Ichigo 100% Kawashita Mizuki Images

Manga Character Design by Mizuki Kawashita
Anime Character Design by Kiyotaka Nakahara

Ichigo 100% is a manga created and illustrated by Mizuki Kawashita. It was published in Weekly Shonen Jump by Shueisha starting February 2002 and ended August 2005. An anime adaptation was made by Madhouse and directed by Osamu Sekita and aired starting April 5, 2005 and ended June 21, 2005 on TV Asahi and Animax. A game called “Strawberry 100% Strawberry Diary” was made and published by Takara Tomy and was released for the PlayStation 2 on February 10, 2005.

Ichigo 100% Plot:

Manaka Junpie is an aspiring movie director. One day, when he went to the school rooftop, a pretty girl wearing strawberry printed panties comes falling down. Surprised by Junpie's sudden appearance, the girl ran away. He was inspired by this encounter and wishes to use it in the film he is making.

Ichigo 100% Characters:

Manaka Junpei - He is the main male protagonist of the story. He dreams to be the director of a movie. When he met a pretty girl wearing strawberry panties in the rooftop, he insists on finding her and recreate that moment in film. He found a notebook in the rooftop that belongs to Toujou Aya, but she turned out to be a plain looking girl. At first, he thought that the girl was Nishino Tsukasa, the most popular girl in school and confessed to her because he thought that the only way to make her act the role of the girl in the rooftop was to date her. Later in the story, it was revealed that the rooftop girl is actually Aya. As the story progresses, he becomes indecisive on who he really like between Aya and Tsukasa.

Toujou Aya - At the beginning of the story, Aya is a plain looking girl and Junpei's classmate. She secretly writes novels in her math notebook that was later found by Junpei. Because of her talent as a writer, Junpei proposes that they both create a film together. She turned out to be the strawberry pantied girl who Junpei met in the rooftop. Later in the story, she decided to wear contact lenses and let her hair down showing her beauty and shocked her classmates. She followed Junpei to Izumizaka high school to support his dream. She also expressed her love for Junpei although he rarely realized how deep her affections was.

Nishino Tsukasa - She is Junpei's first girlfriend and is the most popular girl in their middle school. Junpei mistook her as the strawberry pantied girl she met in the rooftop. She is very supportive of Junpei's dreams while she pursues her own dream to become a patisserie. When Junpei became indecisive on whom he liked the most, she broke up with him even though she still have feelings for Junpei.

Ichigo 100% Similar Seres:
1. Hatsukoi Unlimited
2. Love Hina
3. Kiss x Sis

source: Zerochan; written by Bootan