Domestic Girlfriend (Japanese: ドメスティックな彼女, Hepburn: Domesutikku na Kanojo) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kei Sasuga. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from April 2014 to June 2020, with its chapters collected in twenty-eight tankōbon volumes. The manga was published digitally in English by Kodansha USA. An anime television series adaptation produced by Diomedéa was broadcast from January to March 2019 on the MBS's Animeism block. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series in North America and other countries.
Domestic Girlfriend
Manga volume 1, featuring Hina Tachibana (left) and Natsuo Fujii (right)
Natsuo Fujii is hopelessly in love with his teacher, Hina. Trying to move on, he agrees to a mixer. There he meets an odd girl, Rui Tachibana, who invites him to sneak out. She takes him to her house and asks him to have sex with her. Natsuo, frustrated that his love will not bear fruit anyway, loses his virginity to her. The next day, Natsuo's dad tells him that he wants to remarry and his prospective partner is coming to their house that evening. When the door opens, it turns out that Rui is Hina's younger sister and both are daughters of the woman his father wants to marry, Tsukiko Tachibana.
Setting
Domestic Girlfriend tells the story of the conflicted feelings of Natsuo towards his first love and the girl he lost his virginity to; the controversial and conflicting nature of romantic relationships between step-siblings and also between a teacher and a student while highlighting the themes of youth, family, friendships, learning, growing up, and career.
Natsuo is a high school student who is 17 years old and an aspiring novelist, full of creative impulses but hiding it from all his friends and classmates. He becomes romantically involved with his school-teacher, Hina Tachibana, as well as future classmate and later-stepsister Rui Tachibana.
Rui is a high school student who eventually develops feelings for Natsuo. She initially met him on an outing with friends, where they snuck out and both lost their virginities with one another, to unexpectedly become his stepsister after her mother remarries.
Momo is a classmate of Rui and Natsuo. She is infamous for being flirtatious and sexually promiscuous (when asked, she estimates she hooked-up with over 30 boys, including one of Natsuo's friends), aside from her hobby of making weird plush dolls. She befriends Rui, who was warned not to deal with her and later sets her sights on Natsuo. She is from a broken family and attempted suicide once. Despite her appearance, she is revealed to be quite smart as she landed in the Top Ten during school exams.
Miu is the sole member of the school's Literature Club until the arrival of Natsuo, Rui, and Momo. She is portrayed as a shy and soft-spoken girl with a sense of strictness when they are in the library. She has a crush on her Japanese teacher Kiriya at high school, but she is too shy to confess her feelings to him.
He is the father of Natsuo. He began to date Tokiko Tachibana, knowing his wife died 10 years ago. He becomes stepfather of Hina and Rui after marrying her.
She is the mother of Hina and Rui. She began to date Akihito Fujii after her husband left her, ostensibly for another woman. She becomes Natsuo's step mother after marrying him.
Masaki Kobayashi is a current bartender and owner of the cafe Fumiya Kurimoto works at and that Natsuo, Rui and Hina frequently visit. In the past, he was a rising star of the Yakuza and son of the head of a Yakuza branch. Sometime after falling in love with another Yakuza male of a rival branch, he would leave the Yakuza behind him in order to pursue happiness through his homosexual lifestyle.
Kobayashi also acts as a counselor and adviser to his more favorite customers such as Fujii Natsuo and is always willing to help him and others, especially when it comes to love. He has a soft spot for cute males and makes no attempt to hide his desires for those he likes. Kobayashi also dresses brazenly in keeping for any event he attends, although he wears stockings while attending his cafe.
He has a good friendship, both drinking and social, with Tachibana Hina, who confides in him her love for Natsuo and her dedication of her life to making Natsuo happy regardless if he loves her back or not, and offers support to Hina when she needs it.
