Seitokai Yakuindomo is a Japanese four-panelmanga series written and illustrated by Tozen Ujiie. It ran in Kodansha's Magazine Special from May 2007 to June 2008. It was then transferred to Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in July 2008, and has been running there since. Its chapters are collected and published into individual tankōbon volumes, with eighteen volumes released as of August 2019. A 13-episode anime television series adaptation animated by GoHands aired in Japan between July and September 2010. A second anime season aired between January and March 2014. An anime film premiered in July 2017, and a second anime film was set to premiere in July 2020, but has been delayed to January 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In North America, the anime series has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks.
Plot
Takatoshi Tsuda attends Ōsai Academy, a high school that, due to declining birth rates, is converted from an all-girl school to a co-ed school. On his first day, he is forcibly recruited into the student council as the vice-president and sole male representative. The story follows Tsuda and the student council as they interact with each other and their schoolmates.
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Crossover characters
Characters from Ujiie's previous works have made appearances in Seitokai. Misaki Amano from College Girl Tutor Hamanaka Ai is Shino's ex-vice president in elementary school. Being in the same class as Shino in elementary school they both are of the same age with Amano now also being a high school student, although both of them went to different high schools. Like Takatoshi, she acts as a tsukkomi for Shino's various jokes. The idol unit Triple Booking from Ujiie's work Idol's Red Book also make appearances.
Media
Manga
Seitokai Yakuindomo is written and illustrated by Tozen Ujiie. The manga began serialization in the June 2007 issue of Kodansha's Magazine Special, published on May 19, 2007. It ran in the magazine until the July 2008 issue, published on June 20, 2008. The series was then transferred to Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, starting with the 34th issue of 2008, published on July 23, 2008. The first tankōbon volume was released on August 12, 2008, under Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine KC imprint. As of August 2019, 18 volumes have been released.
Volume list
Anime
A 13-episode anime television series produced by GoHands and directed by Hiromitsu Kanazawa aired in Japan between July 4 and September 26, 2010 on TV Kanagawa. The anime began airing at later dates on Chiba TV, TV Saitama, Sun TV, KBS, Tokyo MX, TV Aichi, and AT-X. Two pieces of theme music are used for the anime: one opening theme and one ending theme. The opening theme is "Yamato Nadeshiko Education" by Triple Booking, which is a group of characters from the author's previous work Idol no Akahon; the voices are Yōko Hikasa, Satomi Satō and Sayuri Yahagi—the voices of Shino, Aria and Suzu. The ending theme is "Aoi Haru" by Angela. Six Blu-ray/DVD volumes were released between August 4 and October 27, 2010. Certain scenes in the anime were censored for broadcast on TV, but the BD/DVD releases have the option of turning the majority of the censoring on or off. A 13-episode second season titled Seitokai Yakuindomo * aired between January 4 and March 29, 2014. It was simulcast with English subtitles by Crunchyroll. An anime film was released on July 21, 2017. Sentai Filmworks licensed both seasons and the film for release on Blu-ray in December 2019. A second anime film was set to be released on July 10, 2020 but was delayed to January 1, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The staff and cast returned to reprise their roles in both films. Original video animation episodes of the anime have been shipping with the limited editions of the manga volumes, beginning with the fifth volume released on April 15, 2011. The OVAs are released with limited edition bundles of the manga and also as standalone videos. They are also produced by GoHands and their episodes are numbered as if they continued the TV series. The sixteenth volume instead bundled the first movie. An Internet radio show titled Anime 'Seitokai Yakuindomo' ga Zenbu Wakaru Radio, Ryakushite Zenra!'' produced by Animate TV began streaming online on July 14, 2010 to support the TV series. The show does not have any fixed hosts, but members of the voice cast take turns hosting the show every week.
Works cited
"Ch." is shortened form for chapter and refers to a chapter number of the Seitokai Yakuindomo manga by Tozen Ujiie. Original Japanese version published by Kodansha. "Ch. p" references to chapters published in Magazine Special, while those without the "p" refer to chapters published in Weekly Shonen Magazine.
