Recurring gags include Kintaro’s fetish for toilets (especially those recently used by beautiful women), his exaggerated facial expressions, and comical entries in his notebook. Much of the humor derives from situational elements, such as encounters between Kintaro and the women gone awry, and interactions between Kintaro’s libido and imagination.
But due to chance, necessity or a sense of honor, Kintaro never takes advantage of these newfound feelings. Despite his outward appearances, Kintaro is an incredibly clever and resourceful individual, and consistently exceeds what the women in his encounters thought impossible, winning their hearts despite his outward awkwardness. Kintaro invariably lusts after these women, but he is principally driven by his desire to be of actual service to them and to thereby learn more about the world. Some of these women initially dismiss Kintaro as an idiotic and clumsy pervert, and either give him or accept from him some challenge to prove their superiority. He constantly observes and studies the people and events around him, recording his findings in a notebook he carries on his belt.Įach volume and episode of Golden Boy places Kintaro opposite a young, beautiful woman, whose interest or disdain for him acts as the conflict of the plot. During his travels, Kintaro meets several women whose lives he dramatically changes, despite poor first impressions. Golden Boy depicts his living the life of a free spirit, roaming Japan from town to town, job to job. Kintaro, despite having met the requirements for a degree, left Tokyo University without graduating.
Media Blasters has confirmed that the dub produced by ADV was kept.
ADV’s license of the series expired in 2007, however, and in November 2007, Media Blasters acquired the license to it. Parts of the manga were adapted into a six episode OVA series produced by Shueisha and KSS in 1995, which was subsequently released through ADV Films in North America in December 1996. The manga was originally serialized in Shueisha’s Super Jump starting in 1992, with the first collected volume released the following year. Golden Boy (ゴールデンボーイ Gōruden Bōi?) is a Japanese manga series by Tatsuya Egawa about a 25-year-old freeter, pervert, and “travelling student” named Kintaro Oe (大江錦太郎 Ōe Kintarō).
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