Tonagura!

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Tonagura!

となグラ！ (Tonagura!)
Genre	Shounen, Comedy, Romance, Ecchi
Manga: Tonagura!
Authored by	Hidetaka Kakei
Publisher	Jive
Serialized in	Comic Rush
Original run	December 7, 2004 – July 7, 2006
No. of volumes	4
TV anime : Tonagura!
Directed by	Tatsuya Abe
Studio	Domu
Network	Various Japanese Broadcast Networks
Original run	July 8, 2006 – September 30, 2006
No. of episodes	13

Tonagura! (となグラ！, Tonagura!^?) is the title of a fictional Japanese comedy/romance story created by Hidetaka Kakei centering around four childhood friends and the romantic relationship between two of them.

Tonagura! originally began as a manga series and was released on December 7, 2004. The anime is based on this manga and was released July 8, 2006.

1 Plot
2 Characters
3 Manga
4 Anime
- 4.1 Episodes
- 4.2 Theme songs
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A childhood friend, Yuji, is coming home after a 10-year absence and Kazuki is eager to meet him again, hoping that he has become a handsome guy. In actuality, he’s become a very dirty pervert. In spite of her disappointment, he is making a move on her. Moreover, her older sister, Hatsune, tries to help their love along. Meanwhile, Yuji’s little sister, Marie, delights in shooting him with a air soft gun.

[edit] Characters

Kazuki Arisaka (有坂香月 Arisaka Kazuki, )^?, (Seiyū - Akemi Kanda): She is the heroine of the story. Basically, she had an unrequited love for Yuuji Kagura when they were young. She's always dreamed that Yuuji would one day grow up to be a handsome, suave young man. When she finally meets him again ten years later she is disappointed to find that's he has become a hentai. Kazuki is a skilled member of her school's swimming club. Her cooking skills leave much to be desired, however; although she can make her dishes look very good, she tends to add ingredients that end up turning innocuous food into culinary disasters capable of dropping the person eating it where they stand.

Yuuji Kagura (神楽勇治 Kagura Yuuji, )^?, (Seiyū - Hiroyuki Yoshino): The main protagonist of the story. Yuuji was once a sweet innocent little boy that Kazuki Arisaka was in love with. (The only thing is that he was somewhat perverted when he was little, but Kazuki doesn't remember that.) That is until he left for 10 years only to come back as a very big pervert. He is constantly finding himself in situations where Kazuki is half-dressed, is constantly has perverted fantasies, and sometimes ends up touching girls where he shouldn't be touching them. Despite this, it seems that he does has a nice, non-perverted side (rarely seen) to him that actually values Kazuki's friendship.

Niina Isokawa (磯川ニーナ Isokawa Niina, )^?, (Seiyū - Ayumi Tsuji): Niina is a blond-haired girl who goes to the same class as Marie. She has an American mother, a Japanese father, and a great deal of energy. She's physically very active and extremely friendly, quickly attaching herself to Marie to the latter's initial displeasure.

Marie Kagura (神楽まりえ Kagura Marie, )^?, (Seiyū - Erino Hazuki): Yuuji's younger sister. Kazuki described her as being a crybaby when she was younger. Now that she has grown up she isn't quite the crybaby she used to be. Now she can be found pelting her older brother with paint balls with the gun found hidden in her teddy bear Seiyu and her other puppets when her brother is acting like a pervert. Marie is mortally afraid of cats and insects, although she will actively flee bugs yet is nearly paralyzed by the presence of cats.

Kousuke Machida (町田洸介 Machida Kousuke, )^?, (Seiyū - Shinji Kawada)

Chihaya Suzuhara (鈴原ちはや Suzuhara Chihaya, )^?, (Seiyū - Misaki Sekiyama): Kazuki's friend who apparently likes to spy on people. She apparently speaks with a Kansai dialect and is much more receptive to Yuuji's perverted nature than Kazuki, claiming 'all boys are like that'. She also doesn't object to being the object of his attention and even goes so far as to give minor displays.

Miu Serizawa (芹沢美宇 Serizawa Miu, )^?, (Seiyū - Shizuka Itou)

Hatsune Arisaka (有坂初音 Arisaka Hatsune, )^?, (Seiyū - Sayaka Ohara): Kazuki's older sister, who is constantly trying to get Kazuki and Yuuji together and inadvertently puts them both into embarrassing and perverted situations. There are some indications that she considers the mishaps and the blowouts following them funny. Hatsune is good at everything she does, from cooking to sports, and is extremely well-endowed. Hatsune frequently engages in cosplay around the house and can, from time to time, be quite frightening to the people around her. Unlike her younger sister and Marie, Hatsune is perfectly unafraid of insects - or anything else.

Kazuki's Mother (香月のお母さん Kazuki no okaasan, )^?, (Seiyū - Eri Nakao): Kazuki's and Hatsune's mother.

Arisaka-san (有坂さん Arisakasan, )^?, (Seiyū - Kenta Miyake): Kazuki's and Hatsune's father, a professor of cultural anthropology.

