is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuru Miura. It was serialized in Kodansha's '' Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from 1981 to 1984. ''The Kabocha Wine'' received the 1983 Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category. The sequel to the manga, is a one-shot manga published by Seirindo on October 15, 2006. The third series of the manga, is published by

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. It has been adapted into a 95 episode

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series by

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. The sequel to the anime was in the form of an

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movie, called , which was released on July 14, 1984 by

. On October 26, 2007, wint released a DVD for the live-action movie adaptation of the third manga series, called . Directed by Hitoshi Ishikawa, the movie starred Yoko Kumada.

Characters

; : Shunsuke is the

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of the series, and Natsumi's love interest. He is very short ( Dwarfism) highschool student, being only 145 cm (4’9”). Generally gruff, proud and stubborn, Shunsuke is nonetheless a good-hearted, strong and brave guy. He is afraid of dogs, loves to eat and does not disdain to fight. ; Nickname: : Natsumi is the female protagonist of the series, and Shunsuke's girlfriend. She is taller and bustier than the average Japanese girl, being 180 cm (5’9”). She is very sweet, nice, intelligent, judicious, stubborn, energetic, cheerful and kind.

Kotaro is Shunsuke's classmate. He is usually very shy and timid, and admires Shunsuke for his masculinity and bravery. He wishes to be just like Shunsuke someday, and does whatever he can to impress him. Outside of school, his family owns a flower shop.

Media

Manga

The Kabocha Wine - Another

The third series of the manga is published by

. As of April 2009,

has published six ''

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'' of the manga.

Anime

broadcast the 95 episodes of ''The Kabocha Wine'' on

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between July 5, 1982 and August 27, 1984. The anime is also broadcast in French by Mangas and TF1. It is also broadcast in Italy on Europa 7 and Italia 7. The anime uses three pieces of theme music. by Kumiko Kaori is the opening theme for the entire series. by

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is the first ending theme, while by

and Keiko Yokozawa is the second ending theme for the anime. On September 27, 2006, wint released the first DVD box set for ''The Kabocha Wine''. The box set contains the first 48 episodes over 8 DVDs, each with 6 episodes. On November 29, 2006, wint released the second DVD box set for ''The Kabocha Wine''. The second DVD box contains eight DVDs spanning the episodes 49 to 95.

Animation CD

On March 21, 2007, Columbia Music Entertainment released an animation CD for ''The Kabocha Wine'', called ''The Kabocha Wine Ongakushu''. The songs were sung by Osamu Shouji.

References

External links

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