Midori Days

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is an 85-chapter manga and 13-episode anime series created by Kazurou Inoue (井上和郎). The title is a pun referring to , a Japanese holiday and the first day of Golden Week.

The manga was published in the magazine Shonen Sunday until July 2004, while the anime series aired on Japanese television from April to June 2004. Studio Pierrot was the animation studio for the TV series. Media Blasters holds the North American license for the TV series, and VIZ Media licensed the manga in English in North America. Chuang Yi publishes the manga in Singapore in English.

Contents

• 1 Plot
• 2 Characters
• 2.1 Main characters
• 2.2 Other Characters
• 2.3 Manga-only characters
• 3 List of episodes
• 4 Music
• 5 External links

Plot

The story is about Seiji Sawamura, a chivalrous though delinquent high school student, who is idolized by a few younger characters (such as Shiori Tsukishima). However, thanks to his poor reputation, he is loathed by his peers and unable to find a girlfriend. His isolated life is completely turned upside down when a miniature girl appears in place of his right hand.

The girl's name is Midori Kasugano. She is very shy and has secretly been in love with Seiji for a long time. Faced with this sudden and forced closeness, she quickly becomes Seiji's self-established "right hand girlfriend" and refers to Seiji and herself as 'lovers'. Mayhem and romance, mostly the former, ensue.

Characters

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Main characters

Seiji Sawamura

Midori no Hibi Japanese version Volume 4

Seiji Sawamura (沢村正治 Sawamura Seiji) - a 17-year-old delinquent student who is feared for his fighting skills.

Seiji is not a gangster as he fights to protect the weak using his powerful Devil's Right Hand. Fighting people has a price however: everyone, including girls, fear him. He has gone seventeen years without a girlfriend, but wants one badly. Every girl he asks has declined him. One day when he is daydreaming about having one, he finds a girl on his right hand. It appears that she is Midori Kasugano and has had a crush on him for three years. He feels very excited about it, then realizes that this is his right hand saying this. So he declines the first girl that ever said she loved him. Much of the plot involves trying to get other girls and getting rid of Midori.

Seiji Sawamura with Midori Kasugano (his right hand) from the Midori Days anime.

Seiji mostly starts off as a rude monstrous man towards Midori but as times progresses, he becomes more attached to her. Shown several times, he is completely oblivious to the people who like him and focuses on the people who are not. His redeeming qualities are his determination, his willingness to help some people, and his kindness towards Midori. Seiji is also obsessed with the actor "Sho Aikawa".

At the end of the series he finds Midori's diary, when she is off his hand, and reads it. He realizes how much she loves him, and meets her in her real body. She expresses her love for him, without any memory of being on his hand. He tells her that he has been looking at her too. After that, it becomes obvious that they become a couple.

In the manga however, Seiji admits that he likes Midori, besides looking at all. And the manga ends with them becoming a couple, with Seiji buying a new diary for Midori.

Voiced by: Kishō Taniyama and Chiwa Saitō

Midori Kasugano

Midori Kasugano

Midori Kasugano (春日野美鳥 Kasugano Midori) - the 16 year old girl who ends up as Seiji's right hand unexpectantly. She has had a crush on him for three years. One day she wishes to be with him so much that she ends up on his right hand. This causes problems for him, since it is his "Devil's right-hand". The bad news for Midori is that her real body is in a coma, and her mother tries everything to bring her back. As soon as Midori finds out that she is on Seiji's hand, she gathers the courage to admit her love, even though it isn't requited. During the series she finds different ways to admit her love, and gets jealous of other girls, then tries to compete with them. This even includes making scarves for him, and showing off her chest. Over time she begins to like qualities of all of the characters. Her personality is shy at first, but when she gets to know people she lightens up. During the course of her days with Seiji, she wakes up in her normal body a few times but however is overrun with a feeling of loneliness and returns to a coma state. This is most notable during her second time waking up when she looks at her picture of Seiji sitting on her night stand and starts thinking about why she suddenly feels lonely. When her mother returns, she is holding a note that states "sorry mom". Although it is unknown if she actually knew how to go back as Seiji's hand, she returned.

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Midori appears as a fun, happy girl with no cares, but as time progresses it is shown that she is actually a little bit more shy than she lets on (she mostly doesn't show it because she has been spending so much time with Seiji). Some emotions she hides well is her jealousness towards the other girls Seiji comes in contact with and her determination. Apparently according to the manga where she rips the surgery table (Seiji is tied to) off the ground, she seems to have Herculean strength when she is angry or determined. Also, she seems to be able to drag Seiji with ease as long as he isn't resisting (although as shown sometimes he has no choice). Another part of her personality that is shown several times is that even though she is relatively passive on most of Seiji's actions, she is extremely against pornography and will make every possible effort to keep Seiji from being in the presence of it (much to Seiji's dismay).

