Katte ni Kaizō

Infobox animanga/Header
name = Katte ni Kaizō


caption = Katte ni Kaizō volume 1
ja_name = かってに改蔵
ja_name_trans =
genre = ComedyInfobox animanga/Manga
title =
author = Kōji Kumeta
publisher = flagicon|Japan Shogakukan
publisher_other = flagicon|Taiwan Ever Glory Publishing
flagicon|Hong Kong Comics World
flagicon|South Korea Coam Nano & Bio Industry
flagicon|Thailand Burapat
flagicon|Spain Editorial Ivrea
magazine = flagicon|Japan Shōnen Sunday
demographic = Shōnen
first = 1998
last = 2004
volumes = 26

nihongo|"Katte ni Kaizō"|かってに改蔵 is a shōnen manga by Kōji Kumeta. The manga ran for 26 volumes in Shōnen Sunday from 1998 to 2004. The art style went through a huge change as the story went on, by the end of the story the art style was the same as the type used in Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei.

Plot

The series follows the strange goings-on that surround Katsu Kaizō, an eccentric, perhaps insane student who has a unique perspective on the world around him.

Characters

;nihongo|Kaizō Katsu|勝 改蔵:A 17 year old Junior in high school, Kaizō has led an interesting life. A former genius, Kaizō's life changed the day his friend Umi kicked him off the jungle gym at the local playground. Ever since that day he's become an eccentric young man who believes that aliens are around every corner. Recently he believes that he has been turned into a cyborg by Suzu.;nihongo|Umi Natori|名取 羽美:Umi has been friends with Kaizō for a long time and is in fact to blame for his strange behavior. Even though she feels some guilt over what happened, she cannot bring herself to admit what she did.;nihongo|Suzu Saien|彩園 すず:Suzu is the head of the Science Club and the only Senior in the group. Upon meeting the eccentric Kaizō she decides to indulge his belief that she has turned him into a cyborg.;nihongo|Chitan Tsubouchi|坪内 地丹:The smallest member of the Science Club who is instantly recognizable by his thick glasses. Chitan is the usual victim of Kaizō's weirdness.

Ending

In the last chapter of the manga it was shown that Kaizo and Natori were actually patients of a mental ward and that the whole story shown to the readers were actually a part Kaizo and Natori's imagination. It seems that Saien in reality was the doctor in charge of them and in order to help their recovery she let Kaizo and Natori create a city with model buildings and model people. As the city grew the two started to imagine themselves as a part of the city. At the end they made a full recovery and were allow to leave the ward, they got an apartment and started to live together

External links

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