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Tomo-chan Is a Girl!

Cover of the first tankōbon volume, featuring Tomo Aizawa (left) and Junichiro Kubota (right)

トモちゃんは女の子！
(Tomo-chan wa Onnanoko!)
Genre
Manga
Written byFumita Yanagida
Published byKodansha
English publisher
MagazineSaizensen
DemographicSeinen
Original runApril 7, 2015 – July 14, 2019
Volumes8
Anime television series
Directed byHitoshi Nanba
Written byMegumi Shimizu
Music byMasaru Yokoyama
StudioLay-duce
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkTokyo MX, BS11, GTV, GYT, MBS
English network
Original run January 5, 2023 – March 30, 2023
Episodes13
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Tomo-chan Is a Girl! (Japanese: トモちゃんは女の子！, Hepburn: Tomo-chan wa Onnanoko!) is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Fumita Yanagida. It was serialized on the Twi4 Twitter account and Saizensen website, usually as a single-page four-panel strip, from April 2015 to July 2019. Kodansha published in eight tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation produced by Lay-duce aired from January to March 2023.

The manga follows the everyday life of a tomboy high school student who is in love with her childhood friend, who only treats her as a boy, and her attempts to make him reciprocate her unrequited love.

Tomo Aizawa is a tomboy who has been head-over-heels in love with her childhood best friend Junichiro Kubota for a long time, even though he only sees her as "one of the boys" and has no romantic feelings for her at all. Hilarity ensues when she tries many times in vain to win his heart, but almost always fails and even ends up getting physical at times.

Tomo Aizawa (相沢 智, Aizawa Tomo)
Voiced by: Rie Takahashi[3] (Japanese); Lexi Nieto[4][a] (English)
Tomo is a tomboy who excels in combat sports. She is deeply in love with her childhood friend Junichiro, even though she struggles to win his heart. She is self-conscious about her 'masculine' personality and seeks to become more 'feminine'. She reflexively hits Junichiro whenever he does anything that could be perceived as physically intimate. She is in the school's karate club (all boys except for her), after not wanting to be further influenced by her father's personality during fights.Vol. 1
Junichiro Kubota (久保田 淳一郎, Kubota Jun'ichirō)
Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa[3][b] (Japanese); Ricco Fajardo[4][b] (English)
The handsome childhood friend whom Tomo is in love with. However, he only sees her as one of the boys, much to Tomo's frustration. He and Tomo are neighbors, with them first meeting when Junichiro moved into Tomo's neighborhood.[volume & issue needed] However, they went to different elementary schools. He has been regularly training with Tomo's father's dojo, so he does not participate in any athletic programs at school. He feels a bit jealous whenever Tomo gives attention to other guys. He and Misuzu do not get along,Vol. 1 having dated briefly back in middle school.Vol. 2
Misuzu Gundou (群堂 みすず, Gundō Misuzu)
Voiced by: Rina Hidaka[3] (Japanese); Jad Saxton[4][c] (English)
Tomo's best female friend, she is petite with dark hair tied in a side ponytail. Although she sometimes plays the straight man complement to Tomo and Junichiro, she is also very cunning and sadistic, often showing a devilish grin to Junichiro. She likes to mess with the two, even telling classmate Tanabe that she is the only one who is allowed to play with them. Although she knows Tomo likes Junichiro, she does not like that they progress their relationship for fear of losing her friend to him.Vol. 1-2
Carol Olston (キャロル・オールストン, Kyaroru Ōrusuton)
Voiced by: Sally Amaki[3] (Japanese and English)
The school idol, she comes from a wealthy family, is of British descent, and has light blonde hair and a busty figure.Vol. 1 Although she acts like an airhead and a free spirit, she is later revealed to be an excellent student, even topping exams.[volume & issue needed] She is childhood friends and distant relatives with Kosuke, who she says they have been engaged and married three times over. Her mother was a young teenager when she gave birth to her.[volume & issue needed] Tomo calls her cotton candy.Vol. 1
Kousuke Misaki (御崎 光助, Misaki Kōsuke, also Kosuke)
Voiced by: Kōhei Amasaki[9] (Japanese); Ciarán Strange[4] (English)
An upperclassman to Tomo and friends, he is the captain of the karate club and regarded as the school prince.Vol. 2 He admires Tomo as an athlete and club member. He has a rocky relationship with his childhood friend and distant relative Carol, whom the latter says they are engaged.Vol. 1
Mifune (三船) and Ogawa (小川)
Mifune: Voiced by: Yō Taichi[10] (Japanese); Marisa Duran[11] (English)
Ogawa: Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki[12] (Japanese); Natalie Hoover[13] (English)
A pair of gyaru schoolgirls from class B. Mifune has light brown hair parted bangs and a short ponytail; Ogawa has short blonde hair pulled back in the middle, and a dark complexion. They both have a crush on Misaki, and try to call out Tomo to stay away from him, but after Tomo sees they like Misaki, she wants to support them as friends.Vol. 1
Tatsumi Tanabe (田辺 達巳, Tanabe Tatsumi)
Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka[9] (Japanese); Christopher Llewyn Ramirez[4] (English)
Another classmate of the trio. He has a crush on Misuzu, but is always rebuffed by her.Vol. 1
Goro Aizawa (相沢 五郎, Aizawa Gorō)
Voiced by: Kenji Nomura[14] (Japanese); Cris George (English)
Tomo's father is a karate instructor who has trained both Tomo and Junichiro, hoping they can take over the family business. He has an intense personality around the kids, but not so much when with his wife.[volume & issue needed] He is the reason why Tomo cannot show her feminine side.Vol. 1
Akemi Aizawa (相沢 あけみ, Aizawa Akemi)
Voiced by: Kumiko Watanabe[15] (Japanese); Luci Christian[16] (English)
Tomo's mother who she resembles although looks more tomboyish. She likes teasing her husband and daughter.