Written and illustrated by Kei Sasuga, Domestic Girlfriend was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from April 23, 2014 to June 10, 2020.[6][7][8] Its 276 individual chapters were collected and released in twenty-eight tankōbon format volumes by Kodansha from July 17, 2014 to August 17, 2020.[9][10]
Kodansha USA published the English-language translation of the manga via digital download.[11]
Web video
A web video was released in May 2016 on YouTube, coinciding with the publication of the manga's ninth volume. Meant to be a "demo type love simulation drama", the video allows the viewer to interactively influence the story by choosing between clicking two annotations that lead to separate videos. The video stars Anna Konno as Hina and Hanami Natsume as Rui.[12][13]
An anime television series adaptation was announced on July 12, 2018.[1] The series is directed by Shōta Ihata and written by Tatsuya Takahashi, with animation by studio Diomedéa. Naomi Ide provides the series' character designs. The anime aired from January 12 to March 30, 2019,[a] and was broadcast on the Animeism programming block on MBS, TBS, and BS-TBS.[16][2] The opening theme is "Kawaki wo Ameku" (カワキヲアメク) by Minami, and the ending theme is "Wagamama" (わがまま) by Alisa Takigawa.[4] The series simulcast in Australia and New Zealand on AnimeLab.[17]Sentai Filmworks acquired the distribution rights for the series in North America, the UK & Ireland, Australasia, South Africa, and other territories, and simulcast the series on select platforms.[18] HIDIVE announced that they will produce an English dub of the anime series.[19]MVM Entertainment have acquired the distribution rights via Sentai Filmworks for the United Kingdom and Ireland.[20]
Reception
As of April 2020, the manga had over 3 million copies in circulation.[7] The first volume was reviewed in Anime News Network by three reviewers. Nik Freeman felt that the manga's step-sibling love triangle was a contrivance and that the sexual elements were a waste of Sasuga's talents, but complimented the drama and comedy, along with the characterization. Rebecca Silverman called the manga's setup a more mature Marmalade Boy, but said that the manga is less melodramatic due to Natsuo being more grounded and sensitive. Amy McNulty noted the manga's extra layers of reality and melodrama, finding Rui to be the most memorable character while Natsuo is still realistic, concluding that the manga has a more honest setup of its tropes.[21]
^Domestic Girlfriend premiered on January 11, 2019 at 25:55 (01:55am), effectively January 12, 2019.[14][15]
References
^ abcdPineda, Rafael (July 11, 2018). "Domestic Girlfriend Romance Manga Gets TV Anime". Anime News Network. from the original on 2018-07-12. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
^ abcd"Domestic Girlfriend TV Anime Reveals More Cast, January 2019 Premiere". Anime News Network. October 11, 2018. from the original on 2018-10-11. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
^ abcdefghijklm""Domestic Girlfriend" English DUBCAST Edition Cast List on HIDIVE". HIDIVE. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
^ abcdef"Domestic Girlfriend TV Anime Reveals 1st Promo Video, Theme Song Artists, More Cast Members". Anime News Network. November 9, 2018. from the original on 2018-11-09. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
^ abc"Domestic Girlfriend TV Anime's New Promo Video Previews Ending Theme (Updated)". Anime News Network. December 14, 2018. from the original on 2018-12-15. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
^"「GE」の流石景、週マガに凱旋！三角関係を描く新連載". natalie.mu (in Japanese). April 23, 2014. from the original on 2018-11-26. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
^ abMateo, Alex (May 19, 2020). "Domestic Girlfriend Manga Ends in 3 Chapters". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
^流石景「ドメスティックな彼女」約6年の連載に幕、"Hな袋とじ"や全員サービスも. Natalie (in Japanese). June 10, 2020. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
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^"『ドメスティックな彼女（28）』（流石 景）｜講談社コミックプラス" (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
^"Kodansha USA Publishes Domestic Girlfriend, GTO Paradise Lost Manga Digitally". Anime News Network. April 11, 2017. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
^"『ドメスティックな彼女』今野杏南&夏目花実で実写化 WEB動画公開". Oricon (in Japanese). from the original on 2017-08-25. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
^"「ドメカノ」がWebドラマに！今野杏南と夏目花実が過激なシーンに体当たり". Natalie (in Japanese). from the original on 2017-08-01. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
^Hodgkins, Crystalyn (December 30, 2018). "Domestic Girlfriend TV Anime's 2nd Promo Video Previews Both Opening, Ending Themes". Anime News Network. from the original on March 2, 2019. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
^"INFORMATION". domekano-anime.com (in Japanese). from the original on March 23, 2019. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
^"Domestic Girlfriend TV Anime Reveals January 11 Premiere". Anime News Network. December 4, 2018. from the original on 2018-12-04. Retrieved December 4, 2018.
