History Anime / BoysBe

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''Boys Be...'' (ボーイズ・ビー Bōizu Bī?) is a manga created and written by Masahiro Itabashi and illustrated by Hiroyuki Tamakoshi, which was in 2000 adapted into a 13 episode anime series by Hal Film Maker.

Three different ''Boys Be...'' manga series were serialized by Kodansha in Shukan Shōnen Magazine. In 2009 Kodansha announced a fourth series, starting in the November 2009 issue of Magazine Special. The second manga series is licensed in North America by Tokyopop and the anime is licensed by The Right Stuf International. The anime, first aired on WOWOW (with a matching fanline email address courtesy of Lycos Japan), is licensed in Singapore by Odex. The first DVD volume of the series was released in North America on February 28, 2006.

The anime focuses upon the ups and downs, joys and sorrows of first love and teenage romance. Six students struggle to find the perfect partner and their adolescent limitations. While several characters are taken from stories in the manga, the story of the anime is unrelated to the manga.

Each episode begins and ends with a philosophical quote which sums up the episode's content. ''Boys Be…'', while mainly centered on Kyoichi and Chiharu, revolves around six main characters and their love lives.
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!!This series provides examples of:

* BeachEpisode: The fifth episode.
* BlandNameProduct
* CanNotSpitItOut: Yeah, back that truckload right in there...
* ContinuityPorn: The twelfth episode features a lot of flashbacks to past events throughout the series as the [=20th=] century counts down to its close.
* ContrivedCoincidence: The New Year's Eve episode. Chiharu hears a rumor that couples who welcome the [=21st=] century together are destined to live happily ever after. Meanwhile, Kyoichi learns another rumor saying the complete opposite: if a couple is together at the stroke of midnight, their relationship is doomed. Naturally, they stumble onto each other as the clock strikes twelve, resulting in an awkward conversation between the two.
* CovertPervert: Makoto in the first episode. Until Chiharu follows his gaze as he looks at a mirror cleverly placed on his shoe, angled for him to get a PantyShot...
* HoldingHands: How Kyoichi and Chiharu's romance begins. Tragically, their relationship doesn't develop any further.
* LoveEpiphany: While Yumi is giving Makoto advice on how to woo her friend Erika, she starts falling in love with him.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title is a truncated version of William S. Clark's farewell address to his students: "Boys, be ambitious!" It's a popular Japanese motto that pops up in other school-based anime; it's on the school statue in ''{{Hyakko}}'', for instance.
* NamesTheSame: On Kyoichi's trip to Hokkaido, he's surprised to learn that the strange foreign-looking girl he encounters is also named Chiharu.
* NuclearWeaponsTaboo: A dream sequence involving the end of the world involves explosions that are nuclear-''esque'', but very definitely not nuclear, being rapidly-expanding blackish domes of some sort instead.
* PlotBasedVoiceCancellation: Car horns *are* loud, though, so JustifiedTrope?
** The seventh episode has Chiharu trying to talk to Kyoichi on the phone and confessing that she might be falling in love with someone else, while fireworks are going off behind her, preventing him from understanding what she's saying. Later, Kyoichi finally gets what she was trying to say as he stumbles into Chiharu kissing another guy.
* [[RuleThirtyFour Rule Thirty Six]]: In the manga, there's a recurring segment in which three teenage losers talk about the many and sundry things that get them off--elbows, sofa cushions... seawater enemas...
* SoundtrackDissonance: The opening song is beautiful, light, happy pop, entitled "Daijobu" (trans: It's Okay). Sung by, apparently, an angel (Aki Maeda's wonderful voice would certainly bear this out). On its own, this is all well and good. Watching the background, however, will reveal that she is singing this song over a freaking Nuclear Holocaust, and the song ends with a desolate playground, littered with calcified bones and a bit of sand blowing over the annihilated remains of humanity and quite probably the Earth itself. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6591H3ViEA Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it.]] Seriously, this may even stray into nightmare territory, as [[spoiler: in one episode, one of the girls has a dream of the end of the world, with huge black dome-shaped explosions... hmmmm. Meaning that this horrible, desolate wasteland could well be one future of the series, and those bones would consequently belong to *the main characters*, who have died horribly just as they find love and happiness.]] You can go cry yourself to sleep now.
* SpecialEditionTitle: The thirteenth (and last) episode of the animé. A different song plays over the opening credits, while the original opening song plays at the end.
* TheStinger[=/=]MaybeEverAfter: Kyoichi returns from his trip to Hokkaido, and it's a new spring season. Chiharu warmly welcomes him back.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: See TheStinger above for the answer.
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This series provides examples of:

Each episode begins and ends with a philosophical quote which sums up the episode's content. ''Boys Be…'', while centered on Kyoichi and Chiharu, revolves around seven or eight main characters and their love lives.

