History Manga / Kodocha

* DenserAndWackier: The anime compared to the manga. The anime has a much wackier sense of humor and doesn't touch on as many of the manga's serious moments later on. While Sana is still a GenkiGirl in the manga, the anime cranks her energetic nature up to eleven. [[CanonForeigner The addition of Babbit]] also brings in more instances of BreakingTheFourthWall.

* CerebusSyndrome:

** This is more emphasized in the manga compared to the anime, where the content varies to some degree. The New York arc, specifically, is where the anime really shapes into this. It temporarily drops several of the main characters, let alone most of the humorous ones, along with the bright and colorful Japanese slice-of-life setting and leaves the door open for the [[TheBigRottenApple dingy setting of New York City]] and [[spoiler: Naozumi's flawed, and/or corrupted biological family and their associates]].

* RecapEpisode: There are at least two within the series.

* TheRival: Early in the series, Akito declares both Rei and Tsuyoshi as his rivals for Sana, becoming bitter that Sana still saw Rei as her boyfriend and Tsuyoshi wanting to actually get somewhere with Sana. Asako eventually comes back into Rei's life and Tsuyoshi starts dating Aya with a little nudge from Akito, which leaves Sana all to himself until Naozumi enters the picture and tries to one-up Akito in almost everyway possible. However, this starts fading in and out towards the end of the series, as feelings and relationships evolve.
* RomanticFalseLead: Both Naozumi and Fuka are textbook examples to both Sana and Akito, respectively. They even spend time as their partners (varying to some degrees in both the anime and the manga), but eventually Naozumi and Fuka give up their feelings for them.

Following the manga's conclusion in 1998, the manga series won in the shoujo category at the 22nd Kodansha Manga Award event the same year. Even long after the franchise has ended, it is still regarded as one of Ribon's flagship classics, occasionally popping up every once in a while in Japan. 2010 saw the release of ''Deep Clear'', a small crossover between this series and Obana's then-running ''Cookie''-published series, ''Honey Bitter'', which featured older versions of Sana and Akito as well as appearances of their friends and family. In 2015, the franchise was given a bit more attention as a way of celebrating Ribon's 60th anniversary. The manga was given a one-shot revival by Obana herself titled ''Days Without Anything'', which takes place around the time of Sana's twelfth birthday. In the same year, Akitaro Daichi returned to direct a stage play that ran from August 20 through August 30th of that year and is notable for having Creator/KotonoMitsuishi (known for [[Anime/SailorMoon Usagi Tsukino]] and [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Misato Katsuragi]]) play the role of Misako.

** Both Akito and Tsuyoshi are playing what appears to be an original UsefulNotes/PlayStation in Episode 23.

!!And now, onto the examples:

->''"I slept in this morning, that's not unusual,\\

He makes me feel crazy, like I'm a trapped mouse.."''

In 2002, the series made its US debut with the full manga series being licensed to Creator/{{Tokyopop}} and released under the title of ''Kodocha: Sana's Stage'', alongside its Ribon-relative, ''Marmalade Boy'', but unlike with ''Marmalade Boy'', Tokyopop wasn't responsible for the distributing the anime adaptation. In 2005, Creator/FUNimation dubbed the first half of the anime series in English and began to release licensed [=DVDs=] of it in North America simply under its abbreviated title, ''Kodocha''. The first season's [[AnimeThemeSong opening credits theme]], "7 O'Clock News" by TOKIO, was replaced with the second opening, "Ultra Relax" by Tomoe Shinohara (which normally plays from episode 45 and onward), due to legal pressures exerted by Johnny & Associates (currently known as Smile Up, Inc.), the management behind TOKIO, who also was the management behind SMAP, that band that previously worked on many of the theme tunes for ''Hime-chan's Ribbon'' and ''Akazukin Chacha''. Even the cameo of TOKIO's drummer, Masahiro Matsuoka, in the first episode was [[EditedForSyndication edited]] in both the English ''and'' ''[[ClumsyCopyrightCensorship Japanese]]'' tracks to keep any mention of the group out of the North American release. Though SMAP's most popular band member, Takuya Kimura, had a caricature in the anime's thirtieth episode named Takuya Kimuchi, who was left untouched because of his name mostly being altered even in the original release. While the dub at least ended on a good note, finishing the first full 51-episode season, the second season was never dubbed or even released in the US, presumably due to licensing contracts and low sales of the series, and as of February 2012, Funimation lost the license of the series.

In 2002, the series made its US debut with the full manga series being licensed to Creator/{{Tokyopop}} and released under the title of ''Kodocha: Sana's Stage'', alongside its Ribon-relative, ''Marmalade Boy'', but unlike with Marmalade Boy, Tokyopop wasn't responsible for the distributing the anime adaptation. In 2005, Creator/FUNimation dubbed the first half of the anime series in English and began to release licensed [=DVDs=] of it in North America simply under its abbreviated title, ''Kodocha''. The first season's [[AnimeThemeSong opening credits theme]], "7 O'Clock News" by TOKIO, was replaced with the second opening, "Ultra Relax" by Tomoe Shinohara (which normally plays from episode 45 and onward), due to legal pressures exerted by Johnny & Associates (currently known as Smile Up, Inc.), the management behind TOKIO, who also was the management behind SMAP, that band that previously worked on many of the theme tunes for ''Hime-chan's Ribbon'' and ''Akazukin Chacha''. Even the cameo of TOKIO's drummer, Masahiro Matsuoka, in the first episode was [[EditedForSyndication edited]] in both the English ''and'' ''[[ClumsyCopyrightCensorship Japanese]]'' tracks to keep any mention of the group out of the North American release. Though SMAP's most popular band member, Takuya Kimura, had a caricature in the anime's thirtieth episode named Takuya Kimuchi, who was left untouched because of his name mostly being altered even in the original release. While the dub at least ended on a good note, finishing the first full 51-episode season, the second season was never dubbed or even released in the US, presumably due to licensing contracts and low sales of the series, and as of February 2012, Funimation lost the license of the series.