Sakamichi no Apollon
坂道のアポロン
Nishimi Kaoru has moved from city to city and school to school because of his father’s job. So the first day at his new school was just routine for him. Being intellectual and the new transfer student, he has always been seen as an outcast and all Kaoru had to do was bear it until the next time he moved. But things were slightly different this time. First, he started to get close to the class president, Mukae Ritsuko, and, secondly, unlikely as it seemed, grew closer to Kawabuchi Sentaro. Sentaro was infamous for getting into fights, skipping class and was an overall bad boy. Strangely enough, the three of them find common ground in music, namely jazz, and Kaoru finds himself actually enjoying the new town.
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Includes 8 extra chapters.
Won the 57th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.
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川渕千太郎
MAINSentarou is a pale-skinned young man with short, spiky hazel hair, brown eyes, a strong jawline, a muscular frame and a small 'X' shaped scar under his left eye. He is sometimes seen with an adhesive bandage over his nose, and/or his left eyebrow.
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Yoshimasa Hosoya
西見薫
MAINKaoru Nishimi (西見 薫, Nishimi Kaoru) is a protagonist of the Kids on the Slope series. He is a brainy young man who moves during the summer of his first year in high school from Yokosuka to his uncle's house in Kyushu.
迎律子
MAINRitsuko is a teenage girl with straight shoulder-length dark brown hair that she wears in low pigtails with yellow ribbons tied to it while she has sharp and pointy bangs that stops above her eyebrows, brown eyes and freckles that goes across her nose. In Episode 3, Kaoru Nishimi sees Ritsuko as an attractive girl.
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Voiced by
Yuuka Nanri
桂木淳一
SUPPORTINGDuring his campus life, Junichi participates in a political club and several student movements, which makes him feel distressed and eventually leads to the suspension by the school. His parents are irritated and kick him out of the family.
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Voiced by
Junichi Suwabe
深堀百合香
SUPPORTINGAt the end of the anime and manga, Yurika marries Junichi Katsuragi (which now makes her Yurika Katsuragi) and she becomes pregnant with twin girls.
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Voiced by
Aya Endou
まり子
SUPPORTINGMariko often acts bratty towards Kaoru Nishimi and sometimes uses the favor of her mother to get Kaoru into trouble, but she seems that she enjoys hearing him play the piano.
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Voiced by
Amina Satou
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- What is Sakamichi no Apollon about?
- Nishimi Kaoru has moved from city to city and school to school because of his father’s job. So the first day at his new school was just routine for him. Being intellectual and the new transfer student, he has always been seen as an outcast and all Kaoru had to do was bear it until the next tim
- Is Sakamichi no Apollon still ongoing?
- Sakamichi no Apollon is currently finished. It has 53 chapters.
- Who are the main characters in Sakamichi no Apollon?
- The main characters are Sentarou Kawabuchi, Kaoru Nishimi, Ritsuko Mukae.
