is a manga

Manga

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 series written and illustrated by Hisashi Eguchi

Hisashi Eguchi

is a Japanese manga artist. He made his professional manga debut with Susume!! Pirates in the manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1977. Other notable works include Stop! Hibari-kun and, more recently, the gag series Charamono. Eguchi married Japanese idol Mizutani Mari in 1990.-External links:...

. It ran in Shueisha

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's Weekly Shōnen Jump

Weekly Shonen Jump

is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating. One of the longest-running manga magazines in Japan, it has a circulation of 2.8 million copies...

from 1981 to 1983. The publisher has released all four volumes in tankōbon

Tankobon

, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...

(bound volume) format. In 1983, Toei Animation

Toei Animation

Toei Animation Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co., Ltd. The studio was founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films . In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name...

 created an anime

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 adaptation which ran on Fuji Television

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 from 1983 to 1984.

Plot

A boy named Kohsaku Sakamoto's mother has just died, and in her will she requests that Kohsaku go and live with her friend Ibari Ohzora, who is a yakuza. He meets Ibari's four beautiful daughters, but the prettiest (Hibari) happens to be a boy. Hibari falls in love with Kohsaku, but Kohsaku is more interested in Hibari's friend, Rie.

Oozora Group

Kousaku Sakamoto

Kousaku is the protagonist of the series. He's a pure hearted boy from Kyushu, but is weak when it comes to girls. He constantly has to remind himself that Hibari isn't one.

Hibari Oozora

A boy with the looks of a beautiful girl, Hibari is Oozora's eldest son. Having both beauty and wit, he lives life as a girl, the idol of his school. (Majima, Hibari's seiyuu, would later marry Furuya, the seiyuu for Hibari's "love interest" Kousaku, in 1985. She retired from voice acting following the wedding.)

Ibari Oozora

The father of Hibari and the head of the Oozora Group. He expects Hibari to take over the group, and worries about the group's future with Hibari's eccentric ways. He was in love with Kousaku's mother. He is "haunted" by the White Crocodile curse.

Tsugumi Oozora

The eldest daughter, Tsugumi is a motherly figure to her family. She is a novice illustrator.

Tsubame Oozora

The second daughter, Tsubame is two years older than Hibari. With the exception of hairstyle, she is almost identical to Hibari. Hibari's effeminate behavior distresses her to no end and she wishes Hibari would be more masculine (chiefly because she fears that the family would be executed for harboring a 'weirdo' if it were discovered that Hibari is really a boy). She often pretends to be Hibari to get him by health inspections and the like.

Suzume Oozora

The third daughter, Suzume is an elementary school student. She bursts into tears at the sight of flounder-faced man.

Sabu

A young man of the Oozora group. He is in love with Tsugumi.

Seiji

A member of Oozora with a scary face, but a faint heart. He scares Kousaku awake in the mornings.

Other Characters

Shiina

Kousaku and Hibari's classmate who likes Hibari (of course, he doesn't know that she's a man). At first, Shiina despised Kousaku, but it eventually worked into a friendship of sorts.

Rie Kawai

The manager of the boxing club. Kousaku was taken by her at first sight. She has a crush on Shiina

Mitsuwo Kaji

One of Tsubame's classmates, an overbearing man who follows people around and the boxing club captain. His younger brothers and sisters have the same face as him.

Kaori Hanazono

Kousaku and Hibari's classmate. She is jealous of Hibari's popularity in school. Along with her friends, they try to bring Hibari down.

Yasuaki Kureiji

Kureiji Family's only son. Despite his boyish speech and personality, he is actually 28 years old. He wants to make Hibari his bride.

Takuto Honda

Kousaku and Hibari's classmate. He has a beautiful face, and countless girls are after him, but he drops them all. His target is Hibari. He's a lady killer with a cool personality, but acts goofy when it comes to Hibari.

Anime staff

• Original creator: Hisashi Eguchi
• Producer: Akira Sasaki
• Planning: Kenji Yokoyama (Toei), Tadashi Oka (Fuji TV)
• Series director: Takashi Hisaoka
• Episode directors: Takashi Hisaoka, Tetsuo Imazawa, Hiroshi Sasagawa
  Hiroshi Sasagawa
  is a creator of several anime and manga series. His name is romanized in some sources as Hiroshi Sasakawa.-Career:Well-known as one of creators of "Time Bokan" series , he has directed several animation works in the fantasy and science fiction genre, many of them with Tatsunoko Production.-List of...
  
  , Hiroyuki Ikeda, Yoshiaki Kawajiri
  Yoshiaki Kawajiri
  is a critically acclaimed writer and director of Japanese animation. He is the creator of titles such as Wicked City, Ninja Scroll, and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.-Career:...
  
  , Megumu Ishiguro, Yoshikata Nitta, Yoshikatsu Kasai, Yasuo Yamayoshi, Hiroyuki Ebata
• Continuity: Hiroshi Sasagawa, Kazumi Fukushima
• Screenwriters: Shigeru Yanagawa, Tokio Tsuchiya, Hiroshi Toda, Tomomi Tsutsui, Takeshi Shudo
• Art directors: Takamura Mukuo, Tadao Kubota, Yoshiyuki Shikano
• Character designer: Yoshinori Kanemori
• Music: Koji Nishimura
• Theme song composition: Izumi Kobayashi
• Animation directors: Yoshinori Kanemori, Makoto Ito, Kiyoshi Matsumoto, Takao Kozai, Yasuomi Umetsu, Takashi Saijo, Keiko Imazawa, Juji Mizumura
• Production: Toei Co., Ltd. / Fuji TV

External links

• Stop!! Hibari-kun! at Toei Animation
  Toei Animation
  Toei Animation Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co., Ltd. The studio was founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films . In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name...