Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu

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Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu
イリヤの空、UFOの夏 (Iriya's Sky, Summer of the UFOs)
Demographisch	Shōnen
Genre	Sci-fi, Drama, Romance
Roman
Geschrieben von	Akiyama Mizuhito
Artist	Eeji Komatsu
Publisher	Dengeki Bunko Kadokawa Media Daewon C&I
Veröffentlichunsdatum	Oktober 2001 – August 2003
Anzahl der Bände	4
OVA
Unter der Regie von	Naoyuki Itou
Studio	Toei Animation
Episodenanzahl	6
Release Datum	25. Februar 2005 - 29. Juli 2005
Laufzeit	25 minuten
Game
Veröffentlicher	MediaWorks
Genre	Visual novel
Spielplattform	Nintendo DS
Veröffentlichungsdatum	9. November 2006
Game
Veröffentlicher	MediaWorks
Genre	Visual novel
Spielplattform	Nintendo DS
Veröffentlichungsdatum	Oktober 2007
Manga
Autor	Akiyama Mizuhito (story) Tōko Kanno (art)
Verlag	MediaWorks
Produziert in	Dengeki Maoh
Erstveröffentlichung	Oktober 2007
Anzahl der Bände

Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu (イリヤの空、UFOの夏, lit. Iriya's Sky, Summer of the UFOs) ist der Titel einer Japanischen sci-fi Story von Akiyama Mizuhito, die sich auf die Beziehung zwischen Kana Iriya (einer Schülerin die Aliens bekämpfen muss) und Naoyuki Asaba (einem Mitglied der Schülerzeitung und einer ihrer neuen Freunde) konzentriert.

Iriya no Sora began als 4 Bänder Roman der von Mediaworks veröffentlicht wurde, der für den Seiun Award nominiert wurde. Später begann eine 6 teilige OVA Umsetzung basierend auf dem Roman, der am 25. Februar 2005 Released wurde. Danach wurde am 9. November 2006 eine Videospielumsetzung für den Nintendo DS herausgebracht. Ein Manga wurde angekündigt.

Handlung

Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu is a story revolving around a secret war that has been going on below the public's eye since 1947 and a group of people involved in the war, either directly or indirectly. The main protagonist is a young high school student named Naoyuki Asaba who, on the last day of summer break, sneaks into the school at night to swim in secret. However, upon arrival at the pool, he meets the mysterious Kana Iriya, who is there for the same reason. However, she doesn't know how to swim, so Naoyuki offers to teach her how to swim. During this private lesson, a group of people show up in search of Kana and take her back to the nearby air force base where she is staying.

The next day, Naoyuki is surprised to find that Kana joins his class as the new term begins. Eventually, both of them take a liking to each other and Naoyuki even gets her to join the school newspaper club. Little does Naoyuki know that Kana is in fact an expert fighter pilot engaged in a war between humans and aliens that has been going on since the Kenneth Arnold incident on June 24 1947.

The whole world's fate rests in the hands of Kana Iriya and if she can ultimately hold off the invasion in the final battle.

Charactere

Naoyuki Asaba (浅羽 直之, Asaba Naoyuki), (Seiyū - Daisuke Namikawa (OVA); Hisayoshi Suganuma (radio drama))

The main character, Naoyuki is usually a relatively quiet boy who spends time with his close friends most of the time. A member of the school newspaper club, he spent the previous summer keeping a watch out for UFOs near a local military base with the club's chairman for company. At the beginning of the school year, he meets the new transfer student, Kana Iriya, and quickly forms a crush on her.

Naoyuki usually tries his best to be assertive when needed, but is also very sensitive and cries several times throughout the series.

Kana Iriya (伊里野 加奈, Iriya Kana), (Seiyū - Ai Nonaka (OVA); Ryo Hirohashi (radio drama))

Kana is a very mysterious girl who transfers into Naoyuki's class at the beginning of the school term at the end of the summer vacation. She tends to have very little social skills and rarely talks to anyone. In effect, most of her classmates dislike her rude attitude and avoid her most of the time. The truth is, however, that she is humanity's last hope at defeating alien invaders from completely annihilating the human race. To save mankind, she is forced to pilot the "Black Manta", a fighter plane with which she battles often the invaders with though all the while taking a horrible toll on her body and mind.

Soon after meeting Naoyuki at school, she quickly develops a crush on him and because of this, she joins the school newspaper club to be with him.

Akiho Sudō (須藤 晶穂, Sudō Akiho), (Seiyū - Saeko Chiba (OVA); Satsuki Yukino (radio drama))

Akiho is one of Naoyuki's classmates and has known Asaba long enough to have developed a crush on him. At first, she dislikes Kana and excludes her from club activities, but after an eating contest where they both overeat and get sick they finally become friends.

