Sex Ed 120%: Research Notes

Tucker

Title: 

•  性教育１２０％ (Seikyouiku 120%)

  • Say-kyo-ee-kɯ

  • It’s just the Japanese word for sexual education

Author

• Story: Tataki, Kikiki 田滝 ききき

  • Tah-tah-kee, Kee-kee-kee

  • As you can imagine, it’s obviously a pen name (sounds pretty similar to the sounds that monkeys make in Japanese onomatopoeia)

• Art: Hotomura

  • Hoe-toe-mɯ-rah

Characters

• Tsuji-sensei

  • tsɯ-jee

  • Look at the ”TSU/tsɯ” section of the general Japanese notes below 

• Matsuda

  • Mah-tsɯ-dah OR “mahts-dah” (whispered vowel effect)

• Kashiwa

  • Kah-shee-wah

  • (try not to pronounce the last syllable like “wuh”)

  • The “Kashiwacchi” thing is just a cute nickname (similar to how in Jojo Part 4 the character Shigeo is referred to everyone by the nickname his parents gave him, Shigechi)

• Moriya

  • Moe-ree-yah

  • Concentrate on making the “ya” syllable at the end distinct, like the German word “ja”

• Nakazawa-sensei

  • Nah-kah-sah-wah

  • (Again, try not to pronounce the last syllable like “wuh”)

• Aikawa Sumire

  • Ah-ee-kah-wah, Sɯ-mee-ray

• Yumeko-san

  • Yɯ-may-ko

• Shiori-nu

  • Shee-oh-ree-nɯ

  • The “nu” at the end turns the name “Shiori” into a pun on the word “inu” (meaning dog)

Other

• #Kutoo

  • This is a play on the word “kutsu,” meaning shoes, and the English-language #metoo movement  

  • “too”/tu isn’t a possible syllable in modern Japanese, so words borrowed from English and other languages get a “tsu” instead (If you type the letters “tu” when using a Japanese keyboard interface, the kana for “tsu” will automatically be typed)

MaxyBee

Manga Details

• Kikiki Tataki (writer)

  • Notable people they were an assistant for

    • None known

  • Notable people they had as assistants

    • None known

  • Other works

    • Ishimi-san’s G-Life (2021-2022, 2 volumes, Bamboo Comics)

      • Ishimi-san embarks on wildly comedic adventures related to her favourite hobby; masturbation! An absurdist onanist comedy. Niche enough that I couldn’t work out where it was serialised, only the label it was published under.

    • I Want to Quit My Part-Time Job (2022, 1 chapter, self-published)

      • A comedic manga about a part-time worker and her mysterious co-worker getting locked in their workplace overnight.

    • How to Ask For Sex For Working People (2023, 1 volume, Love Chocolate)

      • “A dirty comedy for all-ages”, or so it claims, about a virginal working girl who simply cannot ask for it, even when others are serving it up on a plate. The digital magazine it ran in is dead now.

    • How to Avoid Being Unhappy in a High-Rise Apartment (2024-present, 2+ vols, Comic Days)

      • An office lady aims for a dream of living in a high-rise apartment with a wealthy partner, and comedy ensues. 

• Hotomura (artist)

  • Notable people they were an assistant for

    • None known

  • Notable people they had as assistants

    • None known

  • Other works

    • Saki-chan is the child of a Succubus (2019-2022, 3 vols, Comic Meteor)

      • A succubus girl is in love with a boy who works at a temple. Naughty mishaps follow. 

    • The beautiful shut-in girl living downstairs was a new VTuber at a major agency (2024-present, 1+ volumes, Manga Bang Comics) written by Sorinokoshi

      • A guy working at a dodgy “black” IT company encounters a cute girl that lives downstairs from his apartment, and discovers she’s a new VTuber, applying his IT skills to help her be the best she can be. 

• Publishing

  • Run Dates: 

    • January 14th, 2020 to February 10th, 2021

  • Series it replaced

• Not how @Vitamin works

• Series that replaced it

  •  Not how @Vitamin works

• Series that started at the same time as it

  • Not how @Vitamin Works

• What is @Vitamin?

  • @Vitamin is a webcomic platform owned by Kadokawa ASCII Media Works that has its various series release chapters on dates ending in a 3. @Vitamin is “A little something to add to your daily life ☆ Digital comics that cheer you up and heal you” according to… themselves.

• Chapters/Volumes: 

  • 18 chapters/3 volumes

Manga Itself / Misc thoughts

• You might be asking after reading this; “was this really a flop? Was this really cancelled in any meaningful way?” And the answer is that sometimes a top-class letterer works mostly on series that perform very well, and any flops they have worked on have already been covered in our podcast’s long history.

  • Serious answer: A year-long run on a relatively small platform where the afterwords make it clear that production wasn’t always smooth strongly suggests that an option for renewal wasn’t taken, whether by editorial or by one or both of the creators. Considering the heavy research demonstrated in the bibliographies, and afterwords showing how often work stalled for Kikiki Tataki, I can see this being possible, though in this specific case we do not have explicit confirmation. 

• We have an equivalent to porn magazines left by the riverbed here in the UK (and I’ve heard it happens in the US and Canada), which is woods porn - pornography abandoned in the woods. What’s YOUR local equivalent for abandoned smut?

• An advantage of excellent translator notes in the back of the volumes is that there’s barely a need for trivia at all!