Girlfriend, Girlfriend | |
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カノジョも彼女 (Kanojo mo Kanojo) | |
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Written by | Hiroyuki |
Published by | Kodansha |
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Imprint | Shōnen Magazine Comics |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | March 4, 2020 – May 24, 2023 |
Volumes | 16 |
Anime television series | |
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Produced by | List
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Music by |
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Licensed by | Crunchyroll |
Original network | JNN (MBS, TBS, BS-TBS), AT-X |
Original run | July 3, 2021 – present |
Episodes | 21 |
Girlfriend, Girlfriend (Japanese: カノジョも彼女, Hepburn: Kanojo mo Kanojo, "She Is My Girlfriend Too"), also known as KanoKano (カノかの) for short, is a Japanese romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from March 2020 to May 2023, with its chapters collected in sixteen tankōbon volumes. The series focuses on a high school student who engages in a polyamorous relationship with his childhood friend and another girl who confessed her feelings for him.
An anime television series adaptation by Tezuka Productions aired from July to September 2021 on the Animeism programming block. A second season by SynergySP premiered in October 2023. Both seasons are licensed in the English speaking regions by Crunchyroll, with an English dub debuting in September 2022, and is streaming on its namesake service. Muse Communication is licensing and distributing the anime for Southeast Asia and South Asia in English subtitle and various local languages.
Plot
Naoya Mukai is a high school student who has recently begun dating his childhood friend Saki Saki. One day, another classmate of his named Nagisa Minase decides to confess her feelings to him. After some initial hesitation, he accepts her request to be her boyfriend as well. Naoya decides that he will have both Saki and Nagisa as girlfriends at the same time. As Naoya currently lives alone due to his parents living elsewhere for work, Saki and Nagisa decide to live with him. The series follows their daily school life, as Naoya, Saki, and Nagisa experience difficulties and challenges in maintaining their non-monogamous relationship.
Characters
- Naoya Mukai (向井 直也, Mukai Naoya)
- Voiced by: Junya Enoki[3] (Japanese); Kevin D. Thelwell[4] (English)
- Naoya is Saki's childhood friend. He confessed to her every month until she accepted, but also agrees to take Nagisa as a girlfriend as well as he found her to be cute. He is an only child; as such, he hopes to have a girlfriend who has siblings.
- Saki Saki (佐木 咲)
- Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu[5] (PV), Ayane Sakura[3] (anime) (Japanese); Brittany Lauda[4] (English)
- Naoya's childhood friend and his initial girlfriend. She shares a first and last name as her parents thought such a name would be cute.[lower-alpha 1] She has a complex about her small chest, especially when compared to Nagisa. She is a member of their school's basketball club.
- Nagisa Minase (水瀬 渚, Minase Nagisa)
- Voiced by: Ayane Sakura[5] (PV), Azumi Waki[3] (anime) (Japanese); Madeleine Morris[4] (English)
- A classmate of Naoya, who becomes his second girlfriend after confessing to him. She was previously a shy girl who felt that she was not good at anything, then fell in love with Naoya as he inspired her to pursue skills that she was good at.
- Rika Hoshizaki (星崎 理香, Hoshizaki Rika)
- Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu[3] (anime) (Japanese); Megan Shipman[6][lower-alpha 2] (English)
- A schoolmate of Naoya. She is secretly a popular vlogger who goes by the online alias Milika (ミリカ, Mirika). She intends to become Naoya's third girlfriend, going as far as stalking him and his girlfriends, as well as camping outside his house to get his attention. She often uses her large breasts to catch attention online.
- Shino Kiryū (桐生 紫乃, Kiryū Shino)
- Voiced by: Rie Takahashi[3] (anime) (Japanese); Elizabeth Maxwell[4] (English)
- Saki's best friend and classmate who comes from a rich family. She is at the top of their class academically. She discovers Naoya's romantic arrangement with Saki and Nagisa and she disapproves of it. It is later revealed she secretly has feelings for Naoya as well.
- Mr. Hoshizaki (ミリカ父, Mirika Chichi)
- Voiced by: Tomokazu SekiEp. 6 credits (Japanese); Ben Phillips (English)
- Rika and Risa's father.
- Risa Hoshizaki (星崎 理沙, Hoshizaki Risa)
- Voiced by: Aoi Koga[8] (Japanese); Rachel Thompson[9] (English)
- Rika's younger sister.
