Aah! Megami-sama
Oh My Goddess! (ああっ女神さま っ, Aa! Megami-sama?) also known as Ah! My Goddess and Oh my Goddess! is a seinen-themed manga and anime series created by Kōsuke Fujishima that blends comedy, drama, and Romance. First published in 1988 and completed in 2014, the last volume was released in July of that same year, consisting of forty-eight volumes in total and it continues to be published in several countries in addition to Japan, such as: China, the United States, Spain, Mexico, among others.
Plot
The story centers on Keiichi Morisato, a former college student who is fond of motorcycles. One day, Keiichi accidentally calls a "goddesses technical helpline" — In the OVAs he was trying to order food delivery, while in the manga and anime series he was leaving a message — and the beautiful goddess Belldandy appears through the looking glass, offering him a wish. As he doesn't understand what is happening, Keiichi wishes for Belldandy (whom he finds very attractive) to stay with him forever, and her wish is immediately granted. As a consequence, Keiichi, who lived in an exclusive dormitory for men at the university, is expelled from the building and is forced to find a new home, which he finds in a Buddhist temple that was abandoned after the monk who lived there left. to India for a pilgrimage.
This is further complicated when Belldandy's sisters, Urd and Skuld, move in with them, bringing them even more trouble.
The three goddesses are based on the norns of Norse mythology Urd, Verdandi/Verthandi and Skuld, which represent the past, present and future. These norms live in one of the wells that feed the Yggdrasil, and protect it. The manga goddesses access a computer system with the same name as an analogy for the Yggdrasil tree that supports all the worlds, an ash tree.
Pilot
Prior to starting Oh My Goddess!, Kōsuke Fujishima had been working on the manga You're under Arrest or Estás Arrestado for some time., Miyuki Kobayakawa, one of the main characters of the series, was drawn as the character of a Goddess in a yonkoma for a contest. While the exact relationship between this initial goddess and the series Ah! My Goddess is not clear, there is a belief that Ah! My Goddess was something of a spin-off story. Regardless of origin, the concept of a goddess "by way of work" interested Fujishima enough to publish the first appearance of the series in Afternoon in August 1988.
Universe of the series
The universe of the sleeve Aa! Megami-sama is vaguely based on the popular culture of Nordic mythology. It is divided into at least three worlds; heaven, hell and earth, but it has been indicated that there are also many other worlds. Heaven is the Kingdom of God and the goddess, while hell belongs to the Daimakaicho and demons. The earth is the kingdom of human beings and until recently, not inhabited by goddess or demons, largely because they can create an imbalance in the happiness of the world. reality is controlled by an enormous and complex computer system called "Yggdrasil", the name taken from the tree in the Nordic mythology.
Characters
- Belldandy (check-out registration) is a first-class goddess, second-class and unlimited power being its alternative source of sleeping energy. It controls the wind and represents the present. At the beginning of history it appears to be 21 years old, having been born on 1 January. It comes from the Gods' Assistance Office, it measures 1.65m. His angel is called Holy Bell. It is the personification of softness, being always pleasant, has no bad thought, its weakness is the soda of tail, which makes it drunk. When you receive the order to remain on Earth before Keiichi forever, you fully adjust and then begin your new life. She has as her older sister, Urd, and another minor, Skuld, two most problematic goddess with which she sometimes has difficulties. Graphically, it is the character in which you notice more evolution in the course of the volumes of the sleeve.
- Keiichi Morisato (apartment一) is a university student, a lover of motorized vehicles, who does not care about the outside but rather the interior of the people. Luck and bad luck is very common in your life, and you have bad luck with women for being small (it is only 1.60 meters). But her life changes radically when she meets Belldandy: she makes her company and also brings her some luck, so she starts a life totally different from what he was used to. He's an undecided, extremely friendly and enthusiastic young man.
