B.B. Explosion
Encyclopedia
is a manga
by Yasue Imai licensed in the U.S. by VIZ Media
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The story revolves around little Airi from Okinawa who enters the Actors school dreaming of appearing in the TV show called Boom Boom (hence the B.B. in the title).
Yū Yamada
Yumi Kōchi
Da Pump
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
by Yasue Imai licensed in the U.S. by VIZ Media
VIZ Media
VIZ Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, is an anime, manga, and Japanese entertainment company. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha, and...
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The story revolves around little Airi from Okinawa who enters the Actors school dreaming of appearing in the TV show called Boom Boom (hence the B.B. in the title).
Characters
Airi Ishikawa- Airi is a girl who dreams of meeting her idol Issa from the boy band Da Pump. She enters actors' school to achieve this dream but later figures out her big passion of becoming a singer that can bring joy to all those who listen. She is very lively and sweet but she sometimes compares herself to many other people.
Yū Yamada
- Yū is another girl who also dreams of being a brilliant singer-dancer but she is also thinking about becoming a model. Yū can be really over excited and refers to herself in the third person.
Yumi Kōchi
- Yumi is also attending actors' school. She is older than Yū and Airi but she still hangs out with them. She got into actors while doing an audition with her best friend; only Yumi got in, though. Yumi is more serious and also gets hungry really easily.
Da Pump
- A boy band that went to actors' school and graduated right when Airi joined. Features a fan-favorite leader named Issa that Was Airi's inspiration for entering in Actors' School.
External links
- Official site at VIZ Media, with the first chapter readable online.
- Mania.com vol. 1 review
- Anime Fringe vol. 1 review