- Source: Gonna be the Twin-Tail!!
Gonna be the Twin-Tail!! (Japanese: 俺、ツインテールになります。, Hepburn: Ore, Tsuintēru ni Narimasu, lit. "I Will Become Twintailed"), abbreviated OreTwi (俺ツイ), is a Japanese light novel series written by Yume Mizusawa and illustrated by Ayumu Kasuga. Shogakukan has published 22 volumes under their Gagaga Bunko imprint since June 2012. An anime adaptation produced by Production IMS aired in Japan from October 9, 2014 to December 25, 2014.
Plot
Soji Mitsuka, an ordinary high school boy, has an obsession for twintail hair. He encounters a mysterious girl named Twoearle, who is from a parallel world, when monsters appear in his town and declare that all twintails in the world belong to them. These monsters feed off "attribute strength", the spiritual energy of humans. Twoearle entrusted Soji with Tail Gear, imaginary armor initiated by powerful twintail attributes. With the armor, Soji transforms into a girl and twintail warrior (ツインテイルズ関係者, tsuinteiruzu kankei-sha) branded Tail Red, to protect Earth.
Characters
= Twintail Warriors
=Soji Mitsuka (観束 総二, Mitsuka Soji) / Tail Red (テイルレッド, Teiru Reddo)
Soji (male) Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki (Japanese); Austin Tindle (English)
Souji (female)/Tail Red Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka (Japanese); Bryn Apprill (English)
A gentle-natured freshman of Yōgetsu Private Academy obsessed with the twintail hairstyle. He later meets a mysterious beautiful girl named Twoearle, who appears before him from a parallel world. At the same time, monsters begin to invade town and attack everyone. In the midst of the chaos, Twoerle entrusted him with attribute power, thus suddenly transforming him into a twin tail warrior girl, known as Tail Red. Due to his alter ego (Tail Red) becoming popular quickly after his debut and him being the first twintail warrior to transform, he is the leader of the Twintails. His weapon is Sword of Fire, Blazer Blade (炎の剣ブレイザーブレイド, Honō no Ken Bureizā Bureido). In volume 4, he gained two power-up forms: Riser Chain and Faller Chain. He later gains Ultimate Chain, after regaining his Twintail Elémera, which he lost to Tyranno Guildy.
Aika Tsube (津辺 愛香, Tsube Aika) / Tail Blue (テイルブルー, Teiru Burū)
Voiced by: Yūka Aisaka (Japanese); Sarah Wiedenheft (English)
A freshman of Yōgetsu Private Academy and childhood best friend of Soji. She treats him like a little brother and is rather overprotective of him although this is later discovered to be because of her massive crush on him. Aika has a complex with her body, especially with her flat chest. She has a violent attitude toward Twoearle who often teases her about her chest. When she first became a Twintail warrior, she was mostly hated by the public, until later when Tail Yellow joins the team. Aika has an outstanding ability of fighting as she was raised by her grandfather with martial arts. She is known as Tail Blue when she transforms, and her weapon is Spear of Water, Wave Lance (水の槍ウェイブランス, Mizu no Yari Weibu Ransu). She also gains Eternal Chain.
Erina Shindō (神堂 慧理那, Shindō Erina) / Tail Yellow (テイルイエロー, Teiru Ierō)
Voiced by: Chinatsu Akasaki (Japanese); Mikaela Krantz (English)
A sophomore of Yōgetsu Private Academy and the Student Council President. Known as Tail Yellow in her transformed state, her weapon is Gun of Lightning, Vortex Blaster (雷の銃ヴォルテックスブラスター, Kaminari no Jū Vorutekkusu Burasutā). She is a closet masochist and exhibitionist, and gets aroused when Soji calls her name (which usually triggers her to call him master). When she first became a Twintail warrior she was a completely reckless fighter because of her maschostic ways. She was the only one of the twintails who at first could not use her power because of her denial of twintails, until Soji gets her to accept them. Unlike Soji and Aika, Erina's twin-tail warrior form makes her whole body look a lot older and has a more well endowed figure. She also gains Absolute Chain.