^@AnimeLab (January 2, 2019). "💞 Schoolboy Natsuo finds out that his soon to be step-siblings are none other than his teacher crush, Hina and the girl with whom he has his 'first time', Rui. Experience the unexpected love triangle of Domestic Girlfriend on AnimeLab soon! 💞" (Tweet). Retrieved January 2, 2019 – via Twitter.
^Hodgkins, Crystalyn (January 5, 2018). "Sentai Filmworks Licenses Domestic Girlfriend Anime". Anime News Network. from the original on 2019-01-06. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
^"HIDIVE Confirms English Dub for Domestic Girlfriend Anime". Anime News Network. 19 May 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
^MVMEntertainment [@MVM_UK] (May 25, 2019). "Heads up! Here's our first five new licenses. As always it's too early to say dates, price, CE or not etc. But we'll be releasing Anohana: Flowers We Saw That Day, Asura Cryin' S1&2, Domestic Girlfriend, Girl in Twilight and Mysteria Friends!" (Tweet). Retrieved May 25, 2019 – via Twitter.
^Freeman, Nik; Silverman, Rebecca; McNulty, Amy. "Domestic Girlfriend Vol. 1". Anime News Network. from the original on 2017-08-01. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
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Domestic Girlfriend Japanese ドメスティックな彼女 Hepburn Domesutikku na Kanojo is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kei Sasuga It was serialized in Kodansha s Weekly Shōnen Magazine from April 2014 to June 2020 with its chapters collected in twenty eight tankōbon volumes The manga was published digitally in English by Kodansha USA An anime television series adaptation produced by Diomedea was broadcast from January to March 2019 on the MBS s Animeism block Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series in North America and other countries Domestic GirlfriendManga volume 1 featuring Hina Tachibana left and Natsuo Fujii right ドメスティックな彼女 Domesutikku na Kanojo GenreRomance 1 MangaWritten byKei SasugaPublished byKodanshaEnglish publisherNA Kodansha USAImprintShōnen Magazine ComicsMagazineWeekly Shōnen MagazineDemographicShōnenOriginal runApril 23 2014 June 10 2020Volumes28 extra List of volumes Anime television seriesDirected byShōta IhataProduced byToshihiro MaedaYouhei ItouHiroyuki AoiMakoto NishibeAiri SawadaWritten byTatsuya TakahashiMusic byMasato KōdaStudioDiomedeaLicensed bySentai FilmworksOriginal networkMBS TBS BS TBS AT X ATVOriginal runJanuary 12 2019 March 30 2019Episodes12 List of episodes Contents 1 Synopsis 1 1 Premise 1 2 Setting 2 Characters 3 Media 3 1 Manga 3 2 Web video 3 3 Anime 4 Reception 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 External linksSynopsis EditPremise Edit Natsuo Fujii is hopelessly in love with his teacher Hina Trying to move on he agrees to a mixer There he meets an odd girl Rui Tachibana who invites him to sneak out She takes him to her house and asks him to have sex with her Natsuo frustrated that his love will not bear fruit anyway loses his virginity to her The next day Natsuo s dad tells him that he wants to remarry and his prospective partner is coming to their house that evening When the door opens it turns out that Rui is Hina s younger sister and both are daughters of the woman his father wants to marry Tsukiko Tachibana Setting Edit Domestic Girlfriend tells the story of the conflicted feelings of Natsuo towards his first love and the girl he lost his virginity to the controversial and conflicting nature of romantic relationships between step siblings and also between a teacher and a student while highlighting the themes of youth family friendships learning growing up and career Characters