Voiced by: Mai Nakahara

Other Characters

Takako Ayase (綾瀬貴子 Ayase Takako) - Class representative for Seiji's class. She originally detests him, but after Seiji saves her from a gang, she begins to harbour a secret admiration for him. Unfortunately for her, all of her plans to confess her feelings to him fail, as Seiji seems completely oblivious to her approaches. Midori is intensely protective of her relation to Seiji, and always makes covert attempts to sabotage any romance between the two.

Ayase displays little of her emotions and her true self in public. Although after seeing Seiji save his friend peacefully, she still is slightly curt to him in public. Seen by the viewer/reader but not anyone in the series is that she is deeply in love with Seiji and goes to great lengths to have him seduced (which is comically shown in the manga when Seiji drops the pornography tape, she picks it up, and later that night she is taking notes on it). Unfortunately for Ayase, it seems no matter how hard she tries, Seiji is too aloof to see her affection. The main problem may rest in the fact that she isn't always thinking things through such as the "Pretend Drowning" scenario when she found Seiji couldn't swim or the plan to have him over at her house which she set on fire forgetting to turn the stove off.

Voiced by: Reiko Takagi

Rin Sawamura (沢村凛 Sawamura Rin) - Seiji's older sister. The former leader of a powerful street gang, her favorite hobby is beating up her little brother, and taking his allowance. She was the one who taught him to fight when he was younger. At the end of the manga version, Rin leaves for South America to join her boyfriend.

Rin is protective of her brother like any sibling, but she enjoys making him writhe in embarrassment and pain. Throughout the series, Rin is seen not only hitting Seiji, and humiliating him, but repetitively showing off Midori. Rin also loves her boyfriend but shows that much less than in public.

Voiced by: Atsuko Yuya and Mikako Takahashi (Child)

Kota Shingyoji (真行寺耕太 Shingyōji Kōta) - A childhood friend of Midori's and also a fellow first year at Ogurabashi High School. He was always in love with Midori, yet now he has a new found 'respect' for Sawamura.

To keep from saying anything offensive, Kota is just not preferred to women as he seems to be to men. During the course of the series, he repeatedly thinks of Seiji (in some odd ways) and tries changing his mind by thinking of Midori or thinking "No no it's Midori you want!". One of the more comedic scenes in the manga is where Kota has come to Seiji's house and ends up staying the night. Before going to sleep, he gets on his hands and knees and says to Seiji "It's my first time, be gentle." Both are silent for a second, then Seiji burst out laughing "Oh that was a good one! You had me going for a second!". The narrating caption says "Poor Kota, he wasn't joking." Midori sees this almost every time she sees Kota and seems to be uneasy. Kota has also become slightly attached to a gang led by Miku Mekobe, a girl who just loves seeing Kota in a dress.

Voiced by Rie Kugimiya

Osamu Miyahara (宮原オサム Miyahara Osamu) - A year-younger student at Seiji's school and subordinate of Seiji. He idolizes Seiji for his fighting skills, but seemingly can not keep himself out of trouble, constantly getting caught by rival gangs and eventually having to be saved by Seiji.

Miyahara is very comedic and seems to not worry about what other people think of him. He looks up to Seiji as a best friend and idol. Behind Seiji's back however, he does talk about Seiji poorly (not on purpose but just because it slips out). In the manga Miyahara has a date and starts talking about Seiji (who is in the bushes). Just like Seiji, he is very obsessed with an actor called "Sho Aikawa".

Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima (野島裕史)

Shuichi Takamizawa (高見沢修一 Takamizawa Shūichi) - A classmate of Sawamura's and a doll otaku. He always carries around a doll of a fictional anime character named Ultra-Marin, and seems to have a creepy obsession with the character. He is also good at making clothes for dolls.

Takamizawa is a go-getter and is not afraid to completely make a fool of himself to get what he needs. Don't be confused though, he's not rude, or mean, he's just very easy to excite. For a while he obsesses about seeing Seiji's hand puppet (Midori) and when he finally does see he can't stop thinking about her. Takamizawa is sortof (for a lack of a better word) stupid. He doesn't know when to stop and will attempt some of the most ridiculous attempts to have fun or have fun with Midori (such as a Midori site which Seiji and Midori finds out about, and Midori freaks out when she finds a picture of herself in a bathing suit on the site).

Voiced by Yuji Ueda

Shiori Tsukishima (月島栞 Tsukishima Shiori) - A 10-year-old neighbor of Seiji who also has a crush on him. She tries a variety of ways to gain his attention, even asking Rin the kind of woman Seiji likes, but he never takes her advances seriously, still treating her like a child.

