.-TV animation:*07...
- He is an actor.
- Performed by: Ryotaro OkiayuRyotaro Okiayuis a Japanese voice actor, who was born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, and raised in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture. He has been active since 1989, and is currently affiliated with Aoni Production....
- He is the representative director chairman of the newspaper publishing company.
- Performed by: Tōru FuruyaToru Furuyais a veteran narrator and seiyū born on July 31, 1953 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As a child, he was a member of Gekidan Himawari, a children's acting troupe...
- Assistant Manager of the Paramedic Department, Irabu General Hospital. Father of Yuta Tsuda.
External links
- TV drama Official site
- Stage play Official site
- Siren Visual's official page for Australia and New Zealand