Production
Girlfriend, Girlfriend is based on Seiseidōdō, Futamata-suru Hanashi (正々堂々、二股する話, "A Story of Two-timing but Fair and Square"), which Hiroyuki had uploaded on Twitter[10] and later published in Comiket 86 in August 2019.[11][12]
Media
Manga
Girlfriend, Girlfriend, written and illustrated by Hiroyuki, was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from March 4, 2020,[13] to May 24, 2023.[14] Sixteen tankōbon volumes have been published from June 17, 2020,[15] to July 14, 2023.[16] A commercial to promote the series, starring Ayana Taketatsu and Ayane Sakura, was released on October 23, 2020.[5]
In February 2021, Kodansha USA announced the English digital release of the series in North America and the first volume was released on April 6, 2021.[17]
Volumes
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN | |
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1 | June 17, 2020[15] | 978-4-0651-9743-1 | April 6, 2021[18] | 978-1-63-699035-4 | |
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2 | September 17, 2020[19] | 978-4-0652-0747-5 | May 4, 2021[20] | 978-1-63-699087-3 | |
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3 | November 17, 2020[21] | 978-4-0652-1409-1 | June 1, 2021[22] | 978-1-63-699141-2 | |
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4 | January 15, 2021[23] | 978-4-06-521960-7 | July 6, 2021[24] | 978-1-63-699209-9 | |
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5 | April 16, 2021[25] | 978-4-06-522885-2 | September 7, 2021[26] | 978-1-63-699345-4 | |
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6 | June 17, 2021[27] | 978-4-06-523588-1 | November 2, 2021[28] | 978-1-63-699456-7 | |
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7 | August 17, 2021[29] | 978-4-06-524478-4 | January 4, 2022[30] | 978-1-63-699548-9 | |
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8 | October 15, 2021[31] | 978-4-06-525143-0 | March 1, 2022[32] | 978-1-63-699641-7 | |
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9 | January 17, 2022[33] | 978-4-06-526606-9 | June 7, 2022[34] | 978-1-68-491207-0 | |
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10 | April 15, 2022[35] | 978-4-06-527541-2 | October 11, 2022[36] | 978-1-68-491484-5 | |
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11 | June 17, 2022[37] | 978-4-06-528183-3 | December 13, 2022[38] | 978-1-68-491590-3 | |
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12 | September 16, 2022[39] | 978-4-06-529133-7 | February 14, 2023[40] | 978-1-68-491701-3 | |
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13 | November 17, 2022[41] | 978-4-06-529710-0 | April 25, 2023[42] | 978-1-68-491888-1 | |
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14 | February 17, 2023[43] | 978-4-06-530629-1 | July 11, 2023[44] | 979-8-88-933036-3 | |
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15 | April 17, 2023[45] | 978-4-06-531265-0 | September 12, 2023[46] | 979-8-88-933142-1 | |
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16 | July 14, 2023[16] | 978-4-06-532187-4 | — | — | |
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Anime
In November 2020, the 51st issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine announced that the series would receive an anime television series adaptation.[2][47] Tezuka Productions animated the series, with Satoshi Kuwabara as director, Keiichirō Ōchi as scriptwriter, and Akiko Toyoda designing the characters. Miki Sakurai, Tatsuhiko Saiki, and Sayaka Aoki composed the series' music.[48] It aired from July 3 to September 18, 2021, on the Animeism programming block on MBS, TBS, and BS-TBS, as well as AT-X.[3][49][lower-alpha 3] Necry Talkie performed the series' opening theme song "Fuzaketenai ze" (ふざけてないぜ), while Momo Asakura performed the series' ending theme song "Pinky Hook" (ピンキーフック, Pinkī Fukku).[51] Crunchyroll licensed the series outside of Asia.[52] Muse Communication licensed the series in South and Southeast Asia, and streamed it on its YouTube channel, iQIYI, and Bilibili.[53][54][55] On August 9, 2022, Crunchyroll announced the series would receive an English dub, which premiered on the very same day.[4]
On September 16, 2022, it was announced that the anime would be receiving a second season.[56] It is produced by SynergySP, with Takatoshi Suzuki serving as the director, Kazuhiko Inukai serving as scriptwriter along with Ōchi, Shouko Hagiwara serving as the character designer, and Kanade Sakuma and Junko Nakajima composing the music along with Sakurai and Saiki. The second season premiered on October 7, 2023.[8][57][lower-alpha 4] Hikari Kodama performed the opening theme song "Dramatic ni Koi Shitai" (ドラマチックに恋したい), while ClariS performed the ending theme song "Forira" (ふぉりら).[59]
Notes
- ↑ Her full name contains the same reading but not the same kanji in writing.
- ↑ Bryn Apprill filled in for Shipman as Rika in certain episodes of season 2 while the latter was on maternity leave.[7]
- ↑ MBS listed the series premiere at 26:25 on July 2, 2021, which is July 3 at 2:25 a.m.[50]
- ↑ MBS listed the season premiere at 26:23 on October 6, 2023, which is October 7 at 2:23 a.m.[58]
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External links
- Girlfriend, Girlfriend official manga website at Pocket Shōnen Magazine (in Japanese)
- Girlfriend, Girlfriend official anime website (in Japanese)
- Girlfriend, Girlfriend on Twitter (in Japanese)
- Girlfriend, Girlfriend (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia