Million Doll (ミリオンドール, Mirion Dōru) is a Japanese webmanga written and illustrated by Ai. It began serialization on Comic Smart's free manga website Ganma! in December 2013 and has since been collected into two tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation by Asahi Production aired from July to September 2015.
Plot
Sūko is an idol-loving shut-in who uses the power of the internet to make relatively unknown idols popular. Ryū-san, on the other hand, is a passionate idol otaku who always attends performances by whoever his favorite artist of the moment is. Sūko uses her prowess to popularise the local idol group, Itorio, while Ryū-san focuses his support on the underground idol, Mariko. The competitiveness of these two otakus to promote their respective idols to stardom changes their careers forever.
The main protagonist. An idol-loving hikikomori (shut-in) who has the ability to make any idol popular through the power of blogging. Having visited one of Itorio's live performances, she decides to use her blog to give them a boost in popularity.
A wota who constantly attends live performances of his favorite idols. He is often described as a DD (short for daredemo daisuki (誰でも大好き, "would like anyone"), having stopped following Itorio as he thought they would go out of fashion, but has lately focused his attention on supporting Mariko.
An underground idol who lives with her single mother. Spurred on by Ryū-san and the rest of her fans, Mariko is extremity talented and sets her sights on stardom, but struggles with obtaining popularity in comparison to Itorio.
Itorio (イトリオ)
A group of local idols from the Fukuoka Prefecture, who rise to stardom thanks to Sūko's blog.
She is the reason why Sūko and Ryū-san became idol fan. Became famous thanks to their support and ranked No. 1 right after her major debut.
Sorayama (空山)
An idol from the same agency as Mariko.
Others
Kaede (楓)
Sūko's younger sister, who often worries about her hikkikomori behavior.
Tooru Shirasawa (白澤トオル, Shirasawa Tooru)
The manager of CSM Records.
Media
Manga
Million Doll began as a webmanga written and illustrated by Ai. It was first serialized on Comic Smart's free manga website Ganma! with its first chapter being published in December 2013.[1]Comic Earth Star published the first two tankōbon volumes on June 26, 2015.[2][3]
Anime
An anime adaptation produced by Asahi Production was announced in the March 2015 issue of Newtype magazine.[4][5] The adaptation is directed by Keiichiro Kawaguchi (episode 1) and Tomio Yamauchi (episodes 6 through 12) and written by Momoko Murakami, with a series premiere on July 6, 2015.[6][7]
Episode list
No.
Title
Original air date
1
"Stay-at-Home Otaku vs. On-Site Otaku" "Zaitaku Wota VS Genba Wota" (在宅ヲタVS現場ヲタ)
July 6, 2015 (2015-07-06)
Shut-in blogger Sūko attends a live performance by local idols from the Fukuoka Prefecture, Itorio. While enjoying their performance, Sūko is not so pleased with the wotas supporting them, namely an otaku named Ryū-san who decides to stop supporting Itorio and move onto another idol, Mariko. Refusing to let this stand, Sūko uses her top-ranked blog to spread word of Itorio's performance across the internet.
2
TBA
July 13, 2015 (2015-07-13)
Hearing how Itorio has gained popularity thanks to Suko's blog, Ryū-san urges Mariko to make her major debut.
References
^ミリオンドール [Million Doll]. Ganma (in Japanese). Comic Smart. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