* BeachEpisode

* NuclearWeaponsTaboo: A dream sequence involving the end of the world involves explosions that are nuclear-ESQUE, but very definitely not nuclear, being rapidly-expanding blackish domes of some sort instead.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The opening song is beautiful, light, happy pop, entitled "Daijobu" (trans: It's Okay). Sung by, apparently, an angel (Aki Maeda's wonderful voice would certainly bear this out). On its own, this is all well and good. Watching the background, however, will reveal that she is singing this song over a freaking Nuclear Holocaust, and the song ends with a desolate playground, littered with calcified bones and a bit of sand blowing over the annihilated remains of humanity and quite probably the Earth itself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6591H3ViEA&feature=related Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it. Seriously, this may even stray into nightmare territory, as [[spoiler: in one episode, one of the girls has a dream of the end of the world, with huge black dome-shaped explosions... hmmmm. Meaning that this horrible, desolate wasteland could well be one future of the series, and those bones would consequently belong to *the main characters*, who have died horribly just as they find love and happiness.]] You can go cry yourself to sleep now.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title is a truncated version of William S. Clark's farewell address to his students: "Boys, be ambitious!" It's a popular Japanese motto that pops up in other school-based anime; it's on the school statue in ''{{Hyakko}}'', for instance.

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title is a truncated version of Writer/Teacher Lafcadio Hearn's farewell address to his students "Boys be ambitious."

* SoundtrackDissonance: The opening song is beautiful, light, happy pop, entitled "Daijobu" (trans: It's Okay). Sung by, apparently, an angel (Aki Maeda's wonderful voice would certainly bear this out). On its own, this is all well and good. Watching the background, however, will reveal that she is singing this song over a freaking Nuclear Holocaust, and the song ends with a desolate playground, littered with calcified bones and a bit of sand blowing over the annihilated remains of humanity and quite probably the Earth itself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6591H3ViEA&feature=related Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it. Seriously, this may even stray into NightmareFuel, as [[spoiler: in one episode, one of the girls has a dream of the end of the world, with huge black dome-shaped explosions... hmmmm. Meaning that this horrible, desolate wasteland could well be one future of the series, and those bones would consequently belong to *the main characters*, who have died horribly just as they find love and happiness.]] You can go cry yourself to sleep now.

Three different ''Boys Be...'' manga series were serialized by Kodansha in Shukan Shōnen Magazine. In 2009 Kodansha announced a fourth series, Boys Be... Next Season, starting in the November 2009 issue of Magazine Special. The second manga series is licensed in North America by Tokyopop and the anime is licensed by The Right Stuf International. The anime, first aired on WOWOW (with a matching fanline email address courtesy of Lycos Japan), is licensed in Singapore by Odex. The first DVD volume of the series was released in North America on February 28, 2006.

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/boys-be_9450.jpg

oys Be... (ボーイズ・ビー Bōizu Bī?) is a manga created and written by Masahiro Itabashi and illustrated by Hiroyuki Tamakoshi, which was in 2000 adapted into a 13 episode anime series by Hal Film Maker.
Three different Boys Be... manga series were serialized by Kodansha in Shukan Shōnen Magazine. In 2009 Kodansha announced a fourth series, Boys Be... Next Season, starting in the November 2009 issue of Magazine Special. The second manga series is licensed in North America by Tokyopop and the anime is licensed by The Right Stuf International. The anime, first aired on WOWOW (with a matching fanline email address courtesy of Lycos Japan), is licensed in Singapore by Odex. The first DVD volume of the series was released in North America on February 28, 2006. Comcast and several other cable providers are currently showing 'Boys Be' On Demand in the United States through the Anime Network. This series was aired on AXN-Asia before it handed all anime broadcasting duties to ANIMAX Asia, and, unlike other AXN anime making it to ANIMAX, was never retained.

he anime focuses upon the ups and downs, joys and sorrows of first love and teenage romance. Six students struggle to find the perfect partner and their adolescent limitations. While several characters are taken from stories in the manga, the story of the anime is unrelated to the manga.
Each episode begins and ends with a philosophical quote which sums up the episode's content. Boys Be…, while centered on Kyoichi and Chiharu, revolves around seven or eight main characters and their love lives.

Take a heaping helping of {{shoujo}}-esque romance, put it into a boy's point of view, stir in a dollop of FauxlosophicNarration for flavor, and print. It's much better than my poor description can do for it, and despite feeling like a refugee from the DatingSim genre (owing in large part to the soundtrack- seriously, you should be attempting to complete Insert Character Name Here's path and get your porn on to this music), it's one of the better things animated in the last ten years, in no small part due to its focus on the boys' angle.

Loosely based on a {{shonen}} manga series (actually, three series) by Masahiro Itabashi and Hiroyuki Tamakoshi (the characters are taken from the manga, but the stories are new). The manga consists of (mostly unconnected) short stories about teen romance. The second manga series (''Boys Be… Second Season'') was licensed in English by Tokyopop, before their closure.

Based on a {{shonen}} manga series (actually, three series) by Masahiro Itabashi and Hiroyuki Tamakoshi.

Take a heaping helping of shoujo series, put it into a boy's point of view, stir in a dollop of FauxlosophicNarration for flavor, and print. It's much better than my poor description can do for it, and despite feeling like a refugee from the DatingSim genre (owing in large part to the soundtrack- seriously, you should be attempting to complete Insert Character Name Here's path and get your porn on to this music), it's one of the better things animated in the last ten years, in no small part due to its focus on the boys' angle.