EditNatsuo Fujii 藤井 夏生 Fujii Natsuo Voiced by Taku Yashiro 2 Japanese Austin Tindle English 3 Natsuo is a high school student who is 17 years old and an aspiring novelist full of creative impulses but hiding it from all his friends and classmates He becomes romantically involved with his school teacher Hina Tachibana as well as future classmate and later stepsister Rui Tachibana Rui Tachibana 橘 瑠衣 Tachibana Rui Voiced by Maaya Uchida 1 Japanese Natalie Rial English 3 Rui is a high school student who eventually develops feelings for Natsuo She initially met him on an outing with friends where they snuck out and both lost their virginities with one another to unexpectedly become his stepsister after her mother remarries Hina Tachibana 橘 陽菜 Tachibana Hina Voiced by Yōko Hikasa 1 Japanese Patricia Duran English 3 Hina is a high school English teacher who eventually begins a relationship with Natsuo one of her students who is also her step brother Momo Kashiwabara 柏原 もも Kashiwabara Momo Voiced by Haruka Yoshimura 2 Japanese Hilary Haag English 3 Momo is a classmate of Rui and Natsuo She is infamous for being flirtatious and sexually promiscuous when asked she estimates she hooked up with over 30 boys including one of Natsuo s friends aside from her hobby of making weird plush dolls She befriends Rui who was warned not to deal with her and later sets her sights on Natsuo She is from a broken family and attempted suicide once Despite her appearance she is revealed to be quite smart as she landed in the Top Ten during school exams Miu Ashihara 葦原 美雨 Ashihara Miu Voiced by Konomi Kohara 2 Japanese Luci Christian English 3 Miu is the sole member of the school s Literature Club until the arrival of Natsuo Rui and Momo She is portrayed as a shy and soft spoken girl with a sense of strictness when they are in the library She has a crush on her Japanese teacher Kiriya at high school but she is too shy to confess her feelings to him Akihito Fujii 藤井 昭人 Fujii Akihito Voiced by Nobuo Tobita Japanese Mark X Laskowski English 4 3 He is the father of Natsuo He began to date Tokiko Tachibana knowing his wife died 10 years ago He becomes stepfather of Hina and Rui after marrying her Tokiko Tachibana 橘 都樹子 Tachibana Tokiko Voiced by Yurika Hino Japanese Carli Mosier English 4 3 She is the mother of Hina and Rui She began to date Akihito Fujii after her husband left her ostensibly for another woman She becomes Natsuo s step mother after marrying him Fumiya Kurimoto 栗本 文哉 Kurimoto Fumiya Voiced by Takuya Eguchi Japanese Andrew Love English 4 3 He is Natsuo s best friend and adviser He works part time at a bar Yuya Masaoka 柾岡 悠弥 Masaoka Yuya Voiced by Takeaki Masuyama Japanese Courtland Johnson English 4 3 He is one of Natsuo s friends at school Kazushi Kine 木根 和志 Kine Kazushi Voiced by Gakuto Kajiwara Japanese Mike Haimoto English 4 3 He is one of Natsuo s friends at school Reiji Kiriya 桐谷 怜士 Kiriya Reiji Voiced by Hikaru Midorikawa Japanese David Wald English 5 3 A famous author who publishes under the pseudonym You Hasukawa He also serves as the school s literature club advisor Shu Hagiwara 萩原 柊 Hagiwara Shu Voiced by Daisuke Hirakawa Japanese Adam Gibbs English 5 3 Shu Hagiwara a married 32 years old man who is a researcher at a Biology lab at a university Masaki Kobayashi 小林 昌樹 Kobayashi Masaki Voiced by Kenjiro Tsuda Japanese John Gremillion English 5 3 Masaki Kobayashi is a current bartender and owner of the cafe Fumiya Kurimoto works at and that Natsuo Rui and Hina frequently visit In the past he was a rising star of the Yakuza and son of the head of a Yakuza branch Sometime after falling in love