Seiyuu ka-!: Difference between revisions

m
m (cleanup categories)
 
(5 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown)
Line 2:
[[File:seiyuu-ka-maki-minami_1_9895.jpg|frame]]
 
'''''Seiyuu Ka-!''''' is a 2009 [[Shojo]] manga series by [[Special A|Maki Minami]].
 
Fifteen-year-old [[Plucky Girl|Hime Kino]] has started her first year of high school at a ''[[Seiyuu]]'' (or voice actor) school, Hiiragi Academy, the number one school to get voice actors debuted and among the students are celebrities, including two [[Teen Idol|teen idols]] from Idol Unit "Aqua"--[[Crazy Jealous Guy|Shuuma]] [[Hot-Blooded|Kawai]] [[Heterosexual Life Partners|and]] [[Dogged Nice Guy|Mizuki]] [[The Dulcinea Effect|Haruyama]]--and [[Troubled but Cute|Kudou]] [[Tsundere|Senri]], a rising star to fame. Hime dreams of one day being a seiyuu on one of the most popular anime series in Japan--[[Magical Girl|"Mahou Senshi Lovely Blazers,"]] but that proves to be a problem as her voice isn't quite [[Bad Bad Acting|suitable]] for that of a ''seiyuu''. In spite of this, Hime is determined to prove that she can be a ''seiyuu''.
 
When Hime displays an uncanny potential to be a ''seiyuu'' using a "prince-like" voice that captivates audiences, Aqua's producer [[Bad Boss|Haruka]] [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold|Yamada]] takes notice in the girl and eventually decides to produce Hime as a ''seiyuu''--with a ''catch'': Haruka wants to market Hime as a "male" ''seiyuu'' under the name "Shiro." Hime must [[Cross DresserCrossdresser|crossdress]] [[Sweet Polly Oliver|as a boy]] while dubbing at the studio; if her [[Living a Double Life|double life]] identity is found out, her contract is cut. Hime is initially reluctant to masquerade as a male ''seiyuu'' when her dream is to become a cute "Lovely Blazer" like her idol (and Senri's mother) Sakura Aoyama, but she agrees to reach her dream.
----
== This series provides the following tropes: ==
 
