Kagaku na Yatsura

Kagaku na Yatsura
First tankōbon volume cover
カガクなヤツら
Genre
Manga
Written byHideaki Yoshikawa [ja]
Published byAkita Shoten
MagazineChampion Red Ichigo
DemographicSeinen
Original runFebruary 5, 2010 – December 5, 2013
Volumes6
Original video animation
Directed byHiraku Kaneko [ja]
Produced by
  • Masaru Nagai
  • Yoshihiro Koyama
Written byKatsuhiko Takayama [ja]
Music byShigero Yoshida
StudioHoods Entertainment
ReleasedFebruary 20, 2013
Runtime25 minutes

Kagaku na Yatsura (カガクなヤツら, "Scientific Guys") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideaki Yoshikawa [ja]. It was serialized in Akita Shoten's seinen manga magazine Champion Red Ichigo from February 2010 to December 2013, with its chapters collected in six tankōbon volumes. An original video animation (OVA), produced by Hoods Entertainment and directed by Hiraku Kaneko [ja], was released in February 2013.

Story

Characters

Haruki Komaba (駒場 遥希, Haruki Komaba)
Voiced by: Junji Majima
Haruki is high school boy with two eccentric girl friends. He gets involved in erotic troubles caused by the two as they try to get him to join their respective clubs.
Touko Hizuki (緋月 透子, Touko Hizuki)
Voiced by: Kumi Sakuma
Touko is the older sister of Ayana. She can become invisible at will. She becomes the nurse of the school that Ayana, Airi, and Haruki attend.
Airi Kuze (久世 愛莉, Airi Kuze)
Voiced by: Kana Akutsu
Airi is an eccentric half-cyborg girl and friends with Haruki Komaba. She views Ayana as her rival. She is the head of the Technological Science Club.
Ayana Hizuki (緋月 綾奈, Ayana Hizuki)
Voiced by: Natsumi Takamori
Ayana is an experiment created by her "mother," a woman who worked in a genetics lab experimenting with splicing human genes with various animals. After hundreds of failures, the first success came out of the combination of a random dog breed and Ayana's mother's own genes. Luckily, Ayana's mother had some sense of kindness, and as soon as Ayana was old enough to be out in the world, Ayana's mother left the little hybrid in the care of her sister. She charged Touko with trying to give Ayana the closest thing to a normal life she can. Ayana told people she had a rare condition, and luckily, they seemed to accept her as a fellow student. She is the head of the Chemical Science Club.

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Hideaki Yoshikawa, Kagaku na Yatsura was serialized in Akita Shoten's seinen manga magazine Champion Red Ichigo from February 5, 2010,[2] to December 5, 2013.[3] Akita Shoten collected its chapters in six tankōbon volumes, released from March 20, 2011,[4] to February 20, 2014.[5]

Volumes

No. Release date ISBN
1 March 20, 2011[4]978-4-253-23228-9
2 January 20, 2012[6]978-4-253-23229-6
3 July 20, 2012[7]978-4-253-23230-2
4 February 20, 2013[8]978-4-253-23586-0
5 May 20, 2013[9]978-4-253-23587-7
6 February 20, 2014[5]978-4-253-23588-4

Original video animation

An original video animation (OVA) was bundled with the limited edition of the manga's fourth volume, released on February 20, 2013. It was produced by Hoods Entertainment, directed by Hiraku Kaneko [ja], with screenplay by Katsuhiko Takayama [ja], and character designs by Masaya Nozaki.[10][11]

References

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  2. ^ チャンピオンREDいちご 2010年VOL.18 (in Japanese). Akita Shoten. Archived from the original on December 5, 2014. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  3. ^ Yoshikawa, Hideaki (December 1, 2013). カガクなヤツら最終話です！. Nikutai no Utage — Hideaki Yoshikawa's Blog (in Japanese). Archived from the original on August 29, 2023. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  4. ^ a b 【4月20日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. April 20, 2011. Archived from the original on July 8, 2019. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  5. ^ a b 【2月20日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. February 20, 2014. Archived from the original on July 27, 2019. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
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  7. ^ 【7月20日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. July 20, 2012. Archived from the original on December 2, 2021. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  8. ^ 【2月20日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. February 20, 2013. Archived from the original on May 12, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  9. ^ 【5月20日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. May 20, 2013. Archived from the original on August 9, 2019. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  10. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (August 27, 2012). "Kagaku na Yatsura Video Anime Slated for February 2013". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  11. ^ Clements, Jonathan; McCarthy, Helen (2015). The Anime Encyclopedia: A Century of Japanese Animation (3rd ed.). Stone Bridge Press. p. 729. ISBN 978-1-61172-018-1. Retrieved August 29, 2023.