Yancha Gyaru no Anjō-san (Japanese: やんちゃギャルの安城さん, transl.: "Naughty Gyaru Anjō-san") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yūichi Katō. It has been serialized since August 2017 in Shōnen Gahōsha's Young King magazine, and its chapters have been collected into eight tankōbon volumes.
In May 2019, Katō started two Anjō-san manga spinoffs: Anjō-san no Gakkō no Hokenshitsu no Komaki-sensei (安城さんの学校の保健室の小牧先生, "Ms. Komaki, The Nurse at Anjō-san's School"), illustrated by Tsubaki Ayasugi, and Yancha Gal no Anjō-san-tachi: Kō-1-hen (やんちゃギャルの安城さんたち 高1編, Yancha Gyaru no Anjō-san-tachi: Kō-ichi-hen, "Naughty Gyaru Anjō-san and Others: 1st Year"), illustrated by Suoshiro, which both share serialization in Young King along with the main series.
In a high school in Kasugai, Seto is a serious student who lives a quiet and ordinary life. But when his mischievous classmate, Anna Anjō, begins teasing and hanging out with him on a regular basis, it starts an interesting relationship between them. The story follows the lives and antics of the two polar opposites, both in appearance and personality, as they develop into a romantic couple through their many playful—and sometimes erotic—interactions.
Characters[]
The names of the characters are based on cities located in Aichi Prefecture.[2]
Seto is a bespectacled high school student in his second year, who is the president of his class. He is a plain and ordinary-looking boy who initially has no interest in girls and only cares about his grades. In their initial encounters, he sees Anjō as too erotic, he gets very lewd thoughts around her, and does not know anything about her or understand why she teases him.Ch. 1-10 After he defended her from harsh words by a classmate, and as the two started to hang out more, he has developed feelings for her, but cannot build up the self-confidence to tell her out loud. He struggles trying to improve the person that he is and is unsure about his future ambitions in life.
Anjō is a gyaru who is in the same class as Seto. She is incredibly beautiful, flamboyant, athletic, and popular, with a cheery personality and outgoing kindness. When the two first met, she took a liking to Seto because of his hard-working nature, then developed a deep crush for him after one of the boys in their class spoke nasty things about her behind her back that Seto refuted.Ch. 14 Ever since, she teases and flirts with him constantly, sometimes to lewd extents. She hopes to follow in her mother's footsteps and become a professional beautician, and will sometimes use Seto as styling practice.Ch. 6 Her name is similar to that of a real life Japanese adult film star.[3]
Toyoda is one of Anjō's friends, who is a member of the school's Beautification Committee. Nicknamed "Toyo" (トヨ), she speaks in a Kansai dialect, sports long jet-black hair, and is a cool and calm type girl who likes all things cuteCh. 27, although she is embarrassed by this as she feels having an affinity for such things does not fit her outward appearance and personality.Ch. 57 Her dream is to become the president of a company that creates fancy mascot characters. Later in the story, it is revealed she has a brother named Tokio (トキオ).Ch. 71
Chita is another friend of Anjō, and another member of the Beautification Committee. Nicknamed "Chii" (チー, Chī), she is a mostly quiet girl, with very short hair, thick eyebrows, and a petite figure. She offers Seto some advice about Anjō from time to time, as Seto is learning about Anjō's true feelings.Ch. 51 She is a foodie with a big appetite who can be seen eating large amounts of food. She goes out with Tokio on a food run and is impressed with him being able to keep up with her in terms of eating.Ch. 75
Inuyama is Seto's friend since junior high. He is an otaku who is exceptionally good at drawing and designing cosplay costumes. At first, he takes interest in Toyoda simply because she has a large chestCh. 7, but after learning that she likes cute things at a gacha machine and when the two worked together in a mascot character contest, he starts developing deeper feelings for her. Later in the story, he has the desire to ask Toyoda out, but is scared from possible rejection and sadness.Ch. 90
Ms. Komaki (小牧先生, Komaki-sensei)
Komaki is the nurse at Anjō and Seto's high school. She is a free-spirited young woman with an eccentric personality, who cares deeply about the students she looks after. Seto and her have a bond through the two exchanging similar tastes in manga.Ch. 4 In her spinoff series, she can be seen with her best friend and colleague, Tobishima (飛島), who is an art teacher.
Manga[]
Yancha Gal no Anjō-san is written and illustrated by Yūichi Katō.[4][5] The series has its origins on Pixiv, where Katō published short stories featuring Anjō and Seto, as early as March 2017.[6] A manga then began serialization in issue #17 of Shōnen Gahōsha's Young King magazine on August 12, 2017.[7][8] Shōnen Gahōsha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. As of July 12, 2021, eight volumes have been published.[9]
A spinoff manga, Anjō-san no Gakkō no Hokenshitsu no Komaki-sensei, written by Katō and illustrated by Tsubaki Ayasugi, started serialization in issue #11 of Young King on May 13, 2019, and has three tankōbon volumes published as of July 12, 2021.[10][11]
In the following issue, another spinoff, Yancha Gal no Anjō-san-tachi: Kō-1-hen, also written by Katō and illustrated by Suoshiro, began serialization in Young King on May 27, 2019, and has four tankōbon volumes published as of July 12, 2021.[12][13]
Yancha Gal no Anjō-san has been compared to other "teasing" romantic comedy manga, such as Teasing Master Takagi-san, Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!, and Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro, in that the four manga all share a similar story structure that revolves around a flirtatious schoolgirl and a meek schoolboy (although not the case in terms of personality with the male protagonist of Uzaki-chan) who start as friends that simply hang out together, then develop into a romantic couple as the story progresses with the girl teasing, or "bullying", the boy, who in turn has intimate feelings for the girl, but is too shy to admit them to her.[29][30][31][32]
Works cited[]
^ "Ch." is shortened form for chapter and refers to a chapter number of the Yancha Gal no Anjō-san manga.
