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Marriage Royale (マリッジロワイヤル, Marijji
Rowaiyaru
?) is a series of illustrated Japanese
fictional short stories written by Shingo Hifumi and illustrated by
Aoi Nishimata
and Hiro
Suzuhira; both illustrators are from Navel. The short stories are apart of a
reader-participation game in the Japanese bishōjo magazine Dengeki
G's Magazine, published by ASCII Media Works, which started in
the January 2006 issue. A manga
based on the short stories, illustrated by Koko Natsuki from Lime, started serialization in the April
2007 issue of Dengeki G's Magazine.
Plot
Story
Marriage Royale's story revolves around the male
protagonist, a high school student named Tsukasa Hinomoto, who is
told one day by his parents that he was adopted. Furthermore, they
tell him that his real father is a manager of a large company,
meaning he is very rich and holds a lot of power. Tsukasa's real
father wants his son to marry a good woman, so he sets up an event
known as Marriage Royale where beautiful girls from all
over Japan will come together at a school built especially for the
event and vie to become Tsukasa's fiancée. The school is located on an
isolated island near Japan, and Tsukasa himself is taken there to
live in a mansion in the care of two twin maids: Miku, the elder
sister, and Miu, the younger sister.[1]
Characters
Main
characters
- Tsukasa Hinomoto (日乃本 司, Hinomoto
Tsukasa
?)
- Tsukasa is the protagonist of the story. He is the one all the
bride candidates are vying to marry once the "Marriage Royale" is
finished.
- Miku (美久
?)
- Miku is one half of the maid twins, the other being her younger
sister Miu. She works for Tsukasa's father, and takes care of the
mansion where he lives.
- Miu (美宇
?)
- Miu is the younger sister of Miku, her twin sister, and fellow
maid of the mansion where Tsukasa lives. She is in charge of
educating Tsukasa in a more proper upbringing.
Bride
candidates
- Minato Daiba (大場 湊, Daiba
Minato
?)
- Minato is from Tokyo; her
name comes from Minato, Tokyo, and Odaiba. She is Tsukasa's childhood friend, and
since she is prone to making silly mistakes, she sometimes appears
younger than she is. She has known Tsukasa since they were in
kindergarten, and went to the same junior-high, and high schools,
and plans to go to the same university as him too.
- Minami Umeda (宇目田 深波, Umeda
Minami
?)
- Minami is from Osaka Prefecture; her name comes from
Namba, which is also known as
Minami, and Umeda. She
and Tsukasa went to the same elementary school together, and Minami
developed her first crush on him. Despite being from Osaka, she can
speak both standard Japanese dialent, and Kansai dialect, which is the main
dialect of the region in and around Osaka. She has a high interest
in fashion and styles of clothing.
- Komachi Akita (秋田 小町, Akita
Komachi
?)
- Komachi is from Akita Prefecture; her name comes from
a brand in rice in Japan known as Akitakomachi. Her family
holds friendly relations with Tsukasa's birth-family and is a
typical daughter of a distinguished family. She was originally
brought up to become Tsukasa's fiancé.
- Otoha Shinjo (新城 音羽, Shinjō
Otoha
?)
- Otoha is from Aichi Prefecture; her name comes from
Otowa, Aichi, and
Shinshiro,
Aichi. She is the niece of Tsukasa's adoptive parents, making
her his cousin, though she also seems like a younger sister to him.
She is generally innocent, though is also selfish and has an
evil-streak.
- Miyako Asakura (朝倉 美弥子, Asakura
Miyako
?)
- Miyako is from Fukuoka Prefecture; her name comes
from Miyako,
Fukuoka, and Asakura, Fukuoka. She has a doting
father, which humbles her view of male society. She hates to lose
in anything, and when engaged in a challenge, she will stop at
nothing to win. She typically has a cold attitude towards Tsukasa,
giving her a tsundere personality.
- Yakumo Hidaka (日高 八雲, Hidaka
Yakumo
?)
- Yakumo is from Hokkaidō; her name comes from Yakumo,
Hokkaidō, and Hidaka, Hokkaidō. She is a hard person
to figure out, and others do not readily know her intentions; part
of the reason for this is that she dresses in a Gothic Lolita style of clothing. She is
generally indifferent about the world around her, and can be
blunt.
- Sera Saeki (佐伯 世羅, Sakei
Sera
?)
