Dance till Tomorrow (1991)

Interesting facts

Dance till Tomorrow is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Yamamoto. It is a romantic comedy which details the life of Suekichi Terayama, a student who will inherit a fortune when he graduates from college and gets married with unexpected complications from a mysterious girl, Aya Hibino.

Production

Dance till Tomorrow was described as "boy-meets-girl-story" by Yamamoto, who created it just following a trend among young-adult comic magazines. He declared, "I must have unconsciously put myself inside some boundary, thinking I had to do some thing like that." Nevertheless, he tried to have an alternative to the common place "mediocre happy ending" and the "tearjerker separation" on its conclusion.

The character of Aya Hibino was not based on any real person, although her thick eyebrows were inspired by idols' style in the 1980s. Yamamoto said she was meant to be a femme fatale and "probably somehow represents [his] own deep-seated feelings of not being able to understand women".

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