Kagura-san (神楽さん Kagura san, )^?, (Seiyū - Keiji Fujiwara): Marie's and Yuuji's father. Told Marie to shoot her brother with paint balls every time he does something perverted. Apparently he is a hunter, although this is questionable. It has been stated in the anime that he is a press photographer as his day job, with a side job as treasure hunter. Marie and Yuuji note his treasure hunting job always felt more like his main occupation, as it caused the family to relocate time and again, whenever Kagura-san got bored with one site and started looking for the next.

[edit] Manga

Cover of Tonagura! volume 1

[edit] Anime

[edit] Episodes

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Theme songs

Opening Theme: "DRAMATIC☆GIRLY" by Akemi Kanda, Sayaka Ohara, Erino Hazuki, Misaki Sekiyama & Ayumi Tsuji

Ending Theme: "Aitai Kimochi Kara~Placid Time~" by Akemi Kanda and Sayaka Ohara

[edit] References

[edit] External links

(Japanese) Tonagura! Official Anime Website
Tona-Gura! (manga) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
Tona-Gura! at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia

Title	Original airdate	#

"A 30cm Unrequited Love" "30senchi no kataomoi" (30センチの片思い)	July 8, 2006	1
Kazuki is looking forward to the return of her old friends and neighbours, only to be shocked and dismayed when she sees what they've become in the years since they were last together.
"Aloof Kazuki And The Apron Of Temptation" "Tsuntsun Kazuki to Yuuwaku epuron" (ツンツン香月と誘惑エプロン)	July 15, 2006	2
With the parents of both households stuck on a South American island for an indeterminate time, they ask their children to take care of each other. Kazuki refuses to admit the perverted Yuuji into the home, unless he manages to spend the whole day without doing anything perverted ... despite her trying to seduce him.
"Smart Yuuji And Startled Kazuki" "Kiritto Yuuji ni dokkiri Kazuki" (キリッと勇治にドッキリ香月)	July 22, 2006	3
It's the first day at Kazuki's school for both Yuuji and Marie. While Marie is stuck in the same class with the hyper and overly friendly Niina, Yuuji manages to gain quite a crowd of girls by putting on his handsome face. Kazuki becomes jealous and sad when she sees Yuuji's popularity, leaving him at school when she goes home. To her surprise, this nets her a complaint from Yuuji, who wanted to walk home with her, not his adoring new classmates.
"Nya~" "Nya~" (にゃあ～)	July 29, 2006	4
Niina, who considers Marie a good friend, pursues her relentlessly without realizing that this is causing the intoverted Marie considerable distress. Only when Niina saves Marie from her worst fear and is set straight by Yuuji does she begin to understand Marie and lay the basis for a relationship that is not as one-sided.
"Let's Break Up!!" "Zekko surukara!!" (ゼッコーするからっ!!)	August 5, 2006	5
Kazuki experiences jealousy and insecurity when it turns out Chihaya and Yuuji share common interests and are getting along swimmingly. A visit by Chihaya to Kazuki's home turns sour when Yuuji holds a photo shoot and Kazuki feels like a fifth wheel, causing her to lash out in anger at both him and Chihaya, causing Yuuji to respond in kind and leaving their friendship apparently in shambles, to Chihaya's dismay.
"Hugging Princess?" "Ohimesama dakko?" (お姫様だっこ？)	August 12, 2006	6
After Kazuki's and Yuuji's break up they both feel depressed and Chihaya takes it upon herself get them back together.
"Strongest☆Invincible My Sister" "Saikyou☆Muteki mai sisutaa" (最強☆無敵マイシスター)	August 19, 2006	7
After yet another pervert attack by Yuuji in the morning whit some help by Hatsune, Marie desides she will find out Hatsunes weakness so that she wouldn't be able to stop her from punishing her brother. But it seem that Hatsune doesn't have a weakness. Later Katzuki finds out that Hatsune has a fever and colapsed. Katzune thinks it is because she overworked herself in taking care of her and the household. So Katzune desides to take care of her sister and the household instead of her sister so that she can get well and do what ever would make her happy.
"Kazuki x Hatsune Swimming Showdown" "Kazuki x Hatsune suiei taiketsu" (香月×初音水泳対決！)	August 26, 2006	8

"Maybe, Jealousy?" "Moshikashite, yakimochi?" (もしかして、ヤキモチ？)	September 2, 2006	9

"It's A Bikini? Let's gather!" "BIKINI dayo? Zenin shugo" (ビキニだよ？全員集合)	September 9, 2006	10

"Yukata, Fireworks and A Broken Sandal Strap" "Yukata to hanabi to kireta hanao" (浴衣と花火と切れた鼻緒)	September 16, 2006	11

"A Letter To Yuuji And Memories From Ten Years Ago" "Yuuji e no tegami to juunen mae no kioku" (勇治への手紙と十年前の記憶)	September 23, 2006	12

"The Veranda and a Paper Plane" "VERANDA to kami hikouki" (ベランダと紙ひこーき)	September 30, 2006	13