D.C. ～Da Capo～
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| Ｄ．Ｃ．～ダ・カーポ～ (D.C. ～Da Capo～) |
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| Genre | Romantic comedy |
| Game: D.C. ～Da Capo～ | |
| Developer | Circus |
| Publisher | Circus |
| Genre | Dating sim, Eroge, Romantic comedy |
| Rating | 18+, CERO 12+ (console versions) |
| Platform | PC, PlayStation 2 |
| Released | 28 June 2002 (CD) 26 July 2002 (DVD) |
| TV anime : D.C. ～Da Capo～ | |
| Directed by | Nagisa Miyazaki |
| Studio | ZEXCS |
| Network | Chiba TV, KIDS STATION, TV Kanagawa |
| Original run | 11 July 2003 – 27 December 2003 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| TV anime : D.C.S.S. ～Da Capo Second Season～ | |
| Directed by | Masanori Nayoshi |
| Studio | Feel |
| Network | Chiba TV, KIDS STATION, TV Kanagawa, Sun TV, TV Aichi, KBS Kyoto |
| Original run | 2 July 2005 – 24 December 2005 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Manga: D.C. ～Da Capo～ | |
| Authored by | Natsuki Tanihara |
| Publisher | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Serialized in | |
| Original run | – |
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D.C. ～Da Capo～ (Ｄ．Ｃ．～ダ・カーポ～?) is a Japanese 18+ adventure game by Circus, of the genre "funny school romance adventure" (こそばゆい学園恋愛アドベンチャー?) (according to its maker, Circus). It has been adapted into two anime and two manga series based on it, improved versions of the first game, several fandiscs, and assorted comic anthologies and merchandise.
A sequel, D.C. II ～Da Capo II～, was released on 26 May 2006.
It is set on a fictional island in modern Japan, Hatsunejima, where the sakura trees are mysteriously always in full blossom.
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[edit] Main characters
[edit] Da Capo
- Jun'ichi Asakura (朝倉純一 Asakura Jun'ichi?)
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- Seldom one to turn his back on someone in need. Can create wagashi with magic taught to him by his grandmother. He is one of the two returning characters in D.C. II ～Da Capo II～, which takes place 53 years after the events of Da Capo. Otome and Yume from D.C. II ～Da Capo II～ are his granddaughters, and Yoshiyuki is the son he and Sakura never had, brought into existence by the new unwilting sakura.
- Voiced by: Yuuki Tai
- Nemu Asakura (朝倉音夢 Asakura Nemu?)
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- Nemu is Jun'ichi's sister by adoption. She wears a bell as an accessory. When her mood turns sour, she becomes excessively polite and antisocial, a condition that Jun'ichi calls "Ura-Nemu (裏音夢? Anti-Nemu)". In the first season of the anime, her cooking is described as lethal, to the point that Jun'ichi quietly calls her the "Murderous Chef (殺人シェフ Satsujin Chef?)", but by the time of the second season, she has improved enough to serve edible food. Extremely jealous of Sakura and Junichi's relationship, going as far as to intercept, tear up, and throw away most of the letters she sent to him during her six years in America. The main heroine. Her ending is considered to be the canon one, leading to D.C. II ～Da Capo II～. Otome and Yume from D.C. II ～Da Capo II～ are her granddaughters.
- Original VA: Kanon Torii
- Voiced by: Sakura Nogawa
- Kotori Shirakawa (白河ことり Shirakawa Kotori?)
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- Kotori is the school's idol and star singer. Although she can hear other people's thoughts, she carefully hides this ability. She became close to Jun'ichi because he was the only one in the male student body that didn't try to idolize her. In the anime's first season, she is Sakura's classmate, next door to Jun'ichi, Nemu, Mako, and Suginami's class. She is also the younger sister of Koyomi Shirakawa, Jun'ichi's homeroom teacher.
- Original VA: Yura Hinata
- Voiced by: Yui Horie
- Sakura Yoshino (芳乃さくら Yoshino Sakura?)
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- Jun'ichi's cousin, Sakura, is a very lively girl who shows great affection towards Junichi, much to Nemu's dismay. She is sometimes seen with Utamaru, a white cat. Actually older than Junichi. She inherited her grandmother's magical ability, and despite the passing of several years, her appearance remains largely unchanged from what Jun'ichi and Nemu remember. Has an IQ of 180. She is one of the two returning characters in D.C. II ～Da Capo II～, which takes place 53 years after the events of Da Capo.
- Original VA: Minami Hokuto
- Voiced by: Yukari Tamura
- Moe Mizukoshi (水越萌 Mizukoshi Moe?)
