Midori Days

Midori Kasugano (春日野 美鳥, Kasugano Midori)

Voiced by: Mai Nakahara[2] (Japanese); Kether Donohue (Media Blasters dub), Claudia Thomas (Animax dub) (English)

A 16-year-old girl who ends up as Seiji's right hand. She has had a crush on him for three years. One day, she wishes to be with him, so much so that she finds herself in the place of his right hand. This causes problems for him, since it is his "Devil's Right Hand" that he punches with. Midori's real body is in a coma, and her mother tries everything to bring her back.

Seiji Sawamura (沢村 正治, Sawamura Seiji)

Voiced by: Kishō Taniyama,[2] Chiwa Saitō (young)^{Ep. 3 credits} (Japanese); Drew Aaron (Media Blasters dub), Darren Pleavin (Animax dub) (English)

A 17-year-old delinquent student who is feared for his fighting skills. Seiji fights to protect the weak using his powerful "Devil's Right Hand", and is nicknamed "Mad Dog" Sawamura. Fighting people has a price, however: everyone, including girls, fear him. He has gone seventeen years without a girlfriend and wants one badly.

Takako Ayase (綾瀬 貴子, Ayase Takako)

Voiced by: Reiko Takagi[2] (Japanese); Mollie Weaver (Media Blasters dub) (English)

The class representative for Seiji's class. She originally detested him, but after Seiji saves her from a gang, she begins to harbor a secret attraction to him. Unfortunately for her, all of her plans to confess her feelings to him fail, either through Seiji's obliviousness or outside circumstances.

Rin Sawamura (沢村 凛, Sawamura Rin)

Voiced by: Atsuko Yuya,[2] Mikako Takahashi (child)^{Ep. 3 credits} (Japanese); Meredith Zeitlin (Media Blasters dub) (English)

Seiji's violent older sister. She is the former leader of a powerful street gang, and her favorite hobbies are drinking, beating up Seiji, and taking his allowance. She was the one who taught him how to fight when they were young.

Kouta Shingyoji (真行寺 耕太, Shingyōji Kōta)

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya[2] (Japanese); Sebastian Arcelus (Media Blasters dub) (English)

A childhood friend of Midori's who is also a fellow first year at Ogurabashi High School. He was always in love with Midori, but over the course of the series, he manages to develop feelings for Seiji that make the miniature Midori extremely nervous.

Osamu Miyahara (宮原 オサム, Miyahara Osamu)

Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima[2] (Japanese); Sean Elias-Reyes (Media Blasters dub) (English)

A year-younger student at Seiji's school and kōhai or underclassman of Seiji. He idolizes Seiji for his fighting skills and is arguably the closest thing to a friend Seiji had before Midori. However, he seemingly can not keep himself out of trouble as he constantly gets caught by rival gangs.

Shuichi Takamizawa (高見沢 修一, Takamizawa Shūichi)

Voiced by: Yūji Ueda[2] (Japanese); Joshua Popenoe (Media Blasters dub) (English)

A classmate of Seiji's who is a doll otaku. He always carries around a doll of a fictional anime character named Ultra-Marin, and seems to have a creepy obsession with the character. He is also good at making clothes for dolls, a talent which means an expanded wardrobe for the miniature Midori when he finds out Seiji's secret.

Shiori Tsukishima (月島 栞, Tsukishima Shiori)

Voiced by: Yukari Tamura[2] (Japanese); Michelle O'Medlin (Media Blasters dub) (English)

A 10-year-old neighbor of Seiji's who has a crush on him. She tries a variety of ways to gain his attention, even going as far as asking Rin what kind of woman Seiji likes. However, he never takes her advances seriously as he still treats her like a child.

Haruka Kasugano (春日野 遥, Kasugano Haruka)

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara[2] (Japanese); Rachael Lillis (Media Blasters dub) (English)

Midori's mother who is worried about her. Haruka is willing to do anything to cure Midori of her illness. She is very sad about Midori's coma and tries several times to bring her back.

Lucy Winladd (ルーシィ·ウィンラッド, Rūshii Winraddo)

She is an American exchange student who transferred into Seiji's high school (more precisely, into Miyahara's class). She loves Japanese pop culture, especially samurai movies, and admires Seiji because she sees him as an ideal Japanese man.

Nao Makinoha (槙葉 奈緒, Makinoha Nao)

A silent, mysterious girl in Seiji's class. She loves strange phenomena, and thus takes an interest in Seiji's transformed right hand. She seemingly appears at the strangest times, which gives Seiji quite a scare.

Shiro Makinoha (槙葉 史郎, Makinoha Shirō)

Nao's father who is a doctor. He always attempts to capture Seiji so he can dissect him to show Midori to the medical community and gain fame from his findings. While his attempts are usually foiled by Nao, Seiji and Midori occasionally do this as well.

Hisashi Sakisaka (向坂久, Sakisaka Hisashi)

Rin's boyfriend, Sakisaka is a treasure hunter and loves to travel the world. However, his constant disappearances annoy Rin to no end.

Miku Nekobe (猫部 美紅, Nekobe Miku)

She is the leader of the Crimson Angels (Kurenai Benten), an all-female gang who constantly harasses and embarrasses Kouta (most notably by dressing him up in girl's clothing). Despite this, she has a soft spot for the boy and later helps him out when he tries to separate Seiji and Midori.

Yukina Asano (浅野 ゆきな, Asano Yukina)

Yukina Asano is Seiji's first (sort of) girlfriend and childhood sweetheart. She had become friends with him when they were both 10 years old, but since she had to move away, they did not see each other for seven years until a chance meeting at a place of mutual memory.

Rina Kamaki (鎌木 梨奈, Kamaki Rina)

An 11th-grader who is one of the popular and best students at Seiji's school, and the daughter of a trading company's chairman. For her popularity, she has earned the unofficial nickname kamakiri fujin ("praying mantis").

Midori Days, written and illustrated by Kazurou Inoue, was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from September 18, 2002,[3] to July 21, 2004.[4] The 85 individual chapters were collected into eight tankōbon volumes, published from January 18, 2003,[5] to October 18, 2004.[6]

The series was licensed in North America by Viz Media, in Singapore by Chuang Yi, and in Australia by Madman Entertainment.[7][8][9]

An anime television series adaptation by Pierrot aired on tvk and other UHF stations from April 4 to June 27, 2004.[10][11][12] The series was directed by Tsuneo Kobayashi, with Yuko Kusumoto providing the character designs and Yoshihisa Hirano composing the music. CooRie performed the opening theme "Sentimental" (センチメンタル, Senchimentaru), while Saori Atsumi performed the ending theme "Mōsukoshi... Mōsukoshi..." (もう少し...もう少し..., "A Little More... A Little More...").[13][14] The series was licensed in North America by Media Blasters.[15]