Like most of the characters in this series, Shiori is very obsessed with Seiji. However the difference is she doesn't have nearly as much time to seduce him. Even harder for her is the fact that because she is so young, Seiji does not take her seriously. This is shown in the chapter/episode where Rin helps Shiori by dressing her up in several different sexy (according to Rin) outfits which only serve to irritate Seiji. Obviously it is known Seiji has no attraction to her but she tries anyway. Towards the beginning of the series, Shiori states that her real mother is dead. Shiori has troubles with her adopted mom and when her mother finds her after looking around the city, tells her off for being an adopted mom and all her mom wants "is to live alone with dad!". She yells at her and finishes by saying "I've only got one mom and it's not you!" Her mother slaps her and cries about Shiori's attitude. After that it is shown, over the next week they patch up a good relationship and Shiori does accept her adopted mother.

Voiced by:Yukari Tamura

Haruka Kasugano (春日野遥 Kasugano Haruka) - Midori's mother, who is worried about her. Haruka is willing to do anything to cure Midori of her illness.

She is very sad about Midori's coma and tries several times to bring her back. The medicine man she confers to tells her she does not want to come back, so most of what she does is spend time watching Midori's body and keeping anyone from hurting her. Her husband is mentioned several times, but never seen.

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara

Manga-only characters

Lucy is not the one to hide anything. She's willing to shout her love to Seiji. It really is hard to tell if she is truly in love with Seiji or if she only likes him because his actions resemble that of Samurai's, her idols. It is shown in the manga that she is athletic (which is noticed during the big race and she is going faster than Ayase while doing backflips). During her first appearance after Seiji saves her luggage from a biker, she is eating while wearing a biker outfit which either are some relaxing clothes or she rides her own motorcycle. She also has a childhood friend named Daniel McBain who she does not like due to his conceitedness.

There's a hint of Nao likes Midori. The reason could be because due to her likeliness of strange things has find Midori's appearance on Seiji's right hand to be amusing. Couple of hints appeared such Nao biting Seiji's hand when found out Midori likes Seiji or Nao buying a Midori hand puppet from Takamizawa and cherish it as if it's really Midori.

Nao herself is strange. Her ability to be seemingly everywhere at once is odd (although it's more for comedic purpose than for reality's sake). Seiji has also picked up that besides Nao's hammer, she knows martial arts. Despite her small size, she was able to perform a German suplex on Seiji. She had a real liking to her voodoo performed Teddy Bear that she carried most of the time throught out the manga.

Nao is perfect on many occasions. She has the highest mark on the grade, she knows how to fight, she's a good athlete (not only she won the female school cross country beating Lucy and Ayase, she's also a great snowboarder) and she also won the doll making contest beating Takamizawa the father of all doll maniacs. Nao was sometimes needed by scientists Due to her perfectability. Because of this she was offered to be schooled in Germany where she will get all the education she needed that even her father can not offer to her. But she instead declined the offer so she an stay and study with her father.

Dr. Makinoha is definitely a little crazier than his first impression. He's not only crazy, but he's also very strategic. He's the kind of guy who never makes the same mistake twice. He cares for Nao but has also seen her as an obstacle (which was shown druing the fight between Nao and Robo-Nao).

Sakisaka is definitely in love with Rin, he's willing to go to great lengths to win her over. He even offers to stop treasure hunting for Rin, which Rin tells him not to. She just wants him to come home every now and then. Sakisaka is definitely a softie and is not all that strong emotionally. He's extremely courageous however and just loves the thrill of treasure hunting.

At first Miku just wants to get back at Kota for denying him a date (the date was just for the fact that Kota was rich), but she seemingly can't bring herself to let her gang hurt him. After a little bit she just decides to dress him up in a dress (complete with makeup and a wig). After a while, Kota grows on her and even though she still acts pretty much the same all the time, Kota becomes more of a friend than just a fetish for her (although she remains vigilant in picking clothing out for him and follows him around). Her boyfriend named Slasher Midoh attempted to kill Kota but in the end Miku got Seiji and saved him.

List of episodes

1. The Right-Hand Girlfriend
2. Two People's Feelings
3. The Day of Discoveries
4. Discovery of the Secret!?
5. The Power of Love
6. Shiori's Love-Love Battle!
7. First Date
8. Right-hand Seiji
9. Takki no Hibi
10. Distance of the Hearts
11. Fated Reunion
12. Sudden Parting
13. The Days of the Couple

Music

Sentimental

Original Opening Song

Lyrics : Rino

Composition : Masaya Suzuki

Performed by : CooRie

Original Ending Song

Lyrics : Atsumi Saori

Composition : Atsumi Saori

Vocal : Atsumi Saori

External links

• [Official Japanese website of the Midori no Hibi anime]
• [AnimeNfo.Com entry for My Days With Midori anime]
• [Midori no Hibi manga review at Mangareviewer.com]
• [Original music playing on site]

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