Gonna be the Twin-Tail!!

Gonna be the Twin-Tail!!

First light novel volume cover featuring the main character Sōji Mitsuka as Tail Red
俺、ツインテールになります。
(Ore, Tsuintēru ni Narimasu.)
Genre Action, Romantic comedy, Supernatural
Light novel
Written by Yume Mizusawa
Illustrated by Ayumu Kasuga
Published by Shogakukan
Demographic Male
Imprint Gagaga Bunko
Original run June 19, 2012 – ongoing
Volumes 8
Anime television series
Directed by Hiroyuki Kanbe
Produced by Atsushi Yoshikawa
Hirofumi Itō
Junya Okamoto
Reiichi Aoki
Shigeaki Arima
Tsuyoshi Tanaka
Written by Naruhisa Arakawa
Music by Yasuharu Takanashi
Studio Production IMS
Licensed by
Network TBS, CBC, SUN, BS-TBS
English network
Original run October 9, 2014 – December 25, 2014
Episodes 12

Gonna be the Twin-Tail!! (俺、ツインテールになります。 Ore, Tsuintēru ni Narimasu., I Will Become a Twintail.), also known as Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu. or in its short form OreTwi (俺ツイ), is a Japanese light novel series written by Yume Mizusawa and illustrated by Ayumu Kasuga. Shogakukan has published five volumes under their Gagaga Bunko imprint since June 2012. An anime adaptation produced by Production IMS began airing in Japan on October 9, 2014.

Plot

Sōji Mitsuka is an ordinary high school boy who has an obsession for twintail hair. One day, he encounters a mysterious girl named Twoearle from a parallel world when monsters appear in his town who declare that all twintails in the world belong to them. These monsters feed off the "attribute power", the spiritual energy of humans. Twoearle entrusted Sōji with Tail Gear, imaginary armor initiated by powerful twintail attributes. With the armor, Sōji transforms into Tail Red, a twintail warrior (ツインテイルズ関係者 tsuinteiruzu kankei-sha), to protect Earth.

Characters

Twintail warriors

Sōji Mitsuka (観束 総ニ Mitsuka Sōji) / Tail Red (テイルレッド Teiru Reddo)
Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki / Tail Red: Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka
A gentle-natured 15-year old freshman of Yōgetsu Private Academy who is obsessed with the twintail hairstyle. One day, he encounters a mysterious beautiful girl named Twoerle, who appears before him from a parallel world. At the same time, monsters begin to appear in his town, and they start attacking the citizens. In the midst of the chaos, Thouars entrusted him with attribute power, thus suddenly transforming him into a twin tail warrior girl, known as Tail Red. His weapon is Sword of Fire, Blazer Blade (炎の剣ブレイザーブレイド Honō no Ken Bureizā Bureido). In Vol 4, he gained two power up form: Riser Chain and Faller Chain.
Aika Tsube (津辺 愛香 Tsube Aika) / Tail Blue (テイルブルー Teiru Burū)
Voiced by: Yūka Aisaka
A 15-year old freshman of Yōgetsu Private Academy and childhood friend of Sōji. She sees Sōji like a little brother and is rather over protective of him. Aika has complex with her body, especially with her flat chest. She has a violent attitude toward Twoerle who often teases her about her chest. In battle, Aika has an outstanding ability of fighting as she was raised by her grandfather with martial arts. She is known as Tail Blue when she transforms, and her weapon is Spear of Water, Wave Lance (水の槍ウェイブランス Mizu no Yari Weibu Ransu). In Vol 8, she gains Eternal Chain.
Erina Shindō (神堂 慧理那 Shindō Erina) / Tail Yellow (テイルイエロー Teiru Ierō)
Voiced by: Chinatsu Akasaki
A 16-year old sophomore of Yōgetsu Private Academy and the Student Council President. Known as Tail Yellow in her transformed state, her weapon is Gun of Lightning, Vortex Blaster (雷の銃ヴォルテックスブラスター Kaminari no Jū Vorutekkusu Burasutā). She is a closet masochist and exhibitionist, and gets aroused when Soji calls her name. Unlike Soji and Aika, Erina's twin-tail warrior form makes her look older and has a more well endowed figure. In Vol 7, she gains Absolute Chain.
Twoerle (トゥアール Tuāru)
Voiced by: Maaya Uchida
A mysterious girl who comes from another planet. She enjoys teasing Aika with her large bust and often ends up grievously injured for it. She fell in love with Sōji at first sight and openly tries to seduce him with his mother's approval. After Sōji defeats the first wave of attacks from the monsters, she decides to transfer into Yōgetsu Private Academy as a student and calls herself Sōji's relative. Before arriving on Earth, Thouars was the original Tail Blue but gave up her twin-tail hair style to make the Tail Red gear after her world lost all it's attributes.
Anko Isuna (善沙 闇子 Isuna Anko) / Dark Grasper (テイルブラック Teiru Burakku)
Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa
A girl from a different world, yet from the same village as Twoerle. She is secretly a big fan of Twoerle and stalks her often. After Twoerle disappeared, she joined the Ultimegil organization in attempt to find Twoerle under the name Dark Grasper. Once she found Twoerle, she betrayed Evil Gill. In battle, she is known as Tail Black. Her weapon is Darkness Grave Moebius, and her weapon when she was in the Evil Gill was Sickle Grave of Darkness.