with another Yakuza male of a rival branch he would leave the Yakuza behind him in order to pursue happiness through his homosexual lifestyle Kobayashi also acts as a counselor and adviser to his more favorite customers such as Fujii Natsuo and is always willing to help him and others especially when it comes to love He has a soft spot for cute males and makes no attempt to hide his desires for those he likes Kobayashi also dresses brazenly in keeping for any event he attends although he wears stockings while attending his cafe He has a good friendship both drinking and social with Tachibana Hina who confides in him her love for Natsuo and her dedication of her life to making Natsuo happy regardless if he loves her back or not and offers support to Hina when she needs it Alex J Matsukawa 松川 J アレックス Matsukawa J Alex Voiced by Tasuku Hatanaka Japanese Blake Shepard English Alex is a high school student who is a member of the Literature Club He is of American descent He has a crush on Rui Media EditManga Edit Main article List of Domestic Girlfriend chapters Written and illustrated by Kei Sasuga Domestic Girlfriend was serialized in Kodansha s Weekly Shōnen Magazine from April 23 2014 to June 10 2020 6 7 8 Its 276 individual chapters were collected and released in twenty eight tankōbon format volumes by Kodansha from July 17 2014 to August 17 2020 9 10 Kodansha USA published the English language translation of the manga via digital download 11 Web video Edit A web video was released in May 2016 on YouTube coinciding with the publication of the manga s ninth volume Meant to be a demo type love simulation drama the video allows the viewer to interactively influence the story by choosing between clicking two annotations that lead to separate videos The video stars Anna Konno as Hina and Hanami Natsume as Rui 12 13 Anime Edit Main article List of Domestic Girlfriend episodes An anime television series adaptation was announced on July 12 2018 1 The series is directed by Shōta Ihata and written by Tatsuya Takahashi with animation by studio Diomedea Naomi Ide provides the series character designs The anime aired from January 12 to March 30 2019 a and was broadcast on the Animeism programming block on MBS TBS and BS TBS 16 2 The opening theme is Kawaki wo Ameku カワキヲアメク by Minami and the ending theme is Wagamama わがまま by Alisa Takigawa 4 The series simulcast in Australia and New Zealand on AnimeLab 17 Sentai Filmworks acquired the distribution rights for the series in North America the UK amp Ireland Australasia South Africa and other territories and simulcast the series on select platforms 18 HIDIVE announced that they will produce an English dub of the anime series 19 MVM Entertainment have acquired the distribution rights via Sentai Filmworks for the United Kingdom and Ireland 20 Reception EditAs of April 2020 the manga had over 3 million copies in circulation 7 The first volume was reviewed in Anime News Network by three reviewers Nik Freeman felt that the manga s step sibling love triangle was a contrivance and that the sexual elements were a waste of Sasuga s talents but complimented the drama and comedy along with the characterization Rebecca Silverman called the manga s setup a more mature Marmalade Boy but said that the manga is less melodramatic due to Natsuo being more grounded and sensitive Amy McNulty noted the manga s extra layers of reality and melodrama finding Rui to be the most memorable character while Natsuo is still realistic concluding that the manga has a more honest setup of its tropes 21 See also EditGE Good Ending another manga series by the same authorNotes Edit Domestic