Tomo-chan Is a Girl!, written and illustrated by Fumita Yanagida, was serialized on the Twi4 Twitter account and on the Saizensen website from April 7, 2015, to July 14, 2019.[1][17] Kodansha published the individual chapters in eight tankōbon volumes.[18]

In February 2018, Seven Seas Entertainment announced they licensed the series for an English release.[19]

No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 October 9, 2015[20]978-4-06-369537-3September 11, 2018[21]978-1-62-692910-4
Chapters 1–8. Covers manga posts on Twitter and the Saizensen website from April to August 2015.
Tomo Aizawa confesses her love to her childhood friend Junichiro Kubota, but Junichiro replies that he likes her too as a bro. Whenever he touches her in a somewhat affectionate manner, she reacts violently and hits him. She asks her best friend Misuzu Gundou for advice. She tries to grow her hair out. She gets pulled into taking a photo booth picture with him. Their classmate Tatsumi Tanabe asks Junichiro what kind of relationship he and Tomo have.

When Junichiro and Misuzu both forget their umbrellas on a rainy day, they wait to see who Tomo will pair up with. Kousuke Misaki, the karate club captain, is fond of having Tomo on the team. Mifune and Ogawa call out Tomo because she was seen with Kousuke. Tomo thinks it is a challenge to fight, but they tell her they like Kousuke, so she feels flattered they are going to her for love advice and supports them. When a stranger gropes Tomo on the bus, Junichiro stops the man, and later tells Tomo she should stop wearing skirts and wear slacks instead. When Tomo vents to Misuzu about it, Misuzu takes away Tomo's spats and see how Junichiro reacts with her wearing a skirt that could expose her panties.

Carol Olston, the school idol from Britain and Kousuke's childhood friend and fiancée, pokes Tomo and calls her a dummy. She has Junichiro help her train to fight an unnamed rival, but after seeing that Junichiro and Tomo know each other, abandons the training, and becomes friends with Misuzu and Tomo instead. Junichiro and Tomo overhear their classmates talking about the popularity of the guys and girls at school but get bothered when Tomo and Junichiro are rated, respectively.
2 February 4, 2016[22]978-4-06-369544-1December 4, 2018[23]978-1-62-692969-2
Chapters 9–17. Covers manga posts on Twitter and the Saizensen website from August to December 2015.
3 July 9, 2016[24]978-4-06-369552-6March 12, 2019[25]978-1-64-275015-7
Chapters 18–23. Covers manga posts on Twitter and the Saizensen website from February to June 2016.
4 January 26, 2017[26]978-4-06-369562-5July 9, 2019[27]978-1-64-275109-3
Chapters 24–31. Covers manga posts on Twitter and the Saizensen website from July to November 2016.
5 August 10, 2017[28]978-4-06-369579-3October 22, 2019[29]978-1-64-275714-9
Chapters 32–37. Covers manga posts on Twitter and the Saizensen website from January to July 2017.
6 February 10, 2018[30]978-4-06-511152-9January 7, 2020[31]978-1-64-505192-3
Chapters 38–41. Covers manga posts on Twitter and the Saizensen website from July to December 2017.
7 September 12, 2018[32]978-4-06-513113-8June 16, 2020[33]978-1-64-505459-7
Chapters 42–46. Covers manga posts on Twitter and the Saizensen website from February to August 2018.
8 September 12, 2019[34]978-4-06-516696-3September 22, 2020[35]978-1-64-505744-4
Chapters 47–51. Covers manga posts on Twitter and the Saizensen website from September 2018 to July 2019.

An anime television series adaptation was announced at Anime Expo in July 2022. It was produced by Lay-duce and directed by Hitoshi Nanba, with assistant direction from Noriko Hashimoto, scripts written by Megumi Shimizu, character designs handled by Shiori Hiraiwa, and music composed by Masaru Yokoyama. The 13-episode series aired from January 5 to March 30, 2023, on Tokyo MX and other networks.[36][37][d] The opening theme song is "Kurae! Telepathy" (くらえ！テレパシー, Kurae! Terepashī) by Maharajan.[39] Rie Takahashi, Rina Hidaka, and Sally Amaki performed the ending theme song "yurukuru＊love" from Episodes 2–9 and 11–13,[39] while Kaito Ishikawa, Kōhei Amasaki, and Yoshitsugu Matsuoka performed the ending theme song "Jiribaki_love" for Episode 10.[40] Crunchyroll co-produced and streamed the series.[3][41]

As part of Anime News Network's Fall 2018 manga guide, Rebecca Silverman, Amy McNulty, Faye Hopper, and Teresa Navarro reviewed the first volume for the website. Silverman, McNulty, and Navarro praised the characters and art, while Hopper was more critical of the plot.[45]

In 2016, the series won the Next Manga Award in the web manga category.[46]

  1. ^ In the English dub of the anime, young Tomo Aizawa is voiced by Emi Lo.[5]
  2. ^ a b In the anime, young Junichiro is voiced by Makoto Koichi in Japanese,[6] and by Dani Chambers in English.[7]
  3. ^ Young Misuzu is voiced by Jalitza Delgado in the English dub.[8]
  4. ^ a b Tokyo MX listed the series premiere at 24:30 on January 4, 2023, which is effectively January 5 at 12:30 a.m.[38]
  5. ^ All English titles are taken from Crunchyroll.[43]
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  • ^ "Ch." and "Vol." are shortened forms for chapter and volume in the Tomo-chan Is a Girl! manga as presented in the tankobon volumes.
  • ^ "Ep." is shortened form for episode and refers to an episode number of the Tomo-chan Is a Girl! anime.