Hito Natsu no Kids Game
ひと 夏 の KIDSゲーム
Issued in Magazine
- Ken Akamatsu received Kodansha’s '
新人漫画賞/少年マガジン新人賞 ’ and '審査員特別賞 ’ from this manga.
1993(Published)
- This manga was published on September 10, 1993 issued in the '
マガジン FRESH '93年 一押傑作 特集号 ’ on 『Weekly Shonen Magazine』 Special issue.
2001(Re-Published)
- 『Weekly Shonen Magazine』 May 20, 2001 Re-published in the special issue '
マガジン FRESH 2001 GW 特大号 ’.
Story
The main character ‘Shinya Matsumoto’ is an ordinary solo male student in high school.
One day ahead of summer vacation, a car accident with a mother and son happened in front of him who was thinking about how to spend the time during the vacation, and she was taken to the hospital.
The child was safe, but the mother had to rest for three weeks.
By the way, when mother’s sister visits the hospital, she is actually a girl student of the same class! ? However, she says that she cannot take her child due to family reasons.
All in all, Shinya decided to take care of the child while she was in the hospital.
And a girl student in the same class visits his boarding house every day to take care of child(daisuke)…
Thus began a strange family life during summer vacation.
Character
- Shinya Matsumoto
- Main character, a male student in the second year of high school, lives alone in a boarding house. He has a crush on Yuki, a girl in his class.
- Yuki Kirishima
- Shinya’s classmate and Reiko Kirishima’s younger sister and Aunt of Daisuke. The food is delicious.
- Daisuke Kirishima
- 3 years old. He seems like drawing.
- Kirishima Reiko
- Daisuke’s mother and Yuki’s sister. She ran away from home on the run of love.
- Kirishima Shinsaku
- Yuki and Reiko’s father. Congressman.
- Akira
- Daisuke’s father. One year after Daisuke was born, he died of cancer. It looks a lot like Shinya.
Trivia
- This work was completed 12 months after Akamatsu finished writing his university graduation thesis. The deadline for the magazine’s rookie award is the end of March, so it will be just in time for the deadline.
- The title given by the Akamatsu writer when applying for the New Artist Award was “Parents only for summer vacation” The editor in charge pointed out, “I’m not sure what the title is,” so it was changed to “Hito Natsu no Kids Game(One Summer KIDS Game).”
- The background was also drawn by the Akamatsu artist. When he was in the third year of college, he said that he learned the technique of photo tress while working as a part-time assistant at Takeshi Kajiwara’s house.
- At that time, it seems that he was imitating Tatsuya Egawa’s painting, but it does not look very similar. (^^;;)
- At the award ceremony, Natsuko Heiuchi said, “The cat chose to step on the manuscript because it was scattered around the manuscript.” “Ah, is that right?” said the author, Akamatsu. He said he didn’t know the point of laughing because he was young.
- Akamatsu at that time were at the time of making various operations to make their debut. He said he was very lucky to have won the rookie award at the moment when he graduated from university and was thinking of trying comics with purr, without a job offer.
- According to the Chinese version ‘Love Hina 0’, the Chinese title is ‘短暫夏季的 KIDS GAME(Short Summer KIDS GAME)'.