Seitokai Yakuindomo (Japanese: 生徒会役員共; "Student Council Staff Members") is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Tozen Ujiie. It ran in Kodansha's Magazine Special from May 2007 to June 2008. It was then transferred to Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, where it ran from July 2008 to November 2021. Its chapters are collected and published into individual tankōbon volumes, with twenty-two volumes released as of January 2022.
An anime television series adaptation by GoHands aired in Japan between July and September 2010. A second anime season aired between January and March 2014. An anime film premiered in July 2017, and a second anime film was set to premiere in July 2020, but had been delayed to January 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In North America, the anime series has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks, and in the UK it has been licensed by MVM Entertainment.
Contents
Plot
Takatoshi Tsuda attends Ōsai Academy, a high school that, due to declining birth rates, is converted from an all-girl school to a co-ed school (with a male-to-female ratio of 28:524). On his first day, he is forcibly recruited into the student council as the vice-president and sole male representative. The story follows Tsuda and the student council as they interact with each other and their schoolmates.
Characters
Main characters
Takatoshi Tsuda (津田 タカトシ, Tsuda Takatoshi)
Voiced by: Shintarō Asanuma
Takatoshi is the main character of the story. He chooses to attend a former all-girl school simply because it is close to his home.Ch. p1 On his first day at the school, he is forced to be recruited into the student council as the vice president and male representative.Ch. p1 He normally acts as the straight-man to Shino and Aria, who, along with other girls in the school, regularly make perverted comments and sexual innuendos. Eventually, he becomes so used to this behaviour that he actually feels odd when they do not make such jokes.
Shino Amakusa (天草 シノ, Amakusa Shino)
Voiced by: Yoko Hikasa
Shino is a second-year student and the student council president.Ch. p1 Serious and diligent, she excels in academics and popular among the student body.Ch. p2, p3 However, she is normally thinking perverted things. She suggests that one of her original reasons she showed an interest in Takatoshi is so that she could observe him in health and physical education classes.Ch. p1 Although she has excellent grades and is skilled in a wide range of subjects, she fears heightsCh. p2, p10 and insects,Ch. 2 and her rather flat chest makes her feel self-conscious,Ch. p10 especially when comparing herself to Aria.Ch. p13 She occasionally performs couple-like activities with Takatoshi such as walking with him, sharing an umbrella or clearing his earwax, but is embarrassed whenever Takatoshi says anything that could be interpreted as being romantic (as the series progresses, it is hinted she has feelings for Takatoshi, but she categorically denies this every time she is asked, and there is no romantic development between them during the series). According to her childhood friend Misaki Amano, Shino was student council president at her previous school.Ch. 60
Aria Shichijō (七条 アリア, Shichijō Aria)
Voiced by: Satomi Satō
Aria is the student council secretary and in the same year as Shino;Ch. p1 they are good friends.Ch. p11 She comes from a wealthy family and is the most physically mature character. However, she has a strongly perverted mind; like Shino, she has a habit of twisting every word and thought into something sexual.Ch. p1, p4, p5 Because she is absurdly rich and overly pampered,Ch. p5 she can be a social airhead: for instance, she will wait in front of a door and expect it to slide openCh. p10 or stand at the bottom of a staircase expecting it to be an escalator.Ch. p7 In contrast, she is academically smart and places second in midterms for her class year, right behind Shino.Ch. p4 Her chest is larger than Shino's,Ch. p4 which causes the latter to feel self-conscious.Ch. p10, p13
Supporting characters
Ranko Hata (畑 ランコ, Hata Ranko)
Voiced by: Satomi Arai
Ranko is the head of the school's newspaper club.Ch. p3 She likes to take photos of the student council members to sell around the school, usually without the permission of those being photographed,Ch. 1, 7 and she often gets caught. When she conducts an interview, she likes to twist the responses to something dirty or perverted, with Tsuda as a frequent targetCh. p3, 1; running gags in the series have her constantly trying to get Shino and Takatoshi to admit that they are dating, or her admitting to spreading rumors about it, much to their chagrin. She is expressionless most of the time[vol. 3] (but has been shown to smile on very rare occasions)[vol. 17] and has a deadpan monotone voice in the anime, which contrasts with the other girls' excited temperaments.