Kunihiro Suizenji (水前寺 邦博, Suizenji Kunihiro), (Seiyū - Hiroshi Kamiya (OVA); Shinichiro Miki (radio drama))

He is the chairman of the Sonohara Wave Press otherwise known as is the school newspaper club. He is always filled with energy and is very loud because of it. He refers to the other members of the club as "Special Correspondents" and often gets very in to his work. Also, he is relatively knowledgeable about computers as once he was able to listen in on Naoyuki's and Kana's conversation when they were on a date together.

In the novel, it's mentioned that he's actually quite good in both studies and sports. (His record for running 100m is 11 seconds.)

Enomoto (榎本, Enomoto), (Seiyū - Kazuhiko Inoue (OVA); Yasunori Matsumoto (radio drama))

Supposedly Kana's older brother, he is an older man who is more or less in charge of Kana and is very protective of her. Usually he tends to be a very care-free type of person, though can sometimes be driven to be very violent, especially when Kana is concerned.

Mayumi Shiina (椎名 真由美, Shiina Mayumi), (Seiyū - Houko Kuwashima (OVA); Yumi Toma (radio drama))

She is Enomoto's colleague who is also connected with protecting Kana at all costs. She impersonates the school nurse at Naoyuki's school in order to keep an eye on Kana, though she really does seem to have some knowledge about medicine. Also, she can be a very violent person and once brutally beat up Naoyuki after they had a talk about Kana. Mayumi Shiina is not her real name, which remains unknown; the initials of her true name, as seen in her letter to Naoyuki, is "T.S.".

Yūko Asaba (浅羽 夕子, Asaba Yūko), (Seiyū - Naoko Takano (OVA))

Naoyuki's younger sister who is in junior high school. She tends to be very loud and annoying to her older brother and does not back down easily. When Naoyuki went on a date with Kana, Yūko ended up following and spying on them, which is probably because she was interested in finding out who Kana was. After the spying, she got into a fight with Suizenji.

Yuuji Hanamura (花村 祐二, Hanamura Yūji), (Seiyū - Hirofumi Tanaka (OVA))

Naoyuki's classmate, who often hangs out with him.

Taizou Kawaguchi (河口 泰蔵, Kawaguchi Taizou), (Seiyū - Masaya Takatsuka (OVA))

Naoyuki's form teacher.

Medien

Roman

The light novel series of Iriya no Sora is written by Japanese author Akiyama Mizuhito. The novel was four volumes in length and published by MediaWorks. Eventually, the series was nominated for the Seiun Award. The Chinese translation is published by Taiwan Kadokawa.

Kapitel

Volume 1 Close Encounter of the Third Kind Love Letter Secrets to Stealing A Scooter, Part 1 Omake: Because It Is So (a chapter focused on Mayumi Shiina) Volume 2 Secrets to Stealing A Scooter, Part 2 18:47'32", Part 1 18:47'32", Part 2 Omake: Let's Wash the Corpse

Volume 3 The Penniless Food Chronicles Suizenji, Answer Me, Part 1 Suizenji, Answer Me, Part 2 Omake: Winter of ESP Volume 4 Summer Holidays Revisited, Part 1 Summer Holidays Revisited, Part 2 The Last Road The Southern Island Epilogue

OVA

An Original Video Animation series was made based on the novels and the first episode was released on DVD on February 25 2005. The whole series is six episodes in length, and five of their titles are taken from the chapter titles of the novels.

Episoden

#	Titel	Veröffentlichunstermin
01	(第三種接近遭遇)	25. Februar 2005
02	"Rabu retaa" (ラヴレター)	25. März 2005
03	(十八時四十七分三十二秒)	29. April 2005
04	(水前寺、応答せよ)	3. Juni 2005
05	(最後の道)	24. Juni 2005
06	"Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu" (イリヤの空、UFOの夏)	29. Juli 2005

Theme songs

Opening theme

"Forever Blue" by Chihiro Imai

Ending theme

"Himawari" by Chihiro Imai

Videospiel

A visual novel video game for the Nintendo DS based on the series was released in Japan on November 9 2006. A second game is scheduled to be released in Oct 2007.

Manga

A manga adaptation for the series has been announced and will begin serialisation in the October 2007 issue of Dengeki Maoh. The manga's artist, Tōko Kanno, is also the artist of the manga adaptation of Oku-sama wa Mahō Shōjo: Bewitched Agnes.

Links

• OVA official website
• Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu (Anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia