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The story began as a work heavy on comedic elements, but as mysteries like the Prince of the Demon Realm became fully woven into the plot, the comedic elements gradually faded while serious elements increased.
00:00Hello. Thank you for watching today. Today's topic is Tokimeki Tonight.
00:21The topic is Tokimeki Tonight.
00:51A total of 34 episodes aired between 1982 and 1983.
00:59The story begins on a full moon night with a spectacular marital quarrel between a werewolf and a vampire.
01:07As Ranza, the daughter, steps in to stop the unusually violent argument between the husband and wife, the vampire father transforms into a bat and escapes from the house.
01:17In fact, one of the reasons for the couple's quarrel was that Ranze showed no signs of being a monster, in other words, no special abilities, but he didn't seem to mind and continued living his life as normal.
01:32The next day, when Ranze goes to his new school for the first time and introduces himself in the classroom, Makabe Shun arrives late, and Ranze falls in love with Shun at first sight.
01:46After introducing myself, I was happy to be sitting next to Shun, when suddenly a surprise test began.
01:56Ranze is unable to solve any of the problems, and when Shun invites him to cheat, Kami and Yoko find out and make him stand in the hallway.
02:05After school, Ranze is called by Yoko and warned not to get close to her fiancé Shun, but Ranze doesn't believe his fiancé and gets into an argument with Yoko.
02:18During the fight, Ranze bites Yoko, and immediately afterwards, something strange happens to his body and he loses consciousness for a moment.
02:29Later, when he comes to his senses again, he is surprised to find himself transformed into Yoko, and Yoko's father comes to pick him up, so he has no choice but to go out to dinner with her.
02:42After the meal, he manages to escape from Yoko's father and returns home. When he explains the situation to his parents, they are delighted that his demonic powers have now become apparent.
02:53Later, when Ranze tells her that he wants to return to his original form, his mother uses a malfunction and makes him sneeze, which returns Ranze to his original form.
03:06Just as he was happy to finally be himself again, his parents recognized him as an adult and took him to a locked door in the basement of their house.
03:16When he opens the door, he finds the demon world spreading out before him along with the castle, and is surprised by the sight. His parents tell him never to fall in love with a human man, as they are welcoming someone from the demon world. However, Ranze is reminded of Shun, and leaves the place in such shock.
03:38After this, while understanding her own destiny, she comes to love the human Shun, and despite her worries, she lives her school life to the fullest.
03:52Now, let me introduce the main characters.
03:56Eto Ranze is the main character of this work, a demon whose parents are a vampire and a werewolf.
04:07However, because she has been in the human world since she was born, she lives a life no different from humans. Although she has a bright personality and develops mazes, she is a normal girl in the midst of adolescence, although she has a tendency to be delusional and has strong preconceptions.
04:22Initially, she learns the ability to transform into someone by biting them, and then, like her mother, she also acquires the ability to enter other people's dreams.
04:34After falling in love at first sight with her classmate Makabe Shun, she continues to love him wholeheartedly, even as she becomes embroiled in an incident related to the demon world.
04:42Makabe Shun is a classmate whom Ranze has a crush on. He has a foul mouth and is unfriendly, but after he gets involved with Ranze,
04:55Despite getting caught up in all the chaos, she begins to become aware of Ranze, but because she is stubborn and shy, she finds it difficult to tell him how she really feels.
05:03On the other hand, having grown up in a single-parent household, he is a filial son who hopes to become a professional boxer in the future and make his mother's life easier, but towards the end of the story, a shocking fact is discovered.
05:17Kamiya Yoko is a classmate of Ranze and Shun, and is also a love interest who competes for Shun.
05:26Although she is an excellent student at school, her father is a powerful man in town and the head of the Kamiya-gumi, so she is very selfish and has made Shun her fiance.
05:40Initially, he and Ranze were rivals competing for Shun, but as other rivals appeared, they formed a united front, and as they became embroiled in troubles involving the Demon Realm, a friendship gradually blossomed between them.
05:55He was also a mysterious character who, despite being human, had the ability to transform into a Yang puppy with a spell.
06:01Eto Linze is Ranze's younger brother, and while he is kind and considerate, unlike Ranze, he excels in both academics and sports.
06:16Her special ability is the ability to transform into a wolf like her mother, but she also shows a caring side as she helps out Ranze when he occasionally gets in a bad mood.
06:27Eto Mori is Ranze's father and a vampire, but he does not drink blood and is afraid of garlic, crosses, and sunlight, but he is immortal and has the special ability to transform into a bat or a bat umbrella.
06:45He usually works as the guardian of the forbidden door that serves as the entrance to the demon world, and as an unsuccessful novelist, but he is also a teaching material writer, and it seems that marital quarrels with his wife are a regular occurrence, especially on nights of the full moon.
07:00Etou Sheila is Ranze's mother and a werewolf. On full moon nights, her personality changes drastically and she also has the special ability to control the weather and cause storms.
07:16She eloped with her vampire husband, Mori, in a marriage that transcended species, and because of this experience, she was strongly opposed to her daughter Ranze marrying the human Shun.
07:28Furthermore, she learns that Arrow, the prince of the demon world, has feelings for Ranze, and plots to bring the two together.
07:40Arrow is the prince of the demon world, and is a selfish and self-centered person.