Twoearle (トゥアール, Tuāru) / Tail White (テイルホワイト, Teiru Howaito)
Voiced by: Maaya Uchida (Japanese); Morgan Garrett (English)
A mysterious girl who comes from another planet and the first Tail Warrior. She enjoys teasing Aika with her large bust and often ends up grievously injured for it. She fell in love with Soji at first sight and openly tries to seduce him with his mother's approval. After Soji defeats the first wave of attacks from the monsters, she joins Yōgetsu Private Academy as a student and calls herself Soji's relative. Before arriving on Earth, she was the original Tail Blue but gave up her twin-tail hair style to make the Tail Red gear after her world lost all attributes. She felt immense regret and shame for not saving her world and retired from fighting as she felt she was no longer capable of defeating the Ultimegil and passed her mantle on to Soji, feeling he would do much better than she did. After seeing Soji's determination and willingness to protect the innocent, she was happy knowing she made the right choice on appointing her successor. She was able to regain her twin tail form and became Tail White but her form is limited to a few minutes. Though it compensates by being more powerful than Soji's Tail Red in its Ultimate Chain form.
Īsuna (イースナ, Īsuna) / Anko Īsuna (善沙 闇子, Īsuna Anko) / Tail Black (テイルブラック, Teiru Burakku) / Dark Grasper or Dark Glassper (ダークグラスパー, Dāku Gurasupā)
Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa (Japanese); Leah Clark (English)
A girl from a different world, yet from the same village as Twoearle. She is secretly a big fan of Twoearle and stalks her often. After Twoearle disappeared, she joined the Ultimeguil organization in attempt to find Twoaerle under the name Dark Grasper or Dark Glassper. Once she found Twoearle, she betrayed Evil Gill. In battle, she is known as Tail Black. Her weapon is Darkness Grave Moebius, and her weapon when she was in the Evil Gill was Sickle Grave of Darkness. Her real name is Īsuna (イースナ, Īsuna). But when she works as a singer on earth, she use the name Anko Īsuna (善沙 闇子, Īsuna Anko).
= Others
=Miharu Mitsuka (観束 未春, Mitsuka Miharu)
Voiced by: Hiromi Igarashi (Japanese); Jennifer Green (English)
Soji's mother and a widow. She owns her restaurant Adolescenza (アドレシェンツァ, Adoreshentsa). She is aware of her son's identity as Tail Red and supports him as she herself once dreamed of being in his position. She does not mind Twoearle's attempts at seducing Soji and even asks her to "make her son a man".
Mikoto Sakuragawa (桜川 尊, Sakuragawa Mikoto)
Voiced by: Mao Ichimichi (Japanese); Michelle Rojas (English)
Erina's maid. She has an outstanding physical ability despite her job. At times, she works part time as a PE teacher for Yōgetsu Private Academy. She usually slips marriage registration forms in the boys' test slips with her name on them, or she will try to trick Soji and sign his name on it; which is a clear example that she is desperate to get married before reaching 30.
Mega Neptune Mk. II (メガ・ネプチューン=MK.II, Mega Nepuchūn Māku Tsū)
Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (Japanese); Tia Ballard (English)
A robot and Anko's trusted helper and confidant. Because her full name is long, Anko calls her Megane (Japanese for glasses) for short which she dislikes.
Twin-Tail God (ツインテール合同, Tsuintēru Godo)
Voiced by: Shuichi Ikeda (Japanese); Kent Williams (English)
An imaginary being created by Soji's subconsciousness. He helps him renew his twin-tail love.
Strawberry Twin (ストロベリーツイン, Sutoroberī Tsuin)
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (Japanese); Felecia Angelle (English)
Emu Shindō (神堂 慧夢, Shindō Emu)
Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese); Cynthia Cranz (English)
Erina's mother and the school's principal. She tries to fix arranged marriage meetings for Erina which the latter dislikes. When Soji stands up for Erina, Emu takes a liking to him and accepts him as Erina's future husband, to the shock of other girls.
= Ultimeguil
=Ultimegil (アルティメギル, Arutimegiru) is an organization of phantom-monsters called Eremerian that traverse different worlds, seeking a variety of "attributes". Although they are the villains of the story, the majority of them are rather silly and comical and behave much like otakus, often admiring cute girls, collecting dolls, and even adoring the twintail heroines. Having discovered Earth is rich in "attributes", they began to colonize and make plans to conquer the Earth. Members include:
Dragguildy (ドラグギルディ, Doragugirudi)
Voiced by: Tetsu Inada (Japanese); Chris Rager (English)
The leader of the Ultimegil. He has a twintail fetish.
Lizardguildy (リザドギルディ, Rizadogirudi)
Voiced by: Tesshō Genda (Japanese); Cris George (English)
An Eremerian soldier with a doll-holding girl fetish.
Turtleguildy
Voiced by: Takaya Kuroda (Japanese); Greg Ayres (English)
An Eremerian soldier with a bloomer fetish.