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- Moe is a gentle girl who is often seen throughout the series sitting on the roof at lunchtime cooking and eating soup with her younger sister Mako. She is very polite but can be dim-witted at times, and can fall asleep anywhere at any time, even when she's walking. This is because she constantly takes sleeping pills so that she can keep dreaming (the magical sakura tree granted her wish to be able to meet an old, dead friend in her dreams). Sometimes she carries a small xylophone, although it's not because she wants to be a good player of said instrument. She is very knowledgeable about nabe, and can talk for hours about said subject.
- Original VA: Himawari Natsuno
- Voiced by: Yui Itsuki
- Mako Mizukoshi (水越眞子 Mizukoshi Mako?)
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- Mako is a close friend of Nemu and is often concerned about her. She can be angered easily. She has had a rivalry with Suginami since elementary school and they often quarrel. During lunch, she can often be found on the rooftop with her sister Moe enjoying some nabe. She and her sister Moe are daughters of a wealthy hospital director, and they have a younger brother who is similar to Koyomi or Ura-Nemu in temperament.
- Original VA: Minami Nagasaki
- Voiced by: Yuki Matsuoka
- Miharu Amakase (天枷美春 Amakase Miharu?)
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- In the game and first anime season, Miharu is an android patterned after a childhood friend of the Asakura family with the same name, and is thus experiencing lots of things for the first time. Her enthusiasm often overrules her common sense, and Jun'ichi often has to get her out of sight when her circuits start to overload. Like her namesake, she enjoys eating bananas. The real-life Miharu adores Nemu, and behaves much like a little puppy around her—in fact, her nickname is Wanko (ワン子? "Puppy").
- Original VA: Hiyori Haruno／Rumiko Sasa（after "D.C.P.C."）
- Voiced by: Akemi Kanda
- Misaki/Yoriko Sagisawa (鷺澤美咲/頼子 Sagisawa Misaki/Yoriko?)
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- Misaki is a young girl who stays at home, looking out at the world, and Yoriko is her cat. In the game, the magical sakura tree granted her wish, and she possessed Yoriko's body, which transformed into a a copy of her original body, but with cat ears. In the anime, Yoriko jumps out of Misaki's window to see the world in her place, and was transformed into a maid with cat ears. Yoriko has a fear of people after an incident with some children, and it takes her a long time to venture outside. In D.C.S.S., Misaki appears in the park at night or early morning, and offers Aisia advice about Jun'ichi.
- Original VA: Junko Kusayanagi
- Voiced by: Miyu Matsuki
- Suginami (杉並?)
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- Suginami is Jun'ichi and Nemu's classmate and often gives Jun'ichi advice about relationships with girls. Although he is an excellent athlete, a top student, and good-looking, his oddly disturbing personality causes most people to keep their distance from him. He enjoys teasing Mako and dragging Jun'ichi into various situations.
- Original VA: Shin Azuma／Taiyou Sorano(Only in "C.D.Christmas Days")
- Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio
- Kanako "Mikkun" Saeki (佐伯加奈子 (みっくん)?) and Tomoko "Tomo-chan" Morikawa (森川智子 (ともちゃん)?)
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- Mikkun (who is nicknamed after her brother Mikihiko(幹彦)) and Tomo-chan are Kotori's best friends. Their faces are mostly hidden from view in the first season of the anime, but the second season displays their faces completely. Mikkun wears glasses in the first season, but does not in the second. Together with Kotori, they form a band with Kotori on vocals, Mikkun on piano, and Tomo-chan on guitar.
- Original VA: Mikkun Minami Hokuto, Tomo-chan Rino Suzuki
- Mikkun Voiced by: Ryoko Shiraishi , Tomo-chan Voiced by: Kanako Hattori
- Koyomi Shirakawa (白河暦 Shirakawa Koyomi?)
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- Koyomi is Jun'ichi's homeroom teacher, one of the faculty's science teachers, and Kotori's older sister. She is also a researcher at the Amakase Laboratory, and in charge of the Miharu android. In the second season, she is a new mother, and her strict composure rapidly crumbles when she talks about her baby.
- Original VA: Komugi Nishida
- Voiced by: Naoko Matsui
- Utamaru (うたまる?)
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- Sakura's cat. His appearance is rather unusual, and he often moves by hopping rather than crawling.
- Original VA: Hiyori Haruno／Rumiko Sasa(after "D.C.P.C.")
- Voiced by: Haruko Momoi
- Tomoya Mizukoshi (水越智也 Mizukoshi Tomoya?)
