Daily Lives of High School Boys

Daily Lives of High School Boys (男子高校生の日常) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasunobu Yamauchi. The manga was serialized in Gangan Online and was released in seven manga volumes between May 21, 2009, and September 27, 2012. A twelve-episode anime series produced by Sunrise aired between January 9 and March 26, 2012. The anime was licensed by NIS America for release in North America and Hanabee Entertainment in Australia. A live-action film directed by Daigo Matsui was released by Showgate in Japan on October 12, 2013.

Plot

The story revolves around the daily lives of three schoolboy friends; Tadakuni, Hidenori Tabata and Yoshitake Tanaka of Sanada North Boys High school and their various interactions with other students of and around their school and their coming of age endeavors.

Characters

Main characters

Tadakuni (タダクニ)
[1]

Sanada North High School

Toshiyuki Karasawa (唐沢としゆき)

Actor: Taiga

Often referred to by his family name, he is a member of Sanada North High student council, he is stiff and kind but can act lecherously at times. He is also Habara's neighbour and is a target of Yanagin and Ikushima's harassments during the Funky High School Girls meetings, but he always has ways to deal with them. He also has a facial scar between his eyes that he got from the Archdemon when he was in elementary school, which he covers with a cap. Since then he has been fearful of Habara.

Motoharu (モトハル)

A member of Sanada North High student council. He has an intimidating look that is often mistaken as a delinquent, although he is actually gentle and shy. He was bullied by his older sister since he was young, however he gives in and maintains a good relationship with her. Although his older sister usually cooks dinner for them, he can actually cook better than her, much to her envy.

President (会長)

Student Council President of Sanada North High. Despite his good looks and charisma, he is quite laid back and lets the Vice-President handle most of the everyday student council tasks. He initiates the link with the student council of Sanada East High, leading to his mutual rivalry and later admiration with Ringo. The Vice President sees him as a father figure of sorts.

Vice-President (副会長)

Actor: Akihiro Kakuta

Student Council Vice-President of Sanada North High. His dyed hair, tanned skin and old appearance are often mistaken for an old-time delinquent, but in reality he is kind and gentle. He did however used to be wild as his appearance suggests, but this changed after he was invited into the student council by the current President. He is actually a year younger than the other council members and he becomes President after they all graduate.

Mitsuo (ミツオくん)

Actor: Koshiro Higashimukai

Classmate of the main cast and is prone to mishaps yet friendly most of the time. He once trains with Hidenori to get into the soccer team but ends up playing rugby as a regular. His classmates always talk about his embarrassing moments in school even though they are not always actually his.

Other characters

Literature Girl (文学少女) Yassan (やっさん)

[1]

A beautiful and soft-spoken long haired girl from Sanada West High which is a novel writer who is usually seen at the river bank looking for people who might fit into the role of her novel. She seems to be interested in the trio, particularly Hidenori, who has the most encounters with her and amuses her with novelly lines the most (or at least, tries to). She is also extremely clumsy, over imaginative, and often making a fool of herself. Although her real name was never truly revealed, those who know her addressed her as Yassan.

Ringo (りんごちゃん)

[1]

Actor: Anri Okamoto

The Student Council President of Sanada East High. She is full of pride and has a short temper. But she can be a bit of an airhead, which leads her to getting easily tricked, like mistaking Karasawa's snoring for a cat's meow and standing on a step ladder in the Student Council room to connect an intentionally unplugged cable whilst the boys peeked at her panties. She becomes increasingly close with Sanada North High Student Council and hints at signs of feelings for the President, in spite of their initial hostility which had led to a street fight at the School Festival. She is actually popular and is usually hit on, much to her ignorance.

Tadakuni's younger sister (タダクニの妹)

[1]

Actor: Sara Takatsuki

Addressed by Yoshitake's older sister as "Mei-chan". A girl who always appears faceless and loathes Tadakuni and his male friends, but is often caught eavesdropping on their conversations and apparently has absolute faith in her brother's honesty, as she takes whatever he says at face value. She acts violently towards her brother and his friends, though she favors Karasawa. She attends Sanada Central High.

Yoshitake's older sister (ヨシタケの姉)

The faceless, short-haired sister of Yoshitake who does not get along with her brother. Strong and violent, she is the ringleader of the girls who shave off Motoharu's beard. She went to Sanada Central High before graduating half way through the show. She is also highly concerned about not getting a boyfriend. She has a crush on Hidenori's older brother, Yūsuke, who calls her "Tanaka".

Mino (ミノ)

Motoharu's older sister. She is always seen asking Motoharu what to have for dinner and usually cooks for her brother since their parents are not at home. She gets along well with Motoharu unlike most of the other siblings (even though she also loved to bully Motoharu in the past). She went to Sanada West High before graduating half way through the show.

Takahiro Matsumoto (松本たかひろ)

He is the classmate of Yassan. He also lives close to Habara's home and was bullied by Habara in elementary school. He often talks about girls with his classmates from Sanada West High

Nago (奈古)

Fellow part-timer at the same pizza place that Tadakuni works for, she has a complex for her looks. When she takes off her glasses and opens her eyes wide, her reflection from a convex mirror makes her look like a completely different person. She goes to the same school as Yanagin and holds the position of number one grade-wise, while Yanagin is number two.

Yasunori (康典)

Another coworker of Tadakuni's at the pizza restaurant. He claims that he is pretty popular and, like Tadakuni, hopes to one day see the girl in the convex mirror one more time.

Yūsuke Tabata (田畑ユウスケ)

The older brother of Hidenori and former leader of the main cast. Yoshitake's older sister, Tanaka, has a crush on him, but he prefers not to get close to her. He tries to set Tanaka up with one of his college friends, but has difficulty since almost all of them are perverts.

