Haikara-san ga Tooru

Haikara-san ga Tooru

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MANGA • 1975
status

Completed

start-date

5/4/1975

end-date

20/5/1977

country-origin

JP

popularity

549

studios
synonyms

Smart-san

Mademoiselle Anne

There Goes the Modern Girl

Here Comes Miss Modern

Benio Hanamura is a 17-year-old schoolgirl in Tokyo during the Taisho era. Benio lost her mother when she was very young and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking official in the Japanese army. As a result, she has grown into a tomboy - contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity, she studies kendo, drinks sake, dresses in often outlandish-looking Western fashions, and isn't as interested in housewife duties as she is in literature. She also rejects the idea of arranged marriages and believes in a woman's right to a career and to marry for love. Benio's best friends are the beautiful Tamaki, who is much more feminine than Benio but equally interested in women's rights, and Ranmaru, a young man who was raised to play female roles in the kabuki theater and as a result has acquired very effeminate mannerisms.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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