Japanese manga series
Cover of the first
tankōbon volume, featuring (clockwise) Ino Sakura, Hayu Nukui, Nina Maehara, and Roko Sekino
Genre
Comedy ,
idol ,
music
[1]
Written by Sou Hamayumiba Published by
Houbunsha Magazine
Manga Time Kirara Carat
[a] Demographic
Seinen Original run May 28, 2015 – presentVolumes 7 (
List of volumes )
Directed by
Keiichiro Kawaguchi Written by Keiichiro Kawaguchi Tatsuya Takahashi Music by Monaca Studio
Feel Licensed by
Crunchyroll Original network
AT-X ,
Tokyo MX ,
SUN ,
KBS ,
BS-NTV Original run October 12, 2020 – December 28, 2020 Episodes 12 (
List of episodes )
Dropout Idol Fruit Tart (おちこぼれフルーツタルト , Ochikobore Furūtsu Taruto ) is a Japanese
four-panel
manga series by Sou Hamayumiba, serialized in
Houbunsha 's
seinen manga magazine
Manga Time Kirara Carat since May 2015. It has been collected in seven
tankōbon volumes. An
anime television series adaptation by
Feel aired from October to December 2020.
Plot
Ino Sakura, a girl from
Okayama Prefecture , decides to head to
Tokyo in order to realize her dream of becoming an idol. Once she arrives there, she moves into a dormitory called Mouse House where she meets Roko Sekino, a former child actor, Hayu Nukui, a musician, and Nina Maehara, a model. When their manager, Hoho Kajino, informs them that Mouse House has been threatened to be demolished, the girls quickly form a new idol group called Fruit Tart in order to save their home.
Characters
Fruit Tart
Ino Sakura (桜 衣乃 , Sakura Ino )
Voiced by:
Hiyori Nitta
[3] (Japanese);
Kira Buckland
[4] (English)
A girl from Okayama Prefecture who moves to Tokyo to become an idol. She idolized Roko as a child and is surprised to learn that she is also a member of Fruit Tart.
Roko Sekino (関野 ロコ , Sekino Roko )
Voiced by:
Risa Kubota
[3] (Japanese);
Sarah Anne Williams
[4] (English)
A former child actor who gained fame for singing a promotional song about broccoli, a gig that she now regrets. She has a complex about her small size, amplified by how much taller her sister Chiko is despite being younger.
Hayu Nukui (貫井 はゆ , Nukui Hayu )
Voiced by:
Haruka Shiraishi
[3] (Japanese);
Laura Stahl
[4] (English)
A musician and Ino's classmate. She is from a rich family and ran away from home as pursuing a singing career was against her family's wishes, although they later agree to sponsor Fruit Tart's show.
Nina Maehara (前原 仁菜 , Maehara Nina )
Voiced by:
Reina Kondō
[3] (Japanese);
Xanthe Huynh
[4] (English)
A model who is Roko's childhood friend. Roko and Hayu have a complex about her large breasts.
Hemo Midori (緑 へも , Midori Hemo )
Voiced by: Kyōka Moriya
[3] (Japanese);
Kayli Mills
[4] (English)
A newcomer idol who transfers to Rat Productions and becomes Fruit Tart's fifth member.
Cream Anmitsu
Chiko Sekino (関野 チコ , Sekino Chiko )
Voiced by:
Kaoru Sakura
[5] (Japanese); Amanda Turen
[4] (English)
The leader of Cream Anmitsu and Roko's younger sister. She appears to have a sister complex for Roko and is a fan of Fruit Tart's online show.
Nua Nakamachi (中町 ぬあ , Nakamachi Nua )
Voiced by:
Yū Sasahara
[5] (Japanese);
Stephanie Sheh
[4] (English)
Rua's twin sister.
Rua Nakamachi (中町 るあ , Nakamachi Rua )
Voiced by:
Takako Tanaka
[5] (Japanese);
Brianna Knickerbocker
[4] (English)
Nua's twin sister.
Other characters
Hoho Kajino (梶野 穂歩 , Kajino Hoho )
Voiced by:
Yoko Hikasa
[5] (Japanese);
Christina Kelly
[4] (English)
Fruit Tart's manager. Though she works with shady motives from time to time, she pulls through somehow as manager.
Tone Honmachi (本町 利音 , Honmachi Tone )
Voiced by:
Yuiko Tatsumi
[6] (Japanese);
Lizzie Freeman
[7] (English)
Ino and Hayu's classmate who is a fan of Fruit Tart. She later becomes an assistant for the group.
Riri Higashi (東 リリ , Higashi Riri )
Voiced by:
Rena Maeda
[6] (Japanese); Ryan Bartley
[4] (English)
A childhood friend of Hoho's who works as the producer of Cream Anmitsu.
Oto Kogane (小金 乙 , Kogane Oto )
Voiced by:
Yui Horie
[8] (Japanese); Jackie Lastra
[9] (English)
The acting president of Cat Productions.
Media
Manga
Dropout Idol Fruit Tart is written and illustrated by Sou Hamayumiba. It debuted as a guest series in the January to March 2015 issues of
Houbunsha 's
Manga Time Kirara Carat magazine, which were released from November 28, 2014 to January 28, 2015.
[1]
[2] The series then began serialization in the July 2015 issue, which was released on May 28, 2015.
[1] It has been compiled into seven
tankōbon volumes as of July 27, 2023.
[10] Houbunsha published an anthology of the series on October 27, 2020.
[11]
Volume list
Anime
The 12-episode
anime television series adaptation was announced in the May issue of
Manga Time Kirara Carat on March 28, 2019.
[12] The series was animated by
Feel and directed by
Keiichiro Kawaguchi , with Kawaguchi and Tatsuya Takahashi handling series composition, and Sumie Kinoshita designing the characters. Monaca composed the series' music.
[13] It was set to premiere in July 2020,
[14] but it was delayed until October 2020 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic .
[15]
Hiyori Nitta ,
Risa Kubota ,
Haruka Shiraishi ,
Reina Kondō , and Kyōka Moriya performed the opening theme song "Kibō Darake no Everyday!", as well as the ending theme song "Wonder!" as their characters.
[16] The series aired from October 12 to December 28, 2020 on
AT-X and other channels.
[16]
Funimation acquired the series and streamed it on its website in North America and the British Isles, and on
AnimeLab in Australia and New Zealand.
[17] On October 17, 2021, Funimation announced that the series would receive an English dub, which premiered the following day.
[4]
Episode list
Video game
Characters from the series appear alongside other
Manga Time Kirara characters in the 2020 mobile RPG,
Kirara Fantasia .
[43]
See also
Notes
^ Dropout Idol Fruit Tart debuted as a guest series in the January to March 2015 issues of
Houbunsha 's
Manga Time Kirara Carat magazine, which were released from November 28, 2014 to January 28, 2015.
[1]
[2]
^ English translated titles are taken from
Funimation .
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