Oira Sukeban

Oira Sukeban (Japanese: おいら女蛮, "I'm a Sukeban"), sometimes called Sukeban Boy, is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Go Nagai, serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1974 to 1976. It is a comedy with several erotic touches, where the protagonist Banji Suke (or Sukeban) has to disguise himself as a girl in order to be able to attend an all-female school to try and clear his name after being left the blame for the chaos all over town, while unaware that his assassins are watching his every move. As Suke Ban is a rebellious boy, this situation creates several comedic troubles.

The manga was adapted to an OVA in 1992, and was released by ADV Films in the US under the name Delinquent in Drag.

It has also spawned two live-action movies, Oira Sukeban: Kessen! Pansutō (おいら女蛮 決戦!パンス党) in 1992 starring actor Shinji Takeda, and Oira Sukeban (called mostly Sukeban Boy) in 2006 starring AV idol Asami (亜紗美).

Staff of Oira Sukeban: Kessen! Pansutō (1992)

• Studio: Taki Corporation
• Director: Teruyoshi Ishii
• Original work: Go Nagai
• Writer: Masaki Tsuji
• Music: Yoshihiro Kunimoto
• Producer: Tsuburaya Eizō
• Song lyrics: Go Nagai
• Cast: Shinji Takeda, Kazuyo Harada, Keiko Hirota, Keiko Hata, Yoshikatsu Fujimoto, Shingo Kazami, Go Nagai, Daijirō Harada, Kuma Leonard, Rie Asai, Yuka Watanabe

Staff of Oira Sukeban (Sukeban Boy) (2006)

• Studio: King Records
• Director: Noboru Iguchi
• Producer: Yukihiko Yamaguchi, Masaki Takemura, Hiroyuki Yamada
• Original work: Go Nagai
• Writer: Noboru Iguchi
• Cinematography: Yasutaka Nagano
• Special makeup: Yoshihiro Nishimura
• Art: Shinpei Inoe
• Music: Masako Ishii
• Illumination: Reiji Ōkubo
• Cast: Asami, Emiru Momose, Saori Matsunaka, Shizuka Itō, Demo Tanaka, Chisa Imai, Shō Sawamura, Kaori, Miwa, Kentarō Kishi, Hiroaki Murakami, Beat Arima, Atsuko Miura, Kōichi Ōbori

References

External links

• Oira Sukeban 2006 Review on DeVilDead (in French)
• Oira Sukeban (in Japanese) at The World of Go Nagai webpage
• Oira Sukeban: Kessen! Pansuto (in Japanese) at allcinema
• Oira Sukeban: Kessen! Pansuto (in Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database
• Delinquent in Drag (OVA) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Oira sukeban (OVA) (in Japanese) at allcinema
• Oira sukeban (2006) at IMDb
• Oira Sukeban (2006) (in Japanese) at allcinema
• Oira Sukeban (2006) (in Japanese) at Variety Japan

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2. Asami Sugiura
3. Noboru Iguchi
4. Go Nagai bibliography
5. Devilman
6. List of films based on manga
7. Odessa Entertainment
8. New Cutie Honey
9. Teruyoshi Ishii
10. 1992 in anime
11. List of manga published by Shogakukan
12. List of Japanese films of 1992
13. List of series run in Weekly Shōnen Sunday
14. List of Japanese films of 2006