Strawberry 100%

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name = Strawberry 100%


caption = "Strawberry 100%" volume 1
ja_name = いちご100%
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genre = Romance, Drama, Comedy, HaremInfobox animanga/Manga
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author = Mizuki Kawashita
publisher = flagicon|Japan Shueisha
publisher_other = )flagicon|Taiwan Tong Li Comics
flagicon|Italy flagicon|Spain Panini Comics
flagicon|Germany Tokyopop
flagicon|Argentina Editorial Ivrea
flagicon|France Tonkam
demographic = Shōnen
magazine = Weekly Shōnen Jump
first = February 2002
last = August 2005
volumes = 19Infobox animanga/Anime
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director = Osamu Sekita
studio = Madhouse
network = Animax, TV Asahi
first = 5 April 2005
last = 21 June 2005
episodes = 13Infobox animanga/OVA
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director =
studio = Madhouse
episodes = 1
released = September 2004Infobox animanga/OVA
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director = Tomoki Kobayashi
studio = Madhouse
episodes = 5
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nihongo|"Strawberry 100%"|いちご100%|Ichigo 100% is a 167-chapter manga by Mizuki Kawashita that was serialized in the "Weekly Shōnen Jump" magazine from 2002 volume 12 to 2005 volume 35, and collected in 19 tankōbon volumes between August 2002 and December 2005. The manga has been adapted into an audio drama, light novel, game, and anime. The manga was licensed by Viz Media with the first volume released in July 2007.

tory

"Strawberry 100%" chronicles the school years of Junpei Manaka, a high school student and aspiring movie director, and his relationships with the girls that enter his life.

The story begins some time during Junpei's final year at middle school. One afternoon, Junpei goes up to the school rooftop to see the sunset. Just as he arrives, he sees a beautiful girl fall down in front of him, and manages to catch a glimpse of her strawberry-patterned panties before she runs off. For Junpei, it is love at first sight.

Climbing up to the ledge the girl fell from, Junpei finds a notebook belonging to someone named Aya Tojo. His hopes that the owner is the mystery girl are dashed when he finds Aya to be an ordinary-looking girl with braided hair and thick eyeglasses. However, he soon discovers that Aya is a gifted writer, and the two become friends.

Consulting his friends Rikiya Komiyama and Okusa about the girl he saw on the rooftop, Junpei comes to the conclusion that the mystery girl is Tsukasa Nishino, the most beautiful girl in school. Despite Tsukasa's reputation of turning down the advances of every boy who asks her out, Junpei decides to confess his love for her. Following Aya's advice, he confesses to Tsukasa in an unusual manner: while doing a pull-up. To everyone's surprise, Tsukasa agrees to become his girlfriend. Moments later, however, Junpei sees the mystery girl with strawberry-patterned panties, making him realize that Tsukasa is not the girl he is looking for.

Despite the case of mistaken identity, Junpei decides to make the most of his newly-formed relationship with Tsukasa. With high school entrance exams approaching, he convinces her to try out for Izumizaka High, the same high school he is aiming for. Aya helps the two of them prepare for the exams, and a love triangle between the three teenagers soon develops.

At the entrance exam for Izumizaka High, Junpei discovers that Aya is in fact the mystery girl from the rooftop when she shows up with her hair down and glasses off. Tsukasa, aware of Junpei's growing affection for Aya, eventually decides to attend a different high school instead.

Upon graduating from middle school, Junpei receives his first video camera as a gift. Unfortunately, the camera is damaged during an altercation between him and a beautiful girl who he later discovers is one of his new classmates. Despite the less-than-ideal circumstances of their first few meetings, the two gradually become very good friends, and the girl, Satsuki Kitaoji, eventually falls in love with Junpei.

After finding out that the Izumizaka Film Studies Club no longer exists, Junpei restarts the club with Aya, Satsuki, Rikiya, and a new classmate, the girl-crazed Hiroshi Sotomura, as founding members. Working together during the summer break, with Junpei doing the filming, Aya providing the script, and Satsuki and Rikiya acting out the principal roles, they create a movie that does surprisingly well at the school festival.

Just before Christmas, Junpei's complicated love life takes a sudden downturn when Tsukasa, unable to stand his hesitancy in furthering their relationship, decides to break up with him. At around the same time, Junpei's childhood friend Yui Minamito reenters his life. Yui has returned to Junpei's hometown in order to try out for the prestigious Oumi Academy, the same high school Tsukasa attends. Although Yui's presence – and habits – makes Junpei's life more awkward than usual, she later becomes an indirect cause of his becoming friends with Tsukasa once again.

