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Kenkō Zenrakei Suieibu Umishō (ケンコー全裸系水泳部 ウミショー
?, lit. Kenkō Nude Swimming Series
Umishō) is a manga series
by Mitsuru
Hattori, which has been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from
issue 33 since 2005.[1]
It has been adapted into a TV anime series, directed by Kōichirō Sōtome and
written by Mamiko
Ikeda[2],
which premiered in Japan on numerous television stations from July
2007, and a video
game.
Plot
Within the Kanagawa prefecture lies the seaside city of Umineko.
There, Okiura Kaname, 2nd year high school student, attends Umineko
Shōgyō High School (海猫商業高等学校, Umineko Shōgyō Kōtō
Gakkō
?, lit. Umineko Commercial High School),
or Umisho for short. He is also the manager of the Umisho's swim
team though he himself doesn't know how to swim. In fact, he is
afraid of the water stemming from an incident which occurred some
years ago. While he was at the beach, he had nearly drowned when a
'mermaid' pulled him under the water. He joined the school's
swimming club in order to learn how to swim, but the club is filled
with weirdos, who don't teach him swimming.
One day, a floating house arrives at the shores of Umisho
bearing two persons. One of these is a cheerful, sunny,
happy-go-lucky girl named Ninagawa Amuro, a transfer student to
Umisho, and the other is her father. Her incredible swimming speed
makes her an instant hit with the swimming club, but Okiura is
surprised, as she reminds him of the mermaid he saw only once in
his early childhood. After her floating house is destroyed during a
storm she moves to Kaname's house.
The fictional island, where the series is set, is modeled on the
real island of Enoshima in
Fujisawa,
Kanagawa.
Sources:[1][3]
Characters
- Amuro Ninagawa (蜷川 あむろ, Ninagawa
Amuro
?) Seiyū: Aki Toyosaki
- Second year student, and a new transfer student from Okinawa at
Umishō. Despite her being a dedicated and skilled swimmer, she
finds difficulties in performing at competitions due to her not
being used to the rules and environment of professional swimming
(for instance, in her first attempt at swimming in a pool, she
bumped her head on the pool's edge on the opposite end from where
she started, and cried for some time from the headache, since she
was used to swimming in the open ocean). Among her other uncommon
habits, she prefers swimming nude, and has no shame of doing so
beside those she got used to, especially Kaname. The X's she wears
on her head where given to her by her grandmother and is so
dedicated to the story her grandmother told her about if she was to
lose them, she actually suffers the symptoms that were later
explained by her father that his mother "made them all up".
- Kaname Okiura (沖浦 要, Okiura
Kaname
?) Seiyū: Toshiyuki Toyonaga
- Second year student, and the swimming team's manager. He had a
traumatic experience involving a creature he describes as a mermaid during his childhood,
and after which he has been afraid of swimming ever since. However
this scenario started to change after Amuro's arrival at Umishō.
Always in trouble due to Amuro's unpredictable behavior, he usually
denies his growing feelings for her. In the last episode it is
revealed that she is the "mermaid" that he saw when he was a kid,
but she wasn't trying to drown him. Instead she was trying to save
him from drowning as he slipped off the rock he was standing on.
The anime series ends with her surprising him with a kiss, while
the manga series ends with him married to her with a son and
wandering on the sea just like when he just met her.
- Momoko Orizuka (織塚 桃子, Orizuka
Momoko
?) Seiyū: Hitomi Nabatame
- Third year student, and vice-captain of the swimming team. The
most rational and serious character, she serves as the straight man
of most characters and can't stand the antics of Ikariya. Just
after meeting Amuro, she realizes her hidden potential and recruits
her to the swimming team, after challenging her to a match and
being impressed with her speed in the water. She ends up being a
grade school teacher.
