Mint na Bokura
Mint na Bokura (ミントな僕ら; We Are Mint) is a shojo manga created by Yoshizumi Wataru. The series was first published in Ribon magazine in 1997 and ended in 2000. The chapters were collected and published by Shueisha into six volumes. Mint na Bokura was licensed and released in Spain as 16 volumes manga series.
Contents
Synopsis
The story of Mint na Bokura focuses on the middle school life of the 14 years-old Minamino twins: Noeru and Maria. Returning from a trip to Hawaii with his dad, Noeru found out that his sister, Maria had transferred to Morinomiya Boarding School because of a crush on Hirobe Kazuaki, the basketball team's trainer. Upsetting by the fact that his sister left him to follow an other guy, Noeru decides to follow Maria and bring her back but unfortunately, the boy dorms are out of places and Noeru must disguise as a girl if he want to enter Morinomiya. With a wig made like Maria's hair, Noeru enrolls to Morinomiya School as Maria's twin sister.
In Morinomiya school, Noeru makes a new life and befriends with Makimura Miyu, his roomate and Sasa Ryuji, a classmate who is also a member of the basketball club. To investigate about Maria's crush, he also enters the basketball club as the new manager of the boy team.
Characters
- Minamino Noeru (南野のえる): the main protagonist of the series
- Noeru is a sweet and simple-minded 14 year-old boy. He enrolls to Morinomiya Boarding School as Maria's twin sister to bring her back to the old school but he later accepts Maria's love and lets her go. As the series progresses, Noeru slowly develops feelings for his roomate, Makimura Miyu.
- Minamino Noeru (南野まりあ): Noeru's twin sister
- Maria is Noeru's twin sister. Because of her crush of Hirobe Kazuaki, the basketball trainer for the girl team, she asks her mother to transfer to Morinomiya Boarding School. Because Kazuaki already had a girlfriend, she gives up her love for him and accepts the confession of his brother, Yoshiaki.
- Sasa Ryuji (佐々龍至): Noeru's best friend in Morinomiya School
- Sasa is Noeru and Maria's classmate and an ace player of the boy team of the basketball club. After Noeru became the new manager of the boy team, he befriends and falls in love with Noeru because he does not act like the normal girls. Noeru later confesses to him that he is a boy.
- Makimura Miyu (牧村未有): Noeru's roomate
- Miyu is Noeru's roomate and Sasa's cousin, a quiet girl who does not have a lot of friends. At the beginning of the series, she is rumored to have suspicious relationship with an older man but it later explains that it is her lost father.
Releases
- [1998.01.19] Volume One
- [1998.09.19] Volume Two
- [1999.02.20] Volume Three
- [1999.07.20] Volume Four
- [1999.12.12] Volume Five
- [2000.04.19] Volume Six