Foxguildy
Voiced by: Toshihiko Seki (Japanese); Eric Vale (English)
An Eremerian soldier with a ribbon fetish.
Swangildy
Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese); Aaron Roberts (English)
Tigerguildy
Voiced by: Kenichirou Matsuda (Japanese); Jeff Johnson (English)
An Eremerian soldier with a swimsuit fetish.
Sparrowguildy
Voiced by: Chō (Japanese); Phil Parsons (English)
Krakeguildy
Voiced by: Jūrōta Kosugi (Japanese); Jeremy Inman (English)
An Eremerian soldier with a flat chest fetish.
Leviaguildy
Voiced by: Toru Okawa (Japanese); Charles C. Campbell (English)
An Eremerian soldier with a big breast fetish.
Buffaloguildy
Voiced by: Ryōta Takeuchi (Japanese); Brandon Potter (English)
An Eremerian soldier with a giant breast fetish.
Crabguildy
Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki (Japanese); Chris Guerrero (English)
An Eremerian soldier with a backneck fetish.
Papillonguildy (パピヨンギルディ, Papiyongirudi)
Voiced by: Shin-ichiro Miki (Japanese); J. Michael Tatum (English)
An Eremerian soldier with a lip fetish.
Alligatorguildy
Voiced by: Hidefumi Takemoto (Japanese); Marcus D. Stimac (English)
Hedgehogguildy
Voiced by: Kenta Sasa (Japanese); Garret Storms (English)
Kerberosguildy
Voiced by: Kanehira Yamamoto (Japanese); Chuck Huber (English)
An Eremerian soldier with a braid fetish.
Owlguildy (オウルギルディ, Ōrugirudi)
Voiced by: Mitsuo Iwata (Japanese); Barry Yandell (English)
An Eremerian soldier with a literature fetish.
Spiderguildy
Voiced by: Shō Hayami (Japanese); David Wald (English)
An Eremerian soldier with a male crossdressing fetish.
Fleagildy
Voiced by: Taiten Kusunoki (Japanese); Ian Sinclair (English)
An Eremerian soldier with a leg fetish.
Wormguildy
Voiced by: Mika Kanai (Japanese); Alex Moore (English)
An Eremerian soldier with a crossdressing fetish.
Snailguildy
Voiced by: Nobutoshi Canna (Japanese); Tyson Rinehart (English)
Media
= Light novels
=Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu began as a light novel series written by Yume Mizusawa, with illustrations by Ayumu Kasuga. Mizusawa originally entered the first novel in the series, originally titled Sore wa, Twintail no Isekai (それは、ついんてーるの異世界), into Shogakukan's sixth Shogakukan Light Novel Prize in 2011 and the novel won the judge's prize. The first novel was published by Shogakukan on June 19, 2012 under their Gagaga Bunko imprint, and fourteen novels have been released as of December 19, 2017.
The series was originally slated to conclude in October 2018, with the release of its 16th volume. However, a 17th volume was released on March 19, 2019. The series ended with the 21st volume (22nd overall) on November 18, 2022.
= Manga
=A manga adaptation titled Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu π (俺、ツインテールになります。π) by Ryōta Suzuki was serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Big Gangan magazine, and was compiled into two tankōbon volumes.
= Anime
=An anime television series adaptation, produced by Production IMS and directed by Hiroyuki Kanbe, aired in Japan from October 9, 2014, to December 25, 2014. The opening theme is "Gimme! Revolution" (ギミー!レボリューション) by Maaya Uchida. The ending theme is "Twin-Tail Dreamer!" (ツインテール・ドリーマー!) sung by the voice actresses of the three main heroines: Tail Red (Sumire Uesaka), Tail Blue (Yūka Aisaka) and Tail Yellow (Chinatsu Akasaki). Both singles for the opening and ending themes were released on October 22, 2014. The anime has been licensed for streaming in North America by Funimation, and in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe (excluding United Kingdom and Scandinavia) by Crunchyroll, and AnimeLab in Australia and New Zealand.
Episode list
References
External links
Official Shogakukan website (in Japanese)
TBS anime website (in Japanese)
Gonna be the Twin-Tail!! (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Chinatsu Akasaki
- Sumire Uesaka
- Yukari Tamura
- Black Clover
- Gonna be the Twin-Tail!!
- Michelle Rojas
- Erina (given name)
- Jerry Jewell
- Morgan Garrett
- Mikaela Krantz
- Ian Sinclair (voice actor)
- Mitsuo Iwata
- Sarah Wiedenheft
- Felecia Angelle