- Maki Ikuta (生田 蒔輝, Ikuta
Maki
?) Seiyū: Ai Shimizu
- A first year student, nicknamed Makio (マキオ
?). Too small for her age, she is
usually mistaken as a junior high student. Despite being a member
of the swimming team, she is still learning how to properly swim by
taking lessons from Kaname. She later teams up with Nanako because
both of them have small breasts.
- Masa Ikariya ( 碇矢 雅 , Ikariya
Masa
?) Seiyū: Makoto Yasumura
- Team Captain, nicknamed Ikamasa. Third year, muscle-bound, and
obsessed with shaving his and other people's body hair, and with
wearing revealing Speedo bikini swim suits. He is, in fact, the
most annoying character of the swim team, driving most of the
characters crazy from his antics. It is stated by Sanae that the
only reason he is the captain is because she and Momoko needed
three students to start the swim club, and just dragged him in.
However, due to her tendency to make up stories this might not be
true. By the end of the manga series, he becomes a bar owner and
promises Orizuka that his bar will always remain opened whenever
she wants to complain about her students.
- Mirei Shizuoka (静岡 みれい, Shizuoka
Mirei
?) Seiyū: Yukari Fukui
- A second year. Admired by the boys, she is very self-conscious
when people stare at her. Her secret promiscuity is a recurring gag
in the series: she wears skimpy lingerie under her clothes, has a
collection of dildos and although she doesn't like people looking
at her, she likes to look at members of the opposite sex or
anything that resembles them (ie a giant statue or a large horn).
It's revealed when Kaname goes to her house that apparently she got
this sexual behavior from her parents, who engage in sexual
roleplay. She is a very skilled swimmer as she almost won the
Kantou Tournament in 200 meters the year before the series starts.
Her grandfather is the creator of the Shizu Group.
- Maaya Nanako (魚々戸 真綾, Nanako
Maaya
?) Seiyū: Sayuri Yahagi
- First year student. A famous swimmer and model who transfers to
Umishō in order to get close to Kaname, for whom she has had a
crush since childhood. She considers Amuro as a rival and competes
with her for Kaname's attention. She has a noticeable small fang
and wears a swimsuit different from the rest of the team. Like Maki
she has small breasts.
- Sanae Kise (黄瀬 早苗, Kise
Sayane
?) Seiyū: Ryōko Shintani
- A third year student. A co-founder of Umisho's swimming club
and Orizuka's childhood friend. Usually tends to bring trouble to
those around her. She also makes up stories and lies just to tease
others, and to also gain other guys attention.
- Chigusa Yasu (安 千草, Yasu
Chigusa
?) Seiyū: Yūka Iguchi
- A first year.
- Kaori Himekawa (姫川 佳織, Himekawa
Kaori
?) Seiyū: Ayumi Murata
- A second year, and one of the members of the swimming
team.
- Yamana Yoshizawa (吉澤 やまな, Yoshizawa
Yamana
?) Seiyū: Yukiko Monden
- A second year.
- Takeda Seito (Seito
Takeda) Seiyū: ?
- A first or second year, and the another pervert of the swimming
club.
- Tsunumi Isao (Isao
Tsunumi) Seiyū: ?
- Tobe Jun (Jun Tobe)
Seiyū: ?
- Iori
- A manga only character. He is the personal trainer of Maaya and
also happens to be a top model featured in weekly column in
swimming magazine. He actually happened to only be Maaya's coach so
that he could get close to Okiura, her childhood friend because he
really wanted to be his coach. He actually has zero interest in
girls and those is in truth he is a homosexual as he says
this out loud in front of everyone.
- Taku Ikariya
- A manga only character. He is the younger brother of Masa and
competes in the same tournament as his brother (even in the same
events as him). He has also been said to look like his brother only
cooler looking (he even is better at swimming and studying then his
brother). He also happened to be on the same swimming team as
Momoko and Masa in elementary and middle school. He seems to have a
crush on Momoko and they seem to get along as well. He goes to
Shogyo all-boys senior high school. He seems to have a rivalry with
his brother for Momoko's attention.
Shinomiya Swimming Team
- Nanjou (Nanjou)
Seiyū: ?