- Moe and Mako's younger brother. He is very similar to Kouyomi or Ura-Nemu in temperament.
- Grandma
- Junichi and Sakura's grandmother. Half Japanese, half British. Said to have looked young till she was about a hundred years old. Already dead by the events of Da Capo, but that doesn't stop her from showing up every once in a while.
[edit] Plus Situation
- Tamaki Konomiya (胡ノ宮環 Konomiya Tamaki?)
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- A miko at the local Shinto shrine. She inherited her mother's ability to see into the future. In the anime's second season, she uses her archery skills to prevent people from getting hurt in foreseen accidents.
- Voiced by: Nami Kurokawa
- VA after "D.C.P.C." :Yumiko Sawamura
- Kanae Kudou (工藤叶 Kudõ Kanae?)
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- One of Asakura and Suginami's buddies. She is actually a girl, but keeps up a male appearance because of her family's traditions. Only Kotori and some faculty members know of her true gender. She also appears in the original game, but as a sub-character with no dialogue.
- Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro
- VA after "D.C.P.C." :Ayumi Kashima
- Izumiko Murasaki (紫和泉子 Murasaki Izumiko?)
- Izumiko is an alien dressed in a pink bear suit. Her name, which is actually an alias, is based on the names of the Japanese poets Murasaki Shikibu and Izumi Shikibu. Izumiko has no dialogue in either anime series.
- Voiced by: Natsuko Kuwatani
- VA after "D.C.P.C." :Kappa Mizuno
- Nanako Saitama (彩珠ななこ Saitama Nanako?)
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- Nanako in D.C.S.S. is a young shoujo manga artist. Already her talent is recognized under the pen-name Tamagawa Ayako (Suginami being one of her biggest fans), and she is under constant pressure to write new chapters of her latest creation, Magical Chiffon. She is a bit accident-prone, and also runs into mishaps with paper-loving white goats for some reason.
- Voiced by: Masumi Asano
- VA after "D.C.P.C." :Midori Chiba
- Alice Tsukishiro (月城アリス Tsukishiro Alice?)
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- Alice appears in the D.C.S.S. anime as a reserved young woman, later revealed to be from the same country as Aisia, and the daughter of a family of circus acrobats.
- Voiced by: Emiko Hagiwara
- VA after "D.C.P.C." :Pirosu
- Kasumi Kiryuu (霧羽香澄 Kiryũ Kasumi?)
- A dead girl who'd forgotten that she'd died.
- VA in "D.C.P.S." :Yumi Kakazu
- VA after "D.C.P.C." :Aoi Kamitsuki
- Asumi Kiryuu (霧羽明日美 Kiryũ Asumi?)
- Kasumi's sister.
- VA in "D.C.P.S." :Misato Fukuen
- VA after "D.C.P.C." :Aoi Kamitsuki
- Seba (瀬場?)
- Alice's butler. Named after To Heart's Sebastian.
- VA in "D.C.P.S." :Shigenori Souya
- VA after "D.C.P.C." :Tooru Sakura
[edit] Others
- Aisia (アイシア?)
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- Aisia appears in the D.C.S.G. manga and the D.C.S.S. anime. A similar character called the "Mysterious young girl (謎の少女 Nazo no shõjo?) appears in the D.C.F.S. game, with similar features and the same seiyũ. In D.C.S.S., Aisia came to Hatsunejima to study magic. Although she has knowledge of how to use it, her control of her capabilities and her judgment are, at best, erratic. She firmly believes that magic can and should be used for the good of all, something her own grandmother always practiced.
- Voiced by: Ui Miyazaki
- Sayaka Shirakawa (白河さやか?)
- From Suika. Has a cameo appearance in the game. Takes a liking to Sakura, and tries to kidnap her.
- Hina (ヒナ?)
- Junichi and Kotori's daughter. Seen only in D.C.W.S.
[edit] Plot Summaries
[edit] Anime D.C. ～Da Capo～
The anime D.C. series is centered around Sakura Yoshino's return to Hatsune-jima, and also the relationship between Nemu and Jun'ichi Asakura. The plot follows the game's scenario where the player (as Jun'ichi) chooses Nemu[citation needed], placing him in the middle of a love triangle that began when he, Nemu, and Sakura were children.
Sakura later discovers, to her horror, that the magical sakura tree that granted the wishes of the people on the island has caused Nemu to fall ill because of her jealousy, and so she resolves to put the tree to death. Her decision, however, causes the wishes granted to be broken.