Girlfriend premiered on January 11 2019 at 25 55 01 55am effectively January 12 2019 14 15 References Edit a b c d Pineda Rafael July 11 2018 Domestic Girlfriend Romance Manga Gets TV Anime Anime News Network Archived from the original on 2018 07 12 Retrieved July 12 2018 a b c d Domestic Girlfriend TV Anime Reveals More Cast January 2019 Premiere Anime News Network October 11 2018 Archived from the original on 2018 10 11 Retrieved October 11 2018 a b c d e f g h i j k l m Domestic Girlfriend English DUBCAST Edition Cast List on HIDIVE HIDIVE Retrieved 2019 09 14 a b c d e f Domestic Girlfriend TV Anime Reveals 1st Promo Video Theme Song Artists More Cast Members Anime News Network November 9 2018 Archived from the original on 2018 11 09 Retrieved December 21 2018 a b c Domestic Girlfriend TV Anime s New Promo Video Previews Ending Theme Updated Anime News Network December 14 2018 Archived from the original on 2018 12 15 Retrieved December 21 2018 GE の流石景 週マガに凱旋 三角関係を描く新連載 natalie mu in Japanese April 23 2014 Archived from the original on 2018 11 26 Retrieved January 5 2019 a b Mateo Alex May 19 2020 Domestic Girlfriend Manga Ends in 3 Chapters Anime News Network Retrieved May 19 2020 流石景 ドメスティックな彼女 約6年の連載に幕 Hな袋とじ や全員サービスも Natalie in Japanese June 10 2020 Retrieved June 10 2020 ドメスティックな彼女 1 in Japanese Kodansha Retrieved April 8 2020 ドメスティックな彼女 28 流石 景 講談社コミックプラス in Japanese Kodansha Retrieved June 27 2020 Kodansha USA Publishes Domestic Girlfriend GTO Paradise Lost Manga Digitally Anime News Network April 11 2017 Retrieved April 15 2021 ドメスティックな彼女 今野杏南 amp 夏目花実で実写化 WEB動画公開 Oricon in Japanese Archived from the original on 2017 08 25 Retrieved 31 July 2017 ドメカノ がWebドラマに 今野杏南と夏目花実が過激なシーンに体当たり Natalie in Japanese Archived from the original on 2017 08 01 Retrieved 31 July 2017 Hodgkins Crystalyn December 30 2018 Domestic Girlfriend TV Anime s 2nd Promo Video Previews Both Opening Ending Themes Anime News Network Archived from the original on March 2 2019 Retrieved March 2 2019 INFORMATION domekano anime com in Japanese Archived from the original on March 23 2019 Retrieved March 2 2019 Domestic Girlfriend TV Anime Reveals January 11 Premiere Anime News Network December 4 2018 Archived from the original on 2018 12 04 Retrieved December 4 2018 AnimeLab January 2 2019 Schoolboy Natsuo finds out that his soon to be step siblings are none other than his teacher crush Hina and the girl with whom he has his first time Rui Experience the unexpected love triangle of Domestic Girlfriend on AnimeLab soon Tweet Retrieved January 2 2019 via Twitter Hodgkins Crystalyn January 5 2018 Sentai Filmworks Licenses Domestic Girlfriend Anime Anime News Network Archived from the original on 2019 01 06 Retrieved January 6 2018 HIDIVE Confirms English Dub for Domestic Girlfriend Anime Anime News Network 19 May 2019 Retrieved 19 May 2019 MVMEntertainment MVM UK May 25 2019 Heads up Here s our first five new licenses As always it s too early to say dates price CE or not etc But we ll be releasing Anohana Flowers We Saw That Day Asura Cryin S1 amp 2 Domestic Girlfriend Girl in Twilight and Mysteria Friends Tweet Retrieved May 25 2019 via Twitter Freeman Nik Silverman Rebecca McNulty Amy Domestic Girlfriend Vol 1 Anime News Network Archived from the original on 2017 08 01 Retrieved 31 July 2017 External links EditOfficial manga website at Weekly Shōnen Magazine in Japanese Official anime website in Japanese Domestic Girlfriend manga at Anime News Network s encyclopedia Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Domestic Girlfriend amp oldid 1112780894, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