- Proppally captain of the Shinomiya highschool swimming team.
First introduced at chapter 28 at the prefectural meet. She is
Orizukas rival.
- Naruko (Naruko)
Seiyū: ?
- She is another member of the Shinomiya Swimming Team. She is
almost always seen with Nanju, But she has said that Shinomiya is
Nanjo's on woman show, so they maeby aren't that good friends.
Tankōbon
- First volume: released January 17, 2006, ISBN 4063636186
- Second volume: released April 17, 2006, ISBN 4063636623
- Third volume: released August 17, 2006, ISBN 4063637107
- Fourth volume: released December 15, 2006, ISBN 4063637646
- Fifth volume: released April 17, 2007, ISBN 9784063638202
- Sixth volume: released July 17, 2007, ISBN 9784063638554
- Seventh volume: released October 17, 2007, ISBN
9784063639025
- Eighth volume: released March 15, 2008, ISBN 9784063639667
- Ninth volume: released June 17, 2008, ISBN 9784063621143
Other
media
Anime
The series has been adapted into an anime TV series, which
premiered in Japan from July 3, 2007 on Chiba TV, Tokyo MX,
and numerous other UHF
television stations. Animated by Artland, it is being directed by Kōichirō
Sōtome and written by Mamiko Ikeda.
Staff
- Original Creator: Mitsuru Hattori
- Planning: Hiroaki Morita, Yoshirō Kataoka
- Series Composition: Mamiko Ikeda
- Character Design and Chief Animation Director: Rie Nishino
- Art Director: Chikako Shibata
- Color Designs: Tomoko Yamazaki
- Photography Director: Satoshi Fujita
- Editing: Hiromasa Mastumura
- Sound Director: Kazuya Tanaka
- Music: Yasumasa Satō
- Music Producers: Michiko Koyanagi
- Music Production: 5pb.
- Sound Effects: Noriko Izumo (Suwara Production)
- Sound Studio: Delfi Sound, Seion Studio
- Sound Production: DAX Production
- Promotion: Tomoko Hasegawa, Teruhiko Satō, Katsunori Takahashi,
Yuri Koya
- Associate Producers: Noriko Doi, Tetsuko Otani
- Producers: Bunpei Ogawa, Hiroyuki Ōmori
- Executive Producer: Hidenobu Watanabe
- Director: Kōichirō Sōtome
- Animation Production: Artland
- Production: Umishō Production Committee (Geneon Entertainment, Marvelous Entertainment, 5pb.,
Pony Canyon
Enterprise)
List of
episodes
| # |
Title |
Original air date |
| 01 |
"Churaumi!"
"Churaumi!" (ちゅらうみっ!) |
July 4, 2007 |
| This
introduces the characters and the setting. On the beach, Momoko
Orizuka and Kaname Okiura are relaxing when a houseboat comes in.
On that houseboat is Amuro Ninagawa. She is holding a three-foot
long shark in her hand. She comes in and offers the shark to
Momoko. Momoko refuses, saying she doesn't like a dead shark. Amuro
says the shark is still alive. It then springs to life in Amuro's
hand and tries to bite Momoko, but ends up tearing Momoko's bikini
top off. Then Amuro dives into ocean, seemingly vanishing, only to
emerge some distance into the waters within seconds, impressing
everyone, especially Momoko. |
| 02 |
"I Might Be...
Interested..."
"Kyōmi... Aru... Kamo..." (興味････ある･･かも･･･) |
July 11, 2007 |
| |
| 03 |
"I'll Show
You!"
"Miseru!" (魅せる!!!) |
July 18, 2007 |
| The team
captain can't concentrate on the swim meet that they're at because
his father's restaurant is in financial trouble. To help his family
out, Amuro and the other swim team girls spend a few days serving
customers wearing only aprons and swimsuits. Naturally, this
attracts a lot of men. |
| 04 |
"I'm Going to Show
You"
"Misete Agerunda kara" (見せてあげるんだから) |
July 25, 2007 |
| |
| 05 |
"Do You Want Mine,
Too?"
