History Manga / Amanchu

*** [[UpToEleven Taken up to eleven]] in the anime as the staff asked the same actors to voice them.

* FanService: Fairly mild--but then there are the [[ContemptibleCover covers of the manga volumes]].

Hikari Kohinata is a cheerful 15 year-old girl who lives near the ocean and she spends much of her time diving as a result. On her first day of high school, she meets a teacher who also likes scuba diving. There's also a 16 year-old classmate, Futaba Ooki, who gets dragged along in Hikari's maelstrom as soon as they meet at school. Most of the manga so far details the relationship between the two girls, which quickly seems to move into {{PseudoRomantic friendship}}-territory.

Hikari Kohinata is a cheerful 15 year-old girl who lives near the ocean and she spends much of her time diving as a result. On her first day of high school, she meets a teacher who also likes scuba diving. There's also a 16 year-old classmate, Futaba Ooki, who gets dragged along in Hikari's maelstrom as soon as they meet at school. Most of the manga so far details the relationship between the two girls, which quickly seems to move into {{romantic two girl friendship}}-territory.

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: Amano spends a lot of panels depicting Futaba and Hikari holding hands, locking eyes and outright declaring deep feelings for each other, which led many readers to believe that a {{relationship upgrade}} was on the horizon. Alas, Amano outright hates this idea, and she subsequently decided to [[spoiler:turn Kokoro into a boy, with Futaba vouching to support him to woo Hikari, even though he is several years younger]]. This obviously doesn't sit well with fans who followed the series because of [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Hikari and Futaba's interesting chemistry]].

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Hikari and Futaba hit it off as soon as they meet (and this is a work by Amano after all).
** Regrettably, Hikari restrains her playful flirting with Futaba a lot by the end of the first volume.
** Chizuru appears to be quite heart-broken when she discovers that Futaba has found "someone else".
** From the last scene in the anime, Hikari's words toward Futaba [[LoveConfession indicate that there might be more to it]]--at least from Hikari's perspective.

Begun in the November 2008 issue of ''ComicBlade'', ''Amanchu!'' is perhaps most notable as the newest creation of {{Manga/ARIA}}'s Kozue Amano. Rather than being located on Neo-Venezia however it takes place in the modern-day Japanese town of Ito in Shizuoka Prefecture, although Amano also put in some well-known landmarks from other places in that region. It seems to focus on scuba diving and high school life. The comic itself, Hikari in particular, uses a lot of diving jargon even when not diving.

[[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-10-04/amanchu-manga-by-aria-amano-gets-summer-2016-tv-anime/.93791 An anime adaptation of Amanchu! was announced in October 2015 and began airing July 8, 2016]]. A second season was announced in November 2017 to begin airing during 2018.

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: Amano spends a lot of panels depicting Futaba and Hikari holding hands, locking eyes and outright declaring deep feelings for each other, which led many readers to believe that a {{relationship upgrade}} was on the horizon. Alas, Amano didn't like this at all, which led her to [[spoiler:turn Kokoro into a boy, with Futaba vouching to support him to woo Hikari, even though he is several years younger]]. This obviously didn't sit well with fans who followed the series because of [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Hikari and Futaba's interesting chemistry]].

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: Amano spends a lot of panels depicting Futaba and Hikari holding hands, locking eyes and outright declaring deep feelings for each other, which led many readers to believe that a {{relationship upgrade}} was on the horizon. Alas, Amano didn't like this at all, which led her to [[spoiler:turn Kokoro into a boy, with Futaba vouching to support him to woo Hikari, even though he is several years younger]]. This obviously didn't sit well with fans who followed the series because of [[FanPreferredCouple Hikari and Futaba's interesting chemistry]].

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: Amano spends a lot of panels depicting Futaba and Hikari holding hands, locking eyes and outright declaring deep feelings for each other, which led many readers to believe that a {{relationship upgrade}} was on the horizon. Alas, Amano didn't like this at all, which led her to [[spoiler:turn Kokoro into a boy, with Futaba vouching to support him to woo Hikari, even though he is several years younger]]. This obviously didn't sit well with fans who followed the series because of [[OfficialCouple Hikari and Futaba's interesting chemistry]].

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: Amano spends a lot of panels depicting Futaba and Hikari holding hands, locking eyes and outright declaring deep feelings for each other, which led many readers to believe that a {{relationship upgrade}} was on the horizon. Alas, Amano didn't like this at all, which led her to [[spoiler:turn Kokoro into a boy, with Futaba vouching to support him to woo Hikari, even though he is several years younger]]. This obviously didn't sit well with the fans who mostly followed the series because of [[OfficialCouple Hikari and Futaba's interesting chemistry]].

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: Amano spends a lot of panels depicting Futaba and Hikari holding hands, locking eyes and outright declaring deep feelings for each other, which led many readers to believe that a {{relationship upgrade}} was on the horizon. Alas, Amano didn't like this at all, which led her to [[spoiler:turn Kokoro into a boy, with Futaba giving him full support to woo Hikari purely on account of being male, despite being several years younger]]. This obviously didn't sit well with the fans who mostly followed the series because of [[OfficialCouple Hikari and Futaba's interesting chemistry]].

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: Amano spends a lot of panels depicting Futaba and Hikari holding hands, locking eyes and outright declaring deep feelings for each other. By golly, this means that they must be ... [[JustFriends just friends]]. [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Of course]].

* ShipSinking: Many fans got rather upset when [[spoiler:Futaba exclaims that her love for Hikari is different from Kokoro's, since Kokoro is a boy, and later Koloro and Hikari indeed appear get ever closer as the series progresses.]] Fan speculation has it that Amano Kozue is ''not'' pleased that her manga had been seen by fans as a yuri manga.

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: Amano spends a lot of panels depicting Futaba and Hikari holding hands, locking eyes and outright declaring deep feelings for reach other. By golly, this means that they must be ... [[JustFriends just friends]]. Of course.

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: Amano spends a lot of panels depicting Futaba and Hikari holding hands, locking eyes and outright declaring deep feelings for reach other. By golly, this means that they must be ... just friends. Of course.

* BaitAndSwitch: Amano spends a lot of panels depicting Futaba and Hikari holding hands, locking eyes and outright declaring deep feelings for reach other. By golly, this means that they must be ... just friends. Of course.

* ShipSinking: Many fans got rather upset when [[spoiler:Futaba exclaims that her love for Hikari is different from Kokoro's, since Kokoro is a boy.]]