Tramps Like Us

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Tramps Like Us
Image:Kimi wa Pet.jpg
Manga cover
きみはペット
(Kimi wa Pet)
Genre Comedy, Romance
Manga
Author Yayoi Ogawa
Publisher Flag of Japan Kodansha
Demographic Josei
Magazine Kiss
Original run 2000 – 2005
Volumes 14
TV drama
Network TBS
Original run April 9, 2003 – June 18, 2003
Episodes 10

Tramps Like Us (きみはペット Kimi wa Petto?, lit. "You're My Pet") is a josei manga series by Yayoi Ogawa, which was adapted to a TV drama series that aired in Japan on TBS in 2003. The manga won the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo.[1]

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[edit] Plot

The story concerns Sumire Iwaya, a journalist at a major newspaper. A career woman in a society that does not handle successful women well, Sumire suffers from depression and anxiety. She also has hobbies that are very un-feminine, such as being a fan of pro wrestling, K-1, and shōnen anime.

After her fiancé leaves her for his mistress and Sumire is demoted at work, she stumbles across a young injured homeless man in a box outside her condominium. She takes him in and becomes attached to him. As a joke, she says she wants to keep him as a pet. To her surprise, the young man agrees. She names him Momo, after her beloved dog from childhood. Sumire provides room and board, and Momo provides unconditional love and loyalty. Sumire says there is no sex in their relationship, and she will only sleep with men who have the "three highs": higher pay, higher education and higher height (i.e. taller than her 170 cm.) Despite this, there is definite sexual tension in their relationship.

Sumire later learns that Momo's real name is Takeshi Gouda, and that he is a dance prodigy who studied classical ballet but was too short to take the lead roles. He switched to modern dance, and lived a semi-homeless life before meeting Sumire. Momo passes himself off as Sumire's second cousin.

Complications arise when Sumire is reunited with the man that she was infatuated with at Tokyo University, Shigehito Hasumi. Hasumi meets all of Sumire's requirements. However, Sumire cannot quite open up to Hasumi-senpai, or give up her attachment to Momo. For example, Sumire lets Momo call her by her personal name, while she struggles to let Hasumi call her "Iwaya" instead of "Iwaya-san."

When Hasumi meets Momo he recongizes his face but cant put a name to him. As well Takeshi (aka)Momo starts to have feelings for Sumire-chan (Iwaya). They began to has feeling that go way beyond pet and Master. As while Hasumi does some research on Iwaya-san so called cousin he discovers that he's a child ballet prodigy and becomes friends with Takeshi. While Takeshi keeps to himself that he's actually Iwaya's pet "Momo" that Hasumi keeps bring up in their conversations.

Iwaya keeps trying to hide the fact from Hasumi that Takeshi is actually her pet Named Momo. but when Hasumi shows up at Takeshi dance show and sees him kissing Iwaya. He thinks that she's havin an affair with Takeshi.To clean up the problem Takeshi tells the truth about him having feelings for Sumire-chan, but he's leaving for a dance school in Germany in a week.

Iwaya feelings like she's losing something very important that can never be replaced again.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Main characters

  • Sumire Iwaya (巌谷 澄麗 Iwaya Sumire?) Drama role by:Koyuki
  • Momo (モモ?), or Takeshi Gouda (合田 武志 Gōda Takeshi?) Drama role by:Jun Matsumoto
  • Shigehito Hasumi (蓮實 滋人 Hasumi Shigehito?) Drama role by:Seiichi Tanabe

[edit] Other characters

  • Yuri Shirotae (白妙 ユリ Shirotae Yuri?) Drama role by:Sarina Suzuki
Sumire's childhood friend, a housewife and mother of Ran
Momo's ex-girlfriend, a dancer (Vol.2 -)
  • Shiori Fukushima (福島 紫織 Fukushima Shiroi?) Drama role by:Wakana Sakai
A dental assistant (manga)/office worker (drama) determined to seduce and marry Hasumi-senpai (Vol.3- )
  • Emma Owen and Hugh Oswald
Two American journalists who work under Sumire (Vol.5-)
  • Satoshi Asano Drama role by: Kyozo Nagatsuka
  • Junpei Horibei Drama role by: Eita
  • Mayumi Haruki Drama role by: Misa Uehara
  • Yuuta Ishida Drama role by: Sato Riyuuta

[edit] References

  1. ^ Joel Hahn. Kodansha Manga Awards. Comic Book Awards Almanac. Retrieved on 2007-08-21.

[edit] External links

Drama TV series