Ashita no Ousama

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Synonyms: Tomorrow's King

Japanese: 明日の王様

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 10

Chapters: 53

Status: Finished

Published: 1996 to 2001

Theme: Performing Arts

Demographic: Josei

Serialization: Young You

Authors: Yachi, Emiko (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #635²

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Popularity: #4773

Members: 4,197

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MangaYoung YouYachi, Emiko (Story & Art)

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First-year Japanese major Yuu Sasaya is a naive country girl who has yet to adjust to the sophisticated city lifestyle. After watching a stage play for the first time, a particular minor role's performance leaves such a profound impact on her that she decides to pursue a career in acting.

Yuu confesses her newfound dream to a classmate and though ridiculed, attains an opportunity to tour a theatre company. While there, she meets the well-reputed rookie actor, Touya Ichii, and immediately recognizes his voice as the character who had impacted her. Seeing Yuu's passion, Touya recommends her to his friend's troupe, Garandou Company, run by Shougo Shimamura.

Shougo tests Yuu's acting skills with high expectations, only to discover that she is a complete amateur. Unwilling to accept defeat so soon, she pleads him to let her observe and learn from them over time. Ashita no Ousama tells Yuu's story as she searches for her hidden flair among the different positions offered in a theatre troupe, with immense determination to make it big in the world of the dramatic arts.

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Sasaya, Yuu

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Ichii, Touya

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Shimamura, Shougo

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Sawamura, Fujinosuke

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Kazuma, Rin

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Jun 10, 2017

sam_matt

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Theater , stardom, direction, production, screen writing, and much more is what this manga is all about. So if you relish drama onstage and backstage (centered more around the latter ), do read this manga. What I really liked about this manga was the realistic scenario the writer tried to convey (though after a point of time became a little far reached ). Persistent efforts can take you anywhere but you ought to put in the efforts - is what I learnt from this manga and can summarise the theme to be. Female protagonist is an admirable character from whom you can learn a ...

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Dec 26, 2012

halfshadows

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Ashita no Ousama is a story about an average girl who falls in love with theater and discovers a hidden talent. If you're into shoujo manga, this sounds very familiar so when i first started reading this i was afraid it was gonna be another Glass Mask or Skip Beat but i was pleasantly surprised. This manga was not perfect, but a nice read nevertheless.

To touch on the art for a bit, it's from the 90s, so you get what you expect. You get used to it after a bit, but nothing looks particularly pretty. At one point, the main character mentions someone is beautiful ... on a full page panel, and you think "well... if you say so."

As for the plot, it's very similar to Glass Mask, but the twist is that she writes plays instead of acting. Interestingly, there's almost no drama. There's some, but it all gets very quickly resolved. The story focuses on her development as a writer but the manga falls short here. You would expect that with every script she writes, she learns a lesson, discovers something she was missing, and slowly gets good at writing scripts.

Unfortunately, this is not the case. Yuu becomes a good writer exceptionally fast. Everything she does is a success. It never seems that her scripts are missing anything except at one part of the story. When she improves her writing, there is no concrete reason for why. She just kinda gets better with experience, and that's it. And it all happens too fast. You become a good writer with experience, or so i've heard, but she becomes a professional writer in what seemed no time at all. Maybe it's because it's because she's super talented or something but it still feels off.

It all ends up with a surreal feeling. The audience doesn't get any profound insight into writing which is a huge missed opportunity. It's this that keeps me from rating it any higher than an 8.

The characters are all okay. Everyone is pretty pleasant, but there are no strong characters. Everyone is bland and boring. This is related to there not being any drama. None of the character's pasts are explored. characters disappear as quickly as they are introduced. You only the see surface of their characters. Maybe it's because the story is told from Yuu's point of view, and we only see what Yuu views, but it makes it so none of the characters leave any big impressions on you. Even Yuu, her character doesn't go beyond really nice person who doesn't give up.

The ending was okay. It wasn't exactly what i was expecting, and i was a little confused at to whether i had actually finished reading the manga. I found the ending was very open ended. I would have like to see Yuu grow even more and do more plays.

Overall it was enjoyable. Don't thing that i hated it because of this review. If you want to read why it's a good manga, there's always people who give it 10/10 so read their reviews. I wrote this for people who want to know the negatives to contrast other reviews, so that's why there's mostly negative stuff in this review.Everything was good but not great, it clearly missed out on things that a 10/10 manga would have but i would still recommend it. I read it all in one sitting which says something about it. If you want to read something about a girl finding her passion in life, it's certainly worth your time.

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May 20, 2010

Torii-chan

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Ashita no Ousama revolved around Yuu, a country girl who becomes exposed to the world of acting and is entranced. She wants to become an actress, but has no aptitude for acting but is a great storywriter. From there she meets and influences many others that are in the entertainment world.

Story 9/10: The story line was great. There was a lot of growth in the feeling of the story. Emiko Yachi does a great job of showing the complexities of the acting profession as well as human relations.

Art 9/10: At first I didn't really care for the animation, I thought it was drawn ...

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