Back Street Girls
Japanese manga series by Jasmine Gyuh
Back Street Girls (Japanese: バックストリートガールズ, Hepburn: Bakku Sutorīto Gāruzu) is a Japanese manga series by Jasmine Gyuh. It is about three yakuza men forced by their boss to become a female idol group. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from March 2015 to September 2018 and was compiled into 12 volumes. The manga is licensed digitally in English by Kodansha USA. A 10-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by J.C.Staff and directed by Chiaki Kon, aired from July to September 2018 on BS11 and other channels. A live-action adaptation, Back Street Girls: Gokudols, was released in February 2019.
Plot
After an unspecified major failure, Yakuza underlings Kentaro, Ryo and Kazuhiko are forced by their boss, Inugane, to either commit seppuku and sell their organs or go to Thailand to undergo sex reassignment surgery, and train to become idols. They choose the latter and debut as Airi, Mari and Chika, the Gokudols. They suffer abuse from Inugane as he trains them to become idols. Still, their hearts are Yakuza, and their brotherhood is strong.
Characters
Airi Yamamoto (山本 アイリ, Yamamoto Airi) / Kentaro Yamamoto (山本 健太郎, Yamamoto Kentaro)
Voiced by: Yuka Nukui (Airi), Daisuke Ono (Kentaro) (Japanese); Erika Harlacher (Airi), Kaiji Tang (Kentaro) (English)
Played by: Natsumi Okamoto (Airi), Jin Shirasu (Kentaro)
Formerly Kentaro Yamamoto, the "Aniki" (Big Brother) of the Yakuza trio.
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