{{tropelist}}
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Sana Sonohara and Tsukino Todoroki.
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Ume Ichijou. She gets better.
Line 40 ⟶ 39:
* [[Delinquent]]: Shou.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Once Hime starts her double life role masquerading as Shiro, her school friends Tsuriko, Takayanagi, and Mitchi don't show up very often in the manga, only appearing from time to time in chapters.
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: [[The Dulcinea Effect|Mizuki towards Hime]]. [[Sweet Onon Polly Oliver|Tooru towards Shiro]].
* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Mizuki develops this for Hime and really wants to support her whenever the latter needs help rehearsing lines or if anything's troubling her. It helps that Hime [[You Remind Me of X|reminds him of]] [[Dead Little Sister|Sana]].
* [[Hair Decorations]]
* [[Failure Knight]]: Mizuki blames himself for Sana quitting the drama club and acting as a whole because he was told that if Sana got attached to him, then he'd be crushing her dream by her constantly relying on him, so he began avoiding her requests for help. Needless to say, this decision backfired on him and made Sana's acting career and confidence plummet to the ground, and the two of them grew apart.
* [[Fan Girl]]: Tsuriko is a ''big'' fan of Hime to the extent that she'll only agree to do things for Hime's sake and she'll place "curses" on people who insult Hime.
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
Line 54 ⟶ 53:
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]:
** Shuu gets [[Crazy Jealous Guy|extremely]] jealous when he finds out Mizuki is interested in Hime and wants to be her friend.
** Tooru sees Mizuki as his rival and absolutely hates his guts. Mizuki, on the other hand, doesn't really notice Tooru too much until Tooru [[Sweet Onon Polly Oliver|starts hanging around]] Shiro... and Mizuki ''does not'' like Tooru hanging around Shiro.
* [[Grumpy Bear]]: Takayanagi.
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Shou Takayanagi has a bad temper.
Line 67 ⟶ 66:
* [[Lethal Chef]]: Senri.
* [[Living a Double Life]]: From Volume 3 onward, Hime must maintain a double life as a [[Sweet Polly Oliver|"male"]] ''seiyuu'' named "Shiro."
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Shuu is [[Ho Yay|"infatuated"]] with Mizuki, who might have liked Sana and [[The Dulcinea Effect|currently seems]] [[Dogged Nice Guy|to have feelings]] for Hime, who eventually falls for Senri, {{spoiler|who is starting to feel something for Shiro.}} Tsuriko is also [[Les Yay|very fond]] of Hime, while Tooru [[Sweet Onon Polly Oliver|has a crush on]] Shiro--unaware that she's really Hime--and mistakes Shiro's closeness to Mizuki for them being "gay." Haruka may or may not have feelings for Hime. Ume initially perceives Takayanagi as her "prince," only to no longer think of him as it once her fantasy of it shatters, only for them to gain quite a bit of [[Ship Tease]] together.
* [[Malicious Slander]]: To jealously keep Hime away from Mizuki, Shuu kisses Hime on the cheek to imply to his fans that they must be dating, so they can create a human barrier to separate Hime from Shuu and Mizuki.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Hime means [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses|"princess,"]] but she certainly doesn't [[Tomboy|look]] or [[Bad Bad Acting|sound]] the part.
** [[Meaningful Rename]]: Hime deduces that the "Shiro" part of her [[Living a Double Life|cover-up name]] comes from the term ''doshirouto'', which means "big amateur" in Japanese and is what Haruka often calls Hime.
* [[Megane]]: Mizuki.
Line 89 ⟶ 88:
* [[Protectorate]]: Shuu is ''very'' protective of Mizuki.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Shuu and Mizuki.
* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: During Hime's retreat to help use her "prince" voice, Mizuki starts to remind Hime of Sana, his close friend who he tried to help become an actress, but learning that the possibility of her becoming dependent on him might crush her dream, decided to avoid her. Sana ended up quitting the drama club after a series of failures at auditions and blamed Mizuki for abandoning her when she needed him.
* [[Rescue Romance]]: Mizuki first get interested in Hime after she asks him if she could borrow his uniform so she could pretend to be Tsuriko's "boyfriend" and rescue her from an unwanted suitor. This trope is also Ume's definition of moe.
* [[Running Gag]]:
Line 97 ⟶ 96:
** Haruka calling Hime [[In-Series Nickname|"amateur"]] and flicking her on the forehead.
** Senri (and other people) mistaking Shiro for an [[Cute Shotaro Boy|elementary school student]].
** Tooru [[Sweet Onon Polly Oliver|wanting to spend time]] with Shiro, but Mizuki intervenes.
* [[Secret Keeper]]: The only people who know that Shiro is Hime are Haruka, Mizuki, and Shuu.
* [[Slice of Life]]
Line 106 ⟶ 105:
** [[Pet the Dog|Haruka and Hime]]: Haruka has shown concern over Hime and in spite of his moodiness, he genuinely cares about her. In Chapter 38, Mizuki notices the effort Haruka is doing to promote Hime and says that the former must care about the latter; Haruka denies it and suggests that it's Mizuki who cares about Hime. When Mizuki claims that he only thinks of Hime as a "junior," Haruka seems relieved.
** [[Ho Yay|Shuu and Mizuki]]: Shuu is extremely attached and protective of Mizuki. Shuu is said to be infatuated with Mizuki, but claims that he's not gay.
** [[Just Friends|Takayanagi and Ume]]: Ume is initially infatuated with Takayanagi until she realizes that he's not the "moe" prince-character she thought he was. They form a friendship with Takayanagi agreeing to find Ume's "prince," though it's been teased that Takayanagi might in fact be Ume's "prince."
** [[Sweet Onon Polly Oliver|Tooru and Shiro]]: Tooru develops a crush on Shiro and tries to hang out with her, only for Mizuki to intervene.
* [[Shoujo Demographic]]
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Tsukino.
Line 115 ⟶ 114:
* [[Supreme Chef]]: Hime.
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: A variation. Haruka decides to market Hime as a male ''seiyuu'', and for her to keep her contract with him, she must dress up and live as a boy at her apartment and pretend to be one whenever she's dubbing at the studio while only being a girl while she's at school.
** [[Sweet Onon Polly Oliver]]: Tooru develops this for Hime's alter ego Shiro.
* [[The Unfavorite]]: Hime. Her mother blatantly prefers her little sister over her, and expresses this at every chance she gets.
* [[Three Amigos]]: Mizuki, Shuu, and Sana had a bit of this dynamic.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Hime and her younger sister Akane. Hime and Tsukino.
* [[Training Fromfrom Hell]]: How Hime describes Haruka's retreats to get Hime to use her "prince voice." Every time she is unable to do it, Haruka flicks her on the head hard and even threatens to bury her if she can't do it in one hundred tries. ''After one hundred tries'', Haruka instead ties Hime to a tree, though Mizuki shortly cuts her from it.
* [[Tsundere]]:
** Kudou Senri. He acts ''tsun-tsun'' towards Hime and pretty much everyone else, but he only really shows his ''dere-dere'' side to [[Cuteness Proximity|cats]]... and [[Sweet Polly Oliver|"Shiro."]]
Line 127 ⟶ 126:
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy|"Well Done, Daughter" Girl]]: Hime.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Hime first crossdresses to pretend to be Tsuriko's "boyfriend" and save her from getting harassed by an unwanted suitor. She later crossdresses as her alter ego [[Sweet Polly Oliver|Shiro]] in order to be marketed as a ''seiyuu'' by Haruka.
* [[With a Friend Andand Aa Stranger]]: This is how Mizuki's relationship with Shuu as "the friend" and Sana "the stranger" start off, but subverted in that Shuu and Sana are childhood friends, so Mizuki could very well be "the stranger" in this aspect.
* [[You Remind Me of X]]: Hime reminds Senri of a cat named Gonzales, reminds Mizuki of Sana, and reminds Yashima of Sakura Aoyama.
 
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Manga]]
[[Category:Seiyuu Ka{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:SeiyuuShoujo ka-!Demographic]]
[[Category:Manga of the 2000s]]