Mr. Tabata (田畑さん)

Hidenori's father. Supposedly he wanted to be a pilot when he was young. He is pretty blunt and turns out to be just as thick headed as his two sons.

Yukana (由香奈)

A rich young lady that appears for a short sketch after the ED song of Episode 2. She has a crown tooth that her butlers (Nagase, Asano, and Toyogawa) are afraid will fall out.

Emi (絵美)

A girl with tanned skin who met Hidenori during a summer when he went to visit his grandparents. She spent the summer hanging out with Hidenori and Kiyohiko and developed feelings for Hidenori. Just before she was going to confess her feelings, Hidenori revealed that, unbeknownst to her, they are actually cousins.

Kiyohiko (清彦)

Emi's childhood friend who lives next door to her.

Kiyotaka (清隆)

An old friend of Hidenori and Tadakuni. He currently goes to Chuuou High School.

Principal (校長)

The principal of Sanada North High is a very nice old man who refuses to turn his students away even if he does not know the answer to their questions.

Nameless Characters

Some recurring characters do not have names, like the Funky High School girls' senpai who tries but ultimately fails to make Yanagin and Ikushima to be cute; Yassan's classmate who enjoys rejecting guys on the train (and also ends up accidentally thinking at one point or another that each member of the main trio likes her); Mitsuo and Motoharu's two fellow classmates/close friends, and avid video game fans, who they have (as well as Hidenori and Yoshitake) known since elementary school; Takahiro's closest friend who talks to him about girls; The main trio's sensei; and Ringo-chan's fellow council members.

Media

Manga

The manga was first published by Square Enix in the web magazine Gangan Online on May 21, 2009, and ended its run on September 27, 2012. It was later compiled into seven tankōbon volumes and published between February 22, 2010 and September 27, 2012. The ending is different from the anime. The manga received the Encouragement Award and the Special Jury Prize at the Square Enix Manga Award.

Volume list

Anime

An anime adaptation produced by Sunrise and directed by Shinji Takamatsu was announced in October 2011[16] and premiered on TV Tokyo on January 9, 2012.[17] This was followed by later airings on AT-X, Bandai Channel, TVA, TVO and online streaming on Niconico.[18] The series was later released on six Blu-ray and DVD volumes in Japan between April 3 and September 4, 2012, and included special bonus episodes along with the episodes that were streamed on Niconico prior to the television premiere of the anime.[19] The series was also licensed by NIS America.[20] The company released the series in its entirety with English subtitles on a two-disc Blu-ray premium edition package on August 6, 2013.[21] Hanabee Entertainment also announced that they had licensed the anime for release in Australia.[22] This was followed by a DVD release on July 31, 2013.[23] Hulu eventually picked the series up for online streaming in the United States in 2013.[24] Funimation added the series to their catalogue via a partnership with NIS America on April 15, 2021, for USA, Canada, UK & Ireland.[25][26]

Daily Lives of High School Boys uses three pieces of theme music: one insert song, one opening theme and one closing theme. The insert song is "Capsule" by Mix Speaker's,Inc. and was used in episode three. The main opening theme for all episodes is "Shiny tale" by Mix Speaker's,Inc.[27] while the ending theme is "O-hi-sama" (おひさま) by Amesaki Annainin.[28] The original ending theme was supposed to be "Hikizan" (引き算) by Jinkaku Radio.[29] However the song was quickly pulled after the band made inappropriate remarks concerning the series on their blog which poked fun at the manga, stating "About that Daily Lives of High School Boys thing ... the manga is actually pretty boring (lol)".[29] The band's lead vocalist had also previously posted inappropriate remarks about voice actress Yui Horie.[30] This later prompted an apology by Jinkaku Radio—vowing to show more "self-restraint" on social media along with cancellation of the sales of "Subtraction" and other scheduled events.[30]

Drama CD

There are six volumes of Drama CD released. The title is Unseen Daily Lives of High School Boys (Danshi Kōkōsei no Miserarenai Nichijō). These are some random gags and other stories.

Drama CD

There are six volumes of Drama CD released. The title is Unseen Daily Lives of High School Boys (Danshi Kōkōsei no Miserarenai Nichijō). These are some random gags and other stories.

Live-action film

A live-action film adaptation produced by Showgate and directed by Daigo Matsui was announced in April 2013 and released on October 12, 2013.[31] The cast includes Masaki Suda as Tadakuni, Shūhei Nomura as Yoshitake and Ryo Yoshizawa as Hidenori.[31] The film follows an original story with the boys of Sanada North holding a joint school festival with the neighboring all-girls high school.[32] Director Matsui remarked that he had spent his high school years in an all-boys school himself and identified with the Daily Lives so much that he began looking at the boys' logic objectively. This made him feel "sad and embarrassed" and felt as though he made a documentary of his own life at the end of filming.[32] The film was released by Pony Canyon on Blu-ray and DVD in Japan on March 19, 2014.[33]

type	TV series
director	Shinji Takamatsu Ai Yoshimura (assistant)
producer	Kakeru Tanaka Hiroaki Ōshiro Yōhei Hayashi Hiroshi Satō Ryūta Wakanabe
writer	Shinji Takamatsu
music	Audio Highs
studio	Sunrise
network	TV Tokyo, AT-X, Bandai Channel, TVA, TVO, Niconico
first	January 9, 2012
last	March 26, 2012
episodes	12 + 6 specials
episode list	List of Daily Lives of High School Boys episodes

Daily Lives of High School Boys

Plot

Characters

Main characters

Sanada North High School

Funky High School Girls

Other characters

Media

Manga

Volume list

Volume list

Anime

Drama CD

Drama CD

Live-action film

See also

External links

References