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Type
Manga
Volumes
15
Chapters
410
Status
Completed
Published
2004-12-03 to 2015-07-03
Genres
Comedy
Romance
Seinen
Serializations
Young Gangan
Authors
Hikaru Nakamura (Story & Art)
Arakawa Under the Bridge
Twenty-year-old student Kou Ichinomiya has always followed his elite family's motto: never be indebted to anyone. However, an unfortunate situation puts his life in danger, and he is saved by a stranger named Nino, who claims to be from Venus. As if owing someone is not bad enough, the peculiar girl wishes that he repay her deed by experiencing love together—and he must live with her under the Arakawa River bridge. Although Kou figures that he will somehow fulfill this obligation, his plans are blown away by Nino's friends: various riverside residents who seem even more eccentric than his new lover. From the Village Chief who gives Kou a new name, "Recruit," to a gentle-looking but sadistic woman managing an animal farm, one can never tell which outlandish character will next color Arakawa's bizarre life under the bridge. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Related
Characters
Nino
Main
Kou Ichinomiya
Main
Hoshi
Supporting
Maria
Supporting
Sister
Supporting
Village Chief
Supporting
P-ko
Supporting
Stella
Supporting
Tooru Shirai
Supporting
Tetsurou Tetsujin
Supporting
Tetsuo Tetsujin
Supporting
Terumasa Takai
Supporting