School of Water Business

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The School of Water Business
都立水商! (Toritsu Mizusho!)
Genre	Comedy
Manga
Author	Hikaru Murozumi
Illustrator	Shinobu Inokuma
Publisher	Shogakukan
Magazine	Young Sunday
Original run	October 4, 2003 – ongoing
Volumes	16 ^[1]
TV drama
Network	NTV
Original run	March 28, 2006 – ongoing
Episodes	1

The School of Water Business (都立水商!, Toritsu Mizusho!^?) is a manga series created by Shinobu Inokuma, the author of Salad Days. It is based on a novel by Hikaru Murozumi It is set in a fictional trade-school, that focuses on Mizu shōbai, located in Kabukichō of Shinjuku, Tokyo

The school's focus is to give students that are on their last chance in the school system. Classes are divided into occupations such as, Hostesses, Hosts, "Managers" (from waiters to actual managers), "Geibaa" (Gay Bar but is a more comedic view of males dressing and acting like females) and, finally, "soapgirls." The School of Water Business is an ecchi series but has shown far less skin than some of the "softer" translated series. The series is mostly a romantic comedy but also mixes in many positive messages about life, work, friendship, and other topics.

[edit] Characters

The volume number denotes the character's first appearance. The actor/actress is the person that was casted for the character in the TV special.

Keisuke Tanabe (田辺圭介, Tanabe Keisuke^?) - Sociology Teacher (Vol. 1) - Takashi Fujii
Akane Yoshioka (吉岡あかね, Yoshioka Akane^?)- Fuzoku Course Director (Vol. 1)
Shigeo Yagura (矢倉茂, Yagura Shigeo^?) - Headmaster (Vol. 1) Naoto Takenaka
Akemi Kondo (近藤明美, Kondō Akemi^?) - Hostess Course Director (Vol. 1) - Chisato Morishita
Toshihito Takei (竹井俊仁, Takei Toshihito^?) - Host Course Director (Vol. 1)
Makoto Ono (大野誠, Ōno Makoto^?) - Gay Bar Course Director (Vol. 1) - Takaya Yamauchi
Tadao Kurosawa (黒沢忠夫, Kurosawa Tadao^?) - Manager Course Director (Vol. 1) - Hironobu Nomura
Michiko Yazawa (矢沢　道子, Yazawa Michiko^?) - Music Teacher (Vol. 6)
Mari Oda (小田真理, Oda Mari^?) (Mari Koyama in TV version) - Fuzoku Student (Vol. 1) - Saki Seto
Daichi Nagasawa (長沢大地, Nagasawa Daichi^?) - Manager Student (Vol. 1) - Ryoji Morimoto
Masashi Ito (伊東雅史, Itō Masashi^?) - Athletics Director (Vol. 1)
Izumi Eto (江藤いずみ, Etō Izumi^?) - Student (Fuzoku) (Vol. 1)
Kikuzo Sakuma (佐久間菊蔵, Sakuma Kikuzō^?) - Chairman of the Tokyo Metropolitan School Board (Vol. 1) - Renji Ishibashi
Teppei Suga (須賀鉄平, Suga Teppei^?) - Gay Bar Student (Vol. 1)
Ryoko Akagi (赤木良子, Akagi Ryōko^?) - Fuzoku Student (Vol. 3)
Mayuko Maruyama (丸山真由子, Maruyama Maruko^?) - Hostess Student (Vol. 4) - Misako Yasuda
Sawa Sugabayashi (杉林佐和, Sugabayashi Sawa^?) - Manager Student (Vol. 5)
Sanae Yamashita (山下早苗, Yamashita Sanae^?) - Hostess Student (Vol. 6) - Becky
Reira Yamaguchi - Hostess Student (Vol. 8) - Risa Kudo
Miwa Nagasawa (長沢三葉, Nagasawa Miwa^?) - Hostess Student (Vol. 9)
Ayame Hanao (花尾あやめ, Hanao Ayame^?) - Hostess Student (Vol. 9)
Komachi Nakajima (中嶋小町, Nakajima Komachi^?) - Hostess Student (Vol. 11)
Etsuko Yamaguchi - (TV only) - Mariko Tsutsui
Moe Akiba - (TV only) - Aki Hoshino
Kyoto - (TV only) - Kenji Anan