Mutsumi Mitsuba (三葉 ムツミ, Mitsuba Mutsumi)
Voiced by: Chiaki Omigawa
Mutsumi is Takatoshi's classmate who forms a judo club at the start of the series.Ch. p4 She is dedicated to leading her club but is also simple-minded. She develops a crush on Takatoshi later in the series and, despite her remarkable potential and drive regarding martial arts, states that her dream is to simply become a bride. In one instance, she combines his family name Tsuda (津田) with her given name Mutsumi (ムツミ).Ch. 151 Because of her innocent nature, she often misses Aria and Shino's innuendos.
Naruko Yokoshima (横島 ナルコ, Yokoshima Naruko)
Voiced by: Yū Kobayashi
Naruko is a teacher at Ōsai Academy and the student council adviser.Ch. p5 She is even more perverted than Aria and Shino and angrily seeks out younger guys, not excepting her male students.Ch. p5 In the anime, she teaches English and – true to form – her syllabus almost always contains perverted content. She is perceived to be unreliable by the council members and useless as an educator.Ch. 4
Kotomi Tsuda (津田 コトミ, Tsuda Kotomi)
Crossover characters
Characters from Ujiie's previous works have made appearances in Seitokai. Misaki Amano from College Girl Tutor Hamanaka Ai (女子大生家庭教師濱中アイ, Joshidaisei Kateikyoushi Hamanaka Ai) is Shino's ex-vice president in elementary school. Being in the same class as Shino in elementary school they both are of the same age with Amano now also being a high school student, although both of them went to different high schools. Like Takatoshi, she acts as a tsukkomi for Shino's various jokes. The idol unit Triple Booking from Ujiie's work Idol's Red Book (アイドルのあかほん, Aidoru no Aka Hon) also make appearances.
Media
Manga
Seitokai Yakuindomo is written and illustrated by Tozen Ujiie. The manga was first serialized in Kodansha's Magazine Special from May 19, 2007, to June 20, 2008. The series was then transferred to Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, where it ran from July 23, 2008, to November 17, 2021. The first tankōbon volume was released on August 12, 2008, under Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine KC imprint. Its twenty-second and final volume was released on January 17, 2022.
Anime
A 13-episode anime television series produced by GoHands and directed by Hiromitsu Kanazawa aired in Japan from July 4 to September 26, 2010, on TV Kanagawa. The anime began airing at later dates on Chiba TV, TV Saitama, Sun TV, KBS, Tokyo MX, TV Aichi, and AT-X. Two pieces of theme music are used for the anime: one opening theme and one ending theme. The opening theme is "Yamato Nadeshiko Education" (大和撫子エデュケイション, Yamato Nadeshiko Edukeishon) by Triple Booking, which is a group of characters from the author's previous work Idol no Akahon consisting of Yōko Hikasa, Satomi Satō and Sayuri Yahagi – the voices of Shino, Aria and Suzu. The ending theme is "Aoi Haru" (蒼い春; Blue Spring) by Angela. Six Blu-ray/DVD volumes were released between August 4 and October 27, 2010.
A 13-episode second season titled Seitokai Yakuindomo* (生徒会役員共*) aired from January 4 to March 29, 2014. It was simulcast with English subtitles by Crunchyroll. An anime film was released on July 21, 2017. Both seasons and the film have been licensed in the US by Sentai Filmworks and in the UK by MVM Entertainment, and released on Blu-ray on December 10, 2019, and October 18, 2021, respectively. A second anime film was set to be released on July 10, 2020, but was delayed to January 1, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The staff and cast returned to reprise their roles in both films. The second movie was released on Blu-ray by Sentai Filmworks on September 20, 2022.
Original video animation (OVA) episodes of the anime have been shipping with the limited editions of the manga volumes, beginning with the fifth volume released on April 15, 2011, and excluding the sixteenth, twenty-first and twenty-second volumes. The OVAs were released with limited edition bundles of the manga and also as standalone videos. They were also produced by GoHands and their episodes are numbered as if they continued the TV series. The sixteenth volume instead bundled the first movie. The twenty-first volume bundled the second movie.
An Internet radio show titled Anime 'Seitokai Yakuindomo' ga Zenbu Wakaru Radio, Ryakushite Zenra! (アニメ『生徒会役員共』が全部わかるラジオ、略して全ラ！) produced by Animate TV began streaming online on July 14, 2010, to support the TV series. The show does not have any fixed hosts, but members of the voice cast take turns hosting the show every week.