Mouse (manga)

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Mouse
マウス
(Mausu)
Genre Adventure, Comedy
Manga
Author Satoru Akahori
Illustrator Hiroshi Itaba (art)
Publisher Flag of Japan Hakusensha
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Young Animal
Original run 2000
Volumes 14
TV anime
Director Yorifusa Yamaguchi
Studio Flag of Japan Studio Deen
Licensor Flag of Japan Media Factory
Flag of the United States AnimeWorks
Network Flag of Japan Chiba TV, Kids Station, TV Kanagawa, TV Saitama
Original run 2003-01-05 – 2003-03-26
Episodes 12
Manga: Mouse Bakumatsu-den[1]
Author Satoru Akahori (story)
Hiroshi Itaba (art)
Publisher Flag of Japan Hakusensha
Demographic Seinen
Original run 2005
Volumes 1

Mouse (マウス Mausu?, sometimes typeset as "MØUSE") is a manga series written by Satoru Akahori and drawn by Hiroshi Itaba. It was serialized in the Japanese magazine Young Animal.

Mouse was adapted into a twelve episode anime television series written by Hiroyuki Kawasaki, directed by Yorifusa Yamaguchi, and produced by Media Factory and Studio Deen.

In 2005 a one-volume manga prequel was published, titled: Mouse Bakumatsu-den.

Contents

[edit] Plot

For 400 years, there was a family of thieves stealing money and priceless property, particularly those items that were originally illegally stolen. The main motivation is that anything and everything can be stolen, no matter how much they protect that item. And in those years, that thief was only known by one name, Mouse.

In the latest version, a young college art teacher named Muon Sorata is the latest to take up the name of Mouse. He is surrounded by three highly devoted and attractive assistants who help him pull off heists of art museums and landmark towers. The thieves had the power and resources to steal entire buildings and take structures out to sea but never get caught. Mouse is also known for not abandoning those who serve him, even if it means his capture.

[edit] Characters

Sorata Muon (無音 宙太 Muon Sorata?)
Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese), Grant George (English)
A male college art teacher who is actually a thief under the name Mouse. He follows a 400-year tradition as Mouse and will not abandon those who serve him. As Mouse, Sorata has access to a vast arsenal of transports and machines to help him, all of which are hidden underneath the college that he works at.
Mei Momozono (桃園 メイ Momozono Mei?)
Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Jessica Gee (English)
An extremely well-endowed female computer and physics expert, and works at the college's physics department. She had been trained since childhood to be the servant to Sorata, but decided that she wouldn't follow Mouse blindly, until she saw him herself. When she got injured during a mission, she made the choice to follow Sorata with her heart when he wouldn't abandon her, in spite of her insistence that he does.
Yayoi Kuribayashi (栗林 弥生 Kuribayashi Yayoi?)
Voiced by: Yukari Fukui (Japanese), Cindy Alexander (English)
An incredibly busty female biology expert, and is also the college's biology teacher. When she was a college student, Yayoi was cursed with a fear of men so great that she would go into panic attacks whenever she even saw a man. So she was curious that her classmate, Mei Momozona, took an intimate relationship to a student she was tutoring, Sorata Muon. But later, when a valuable sample was targeted by Mouse to be stolen, Yayoi found herself trapped when one of her panic attacks triggered a major fire in the lab she was in. It was Sorata, who was really Mouse, who had rescued her and allowed her to come out of her shell.
Hazuki Kakio (柿生 葉月 Kakio Haduki?)
Voiced by: Mai Nakahara (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (English)
A female fighter and expert in martial arts, who is also the college's physical education instructor. There are several personalites within her, from a mischievous child to a brave fighter. When Hazuki foolishly tested a memory-erasing machine and her many personalities were programed into its computer, Sorata went in to save her by going in himself.

[edit] Episode list

# Title Original Airdate
1 "Steal:01 The Name is "Mouse""
"Steal:01 Sono na wa "Mouse"" (Steal:01 その名は“鼠[マウス]”) 
Pilot 
2 "Steal:02 There is Nothing that Mouse Cannot Steal"
(Steal:02 鼠[マウス]に盗めぬ物はなし) 
Mouse has to steal the newly built odaiba tower. 
3 "Steal:03 She Will Not Accept Destiny"
(Steal:03 彼女は運命[さだめ]を受け入れない) 
Mouse has to steal and go on a date on the same night 
4 "Steal:04 Mouse Will Not Abandon a Comrade"
(Steal:04 鼠[マウス]は仲間を見捨てない) 
Kakio Hazuki's history is revealed 
5 "Steal:05 Target is Hatsuki"
"Steal:05 Target wa Hatsuki" (Steal:05 ターゲットは葉月) 
 
6 "Steal:06 Country of Electronics' Mouse"
(Steal:06 電子の国の鼠[マウス]) 
 
7 "Steal:07 A Female University Student that Hates Men"
(Steal:07 男嫌いの女子大生) 
 
8 "Steal:08 Sweet Awakening"
(Steal:08 甘美なる覚醒) 
 
9 "Steal:09 The Name is "Wang""
"Steal:09 Sono na wa "Wang"" (Steal:09 その名は“ワン”) 
 
10 "Steal:10 Undying Man"
"Steal:10 Shinanai Otoko" (Steal:10 死なない男) 
 
11 "Steal:11 "Mouse" Never Gives Up"
(Steal:11 “鼠[マウス]”は決してあきらめない) 
 
12 "Steal:12 "Mouse's" Dreams Will Never End"
"Steal:12 "Mouse" no Yume wa Owaranai" (Steal:12 “鼠[マウス]”の夢は終わらない) 
 

[edit] Theme music

Opening
Ending

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mouse (manga) (manga) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia, retrieved on 2007-08-13

[edit] External links

Official sites
Other sources