Scenes From Awajima is a manga by Takako Shimura, also known as A Hundred Scenes of AWAJIMA, with an anime adaptation. The third volume collects three new stories about students at the Awajima Revue School.
The two accounts of Scenes From Awajima cover different objects. The older one is about the anime adaptation and how it came to be. Takako Shimura said she made no specific requests of the production team and that the team worked carefully. She described herself as a theatergoer rather than a performer, and said the school draws partly on the Takarazuka Revue as a reference. The omnibus structure, in her account, is a way to write about people who are not geniuses.
The newer story moves to the manga's third volume, which carries three new stories about students of the Awajima Revue School. One follows Akiho, whose famous parents set expectations and then dash them, and who ends up rooming with Wakana. Another traces the shifting roles of Saori and Mikako as rivals, replacements, and friends. A third follows Asami and her family's religion.
That last chapter is where the two versions part. The manga identifies the family's religion as Christianity, while the anime adaptation kept it a vague cult. Shimura leaves the reading open. Nothing in either story settles how the adaptation will treat the volume's material.
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4d ago
The third volume of Takako Shimura's Scenes from Awajima carries three new stories about students of the Awajima Revue School. One follows Akiho, whose famous parents set expectations and then dash them, and who ends up rooming with Wakana. Another traces the shifting roles of Saori and Mikako as rivals, replacements, and friends. A third focuses on Asami and her family's religion, which the manga identifies as Christianity.
Oct 7
In an interview, manga author Takako Shimura discussed the anime adaptation of Scenes From Awajima, also known as A Hundred Scenes of AWAJIMA. Shimura said she made no specific requests for the adaptation and that the production team worked carefully. She said the school drew partly on the Takarazuka Revue as a reference, and that the omnibus structure serves stories about people who are not geniuses.