School of water business

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The School of Water Business
都立水商！ (Toritsu Mizusho!)
Genre	Comedy, Ecchi
Manga
Authored by	Hikaru Murozumi (story) Shinobu Inokuma (art)
Publisher	Shogakukan
Serialized in	Young Sunday
Original run	October 4, 2003 –
No. of volumes	15
TV drama
Directed by
Studio
Network	NTV
Original run	March 28, 2006 –
No. of episodes	1

The School of Water Business (都立水商！ Toritsu Mizusho!) is a manga series created by by Shinobu Inokuma, the author of Salad Days. It is based on a novel by Hikaru Murozumi It is set in a fictional trade-school, that focuses on Mizu shōbai, located in Kabuki-cho of Shinjuku, Tokyo

The school's focus is to give students that are on their last chance in the school system. Classes are divided into occupations such as, Hostesses, Hosts, "Managers" (from waiters to actual managers), "Geibaa" (Gay Bar but is a more comedic view of males dressing and acting like females) and, finally, "soapgirls." The School of Water Business is an ecchi series but has shown far less skin than some of the "softer" translated series. The series is mostly a romantic comedy but also mixes in many positive messages about life, work, friendship, and other topics.

[edit] Characters

The volume number denotes the character's first appearance. The actor/actress is the person that was casted for the character in the TV special.

Keisuke Tanabe (田辺圭介) - Sociology Teacher (Vol. 1) - Takashi Fujii
Akane Yoshioka (吉岡あかね)- Fuzoku Course Director (Vol. 1)
Shigeo Yagura (矢倉茂) - Headmaster (Vol. 1) Naoto Takenaka
Akemi Kondo (近藤明美) - Hostess Course Director (Vol. 1) - Chisato Morishita
Toshihito Takei (竹井俊仁) - Host Course Director (Vol. 1)
Makoto Ono (大野誠) - Gay Bar Course Director (Vol. 1) - Takaya Yamauchi
Tadao Kurosawa (黒沢忠夫) - Manager Course Director (Vol. 1) - Hironobu Nomura
Michiko Yazawa (矢沢　道子) - Music Teacher (Vol. 6)
Mari Oda (Mari Koyama in TV version) (小田真理) - Fuzoku Student (Vol. 1) - Saki Seto
Daichi Nagasawa (長沢大地) - Manager Student (Vol. 1) - Ryoji Morimoto
Masashi Ito (伊東雅史) - Athletics Director (Vol. 1)
Izumi Eto (江藤いずみ) - Student (Fuzoku) (Vol. 1)
Kikuzo Sakuma (佐久間菊蔵) - Chairman of the Tokyo Metropolitan School Board (Vol. 1) - Renji Ishibashi
Teppei Suga (須賀鉄平) - Gay Bar Student (Vol. 1)
Ryoko Akagi (赤木良子) - Fuzoku Student (Vol. 3)
Mayuko Maruyama (丸山真由子) - Hostess Student (Vol. 4) - Misako Yasuda
Sawa Sugabayashi (杉林佐和) - Manager Student (Vol. 5)
Sanae Yamashita (山下早苗) - Hostess Student (Vol. 6) - Becky
Reira Yamaguchi () - Hostess Student (Vol. 8) - Risa Kudo
Miwa Nagasawa (長沢三葉) - Hostess Student (Vol. 9)
Ayame Hanao (花尾あやめ) - Hostess Student (Vol. 9)
Komachi Nakajima (中嶋小町) - Hostess Student (Vol. 11)
Etsuko Yamaguchi - (TV only) - Mariko Tsutsui
Moe Akiba - (TV only) - Aki Hoshino
Kyoto - (TV only) - Kenji Anan