Yuria 100 Shiki

Yuria 100 Shiki (Japanese: ユリア100式, Hepburn: Yuria Hyaku-shiki) is a Japanese manga series written by Shigemitsu Harada and illustrated by Nobuto Hagio. It has been serialized in Young Animal from 2006 to January 22, 2010.^[1] The individual chapters are collected and released in tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha with the twelfth and final volume released on March 29, 2010.

In December 2006, the Kanagawa Prefecture classified the book as harmful to minors per the prefectural youth protection laws.^[2]

A drama CD was released in 2008. A live-action adaptation was announced starring Shelly Fujii which was released in 2009.^[3]

Plot

Dr. Akiba, a perverted scientist, has developed a series of sex robots that imprint to their master for life upon first use. Yuria Type 100 is his newest creation: she has highly advanced artificial intelligence and vast sexual knowledge, but she refuses to become Akiba's sex slave, and escapes from his lab. She ends up living with college student Shunsuke Kubo, where she tries to seduce him with the hopes that he can be her master, however, he regularly refuses because he has a girlfriend and because he sees her as incredibly annoying when she acts like that.

Characters

Main characters

• Yuria Type 100 (ユリア100式, Yuria 100 Shiki), simply called Yuria – Yuria is a humanoid Dutch wife (love doll). A female android designed with the sole purpose of being the sex slave of her master. But she has one flaw, she does not want to be a Dutch wife. After escaping from her creator, she meets Kubo Shunsuke, who gives her a place to stay. Hilarity is bound to ensue as she battles her programming, which draws her towards him, and pretty much any other man she comes across.
• Shunsuke Kubo (久保瞬介, Kubo Shunsuke) - a college student with a hobby in pro-wrestling, Shunsuke takes in Yuria thinking she is a runaway, and does his best to treat her somewhat like a little sister despite her strange physical advances on him, which he retaliates with different grappling holds to keep her at bay.

Supporting characters

Dutch wives

• Yuria Type 105 (ユリア105式, Yuria 105 Shiki), called Juria – 2nd Dutch Wife made and escaped like Yuria. She has long, dark hair and dresses in a maid costume. She lives as a life-size doll in Yoshio's room but restricts herself from sexually interacting with Yoshio until he turns 18.
• Yuria Type 108 (ユリア108式, Yuria 108 Shiki), called Yurin – 3rd Dutch Wife created and escaped like Yuria and Juria. Yurin is a loli-type Dutch wife who ends up staying with Ippei. Her child figure is capable of growing and developing according to her user's preferences as long as she is used that way.
• Yuria Type 1000 (ユリア1000式, Yuria 1000 Shiki), 4th Dutch Wife created using a special silicon polymer capable of easily changing her form, in a parody of the T-1000. Like her predecessors, she escaped from the laboratory, but without having her personality program installed, and thus she sexually assaults anyone at sight without warning. After attacking the other Yurias, she obtained data from her respective partners and goes after them as well.
• Lucy Mark II (ルーシーMarkII, Lucy Mark II), called Lucy – American humanoid Dutch Wife. She is sent to Japan to be a rival of Yuria. Her specialty is in the American and European market, and is specialized to engage in "hardcore" sex. She is scouted to work as a model and spokesperson, but her sex-driven programming is a constant source of chagrin to her employers, who are unaware of her true identity.
• Lucy Mark 3.5 (ルーシーMark3.5, Lucy Mark 3.5), called Louie – American humanoid Dutch Wife with the top half of a woman and the bottom half of a man. Louie was created this way due to budget cutbacks as a merge of the 3 and 4 series of Lucy.

Humans

• Dr. Ayumu Akiba (秋葉歩博士, Akiba Ayumu Hakase) – Creator of the Yuria series sex dolls, that have the habit of escaping from him once completed.
• Maria Nakamura (中村まりあ, Nakamura Maria) – Maria is introduced as Shunsuke's fiancee. She is the proud daughter of a wealthy family from Shunsuke's home town, and often expresses jealous feelings. Later, she marries Shunsuke and starts living with him and Yuria.
• Yoshio (良夫, Yoshio) – Yoshio is introduced as 17-year-old high school student who lets Juria stay with him. He enjoys collecting dolls and prefers them over real girls, but his interactions with Juria bother his mother. However, when he turns 18, he officially accepts Juria.
• Ippei Yamamoto (山本一平, Yamamoto Ippei) – A university student studying to be elementary teacher who incidentally becomes Yurin's guardian. Despite Yurin's attempts to have sex to him, Ippei just sees her as a child and tries to resist her advances for fear of being seen as a pedophile.

Live action adaptation

A live action adaptation was released on November 20, 2009 in Japan.^[4] Yuria is played by Shelly Fujii and the movie is directed by Hideo Jojo (Gachi-ban).

Volume listing

References

External links

• Yuria 100 Shiki (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Official Young Animal Yuria Hyaku Shiki website (Japanese)
• (Japanese)