- Urd (sing) is the goddess of the past in Nordic mythology and a hybrid of goddess and demon, because of this his guardian angel has a white wing and a black wing as well as his hair and dress, is called World Of Elegance. Her temper is strong, but at the same time she's seductive. It is very far from managing its powers but tends to exaggerate in its use by making these always cause a disaster, so it was banished from Asgard (home of the gods in the Nordic mythology, in the case of the series it is simply called heaven), and must then live with Belldandy and Keiichi, then it is followed by Skuld. Her weak point is to listen to enka style music, which makes her sleep deeply and immediately and her alternative energy source is sake. Originally she is the system administrator in the "Yggdrasil system" (system with which God controls the universe) but she escapes from heaven and becomes the Celestine in the relationship of Keiichi and Belldandy and for this she uses her ability to make potions.
- Skuld (Audience counselor) is the goddess of the future in Nordic mythology and the third to appear, Belldandy's younger sister, has a guardian angel named Noble Scarlet, is very fun, but knowing that Keiichi is with her sister gets very jealous, since she thinks he will keep her away from her sister. Its alternative energy source is ice cream. He is a genius of technology and mechanics, so he hates simple machines and without apparent utility. It has a hammer with which it scares the bugs of Yggdrasil, which influences the powers and actions of the goddess.
Content of the work
Manga
Since the publication of the first volume in 1989, it has been well received all over the world and is considered by many to be one of the best manga of the 90s. Currently, 45 Tankoubons with 192 pages each have been published.
The Oh My Goddess! manga has been published in Spain since June 2005, edited by Norma Editorial under the name “Ah my Goddess!”.
In Mexico, the publication began in 1998 by Grupo Editorial Vid, making a total of 64 volumes (2 for each Tankoubon). Currently its edition is discontinued.
The structure of the manga is divided, or can be divided, more or less into plot "arcs", that is, a few episodes dedicated to a specific topic, and the evolution of all the characters throughout the plot is notorious which, starting from a very simple point, becomes a story that does not load too much on drama and more on romance and fun, although from time to time it falls a bit as a plot.
The evolution in the drawing style of the characters is notable over time, starting with very classic manga lines in terms of lines and shading, to vary completely from the drawing and design of the latter, however, this is due to the natural evolution in the design of the characters by Kōsuke Fujishima, since the series began in Japan at the end of the eighties and continues to date, something that is usually seen in other series (Dragon Ball is one of the famous examples).
- Tankoubons edited in Japan
| Title | ISBN | Publication date |
|---|---|---|
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321009-X | 23 August 1989 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321013-8 | 23 March 1990 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321013-8 | 22 September 1990 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321021-9 | 23 May 1991 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321023-5 | 23 October 1991 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321025-1 | 23 April 1992 |
| - Volume 7 | ISBN 4-06-321028-6 | 22 October 1992 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321030-8 | 23 March 1993 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321037-5 | 22 November 1993 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321040-5 | 23 May 1994 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321044-8 | 21 October 1994 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321049-9 | 23 June 1995 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321057-X | 23 April 1996 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321067-7 | 23 April 1997 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321074-X | 1 September 1997 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321076-6 | 21 November 1997 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321091-X | 22 September 1998 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321093-6 | 20 November 1998 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-314219-1 | 22 September 1999 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-314222-1 | 22 November 1999 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321114-2 | 22 June 2000 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321118-5 | 23 October 2000 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321129-0 | 23 October 2001 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321136-3 | 23 March 2002 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321142-8 | 15 November 2002 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321150-9 | 23 June 2003 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321154-1 | 21 November 2003 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321158-4 | 23 March 2004 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321163-0 | 6 September 2004 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321166-5 | 1 November 2004 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321169-X | 1 September 2005 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321173-8 | 1 December 2005 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321177-0 | 1 July 2006 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 4-06-321180-0 | 1 November 2006 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 978-4-06-321185-6 | 24 June 2007 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 978-4-06-321186-3 | 21 December 2007 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 978-4-06-321188-7 | 23 July 2008 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 978-4-06-321190-0 | 22 December 2008 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 978-4-06-321191-7 | 23 July 2009 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 978-4-06-321193-1 | 20 November 2009 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 978-4-06-321194-8 | 23 July 2010 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 978-4-06-321195-5 | 23 February 2011 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 978-4-06-310774-6 | 23 September 2011 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 978-4-06-321197-9 | 23 April 2012 |
| Oh, my Goddess! | ISBN 978-4-06-321198-6 | 22 November 2012 |
Accommodations
Oh My Goddess! (OVA)
The first anime adaptation based on the manga Oh My Goddess!, was a miniseries of five OVAs produced in 1993 by the company AIC, due to the success of the manga. This format presents the main characters of the manga, although with some interfaces or differences, collecting the most momentous chapters of the manga. The OVAs were released under the name Ah! Megami-sama (ああっ女神さまっ, ''Ah! Megami-sama''?). It was broadcast by Locomotion in Latin America, Spain and Portugal, with dubbing in Spanish and Portuguese. The name given in the Mexican dubbing was My Goddess; Locomotion aired it under the name Oh My Goddess! in the Animafilms segment, premiering in October 1999.
