Green Green Greens: Research Notes

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Title: Green Green Greens グリーングリーングリーンズ

•  Just the English words in katakana
  

Author

• Terasaka, Kento 寺坂 研人（てらさか けんと)

  • Teh-rah-sah-kah, Ken-toe
    

Characters

• Ya’esaki, Haku

  • Yah-eh-sah-kee, Hah-kɯ

• Sera, Takato

  • Say-rah, Tah-kah-toe

• Oga, Nadeshiko

  • Oh-gah, Nah-day-shee-ko

• Mizusa

  • Mee-zɯ-sah

• Awada, Takamori

  • Ah-wah-dah, Tah-kah-moe-ree

• Kikui, Masamune

  • Kee-kɯ-ee, Mah-sah-mɯ-nay

• Hagio, Chikara

  • Hah-ghee-oh, Chee-kah-rah

  • “Chikara” just means “power”/”strength”

• Oliver Shiramine

  • Shee-rah-mee-nay

  • Family name means “white peak,” probably playing on how Oliver’s skill is so far above Ya’esaki’s and is like a goal to reach

• Tobimatsu, Kimi

  • Toe-bee-mahts, Kee-mee

• Shiramine, Johan

  • Joe-hahn (rhymes with Gohan)

• Yamashita, Toka

  • Yah-mah-shee-tah, Toe-kah

• Dewa, Botan

  • Day-wah, Bow-tahn

• Todo, Koume

  • Toe-doe, Ko-may

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Manga Details

• Kento Terasaka

  • Notable people they were an assistant for

    • Tadatoshi Fujimaki (Of Robot x Laserbeam fame)

      • on Robot x Laserbeam

  • Notable people they had as assistants

    • None known (no credits in volumes to this date)

  • Other works

    • Various one-shots + one mini series: we covered these a little in Shonen Flop episode 78, so you don’t need to revisit these in the actual episode. Included for completeness.

      • RINGO (2016, 4 chapters, Jump GIGA)

        • Rugby! Lead to Beast Children.

      • I’m Arm (2020, one-shot, Jump GIGA)

        • Arm wrestling!

      • Gain (2022, one-shot, Weekly Shonen Jump)

        • Golf! Lead to Green Green Greens.

    • Beast Children (2019-2020, 3 vols, Weekly Shonen Jump)

      • Shonen Flop episodes Four and Seventy-Eight! We have a patreon tier named after it! It’s rugby! You loved it! Your favourite series!

        • Read Beast Children on the Shonen Jump app and website.

• Publishing

  • Run Dates: 

    • November 26th, 2023 to June 9th, 2023

  • Series it replaced

• The Ichinose Family’s Deadly Sins by Taizan5 (6 vols, did okay, episodes available on patreon now!)

• Series that replaced it

  • Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi by Shoichi Usui (1+ vol, ongoing)

• Series that started at the same time as it

  • Shadow Eliminators by Kento Amemiya (3 vols, flop, Shonen Flop episode 111)

• Chapters/Volumes: 

  • 26 chapters/3 volumes

Manga Itself / Misc thoughts

• Kento Terasaka’s author avatar has changed! The rugby head is out, for obvious reasons, replaced by a golem in a hoodie. Why? Well, because as a kid he liked the golems in Monster Rancher.

• Terasaka plays Street Fighter 6 in his spare time, and achieved master rank with Luke on modern controls. Despite this success, he played Yoshifumi Tozuka (author of Undead Unluck) and lost handily to Tozuka’s Kimberly. They both talked about it in their author comments in Weekly Shonen Jump the week they played together, where Tozuka called Terasaka his first fighting game friend! Sweet!

• Terasaka owns over 1700 PC games. That’s too many.

• The real life Masters Tournament took place during the run of this manga, in April 2024. I imagine editorial took this into consideration when choosing to serialise this, though may have missed any hype train on volume sales by not releasing volume 1 until May.

• Volume extras include:

  • A greeting, explaining Terasaka’s brief history with golf (started playing at 25, did terribly, wants to share the joy and frustration of golf with you, the reader).

  • “Golf Explanation Corner”, where Terasaka gives casual advice about costs, etiquette, equipments, play tips and other details on how to get into golf yourself.

  • “Tell Me, Oga-chan”, wherein a chibi Oga tells you about various aspects and equipment involved with golf. It’s the same as the other corner really, but told as a comic and funnier.

  • A bonus strip telling you how to go to a driving range.

  • Sketch versions of pages from chapters in vol.3.

  • A shirtless drawing of Oliver from a deleted scene.

  • An afterword thanking readers for their support.

  • A very short epilogue set 2 months after the end of the series, showing the day Haku got his score under +100.