Pink no Idenshi
Pink no Idenshi is a Japanese manga series by Jun Yuzuki. It was serialized in the monthly Shōjo manga manga magazine Bessatsu Friend from 2002 to 2005. A live-action television drama adaptation was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October to December 2005.
Plot
Pink no Idenshi is a anthology series of unrelated short stories about high school girls exploring romantic and sexual relationships with their classmates and teachers. Volumes 2, 4, and 5 feature an ongoing plot about Natsu Saitō and Taichi Kobayashi, two high school students who have just begun dating, exploring the conflicts and misunderstandings they face in their newfound relationship.Cast and characters
Main characters
;Taichi Kobayashi;Natsu Saitō
;Hikaru Chikubushima
;Satoshi Hanamura
;Kaoruko Hōjō
;Tsukasa Kirinoin
Other characters
- Manami Fuku as Rise Shibata
- Hiro Mizushima as Mizuki Iskushima
- Jun Natsukawa as Ayase Saiki
- Mitsuru Karahashi as Masaya Fujiki
- Eri Sakai as Yumeka Shindō
- Shoichi Matsuda as Toworu Kurosawa
- Misaki Momose as Nao Matsuda
- Ryunosuke Kawai as Miriwo Kinoshita
- Takayo Kashiwagi as Madoka Mizue
- Motoki Ochiai as Daisuke Yuki
- Meguru Ishii as Chizuru Kanno
- Yu Shirota as Maki Nakajō
- Takuya as Senri Nakajō
Media
Manga
Pink no Idenshi is written and illustrated by Jun Yuzuki. It was serialized in the monthly manga magazine Bessatsu Friend from 2002 to 2005. The chapters were later released in 7 bound volumes by Kodansha under the Bessatsu Friend Comics imprint.While Pink no Idenshi largely contains a series of unrelated short stories, volumes 2, 4, and 5 feature an ongoing plot about Natsu Saitō and Taichi Kobayashi.
TV drama
A live-action television drama adaptation was broadcast from October 3 to December 26, 2005, on TV Tokyo. It was produced by Masayuki Iwata with screenplay by Haruko Nagatsu. The series starred Lead member Hiroki Nakadoi as Taichi Kobayashi, Narumi Konno as Natsu Saitō, Zenjiro as Satoshi Hanamura, Makoto Sakamoto as Hikaru Chikubushima, Kaoru Sumiya as Kaoruko Hojo and Tsuyoshi Kimura as Tsukasa Kirinoin. The series' opening theme song is "Ranning" by The Phanky Okstra and the ending theme is "Play With the Numbers" by Hinoi Team.All thirteen episodes were released on DVD on February 25, 2006. The series was later re-compiled and released as several discounted volumes: "Abunai Hōkago" and "Ōji-sama no Mitsu no Aji" were released as vol. 1 on October 27, 2006; "Ubatte Darling" and "Furachi na Kyōshi" were released as vol. 2; and "Kiken na Sankaku Kankei" and "Kiss Kiss Kiss" were released as vol. 3 on November 24, 2006. Natsu and Taichi's story arc was compiled as vol. 4 under the subtitle Taichi & Natsu and released on December 15, 2006.