Nineteen 19
{{Short description|Japanese manga series}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox animanga/Header
| image = Nineteen 19 vol. 1.jpg
| caption = First volume cover, featuring Kazushi Kubota
| genre = Romance
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type = manga
| author = {{ill|Sho Kitagawa|ja|きたがわ翔}}
| publisher = Shueisha
| publisher_en =
| demographic = {{Transliteration|ja|Seinen}}
| imprint = Young Jump Comics
| magazine = Weekly Young Jump
| first = 1988
| last = 1990
| volumes = 12
| volume_list =
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type = ova
| director = Koichi Chigira
| producer =
| writer = Yuji Kawahara
| music = Hiroshi Sakamoto
| studio = Madhouse
| released = July 27, 1990
| runtime = 42 minutes
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Footer|portal=yes}}
Nineteen 19 is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by {{ill|Sho Kitagawa|ja|きたがわ翔}}. It was serialized in Shueisha's Seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from 1988 to 1990, with its chapters collected in twelve {{Transliteration|ja|wideban}} volumes. An original video animation (OVA) adaptation by Madhouse was released in July 1990.
Synopsis
Kazushi Kubota is a 19-year-old college student meets again his junior high school first love at a club, Masana Fujisaka, a medical student who models as a side job, and had recently broken up with her longtime boyfriend. Kubota sees the perfect opportunity to ask her out.
Characters
;{{nihongo|Kazushi Kubota|久保田 一至|Kubota Kazushi}}
:{{anime voice|Masaya Onosaka}}{{cite web |script-title=ja:小野坂 昌也 |url=https://www.aoni.co.jp/search/onosaka-masaya.html |publisher=Aoni Production |access-date=July 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210724173826/https://www.aoni.co.jp/search/onosaka-masaya.html |archive-date=July 24, 2021 |language=ja |url-status=live}}
;{{nihongo|Masana Fujisaka|藤崎 雅菜|Fujisaki Masana}}
:{{anime voice|Hiromi Tsuru}}{{cite web|script-title=ja:鶴ひろみ (Hiromi Tsuru)|url=http://gph.sakura.ne.jp/va_memo/system/vadb.cgi?action=view_ind&value=00520&namecode=3|website=Voice Artist Database|publisher=GamePlaza -Haruka-|access-date=January 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116191951/http://gph.sakura.ne.jp/va_memo/system/vadb.cgi?action=view_ind&value=00520&namecode=3|archive-date=November 16, 2015|language=ja}}
Media
=Manga=
Nineteen 19, written and illustrated by {{ill|Sho Kitagawa|ja|きたがわ翔}}, was serialized in Shueisha's Seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from 1988 to 1990.{{cite press release|script-title=ja:13歳でデビュー！天才漫画家の38年にわたる筆脈 【4/18（木）～24（水）】きたがわ翔、初の原画展「アナログ」を開催 『19〈NINETEEN〉』『B.Bフィッシュ』『C』『ホットマン』 など|url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000001429.000003670.html|publisher=Creek & River Co., Ltd|via=PR Times|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724144409/https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000001429.000003670.html|archive-date=July 24, 2021|language=ja|date=March 8, 2019|url-status=live}} Shueisha collected its chapters in twelve {{Transliteration|ja|wideban}} volumes, released from January 1989 to February 1991.{{cite web|title=19
A prologue chapter to a sequel, titled 19 Forever, was published in Shueisha's Oh Super Jump in December 2010, while the three chapters of 19 Forever were published on the Creek & River's crowdfounding platform Trigger in 2017.{{cite web|script-title=ja:きたがわ翔『19 FOREVER』が遂に完成！ 漫画家とファンの熱き想いがクラウドファンディングで結実|url=https://www.cri.co.jp/news/press_release/2017/20171222002183.html|publisher=Creek & River Co., Ltd.|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724153206/https://www.cri.co.jp/news/press_release/2017/20171222002183.html|archive-date=July 24, 2021|language=ja|date=December 22, 2017|url-status=live}} A collected volume, which contains the prologue and the three chapters, was released as an ebook on April 6, 2018.{{cite book|script-title=ja:～19 FOREVER～ NINETEEN 19|id={{ASIN|B07BYSNN81|country=jp}}|publisher=Sho Studio|language=ja}}
=Original video animation=
The manga was adapted into an original video animation (OVA) by Madhouse, directed by Koichi Chigira, with character designs by {{ill|Naoyuki Onda|ja|恩田尚之}}, scripts by Yuji Kawahara and music by Hiroshi Sakamoto. It was released on July 27, 1990.{{cite web|title=NINETEEN 19|url=http://www.madhouse.co.jp/works/1990-1989/works_ova_19.html|publisher=Madhouse|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210724142306/http://www.madhouse.co.jp/works/1990-1989/works_ova_19.html|archive-date=July 24, 2021|language=ja|url-status=live}}
Reception
In The Anime Encyclopedia: A Century of Japanese Animation, by Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy, they wrote: "[a] tale of yuppie love isn’t what most Westerners expect from the Madhouse team, renowned abroad for horror like Wicked City, but this exudes quiet charm and elegance."{{cite book|last1=Clements|first1=Jonathan|author-link1=Jonathan Clements|last2=McCarthy|first2=Helen|author-link2=Helen McCarthy|date=2015|title=The Anime Encyclopedia: A Century of Japanese Animation|edition=3rd|page=1636|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E03KBgAAQBAJ&dq=nineteen+19%22&pg=PT2179|publisher=Stone Bridge Press|isbn=978-1611720181|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820141506/https://books.google.com/books?id=E03KBgAAQBAJ&dq=nineteen+19%22&pg=PT2179|url-status=live}} Justin Sevakis of Anime News Network wrote: "Nineteen19 is a reflection on a simpler time, on youth, and first loves. It's a rare, fashionably-idealized look at what it means to be a single guy, and a window on a world and a pop culture that doesn't exist anymore, if it ever really existed at all."{{cite web|last=Sevakis|first=Justin|title=Nineteen19 - Buried Treasure|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2007-01-04|website=Anime News Network|access-date=July 24, 2021|date=January 4, 2007|archive-date=July 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724163328/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2007-01-04|url-status=live}}
See also
- Hotman, another manga series by the same author
References
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External links
- {{Anime News Network|manga|8521}}
{{Weekly Young Jump - 1979–1999}}
{{Madhouse OVAs}}