Wild Ones (Arakure)

Infobox animanga/Header
name = Wild Ones
ja_name = アラクレ
ja_name_trans = Arakure
genre = Comedy, Romance, AdventureInfobox animanga/Manga
title =
author = Fujiwara Kiyo
publisher = flagicon|Japan Hakusensha
publisher_other = flagicon|United States Viz Media
demographic = Shōjo
magazine = flagicon|Japan Hana to Yume
first = 2004
last = ongoing
volumes = 6

nihongo|"Wild Ones"|アラクレ|Arakure is a Japanese manga by Kiyo Fujiwara. It is currently up to 6 volumes in Japan and is serialized in "Hana to Yume". In December 2007 Viz began releasing the series under the name "Wild Ones" and under the Shojo Beat label in America. A preview of the manga series was seen in the November 2007 issue of Shojo Beat.

tory

After recently losing her mother, Sachie Wakamura is suddenly greeted by her maternal grandfather, whom she has never met, who offers to let her live with him. She soon discovers that her grandfather is a less than ordinary man: he is a head of a yakuza gang. To help her adjust to her new home, she is assigned a bodyguard, the handsome and protective Rakuto Igarashi. While struggling to keep all this hidden from her classmates, Sachie attempts to graduate from high school and become a professional chef.

Main characters

;Sachie Wakamura:Sachie is the 15 year old protagonist of the story. She has a strong sense of justice and dislikes deceit. Her stubborn nature makes Rakuto's job all the more challenging. Her father died a long time ago and with the recent death of her mother, Sachie finds she has no where to live until her grandfather appears and takes her in. She begins to adjust to having a the head of a yakuza gang as her grandfather and living in a house full of hoodlooms. It seems she has inherited yakuza blood; she can be very scary when she is mad. Her favorite food is hamburger with egg in it. Because of Rakuto, her classmates think she's a princess (she's a princess, but of yakuza). Everyone in the yakuza is very protective of Sachie, and are prepared to protect her with their life. Throughout the series, she's seen fighting the urge to fall in love with Rakuto, though unsuccessfully. Up to volume 6, her romantic feelings are returned.

;Rakuto Igarashi:Rakuto is Sachie's bodyguard. Handsome and heroic, he is the most popular guy in school and is the student council president. No one at school suspects that he belongs to a yakuza gang, in part because he acts like a prince, and was considered one until he refers to Sachie as a "princess" and that he is her bodyguard in order to remove any suspicion that they are associated with yakuza. His father, Iga, had a serious gambling debt when Rakuto was little, and his mother left him. Afterwards, Asagi took him in. Rakuto is very loyal to Sachie, to the point of being over protective. He had met Sachie and her mother when she was 5 years old, and her smiling face attracted him. He already seemed to have feelings for her since then. It is also proven that he can be quite jealous, as when the new cute student Azuma asked Sachie to dance, he whisked her away before the dance began, on the story that she had sprained her leg. Later, when Sachie questions him about it, he asks her to dance with him alone.

;Raizo Asagi:Asagi is Sachie's grandfather, and the head of a yakuza gang. The kanji character for "Rai" in his name, Raizo, means thunder in Japanese. He is a man of integrity and honor. Everyone in his gang is devoted to him, since many people who he has taken in are those who have nowhere else to go. His favorite food is hamburger with egg in it. He keeps his daughter Yukie's room untouched, and punishes whoever goes in it severely. When his daughter decided to leave his home, he told her that she would no longer be an Asagi, and would be dead to him. When he heard his daughter was dead and left a granddaughter, he decided to take her in. One of his hand is missing a pinky. ("Yubitsume" refers to finger-cutting. Among the yakuza, the cutting of one's pinky serves as form of penance or apology)

;Yukie:Deceased mother of Sachie and daughter of Asagi. She left her father's home and thus broke all ties with him and the name Asagi. Even when she had Sachie, she did not contact Asagi, but told Sachie all her family was dead. Yukie hated all things deceitful. She was strong, kind, and full of love. Her specialty was cooking hamburgers with egg in it. Her room in Asagi's house remains untouched since the day she left.

External links

* [http://www.shojobeat.com/manga/wo/ Shojo Beat - Wild Ones]
* [http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2458 Baka Manga Updates - Arakure]