- Sera is from Hiroshima Prefecture; her name
comes from Sera,
Hiroshima, and Saeki-ku, Hiroshima. Due to a
traumatic event when she was a child, she has developed a fear of men. This fear
is expressed especially in closed spaces near men, such as in
elevators, or packed trains. She likes to collect stuffed toys and
dolls, and generally likes things that are considered cute.
- Asahi Sanjo (三条 朝日, Sanjō
Asahi
?)
- Asahi is from Niigata Prefecture; her name comes
from Asahi,
Niigata, and Sanjō, Niigata. She was raised by her
father, and due to his influence, dresses and acts like a male,
rarely wearing feminine attire.
- Ena Tenryū (天竜 江奈, Tenryū
Ena
?)
- Ena is from Shizuoka Prefecture; her name comes
from the Tenryū-ku ward of Hamamatsu. During her junior-high school
years, she was a junior of Minami Umeda, but afterwards transferred
to Shizuoka Prefecture. She is usually a cheerful girl who is frank
and manages the soccer club.
- Iyo Uwajima (宇和島 伊予, Uwajima
Iyo
?)
- Iyo is from Ehime Prefecture; her name comes from
Iyo, Ehime, and Uwajima, Ehime.
Despite being eighteen-years-old, she comes off as an older gyaru-like girl. She is the eldest
of four sisters and likes to look after her younger siblings. She
has the tendency to get wild ideas and can be seen as
unreliable.
- Ebino Hamayū (浜木綿 えびの, Hamayū
Ebino
?)
- Ebino is from Miyazaki Prefecture; her name comes
from Ebino,
Miyazaki, and the Japanese name for the Poisonbulb flower. She has a bit of an
evil-streak and is maniacal about many hobbies. She likes to call
Tsukasa "Darling", and is the shortest of the bride
candidates.
- Uruma Nago (名護 うるま, Nago
Uruma
?)
- Uruma is from Okinawa Prefecture; her name comes
from Nago,
Okinawa, and Uruma, Okinawa. She is the youngest
child from a large, poor family. Due to a simplistic life with
little to no luxuries, she was able to focus mainly on her school
work and gets good grades because of it. She likes to refer to
Tsukasa as "Onii-chan", meaning "older brother".
Media
Marriage Royale manga volume 1.
Short
stories
Marriage Royale began as a reader-participation game in
the January 2006 issue of ASCII Media Works' Dengeki
G's Magazine sold on November 30, 2005, where the profiles
of two girls, Minato Daiba and Minami Umeda, were supplied for the
reader. After reading the profiles, the reader could illustrate
what they wanted the girls to look like, and send it in; out of all
the entries, two were chosen for each girl, and the attributes of
both were combined to create a single character design illustrated
by either Aoi
Nishimata, or Hiro Suzuhira.[2]
Both illustrators are from Navel, which is also known for
producing the visual
novels Shuffle!, and Soul Link. Every three months, two new
profiles were published, and this pattern continued until the
fourth round with eight girls at the time. The second round
introduced Komachi Akita, and Otoha Shinjo; the third round brought
in Miyako Asakura, and Yamuko Hidaka; and the fourth round had Sera
Saeki, and Asahi Sanjo. On July 30, 2007, four more profiles were
published, with the same rules applying as with the previous
rounds; the fifth round covered Ena Tenryū, Iyo Uwajima, Ebino
Hamayū, and Uruma Nago. Aoi Nishimata has provided illustrations
for Miku, Minami, Komachi, Yakumo, Sera, Iyo, and Ebino; Hiro
Suzuhira drew Miu, Minato, Otoha, Miyako, Asahi, Ena, and
Uruma.
The short stories themselves are more or less vignettes where each one gives a
very brief glimpse of a scene between the protagonist, and the
given heroine he is with in the story. The stories are accompanied
by illustrations of the given heroine, and are drawn by either Aoi
Nishimata, or Hiro Suzuhira depending on which artist originally
drew which girl. The first batch of stories, serialized between the
May 2006 and March 2007 issues, was under the collective title
Girl's Heart, and contained eight chapters, one for each
of the first eight heroines. A second batch under the general title
Dearest Stories started serialization in the October 2007
issue.
Manga
The Marriage Royale manga, illustrated by Koko Natsuki of Lime, started
serialization in the April 2007 issue of Dengeki
G's Magazine sold on February 30, 2007, published by ASCII Media
Works. The first bound volume was released on October 27, 2007
containing the first eight chapters, published under ASCII Media
Works' Dengeki
Comics label; the fifth volume was released on October 27,
2009. The manga contains the eight girls from the first four rounds
of the reader-participation game, and carries the same premise as
with the game too.
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