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Kimagure Orange Road Omnibus #1
Kimagure Orange Road Omnibus Vol. 1
Secretly-psychic Kyosuke has just settled into a bustling school filled with brand-new faces, but he wastes no time making waves! With both the shy and mysterious Madoka and the high-energy Hikaru spinning in and out of his life, Kyosuke’s dizzy with the first sweet rush of female attention! But will his instincts lead him into the arms (and heart) of the right girl?
Kimagure Orange Road rides the giddy highs and frustrating lows of a roller-coaster love triangle!
Kyosuke’s psychic powers prevent him from sharing his true self…but two beautiful girls want nothing more than to stay by his side! Can determination, friendship, and a few pork-cutlet sandwiches fuel Kyosuke’s special gift and help him make the right romantic call?
Get ready for a six-volume, omnibus edition, teenage drama series packed with love, romance, and a comedy of hi-jinks all rolled into one! Over 500+ pages of this classic 80’s favorite is here for the first time with the help of all our Kickstarter supporters!
Kimagure Orange Road rides the giddy highs and frustrating lows of a roller-coaster love triangle!
Kyosuke’s psychic powers prevent him from sharing his true self…but two beautiful girls want nothing more than to stay by his side! Can determination, friendship, and a few pork-cutlet sandwiches fuel Kyosuke’s special gift and help him make the right romantic call?
Get ready for a six-volume, omnibus edition, teenage drama series packed with love, romance, and a comedy of hi-jinks all rolled into one! Over 500+ pages of this classic 80’s favorite is here for the first time with the help of all our Kickstarter supporters!
- GenresManga
560 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2017
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About the author
Izumi Matsumoto
92 books15 followersIzumi Matsumoto (まつもと 泉), the pen name of Kazuya Terashima (寺嶋 一弥), is a Japanese manga artist best known for Kimagure Orange Road.
His career started in 1982, publishing his comic Milk Report in the manga magazine Fresh Jump. But real success came in 1984, publishing in the same magazine his masterpiece Kimagure Orange Road. Other works include Sesame Street, and Black Moon.
He has recently revealed that he's afflicted with a cerebrospinal fluid disease (stemming from a car accident when he was 3 years old) that has forced him to take 6 years off work, and he now hopes to bring attention to this disorder through his manga. (from Wikipedia)
His career started in 1982, publishing his comic Milk Report in the manga magazine Fresh Jump. But real success came in 1984, publishing in the same magazine his masterpiece Kimagure Orange Road. Other works include Sesame Street, and Black Moon.
He has recently revealed that he's afflicted with a cerebrospinal fluid disease (stemming from a car accident when he was 3 years old) that has forced him to take 6 years off work, and he now hopes to bring attention to this disorder through his manga. (from Wikipedia)
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September 23, 2020
I first read this manga as text translations that you followed along with while paging through the original Japanese books. This was in the early days of household internet, so there was no way to download detailed scans in bulk.
I honestly never thought this manga would officially get translated into English. (Nor Rose of Versailles, but now we English speakers have both!) Twenty-five or thirty years go by, and the manga is too old-looking to appeal to an audience just coming up. But here we are, thanks to a Kickstarter, and I'm happy about it! Unfortunately, I missed the Kickstarter campaign itself, but these books are now available to a general audience.
The copy work isn't perfect, here. Sometimes signs are overlaid with English text, sometimes they aren't. The translation itself could be better, but it could certainly also be worse. On pages that were originally in grayscale, you can readily see the scanning dots and they look muddy, but the plain black and white pages are crisp and clean. I'm assuming this is dependent on the quality of reproduction from the licensing house in Japan.
The faces are expressive and very cute. You definitely have that thing where the author is very invested in drawing the girls' bodies, and the guys are drab lumps of putty. No pansexual gaze, here. The art gets noticeably better over the course of this volume, with better shading and detail.
As for the story itself? It sets up a love triangle between mud-ordinary Kyosuke and two girl delinquents. After a few chapters the delinquent aspect is dropped and they're ordinary, too. As dull as he is as a character, Kyosuke has psychic powers, but all they're ever used for is for convenience in juggling his love triangle. He gets pretty infuriating when he also lies to make sure he has his cake and eats it, too.
What this manga does best is evoke nostalgia for a high school life that never was, with plenty of fun in between the studying, and a cozy coffee shop to stop off at on the way home from class. There's no danger in life other than random thugs trying to pick up Hikaru or Madoka, but their delinquent background means that they are dealt with quickly and the love comedy can continue in peace.
I honestly never thought this manga would officially get translated into English. (Nor Rose of Versailles, but now we English speakers have both!) Twenty-five or thirty years go by, and the manga is too old-looking to appeal to an audience just coming up. But here we are, thanks to a Kickstarter, and I'm happy about it! Unfortunately, I missed the Kickstarter campaign itself, but these books are now available to a general audience.
The copy work isn't perfect, here. Sometimes signs are overlaid with English text, sometimes they aren't. The translation itself could be better, but it could certainly also be worse. On pages that were originally in grayscale, you can readily see the scanning dots and they look muddy, but the plain black and white pages are crisp and clean. I'm assuming this is dependent on the quality of reproduction from the licensing house in Japan.
The faces are expressive and very cute. You definitely have that thing where the author is very invested in drawing the girls' bodies, and the guys are drab lumps of putty. No pansexual gaze, here. The art gets noticeably better over the course of this volume, with better shading and detail.
As for the story itself? It sets up a love triangle between mud-ordinary Kyosuke and two girl delinquents. After a few chapters the delinquent aspect is dropped and they're ordinary, too. As dull as he is as a character, Kyosuke has psychic powers, but all they're ever used for is for convenience in juggling his love triangle. He gets pretty infuriating when he also lies to make sure he has his cake and eats it, too.
What this manga does best is evoke nostalgia for a high school life that never was, with plenty of fun in between the studying, and a cozy coffee shop to stop off at on the way home from class. There's no danger in life other than random thugs trying to pick up Hikaru or Madoka, but their delinquent background means that they are dealt with quickly and the love comedy can continue in peace.
May 9, 2024
Idk too old? too boring?
April 18, 2019
Its a classic must read
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