Junpei spends the rest of his high school years trying to determine which girl he likes best, while juggling time between his studies, his part-time job, and making movies for the annual school festivals. Towards the end of the final year, Tsukasa breaks the web of affection surrounding Junpei by confessing her desire to become his girlfriend again in the same way he proposed to her the first time: by doing a pull-up. Junpei, after realizing he really loves Tsukasa, accepts.

After the completion of their final film in high school, Aya confesses her crush on Junpei, and though he had spent the majority of high school in love with her, he rejects her feelings to stay true to Tsukasa.

Despite Junpei and Tsukasa's reunion, Tsukasa's dream of studying pastry-making in France after graduation makes their eventual separation inevitable. A few days before graduation, Junpei suggests they break up in order to pursue their individual career goals, and Tsukasa reluctantly agrees. As they say their final farewells, they promise to meet again when she returns to Japan.

In an epilogue set four years after their high school graduation, the members of the Film Studies Club gather together at a restaurant in Kyoto which Satsuki runs. There, everyone compares their accomplishments over the years: Aya's writing career has won her numerous awards, Hiroshi and Rikiya run a production company, and Junpei is becoming an established film director. Still harboring his dream to make Aya's original middle-school novel into a movie, Junpei asks her to wait until he can make it a reality. In the final scene, Junpei reunites with Tsukasa, and they both agree to start their relationship anew.

An extra chapter at the end contains a side story about how Hiroshi's sister Misuzu finds her first love as a university student in Kyoto with a schoolmate who is an aspiring manga artist.

Manga

The Ichigo 100% manga consists of 19 volumes, with a total of 167 chapters including one bonus chapter revolving around Misuzu Sotomura as the focal character. As opposed to the anime which emphasizes the comedic events in the storyline, the manga highlights more on the romance and drama developing among the main characters.

The first kanji on the last names of the four lead female characters represents a specific cardinal direction. Tō in Aya Tojo refers to the East; Nishi in Tsukasa Nishino refers to the West; Kita in Satsuki Kitaoji means North; and Minami in Yui Minamito means South. As well, Naka in Junpei Manaka's name means "center". The author used this as a figurative diagram indicating the direction - or girl - the "compass" of Manaka's heart points to at any given time. In the first OVA, Manaka has a nightmare where all four girls stand around him at their respective cardinal directions.

In the anime Gintama Gintoki is reading a chapter or a so called fake chapter of Ichigo 100%. Same names but weird story in their world

Characters

Anime

TV Series

"Ichigo 100%" was adapted into a 26-episode anime TV series by Madhouse. It aired across Japan on Animax and TV Asahi. Each episode was approximately 12 minutes long, aired in pairs in a half-hour block, and roughly covers two chapters from the manga. The last two episodes were unaired special episodes. The timeframe that the anime spans is much shorter than that of the manga. The anime doesn't follow closely to the manga and modifies some scenes and changes some events to allow all the female leads to appear together in the same episode. The OVAs also include an extra scenario not included in the original manga version.

OVAs

The OVAs of Ichigo 100% were all released at different times compared to the TV series. The first OVA was released before the TV series aired (and was made solely by Madhouse). They are not a continuation of the TV series, but are rather separate episodes based on certain chapters from the Ichigo 100% manga.

Episode Titles (Translated):

# "Jump Festa 2004/My fleeting heart is going East and West"
# "Stormy Spring Festival of the Night Mist" (selections from manga chapters 22,82)
# "Oumi Academy Exodus" (corresponds to manga chapters 58,59,60)
# "Fresh Pension Crisis ~ Be Careful of the Owner!" (Original story. The three guys and seven girls of the series take a weekend job at a mountain lodge. But the owners turn out to be perverts who want to harass the girls and make them wear revealing outfits. It's up to Manaka to protect them.)
# "Sudden change of Heart!?" (Extension of the v17 Omake. The girls mysteriously start changing personalities.)

In terms of the anime, OVA 1 would go immediately after episodes 24, because it's end anime, OVA 2 would logically go between episodes 12 and 13,OVA 3 would go between episodes 21 and 22,and the specials would go after episode 24.OVAs 4 and 5 stand alone.

Theme Songs

Opening

"Shine of Voice" by dream

OVAKimiiro 100% by Nana Mizuki, Hamaguchi Megumi, Sanae Kobayashi, Mamiko Noto, and Hashimoto Miyuki

Ending

"Ike Ike" by Hinoi Team

References

External links

* [http://www.ichigo100.com Official Ichigo 100% Site]
* [http://comics-news.shueisha.co.jp/common/ichigo/ Shueisha's Ichigo 100% website]
* [http://www.tv.com/ichigo-100/show/51218/episode.html TV.com episode summaries]