Kimi to Boku (manga)

Kimi to Boku.
Cover of the first manga volume
君と僕。 (Kimi to Boku)
Genre	Comedy, Slice of life
Manga
Written by	Kiichi Hotta
Published by	Square Enix
Demographic	Shōnen
Imprint	Gangan Comics
Magazine	Gangan Powered Monthly GFantasy
Original run	2004 – present
Volumes	15
Anime television series
Kimi to Boku
Directed by	Mamoru Kanbe
Written by	Reiko Yoshida
Music by	Elements Garden
Studio	J.C.Staff
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	October 4, 2011 – December 27, 2011
Episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Kimi to Boku 2
Directed by	Mamoru Kanbe
Written by	Reiko Yoshida
Music by	Elements Garden
Studio	J.C.Staff
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	April 3, 2012 – June 26, 2012
Episodes	13 (List of episodes)

Kimi to Boku. (君と僕。^?, lit. You & I) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kiichi Hotta about four teens, Yūta and Yūki Asaba, Shun Matsuoka and Kaname Tsukahara, who grew up together and a half-Japanese transfer student Chizuru Tachibana who joins the circle of friends. In 2011, it was adapted into an anime television series by J.C.Staff.

The story revolves around four teens—the good-looking twins Yūta and Yūki Asaba, the effeminate Shun Matsuoka, and the class head Kaname Tsukahara—who have known each other since early childhood. While they are not necessarily good or bad friends, they continue to hang out well into high school. The half-Japanese transfer student Chizuru Tachibana joins the circle of friends in this comedy about the everyday life of adolescence. It does not have any romance or flamboyant fantasy, but it is light-hearted humorous story about high school friends and attachment. Friendship forms because this group loves each other's company even with all their different personalities or perspective. Yūta and Yūki are known for giving everyone a hard time but usually mean no harm, Shun with his elegant behavior, Kaname with his hot temper, and Chizuru with his fun loving side make up this anime about adolescence.

Kimi to Boku. began its serial run in 2004 in the shōnen manga magazine Gangan Powered and moved to Monthly GFantasy in 2009. Fourteen compilation volumes have been published by Square Enix.

The episodes in the anime are based from the manga series by Kiichi Hotta. An anime television adaption of Kimi to Boku was announced in the April 2011 issue of Monthly GFantasy. The series was produced by J.C.Staff under the direction of Mamoru Kanbe with scripts supervised by Reiko Yoshida and music by Elements Garden and began its broadcast run starting October 4, 2011. The series (also released in English under the title You and Me) will be split into two 13-episode seasons. The second season's theme song, "Zutto", is sung \Nico Nico Douga singer, ShonenT, under his real name Tomohisa Sako.