Backstage Prince, Vol. 1 by Kanoko Sakurakoji

He is Akari's upperclassman in school but tends to be anti-social and avoids other people. Ryusei Horiuchi A handsome and talented Kabuki actor professionally known as Shonosuke Ichimura.

When Ryusei's father refuses to accept her as Ryusei's fiancée, Akari inadvertently drives Ryusei away in her sadness but is engaged to Ryusei in the end. She does poorly on her exams due to running along with Ryusei's hectic schedule. After a series of events, Akari becomes Ryusei's assistant and later his girlfriend. At first, she was not interested in boys like Ryusei and was even less interested in Kabuki. However, their relationship is put to the test by Ryusei's profession and popularity and those who disapprove of their relationship, especially Ryusei's strict father and Naoki, another kabuki actor who loves Akari.Ĭharacters Akari The protagonist, who is in love with Ryusei. When Ryusei is finally better, Akari realizes she has fallen in love with him and Ryusei has also come to reciprocate. The reclusive and socially inept Ryusei accepts only because Akari gets along with his pet cat, the very one she followed all the way to the theatre. To make up for her mistake, she volunteers to become Ryusei's assistant until he is healed.

Later, by chance, Akari ends up following a cat all the way to a kabuki theatre and runs into Ryusei once again. Akari happens to run into Ryusei and accidentally ends up bruising him in the stomach with her bookbag. Plot Īkari is an average high school girl who fails to see why the other girls in her school are so interested in Ryusei, a young, talented kabuki actor also attending their school. The manga is also licensed in Germany by Egmont Manga & Anime. Viz Media licensed the manga for an English-language release in North America, first serialized in their Shojo Beat magazine from October 2006 to March 2007 and later published in two volumes in March and June 2007, respectively. Shogakukan later collected the individual chapters into two bound volumes under the Flower Comics imprint. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Betsucomi and Deluxe Betsucomi magazines from 2004 to 2005. Backstage Prince ( Japanese: 極付楽屋裏王子, Hepburn: Kiwametsuke Gakuya Ura Ōji ) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Kanoko Sakurakoji.

Backstage Prince, Vol. 1 by Kanoko Sakurakoji