"Atashi no mo hoshii" (あたしのもほしい) |
August 1, 2007 |
| |
| 06 |
"No!"
"Me!" (めっ!) |
August 8, 2007 |
| |
| 07 |
"Curse"
"Noroi" (呪い) |
August 15, 2007 |
| |
| 08 |
"Take A Good
Look"
"Yo~ku Mitenasai" (よ〜く見てなさい) |
August 22, 2007 |
| |
| 09 |
"Help Me
Forget..."
"Wasuresasete..." (忘れさせて...) |
August 29, 2007 |
| |
| 10 |
"Breast
Massage?"
"Nyū Nyū?" (にゅうにゅう?) |
September 5, 2007 |
| It's the
summer festival and the team is there. Maki Ikuta and Maaya Nanako
are in the women's room. Maki tells Maaya that she heard that
massaging the breast will make it grow. Mutual groping
ensues. |
| 11 |
"Could It
Be..."
"Masaka no..." (まさかの････) |
September 12, 2007 |
| |
| 12 |
"Oma Oma"
"Oma Oma~" (おまっおま〜♪) |
September 19, 2007 |
| It's the
Kantou prefecture swimming tournament. and the Umisho swim club is
there. After doing poorly in the preliminaries due to a bet, the
girl's team pours things on in the middle. In the relay race, the
team discovers another team is cheating when they use a song to
help the swimmer along. To mess this up, Masa, Amuro and some of
the others sing their own song. Masa parading around and
unintentionally flashing the singers of the other team cause them
to mess up. Unfortunately, in the final lap of the medley, Momoko
pulls a muscle in her leg, causing her to miss the rest of the
tournament. |
| 13 |
"Mermaid"
"Ningyo" (人魚) |
September 26, 2007 |
| Amuro gets
chosen to replace Momoko in the relay squad. Masa attempts to
replace Momoko by dressing in drag, but the team tells him no. The
rest of the races are run. When Umisho's team appears to get left
behind, Amuro trounces the competition with her speed and wins for
Umisho. After the competitions, Kaname and Amuro spend time
together at the seaside, and when Kaname gets pulled into the water
by Amuro, he finally remembers what really happened during his
childhood. He nearly drowned because he lost his footing on the
ocean floor, then a young Amuro, whom Kaname likened to mermaid
because of her swimming style, rescued him. During the credits the
Swimming Club take a trip, where in the end Amuro surprises Kaname
by kissing him. |
Theme
songs
- Opening theme: "Dolphin☆Jet"
- Lyrics and composition: Chiyomaru Shikura, arrangement: Kōji
Ueno, performance: Ayane
- Ending theme: "Splash Blue ~ Sun and Lemonade" (Splash BLUE〜太陽とレモネード, Splash
BLUE ~ Taiyō to Remonēdo
?)
- Lyrics and composition: Urara Takai, arrangement: Kōji Ueno,
performance: Ayumi
Murata
Internet
radio
An internet
radio version of the anime series, Kenkō Zenrakei Suieibu
Umishō: Junbi Undō (ケンコー全裸系水泳部 ウミショー
準備運動
?), was first streamed on the Japanese
websites Ōnsen and BEWE from May 16, 2007 and June 27, 2007. A
continuation, Kenkō Zenrakei Suieibu Umishō: Natsu!!
Honban (ケンコー全裸系水泳部 ウミショー
夏!!本番
?), began streaming on July 4, 2007. The
first version of the series featured Hitomi Nabatame, seiyū of Momoko
Orizuka, while the continuation featured Nabatame and Aki Toyosaki, seiyū
of Amuro Ninagawa. Sources:[2][4]
Video
game
5pb inc. published an Umisho game on PlayStation 2, under the
5gk. (The Five Games and Kid) title.
References
External
links
Chiba TV,
Animax
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