Kyō Kara Ore Wa!!


Kyō Kara Ore Wa!! is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Nishimori. The series was initially published in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Zōkan running monthly from September 1988 to August 1990. The series was then promoted to the weekly magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from September 1990 to November 1997. Its chapters were compiled into 38 tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan.

Story

Two boys, Takashi Mitsuhashi and Shinji Itō meet each other at a salon. It turns out both boys are transferring to a new school and decide to take the opportunity to reinvent themselves. No longer will they be run of the mill high school students, they will become the biggest delinquents Japan has ever seen!

Characters

Nanyou High

;Takashi Mitsuhashi
;Shinji Itō
;Riko Akasaka
;Ryō Tanaka
;Shūichi Takasaki
;Naoya Sagawa
;Keiichi Izawa
;Megumi
;Yūichi Sakakigawa

Seiran Girl School

;Kyōko Hayakawa

Benibane High

;Katsutoshi Imai
;Yasuo Tanigawa
;Tarō Koyama
;Makoto Nakano

Akehisa High

;Satoshi Katakiri
;Takeshi Sagara
;Suenaga

Others

;Ryōko Morigawa
;Tetsuya Kurosaki

Media

Manga

Kyō Kara Ore Wa!! is written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Nishimori. It was first serialized in the magazine Shōnen Sunday Zōkan, running monthly from September 10, 1988 to August 10, 1990. It was transferred to the magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday, where it ran from September 19, 1990 to November 5, 1997. The first manga tankōbon volume was published on December 14, 1989, and last thirty-eighth on March 18, 1998.
A series of special new chapters under the title Kyō kara Ore wa!!: Yūsha Sagawa to Ano Futari-hen were published in Shōnen Sunday S from November 24, 2018 to February 25, 2019. These chapters were compiled into a single tankōbon volume published on April 18, 2019.

Volume list

Original video animation

Kyō Kara Ore Wa!! was adapted into 10 episode OVA series by Studio Pierrot and directed by Takeshi Mori and Masami Anō. The first was released on April 1, 1993 and last on December 21, 1996.

Episode list

Live-action video

released a series of live-action videos:
A live-action film was released on February 19, 1994.

Drama

Manga series Kyō Kara Ore Wa!! was adapted into a Japanese television drama, starring Kento Kaku as Takashi Mitsuhashi, Kentarō as Shinji Itō, Nana Seino as Riko Akasaki, and Kanna Hashimoto as Kyōko Hayakawa, as the main protagonists, and including Yuu Shirota, Tomoya Nakamura, Kenta Suga, Katsuya, Junki Tozuka, and others as antagonists. Nippon TVs series official page reported a number of official guests, including Hirofumi Arai, Nobue Iketani, Shun Oguri, Haruka Shimazaki, Katsumi Takahashi, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Jun Hashimoto, Minami Hamabe, Yūya Yagira, Kento Yamazaki, Takayuki Yamada and Ayumu Yokoyama. Nippon TV translated the TV series title into English as From Today, It's My Turn!! The series premiered on Nippon TV on October 14, 2018.
A new live-action film is set to be released on July 17, 2020, with Yuichi Fukuda returning as director.

Reception

As of March 2018, the manga had over 40 million copies in print.