Others

Miharu Mitsuka (観束 未春 Mitsuka Miharu)
Voiced by: Hiromi Igarashi
Sōji's 36-year old mother. A widow who runs her own cafe named Adolescenza (アドレシェンツァ Adoreshentsa). She is aware of her son's identity as Tail Red and openly supports him as she herself once dreamed of being in his position. She also does not mind Twoerle's attempts at seducing Sōji and even asks her to 'make her son a man'.
Mikoto Sakuragawa (桜川 尊 Sakuragawa Mikoto)
Voiced by: Mao Ichimichi
Erina's 28-year old maid. She has an outstanding physical ability despite her work as a maid. At times, she works part time as a PE teacher for Yōgetsu Private Academy. She usually slips marriage registration forms in the boys' test slips with her name on them, or she will try to trick Soji to sign his name on it; which is a clear example that she is desperate to get married before reaching 30.
Mega Neptune Mk. II (メガ・ネプチューン＝MK.II Mega Nepuchūn Māku Tsū)
Voiced by: Yukari Tamura
Twintail God (Tuintairu godo)
Voiced by: Shuichi Ikeda

A imaginary being, created by Sōji's subconsciousness that helps him to renew his twin-tail love.

Ultimegil

Ultimegil (アルティメギル Arutimegiru) is an organization of phantom-monsters called Eremerian that traverse different worlds, seeking a variety of "attributes". Having discovered Earth is rich in "attributes", they began to colonize and make plans to conquer the Earth. Members include:

Media

Light novels

Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu. began as a light novel series written by Yume Mizusawa, with illustrations by Ayumu Kasuga. Mizusawa originally entered the first novel in the series, originally titled Sore wa, Twintail no Isekai (それは、ついんてーるの異世界), into Shogakukan's sixth Shogakukan Light Novel Prize in 2011 and the novel won the judge's prize.[1] The first novel was published by Shogakukan on June 19, 2012 under their Gagaga Bunko imprint, and eight novels have been released as of December 27, 2014.[2][3]

No.Release date ISBN
1 June 19, 2012[2]ISBN 978-4-09-451346-2
2 November 20, 2012[4]ISBN 978-4-09-451375-2
3 March 19, 2013[5]ISBN 978-4-09-451398-1
4 July 18, 2013[6]ISBN 978-4-09-451424-7
5 December 18, 2013[7]ISBN 978-4-09-451454-4
6 June 18, 2014[3]ISBN 978-4-09-451491-9
7 September 18, 2014[8]ISBN 978-4-09-451508-4
8 December 18, 2014[9]ISBN 978-4-09-451524-4

Anime

An anime television series adaptation, produced by Production IMS and directed by Hiroyuki Kanbe, began airing in Japan on October 9, 2014. The opening theme is "Gimme! Revolution" (ギミー!レボリューション) by Maaya Uchida. The ending theme is "Twin-Tail Dreamer!" (ツインテール・ドリーマー!) sung by the voice actresses of the three main heroines: Tail Red (Sumire Uesaka), Tail Blue (Yūka Aisaka), and Tail Yellow (Chinatsu Akasaki). Both singles for the opening and ending themes were released on October 22, 2014. The anime has been licensed for streaming in North America by Funimation[10] and in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe (excluding UK and Scandinavia) by Crunchyroll.[11]

Episode list

No. Title Original air date
1 "Earth is a Twin-Tail World"
"Chikyū wa Tsuintēru no Hoshi" (地球はツインテールの星) 		October 9, 2014
2 "A Twin-Tail Mystery?!"
"Tsuintēru na nazo" (ツインテールな謎!?) 		October 16, 2014
3 "The Azure Surge! Tailblue"
"Aoki dotō! Teiruburū" (青き怒濤！テイルブルー) 		October 23, 2014
4 "Ferocity--Twin Battle"
"Gekiretsu tsuinbatoru" (激烈ツインバトル) 		October 30, 2014
5 "The Third Twin-Tail!"
"San'ninme no Tsuintēru!" (三人目の戦士！) 		November 6, 2014
6 "Break Release!! Tailyellow"
"Bureiku Rerīzu! Teiruierō" (完全解放！テイルイエロー) 		November 13, 2014
7 "A Passionate Debut! Dark Glassper"
"Netsuretsu Debyū! Dāku Gurasupā" (熱烈見参！暗黒眼鏡女子) 		November 20, 2014
8 "Erina's First..."
"Erina, Hajimete no..." (慧理那、はじめての…) 		November 27, 2014
9 "Smash!! Chaosic Infinite"
"Uchiyabure! Kaoshikku Infinitto" (打ち破れ! 暗黒幻夢) 		December 4, 2014
10 "How Come?! I'm In Bad Shape"
"Nazeda! ? Ore, zetsufuchō" (なぜだ！？俺、絶不調) 		December 11, 2014
11 "Red on the Ropes"
"Reddo zettaizetsumei" (レッド絶体絶命) 		December 18, 2014
12 "Twin-Tails Forever"
"Tsuintēru yo towa ni" (ツインテールよ永遠に) 		December 25, 2014

References

  1. ↑ ガガガ文庫:小学館ライトノベル大賞 [Gagaga Bunko: Shogakukan Light Novel Prize] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 俺、ツインテールになります。 [Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu.] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 俺、ツインテールになります。６ [Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu. 6] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  4. ↑ 俺、ツインテールになります。２ [Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu. 2] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  5. ↑ 俺、ツインテールになります。３ [Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu. 3] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  6. ↑ 俺、ツインテールになります。４ [Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu. 4] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  7. ↑ 俺、ツインテールになります。５ [Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu. 5] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  8. ↑ 俺、ツインテールになります。７ [Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu. 7] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
  9. ↑ 俺、ツインテールになります。８ [Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu. 8] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Funimation Streams Gonna be the Twin-Tails!!, Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete, Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai, Garo, Bahamut, Donten ni Warau, Lord Marksman & Vanadis". Anime News Network. October 3, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Crunchyroll to Stream "Gonna Be the Twin-Tail!!" Anime". Crunchyroll. October 8, 2014. Retrieved October 12, 2014.

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