The Adventures of Mini Goddess (anime)
Oh! Megami-sama: Chicchaitte Kotoha Benridane 事は便利だねっ, lit. Oh My Goddess!: Being small is convenient?) or also known simply as Mini-Goddess is an anime series consisting of 48 episodes of about 7 minutes each, featuring superdeformed versions of Urd, Belldandy and Skuld, based on small jokes that included at the end of some stories called Mini Urd's Adventures. The series was produced in 1998, animated by the OLM, Inc. studio and broadcast on the WOWOW satellite television network.
It was a part of the WOWOW network show Anime Complex and was distributed in the US by Pioneer Entertainment. This series departs more from the basic storyline of the manga, and in fact, does not have any continuity with the previous series. It was licensed by Locomotion to Kodansha and broadcast for Latin America, Spain and Portugal, with dubbing in Spanish and Portuguese. The name given in the Mexican dubbing was The Adventures of the Mini Goddesses, although Locomotion broadcast it under the name Mini-Goddess.
This is one of the few times that Kikuko Inoue couldn't do Belldandy's voice work throughout, as she was on maternity leave for the first thirteen episodes.
Oh! My Goddess - The Movie (Gekijouban Aa! Megami-sama)
In 2000, the film Ah! My Goddess: The Movie (劇場版ああっ女神さまっ, Gekijouban Ah!MegamiSama ?). It was distributed in Japan by Shochiku, in North America by Geneon Entertainment in 2001, and in Germany it was released by the Virtual Anime label for DVD. The plot is basically a continuation of the OVAs, showing more about Belldandy's past and her meeting with Keiichi, but the apps trace the devices from various story arcs in the manga.
It tells the story of Morgan, a fairy with a great disappointment in her heart for losing her first love, and in need of power to appear again in front of the portal of destiny. The power is given to him by Celestine, a God trapped on the Moon for opposing the will of heaven, and who was Belldandy's mentor. When Celestine and Belldandy meet, a series of events will drag the protagonists, who must finally prove if their love really has a future.
Ooh! Megami-sama (anime)
An anime series premiered in Japan on January 6, 2005, Aa! Megami-sama (ああっ女神さまっ, ''Ah! My Goddess''?) produced by AIC and distributed in the United States by Media Blasters. This adaptation returns to the roots of the manga, giving events much closer to its original form. Although there are minor differences, based on what is considered unacceptable for television, or fixing plot holes in the manga, or just moving the time-frame from the 1980s to the mid-2000s. Some episodes do not reflect any particular elements of the manga. diagram in the manga. This first season consisted of 24 episodes plus the special episode (between episodes 12 and 13), which was a recap. The Japanese DVD release contained 2 OVA episodes, which focused on the aftermath of the first season finale. A second season was released in April 2006, called Ah! My Goddess: Everyone Has Wings, which featured the same staff from the first season.
