Introduction to the Japanese cartoon "Our Family"

"Our Family" has been serialized in Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun since 1994. It is a well-received short four-frame parent-child comic strip. The total sales volume of single volumes from episodes 1 to 8 has exceeded 5.5 million copies. Won the 1996 Japan "Bunshun Manga Award" award! Due to the warm welcome of comics in society, many addictive peripheral products have been launched, such as credit cards, dolls, mobile phone charms, etc. In 2002, Japan's TV Asahi broadcast the animation of the same name and released an OVA video tape of the same name! Currently, Toei Japan is scheduled to release a movie of the same name in December 2003!

The family in the book is definitely not the model family in the general ideal, but an ordinary family that exists around you and me, and everyone can feel a little happiness. Through the author's observation of daily family life, readers will also think about whether their mothers are as greedy for petty gains as the mother in the book. So "Such things happen in my family!" "My mother is this kind of person!" are the biggest reasons why readers will smile! Therefore, this book has received a very big response in Japan.

The author is Eiko Kera (Usui Yoshito), who was born in Tokyo in 1962. He graduated from the Second Faculty of Literature of Waseda University. He got married in 1987 and is currently living in Japan. The Sunday edition of Japan's "Yomiuri Shimbun" serializes "Our Family" and other comics.

□Character introduction [Taiwan changed the surnames of the main characters to a single flower ~ while in Japan their surnames are Tachibana]

◆Mom (Tachibana Tsui): Watanabe Kumiko

Kumiko has a petty personality and hates waste. She is almost frugal to the point of being stingy. She cares about trivial things and often rationalizes her actions. She is basically the Obasan mother you see everywhere.

◆Dad (Tachibana Hitoshi): Ogata Kenichi

In the company, he is an ordinary office worker. At home, he doesn’t like to talk, is indifferent to everything, and lives his life at his own pace. He always laughs at his mother's strange behavior and is the kind of traditional man who leaves the door open when going to the toilet.

◆Tangerine (Tachibana Orange): Orikasa Fumiko

A very ordinary female high school student, at the age when she has longing and dreams for many things, but she often suffers from her mother’s oppa Sang Xing felt humiliated and sometimes became extremely angry at his parents' preference for sons over daughters.

◆Yuzu (Tachibana Yuzu): Daisuke Sakaguchi

Kunisei (Tachibana’s younger brother) is a shy and innocent boy who is often criticized by his neurotic mother and sister. stabbed.

Other characters

Mrs. Mizushima: Hanako Aikawa

Mrs. Toyama: Sakiko Tamagawa

Mrs. Triangle: Nana Yamaguchi

Kokiyo: Kaori Tokai

Komura: Haruna Ikezawa

Iwaki: Hikaru Midorikawa

Fujino: Masaru Yamaguchi Ping

Kawashima: Mizuta わさひ