Neighborhood Story
| Neighborhood Story | |
Cover of Neighborhood Story first volume as published by Shueisha featuring Mikako Kouda
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ご近所物語 (Gokinjo Monogatari) |
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| Genre | Romance |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Ai Yazawa |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Magazine | Ribon |
| Original run | February 1995 – October 1997 |
| Volumes | 7 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Atsutoshi Umezawa |
| Music by | Masahiro Kawasaki |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Original network | TV Asahi |
| Original run | September 10, 1995 – September 1, 1996 |
| Episodes | 50 |
| Anime film | |
| Directed by | Atsuji Shimizu |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Released | March 2, 1996 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
Neighborhood Story (ご近所物語 Gokinjo Monogatari?) is a manga by Ai Yazawa. It was published by Shueisha from 1995 to 1998 in the magazine Ribon. It was adapted by Toei Animation as a 50-episode anime series which aired on TV Asahi from September 10, 1995 to September 1, 1996, with merchandise created by Bandai. There was a movie made in 1996, and a drama CD and soundtrack were also produced. Starting on September 19, 2005, Gokinjo Monogatari began being republished in a deluxe edition. Paradise Kiss takes place afterward and has some of Gokinjo's characters return in it.
Mikako Kōda and Tsutomu Yamaguchi are students who attend Yazawa Geijyutsu Gakuen, a special high school for the arts in Tokyo (named after the author, who makes a cameo appearance as the school's principal). They reside in the same apartment building where they have built a long-standing friendship since infancy. However, as has been humorously pointed out by their apartment manager, Mikako and Tsutomu's feelings have undergone an unmistakable metamorphosis.
Mikako and Tsutomu's friends inside and outside of the Akindo club also detect this change and wonder one thing: Will Mikako and Tsutomu embrace what is already community discourse or will they deteriorate into leading very bitter adult lives of not-at-all-significant brevity and dysphoria?
Voiced by: Rumi Shishido
Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi
Risa Kanzaki
Mai Oota
Jiro Nishino
Yuusuke Tashiro
Voiced by: Takeshi Aono
Voiced by: Yōko Kawanami
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