Gacha Gacha


Gacha Gacha is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Tamakoshi. It consists of two separate stories with different characters each. The first one was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 2002 to June 2003. The second story, known as Gacha Gacha: The Next Revolution, was serialized in Magazine Special from July 2003 to October 2007. The overall series' chapters were collected in 16 volumes: the first part was collected in five volumes, and the second in 11 volumes. In North America, the manga was licensed by Del Rey Manga; the second part was released as Gacha Gacha: The Next Revolution.

Plot

''Gacha Gacha''

Kouhei Nanjou has been classmates with Kurara Hanazono since elementary school, and he has recently realized that he has developed a crush on her. However, after a fateful trip to Hawaii, Kurara has started to behave oddly at times—specifically acting extremely promiscuous and flirting shamelessly for short periods, then remembering nothing. Kouhei is often the target of this flirtatious and exhibitionist behavior, leaving him to take the blame when Kurara returns to normal.
After one such episode, leaving Kouhei—and Kurara—in an uncomfortable position, Kurara tells Kouhei that she now has multiple personality disorder, with her other, uninhibited, personality being named Arisa. After her confession she enlists Kouhei's help in dealing with her while the Arisa personality is in control, as well as covering up the existence of her embarrassing promiscuous side from other people.
As Kouhei and Kurara try their best to control Arisa, several other personalities emerge: Alice, the young, questioning adolescent; Rin, the martial arts expert; and Meow, a housecat. As Kouhei and Kurara try their best to remove the disorder while controlling the wild and wacky personalities that emerge, their relationship begins to grow into love.

''Gacha Gacha: The Next Revolution''

The story revolves around a malfunction at the Gacha Gacha virtual reality game, which has since gone retail after the events in the Capsule story arc. The malfunction causes the main character, an unlucky young man named Akira Hatsushiba, to transform into a young girl whenever he sneezes. The body is the tutorial character's body with which he was interacting when the Gacha Gacha game crashed. He later finds out that eating natto would transform the girl form into a taller and much more buxom form.
Akira uses his newfound body to learn more about women, specifically getting closer and improving his relationship with the girl with whom he is infatuated, Yurika Sakuraba.

Characters

''Gacha Gacha''

;Kouhei Nanjou
;Kurara Hanazono
;Reona Grace Hitachi
;Noda
;Karin Hanazono
;Alissa
;Alice
;Rin
;Meow
;Ayame
;Kiriko
;Ran Ran
;01
;Umeda

''Gacha Gacha: Next Revolution''

;Akira Hatsushiba
;Akira Hatsushiba
;Yurika Sakuraba
;Sakuraba Anju
;Sakuraba Ran
;Yun Haruna
;Masamune Kikuchi
;Morinoin Mitsuba

Publication

Written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Tamakoshi, Gacha Gacha was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 7, 2002, to June 18, 2003, The second part was serialized in Magazine Special from July 19, 2003, to October 20, 2007. Kodansha collected its chapters in 16 volumes, released from December 17, 2002, to December 17, 2007.
In North America, the manga was licensed by Del Rey Manga. The first five volumes were released from August 30, 2005, to August 26, 2006. The second part, released as Gacha Gacha: The Next Revolution, was published in 11 volumes from December 26, 2006, to March 23, 2010.