Title: いちご１００％　ドラマCD (Strawberry 100% Drama CD)
Original Creator: 河下水希 (Mizuki Kawashita)
Release Date: 2/10/2004
Catalog No.: SCD-905578
Rating: 4/4

After hearing this CD, I'm more excited than ever about this becoming an anime. Currently, the manga has 8 volumes with volume 9 hitting stores as I type this. Basically it's another many girls-one guy type store, but is well done.

The voices here fit the characters well. I didn't realize it until the end during the cast call when they each introduce themselves that there were some familiar seiyuu in there. Tojo is played by Mamiko Noto, aka Narue, Chizuru from Ai yori. Nishino is played Megumi Toyoguchi, aka Megumi from the Mahoraba drama CD and Paine from FFX-2. Nana Mizuki who is quite popular as she has a music career too. The tracks in here only cover some of the chapters in the first volume and includes two little short stories tracks which I don't remember from the manga. It also has a prologue and an ending bonus that have nothing to do with the main story. And lastly, I love the theme music that plays in the background during the prologue and cast credits. Fits the series very well.

Just for your info, the names of each of the 4 girls come from the 4 cardinal directions, north (kita), east (to), south (minami), west (nishi).

Bonuses include 2 postcards (included in all pressings, I believe). The case is a DVD case, but it's just a regular CD. Amazon Japan lists it as a book rather than CD, so that kinda sucks as shipping is significantly higher if you have books in your order.

1.　オープニング (Opening): Kitaoji and Tojo host the show where they have two roving reporters, Nishino and Minamito doing interviews with the male characters in the show. Nishino interviews Junpei's friends at school where they explains his obsession with strawberry patterned underwear. Minamito interviews Junpei at home and reveals Junpei's notebook with drawings of strawberry patterned underwear.

2. 第一話「いちご注意報」(#1 Strawberry Warning): This just covers chapter 1 of the manga. Junpei Manaka goes to the roof and sees a cute girl wearing strawberry patterned underwear. He discovers that her name is Aya Tojo, a classmate and apparently a very good writer. He befriends her wanting to make her story into a film, and eventually relies on her for some advice into wooing another girl, Tsukasa Nishino. She tells him that he should ask her out while doing pull-ups. Tsukasa agrees, but not before a nice laugh. This however, seems to upset Tojo.

3. 第二話　「教えてあげる」 (#2 I'll Show You): This title is actually the title of the 3rd chapter from the first volume, but has story elements from the second chapter also. Junpei is experiencing his first girlfriend, and of course, has strange thoughts when she does things like take out her lipstick. Meanwhile at school, he still talks to Tojo as a person whom to get relationship advice from. After school one day, he sees her taking to another guy and starts having doubts. The track ends with Nishino giving him her cell phone number.

4. 第三話 「Girl Meets Girl」: This covers chapters 4-6 in the manga, the title comes from chapter 5. That night, Junpei wants to call Nishino, but doesn't have the courage. The next day, he realizes that he's drolled on the note with the phone number and can't read it anymore. So the next day, he comes up with a plan to snag her cell phone for a moment to grab the phone number. Nishino notices that she's missing her phone, and Junpei thinks that she thinks it's Tojo, so when the two girls meet, he jumps in apologizing and not for Nishino to blame Tojo.

5. エンディング (Ending): The four girls have a little conversation in the hot springs completely unrelated to the story. Among the things they talk about is a comparison of each other's bodies.

6. SS1「NEXT YEAR」～北大路さつき～ (Short Story 1 [Next Year] Satsuki Kitaoji): This is a bonus track where Kitaoji enters high school (in the manga, she's not introduced until a few volumes later, hence the next year). She explains her first encounter with Junpei, who she doesn't really have a favorable impression of. However, she admits that she has some feelings for him even though she tries to deny it.

7. SS2「LAST YEAR」～南戸唯～ (Short Story 2 [Last Year] Yui Minamito): While Minamito doesn't move in with Junpei until later, this story is a flashback to when Minamito is washing herself and thinking about where she wants to go to school. One of big factors is to be with her childhood friend, Junpei, who she has a hallucination about (it's not just the guys).

8. クレジット (Credit): Each of the members say their name and their character. I love the background music.

9. おまけ (Bonus): It's in a TV style with an audience and Kitaoji has each of the characters try talk/confess with various accents from different parts of Japan.　 Each response elicits a laughter from the audience (they sound pretty ridiculous).

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