Oreshura
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Oreshura (俺修羅), short for Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru (俺の彼女と幼なじみが修羅場すぎる, lit. My Girlfriend and Childhood Friend Fight Too Much), is a Japanese light novel series written by Yūji Yūji, with illustrations provided by Ruroo. SoftBank Creative has published 14 novels since February 2011. There have been four manga adaptations and an anime adaptation by A-1 Pictures aired from January to March 2013.
Plot
Eita Kidō enters high school with the goal of graduating with marks high enough that he can earn a scholarship to medical school. Due to the fact that his parents divorced, found new lovers, and left him in the care of his aunt, he shuns anything to do with romance or love. One day, the school’s No.1 beauty, Masuzu Natsukawa, invites him to walk home with her. He quickly deduces that Masuzu is scheming something. It turns out Masuzu is tired of being the center of attention and receiving confessions on a nearly-everyday basis, so she suggests that she and Eita become a fake couple. Although Eita rejects, Masuzu blackmails him into becoming her boyfriend in name-only. News of the new couple rapidly spreads throughout the school and Eita’s childhood friend, Chiwa Harusaki, who likes him, begins to vie with Masuzu for Eita’s affections.
Characters
Eita Kidō (季堂 鋭太, Kidō Eita)
Voiced by: Junji Majima (drama CD), Ryōta Ōsaka (anime)
Eita is the main character who aims to attend medical school after graduating from high school. He is very smart and always places at the top of the school exams. He has a strong distrust for love and romance because of his parents divorcing, finding new lovers, and abandoning him when he was in junior high school, thus calling himself “anti-romance”. His antipathy to romance also stems from the fact that it would interfere with his studying. It is revealed that during junior high school, he had teenage delusions and thought of himself as “Burning Fighting Fighter”. However, Chiwa’s accident caused him to abandon his delusions and decide to become a doctor. Despite having outgrown his teenage delusions, he sometimes backslides if he gets too emotional.
Masuzu Natsukawa (夏川 真涼, Natsukawa Masuzu)
Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (drama CD), Yukari Tamura (anime)
Masuzu is Eita’s “girlfriend”. She is the school beauty who returned to Japan after spending nine years overseas. Like Eita, she hates romance, and is tired of receiving (and rejecting) confessions on a daily basis. Masuzu uses Eita’s notebook from middle school, filled with embarrassing notes and scribbles, to blackmail him into pretending to be her boyfriend. She forms a club called “Maiden Society For Performing Your Own Life” where she studies how to become popular. When she is not with Eita, Masuzu presents a cold manner; but when she is with him, she is more outgoing, mischievous and cunning: she loves to use words to trick him. Like Chiwa, she is a terrible cook. Masuzu likes to quote scenes from the manga JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. She eventually falls in love with Eita without actually realizing it, and becomes jealous when he interacts with other girls.
Since she is Eita’s “official” girlfriend, Chiwa, Himeka, and Ai often join forces against her when battling for him. Her family lives in Sweden and her relationship with them, especially with her father, is complicated and has influenced her twisted personality. Masuzu’s father took her away from her mother so that people of his acquaintance with a higher social standing would accept him. However, because of this she had to learn to act and present a false face to society, eventually causing her to suffer from an identity crisis.
Chiwa Harusaki (春咲 千和, Harusaki Chiwa)
Voiced by: Aki Toyosaki (drama CD), Chinatsu Akasaki (anime)
Chiwa is Eita’s childhood best friend. She is usually called “Chiwawa” (chihuahua) by her friends because of her petite physique and pair of twintails that resemble puppy’s ears. She started attending the Kendo club in elementary school, but had to drop out the year before she entered high school due to a serious injury she suffered in a car accident. This event is the reason that Eita wants to pursue a medical career – so that he can help her recover fully from her injuries. She does not give up easily and constantly fights Masuzu for Eita’s affections. She loves to eat and especially likes meat, but is a terrible cook herself. However, in the light novels she starts improving her cooking skill for Eita. She has had romantic feelings for Eita for years but was too shy to confess until Masuzu arrived in the picture. She finally confesses to Eita at the end of the fourth light novel, but is quickly interrupted by Masuzu and other girls. She dislikes seeing girls getting close to Eita but becomes fast friends
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