Aoi House

Aoi House
Left-to-right are (top row) Elle, Nina, Sandy, Jessica, (bottom row) Maria, Morgan, and Alex, (very front) Echiboo.
Author(s)	Adam Arnold and Shiei
Website	http://gomanga.com/webmanga/index.php?series=aoi
Current status / schedule	Completed
Launch date	24 January 2005
End date	31 January 2009
Publisher(s)	Seven Seas Entertainment
Genre(s)	harem comedy, fandom, otaku
Rating(s)	Older Teen
Followed by	Vampire Cheerleaders

Aoi House is a harem original English-language (OEL) manga series written by Adam Arnold, with art by Shiei, and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. The story follows the misadventures of two down-on-their-luck college guys named Alexis "Alex" Roberts and Sandy Grayson who are thrown out of their college dorm and join an anime club dominated by crazed yaoi fangirls.

It first appeared as a 36-episode webcomic written by Adam Arnold and illustrated by Jim Jimenez. It initially ran from 24 January 2005 through 15 April 2005. Aoi House quickly established itself as a "fandom harem comedy."

Proving popular enough, Aoi House was re-launched by Seven Seas Entertainment as part of its standard publishing line. For the re-launch, Shiei (artist of Amazing Agent Luna) took over as the illustrator leading to changes in the art style, as well as additional changes to characters and alteration and expansion of the story. The re-launch began serialization on the Seven Seas Entertainment website in late May, around which time (27 May 2005) a Aoi House theme song, performed by the J Brothers entitled "Itsumo Futaride", was also released.

In January 2006, Aoi House 4-panel color koma began appearing in Newtype USA.

Aoi House made its print debut on 15 May 2006 with the release of the first volume.

New updates of Aoi House appeared every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at Gomanga.com and were accompanied by blog-style entries called "Aoi Notes" by Adam Arnold.

Alexis "Alex" Roberts and Sandy Grayson are two college students who get evicted from their dorm lodging due to several infractions of the rules, including the showing of hentai anime. Echiboo, Sandy's pet hamster, does not help matters when he scares the Dean and exposes the fact the Dean is wearing a toupee. Told they need to find new lodgings by sundown, they start to search campus for a place to live. In their search, Sandy is shown to be an obsessive otaku, while Alex is more focused on the reality of their situation. Seeing a flyer for "Aoi House," which promises anime and manga viewing, Sandy becomes very excited with the very idea of an anime club; Alex however is mostly happy to have found possible lodging. As they head over to housing, Maria is seen looking at the same flyer Sandy and Alex were just thoughtfully reading.