DearS

DearS (ディアーズ) is an ecchi shōnen Japanese manga series co-written and illustrated by Banri Sendo and Shibuko Ebara, credited under their pen name Peach-Pit. It was serialized monthly by MediaWorks in their magazines Dengeki Comic Gao! from October 2001 to September 2005 and Dengeki Maoh from October to November 2005 and was later published into ten volumes by the company. The manga was licensed and translated into English by Tokyopop. A 13-episode anime was adapted by MSJ and a PlayStation 2 video game was produced by MediaWorks.[1]

Plot

Exactly one year prior to the beginning of DearS, humanity made unprecedented contact with extraterrestrial life. Forced to crash-land into Tokyo Bay when on the way to their home planet of Thanatos, their spacecraft breaks down, 150 humanoid aliens are naturalized into Japanese society and lovingly nicknamed "DearS"; a portmanteau of the words "Dear" and "Friends". The crashed aliens consist entirely of individuals from a genetically modified "slave race" designed to enjoy slavery.

Takeya Ikuhara is a temperamental seventeen-year-old Japanese student attending the fictional Koharu High School with a strong prejudice against the DearS.

Characters

Main

Takeya Ikuhara (幾原武哉)
Takeya is a fastidious and impetuous student. His life becomes complicated when he becomes the unwanted target of affection and servility by a young female DearS, a citizen of the very people he dislikes. Despite this rather immature prejudice, over the course of her stay and companionship with him, Takeya grows fond and solicitous of the girl, opening up more to his peers as well.
Ren (レン)
Lost during shipment and freed from containment, Ren is found homeless by Takeya, who she immediately forces a covenant between and is subsequently given shelter by much to his displeasure.
Neneko Izumi (和泉寧々子)
Neneko Izumi is a droopy-eyed student and daughter of the apartment landlord, of which she is a tenant of.
Miu (ミゥ)
Shia Nostal Ren Naguregyug Thanast Useim Ruki Miu (シーア•ノスタル•レン•ナグレグユグ•タナスト•ァウセーム•ルキ•ミゥ),[2] better known by her short name Miu, is a young female DearS. Intelligent yet sometimes conceited, Miu is a student who is assigned to study abroad at Koharu High and resides locally as a homestay.

Supporting

Yoshimine Mitsuka (芳峰蜜香)
The main characters' knockout teacher, Mitsuka is both intelligent and resourceful. She is also a flirtatious exhibitionist who spends more time conniving to "show off" to her students than she does teaching them English. Mitsuka has a habit of popping up when it is least convenient to Takeya and company, turning normal conversations into overly embarrassing situations, usually by mistaking most things for sexual acts.
Oikawa Hikorō (及川彦郎)
Takeya's male friend, Hikoro is goofy and more than a little shallow but remains a decent young man.
Kī (キィ)
Khi is a soft-spoken DearS exchange student who goes to the same school as Takeya's sister Natsuki
Ikuhara Natsuki (幾原菜月)
Natsuki is Takeya's little sister who has been away overseas. Takeya is shown to be protective of her and has even expressed displeasure at the possibility of her and Khi becoming more than friends.
Ikuhara Harumi (幾原晴海)
Harumi is Takeya's stepmother and one of the few people who can take care of her rambunctious daughter, Natsuki.
(ルビ)
The somewhat dominatrix-like "Barker", Rubi is second-in-command of the DearS colony. Quite big-breasted like Ren, she is almost never seen without her whip in hand. Rubi has proven to be strict, and often cruel, particularly to Khi, using her whip on him to express her displeasure.

type	tv series
director	Iku Suzuki
producer	Hisanori Kunisaki Nobuhiro Ōsawa Takayasu Hatano
writer	Takao Yoshioka
music	Tomoki Hasegawa
studio	Daume
network	Television Kanagawa, Chiba TV
first	July 10, 2004
last	September 26, 2004
episodes	13
episode list	List of DearS episodes

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