07:48In the story, he falls in love with Ranze at first sight, and devises various schemes to get him, such as using a love potion and using his position as prince to win over Ranze's parents to his side.
08:02Tamasaburo Kamiya is Yoko's father and the boss of the Kamiya-gumi. However, he lost his wife at an early age, so he adores his only daughter, Yoko.
08:16In addition, he is also the owner of the boxing gym that Shun goes to, and his daughter likes Shun, so he is considering him as a future son-in-law and successor to the Kamiya Group and the gym.
08:31Hanae Makabe is Shun's mother, but she is also Aaron's mother and the queen of the demon world.
08:38Her strange fate began when she gave birth to twins, which are considered unclean in the demon world. After giving birth, she was banished to the human world along with Shun, and was saved by a monastery after losing her memory of the demon world.
08:54She later became a nurse and raised Shun on her own.
08:59Sand is a demon who can control fog and is also a close aide to the royal family. He has been ordered by Sheila to keep an eye on Ganze, a girl who is in love with a human.
09:13Additionally, he is also an emissary connecting the demon world and the human world, and seems to be constantly at the mercy of Sheila and Aaron's whims.
09:21As an aside, the original work was divided into three parts, and the serialization continued even after this work ended.
09:34The first part has Ranze as the protagonist, and depicts Shun's return to being the prince of the demon world, his entrance into high school, his loss and recovery of his demon world powers, Aaron's succession to the throne, his confrontation with the King Mei, and his engagement and marriage to Shun.
09:51The second part features Narumi Ichihashi, Linze's childhood girlfriend, who gains supernatural powers after drinking tea made from flowers she received at Ranze and Shun's wedding.The story depicts the dizzying events that occur between Narumi and Linze.
10:10The third part will feature Ranze and Shun's daughter, Ayla, as the protagonist, and the story will unfold with a turbulent twist as she shows signs of becoming the savior of the world and the great witch of the demon world.
10:25In addition, a remake called Tokimeki Midnight was serialized from 2002, with significant changes to the character names and settings.
10:36Furthermore, in 2013, Makabe Shun's Affairs was released, depicting Shun's aging and hula stories.
10:44In 2015, Etou Mori's Elopement depicted the story of how Ranze's parents, Mori and Sheila, met, got married, and gave birth to Ranze.
10:57In 2019, Eto Ranze's Treasure Chest was released, covering Ranze and Yoko's beauty pageant battle, their honeymoon, and the birth of their first son, and new works are expected to be released in the future.
11:10Now, it's finally the final episode.
11:19One night, Ranze dreams of his wedding with Shun, and for some reason Yoko is standing next to him as the bride. The two get into an argument, and Ranze wakes up from the dream.
11:31The next day, when Ranze told his mother about this, his mother strangely told him that she had also dreamed of Ranze's wedding, and that Ranze's bride was a prince from the demon world who had gone missing in the human world.
11:48At the same time, Yoko's father, Tamasaburo, had a dream in which he married Shun's mother, the bride, and was filled with faint hope as he headed to the bride's house. Meanwhile, Ranze's father, Mori, had a star-shaped birthmark on his left arm and was continuing his search for the prince of the demon world who lived in the human world.
12:08However, while exploring, Mori accidentally meets Tamasaburo and falls into the river, but Shun appears and discovers that Tamasaburo has a star-shaped birthmark.
12:23After returning home, he reports to his family that he has found the prince and tells them that Ranze and Shun are the princes.
12:30Furthermore, the report was conveyed to the Great King by Sand, who then issued an order to bring Shun to the Demon Realm immediately.
12:43So while Ranze and his parents take Shun to the Demon Realm without letting go of the prince's sword, the other prince, Aron, hears what has happened and stops Ranze and his friends' carriage to investigate for himself.
12:56Ranze and the others are surprised by Aron's sudden action, but when he shows them the star-shaped birthmark that proves he is the prince, the Cheshire Cat appears and explains that by retrieving the royal crest from the Demon World Forest, they will be able to more clearly tell whether it is fake or real.
13:17So Shun enters the Demon World Forest, but falls into a pitfall in the ruins and as he wanders around inside, traps are set off one after another to protect anyone who enters the ruins.
13:30As he manages to escape the trap, he stumbles upon a room where he discovers the royal crest and takes it, but at the same time, a giant stone ball chases him from behind.
13:45Meanwhile, Ranze and the others are burying Shun at the entrance to the forest, but Shun approaches them with a giant stone ball, so everyone runs away, but in the end they fall off a cliff along with the stone ball.
14:01However, Ranze and the others, who survived the battle with a victory, visit the King. When Shun explains that he learned his arm techniques from boxing practice, Ranze and his parents converse together and apologize to the King for the misunderstanding.
14:20As punishment, Ranze and his parents are forbidden from entering the Demon World until they find the prince, and the door to the Demon World is sealed.
14:33The scene changes to Ranze's home after returning from the Demon World. His parents are arguing after being punished by the King. When Shun tells his mother about the birthmark on his arm, she is surprised to learn that the birthmark has been there since birth.
14:51The next morning, the show ends with Ranze, Shun, and Yoko running to school, almost late as if nothing had happened.
15:06Now, let's take a look at Ranze and his friends' daily lives.
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