Suzuka and Seo Kouji's Other Mangas
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Born on 26 July in Hiroshima, Japan Seo Kouji is a Japanese author of manga as a mix of sports drama and high school romance. Taught by Fujiko Fujio and Masahito Soda, he also assisted Tsukasa Oshima. He became famous for his mangas Cross Over and Suzuka with the latter basing an anime TV series.
In 1996 he debuted with Half & Half in the Fresh magazine. Its characters, Shinichi Nagakawa and Yuuki Sanada, both die in an accident but resurrect for a week ahead. Then God will take one of them back first telling them to share their lives, guilty emotions and painful sensations. If apart, they both die.
2000 released Kouji's 1st major manga, 3-volume W's manga featuring 3rd grader Okita Tsurugi. His father was a tennis star until his death during Okita's childhood. Dreaming to play it too, the boy joins a tennis club where he meets a tennis-talented girl, Sanada.
The fame-bringing Cross Over manga (2002) has 7 volumes. There Ogata Natsuki plays best on the Kakuchi junior high basketball team that however couldn't win the prefectural tournament at their level. Convinced by his friends to try out for the No.1 high school basketball team in Fujiwara Academy, Ogata goes to stay with his aunt running a hot spring resort. Ogata's problem is smallness. Despite condescension, he joins St Mariannu High, a school team in a friendly match against Fujiwara Academy. But St Mariannu are so ridiculously weak Fujiwara just toys with them unwilling to finish the game. It's a crucial moment for Natsuki to show his talent and ambitions as a high school basketball playmaker.
The next manga, Suzuka (since 2003), is Kouji's another pride, so far his biggest in 18 volumes. Its adventurous hero, Yamato, is invited by his aunt to lodge free in her Tokyo boarding-house with an all-girl spa. Here Yamato meets his neighbor Suzuka, a track-and-field star and an incredibly cutest, coolest, smartest girl. Further plot development can be easily guessed. It's been Kouji's only work so far underlying a 26-episode anime series (2005). Since the manga hasn't been complete, the anime has covered only the first 9 volumes. 2008 also released the manga's mini-sequel (4 chapters), Suzuka 2, published as extra chapters in the manga A Town Where You Live.
2007 released 1-volume Love Letter manga, a romance story during Japan's war with the world.
Kimi no Iru Machi (A Town Where You Live) came out 1 year later, in 14 volumes so far. The story is set in the author's hometown. Eba Yuzuki has unexpectedly transferred to a rural high school for which she stays at Kirishima Haruto's despite his protests. Now he's got to tolerate this city freeloader and prove his devotion to his beloved Kanzaki Nanami.
2009 launched Princess Lucia manga in 2 volumes for now. 14-year-old Koizumi Yuta faces Lucia, a magical demon princess, having to copulate with him for a child able to swallow the world for a week. 2 assigned angels, Mikamoto El and Kasukabe Rie, must debar this tragedy. Kasukabe Rie starts to appeal to Koizumi as a girl in this ordeal.
The following year Seo Kouji published a new manga, Love Plus: Rinko Days, based on DS Dating Sim "Love Plus". Happily left alone, apart from his father transferred overseas, transfer student Aikawa Wataru becomes his school library representative on his teacher's advice. A fellow rep asks Wataru to find a missing member. Without her physical description, he looks for her in the school but finds only 2 girls with bad feedbacks on her. It appears people don't like the missing girl at all.
Like with most other mangakas, Seo Kouji's plots and characters are very similar stylistically, especially women fell in love with by protagonists. So if you read and liked his manga, don't miss his other works as no less interesting ones. |
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If you like ecchi manga, you can visit AnyManga.com to read Kimi no Iru Machi manga online or Kenichi manga online.
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Dani Brown
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2011-07-29 04:56:18 |
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