Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight!

Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight!
Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight! manga volume 1 cover
がくえんゆーとぴあ まなびストレート! (Gakuen Yūtopia Manabi Sutorēto!)
Genre	Comedy, Futuristic
Manga
Written by	Ufotable
Illustrated by	Tartan Check
Published by	MediaWorks
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Dengeki Daioh
Original run	December 2005 – February 2008
Volumes	4
Anime television series
Directed by	Team Manabibeya
Studio	Ufotable
Original network	TV Tokyo, TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Osaka
Original run	January 8, 2007 – March 26, 2007
Episodes	12
Game
Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight! Kira Kira Happy Festa!
Developer	Marvelous Interactive
Publisher	MediaWorks
Genre	Visual novel
Platform	PlayStation 2
Released	March 29, 2007
Original video animation
Directed by	Team Manabibeya
Studio	Ufotable
Released	October 10, 2007
Runtime	24 minutes
Manga
Manabi Straight! Sakra
Written by	Ufotable
Illustrated by	Eshika/Shōgo
Published by	Enterbrain
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Famitsu Comic Clear
Original run	January 30, 2015 – present
Volumes	2

Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight! (がくえんゆーとぴあ まなびストレート!, Gakuen Yūtopia Manabi Sutorēto!^?, often shortened to Manabi Straight!) is a Japanese multimedia project co-developed by the animation studio Ufotable and MediaWorks. The project revolves around a group of high school girls in the year 2035 when the birth rate has dropped dramatically. It launched in August 2004 in MediaWorks' Dengeki AniMaga magazine, and went on to produce a manga adaptation serialized in MediaWorks' Dengeki Daioh, and a second manga serialized in Enterbrain's Famitsu Comic Clear. A 12-episode anime series aired on TV Tokyo between January and March 2007, and is complemented by a bonus episode released exclusively on DVD in October 2007. A PlayStation 2 visual novel based on the series was released in Japan in March 2007, developed by Marvelous Interactive.

Manabi Straight! is set in the year 2035 when the birth rate has dropped dramatically. As a result, some schools are being closed down because of a lack of students available to teach. Morale in schools has dropped dramatically, and the all-girl Seioh Private High School (私立聖桜学園, Shiritsu Seiō Gakuen^?) is no exception. The story begins when the main character, Manami Amamiya, transfers to Seioh High School. Manami is an active girl with a positive personality, often shouting her personal motto Massugu Go! (まっすぐ Go!^?, meaning "Go straight ahead!") as a motivator for herself to go forward in life. On Manami's first day of school, the lone student council member and secretary Mika Inamori tries to rally students to join the council, but is initially met with an apathetic audience. However, Manami expresses interest in becoming the student council president. To show the school how much she wants to lead the student body, Manami begins to sing Seioh's school song after hearing it for the first time the day before. At the conclusion of the song, Manami is inducted as the student council president and received well by the entire school. The story that follows Manami working with Mika, and three other classmates—Mutsuki Uehara, Mei Etoh, and Momoha Odori—in student council matters, despite Manami and Mika initially being the only official members. After some remodeling of the student council room, Manami and her friends set forth to plan for the upcoming student festival.