[edit] D.C. ～Da Capo～ Side Episodes
The thirteen short Side Episodes aired along with the anime episodes 8 to 14 and 16 to 21. Some of the episodes were strictly comedy or drama with no continuity with the main series or other Side Episodes, but other episodes trace the story of an anthropomorphic black cat that the girls call "Fushigi-san (不思議さん? Mr. Mysterious)" (at Sakura's suggestion). Fushigi-san had once lived on Hatsune-jima in his junior high school days, and knew members of the Yoshino and Shirakawa families who strongly resembled Sakura and Kotori. In the time of D.C., Moe, Sakura, and Kotori see the elusive Fushigi-san during their free time.
The young Yoshino girl in the flashback was voiced by Haruko Momoi. Her remark about the Sagisawa family purchasing the first color television on the island indicates that the time of the flashback sequence in the 11th Side Episode was after 1960, when NHK broadcast the first color Japanese television program. Her quote of Neil Armstrong places the exact year close to 1969, the year of the famous Apollo 11 moon landing.
[edit] D.C.S.S. ～Da Capo Second Season～
The D.C.S.S. anime, set two years after the events of D.C., is centered around Aisia's story, and her adventures with the Plus Situation characters Tamaki, Nanako, and Alice. Nemu appears midway through the series as a student nurse, and Sakura returns to Hatsune-jima a few episodes after that.
The major conflict of the second season is Aisia's idealistic, versus Sakura's realistic view of magic. Aisia manages to revive the magic sakura tree in order to grant the desire of all the girls who love Jun'ichi. She discovers, as Sakura did, that the tree has no compunction against hurting Nemu to grant this wish, and comes to the same conclusion that Sakura did two years earlier. At the series' close, she visits Jun'ichi and Nemu's wedding as a more capable magician.
[edit] Media
[edit] Games
- D.C. ～Da Capo～ (D.C.～ダ・カーポ～) (PC, Windows) 28 June 2002
- D.C.P.S. ～Da Capo Plus Situation～ (D.C.P.S.～ダ・カーポ プラスシチュエーション～) (PlayStation 2) 30 October 2003
- D.C.P.C. ～Da Capo Plus Communication (D.C.P.C. ～ダ・カーポ～ プラスコミュニケーション) (PlayStation 2)
- D.C.P.C. ～Da Capo Plus Communication (D.C.P.C. ～ダ・カーポ～ プラスコミュニケーション) (PC, Windows) 28 May 2004
- D.C. White Season ～Da Capo White Season～ (D.C.White Season～ダ・カーポ ホワイトシーズン～) (PC, Windows) 13 December 2002
- D.C. Summer Vacation ～Da Capo Summer Vacation～ (D.C.Summer Vacation～ダ・カーポ サマーバケーション～) (PC, Windows) 27 August 2004
- D.C. Four Seasons ～Da Capo Four Seasons (D.C.Four Seasons ～ダ・カーポ～ フォーシーズンズ) (PlayStation 2) 15 December 2005
- D.C. II ～Da Capo II～ (D.C.II ～ダ・カーポII～) (PC, Windows) 26 May 2006
[edit] Manga
- D.C. ～Da Capo～
- D.C.S.G. ～Da Capo Second Graduation～
(There are also various comic anthologies and so on.)
[edit] Anime
- D.C. ～Da Capo～: a 26-episode series that began airing 5 July 2003. The first seven episodes aired with promotional videos of the seven major girls' character songs.
- Opening theme
- Ending theme
- "Mirai he no Melody" by CooRie (eps 1-7,9-14,16-20)
- "Utamaru Ekaki Uta" by Haruko Momoi (eps 8,15)
- "Sonzai" by CooRie (eps 21-25)
- "Sakura saku mirai koi yume" by yozuca* (ep 26)
- D.C.S.S. ～Da Capo Second Season～: a 26-episode series that began airing 2 July 2005.
- Opening theme
- "Sakurairo no Kisetsu (The Season of Cherry Blossoms)" by yozuca*
- Ending Theme
- "Akatsuki ni Saku Uta (The Song Blooming Towards Dawn)" by CooRie (eps 1-23,26)
- "Kioku Raburetaa (Remembrance Love Letter)" by CooRie (eps 24-25)
[edit] See also
- List of D.C. ~Da Capo~ episodes
- D.C. II ～Da Capo II～
- Dating sim
- Bishōjo game
- List of television shows based on video games
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Official anime website
- Circus Homepage
- Unofficial English translation for D.C.P.C. PC version
- D.C. Da Capo on IMDB
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