In 2007 the special OVA of two episodes Ah! My Goddess: Fighting Wings (Fighting Wings), to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of the manga, was directed by Hiroaki Gōda, animated by AIC, and produced by Tokyo Broadcasting System. The episodes aired in Japan on December 8, 2007, and Bandai Visual later released both episodes in a single DVD disc edition in Japan on February 22, 2008. There is no license in place for the editing and sale of these. episodes on DVD or Blu-ray for Region 4 (Central and South America), or Region 2 (Europe).
On February 23, 2011, Kodansha released the first of three OVAs produced after Ah! My Goddess: Fighting Wings with the title of Ah! My Goddess: Together Forever (Aa! Megami-sama: Itsumo Futari de), this OVA was distributed together with the 42nd volume of the manga. Volume 42 was released in two versions, the standard version without the OVA and the limited edition which came with the disc with the OVA.
Kodansha released the second OVA for the anime series on September 23, 2011 along with the 43rd volume of the manga in Japan, it was edited and released in the same way as the 42nd volume.
The third OVA was released in Japan on August 23, 2013 along with the 46th volume of the manga. The title of this OVA is Dive! Live! Love!.
Ooh! Megami-sama: First End (Light Novel)
The first novel in the series, Oh My Goddess! First End (ああっ女神さまっ 初終 -First End-, ''Oh My Goddess! First End''?), was written by Urd's voice actress Yumi Tōma, with illustrations by Kōsuke Fujishima and Hidenori Matsubara, the animation director of several anime adaptations. from the series. The story follows that of the manga, taking place five years after the first meeting between Belldandy and Keiichi (three years after Skuld's arrival). The novel was first published in Japan on July 20, 2006 by Kodansha; it was later licensed in English by Dark Horse and released in the United States on December 12, 2007.
Video Games
An adventure game titled Aa! Megami-sama! for the NEC PC-9801 was released in 1993 by Banpresto. The improved version was released in 1997 for the PC-FX which added voice and other improvements.
A Quiz game for the Dreamcast titled quiz: Oh My Goddess! was released in August 1998. The player assumes the role of Keiichi Morisato answering questions from the anime/manga characters
In February 2007 the game Oh My Goddess! was developed by Marvelous Interactive and released in Japan for the PlayStation 2. The game, released only in Japan, had three editions: limited edition (known as Holybox); the regular edition of DVD and an edition in 1998 that named Best collection. Currently there have been no plans for the game to be licensed and translated into other languages.
Angels
Angels are creatures that join goddesses when they get an angel egg. They are very powerful creatures, and a goddess can usually only have one. They are precisely those that allow a goddess to use the most powerful magic, without having to go to the extreme of breaking her containment seals, which is a very serious fault, hence her excessive potential, and the almost inability of a goddess to have more than one, and even not being able to have, as is the Skuld problem. Although a goddess initially has no angel, when they get one, they become reflections of the goddess, empowering her host goddess, and move in sync with them.
Although all goddesses have an angel, they don't appear in the manga until much later than the anime.
Dubbing
The voices of the characters are:
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Music
Music was composed by Shiro Hamaguchi. The two opening songs are Open your mind ~ Chiisana Hane Hirogete ~ (open your mind ～小さな羽根ひろげて～) and Shiawase no IRO (幸せのいろ) by Yoko Ishida. For the others the following titles are used:
- Negai (knowledge) by Yoko Ishida (eps 1-12 and 24).
- wing by Yōko Takahashi (eps 13-23 and 25 and 26).
- Our Miracle by Yoko Ishida.
- Bokura no Kiseki Ishida.
- Koibito Doshi (同 exposing) by Jyukai.
Reception
The manga was awarded the Kodansha Manga Award in the General category in 2009 and the volume, 41, was the 10th best-selling manga in Japan in the week of its publication according to the Oricon Japanese Comic Rankings. It is the biggest international success of the mangaka Kōsuke Fujishima.
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