Pyū to Fuku! Jaguar is a Japanese gag manga series written and illustrated by Kyosuke Usuta. The story is about recorders, musicians, and their bizarre daily lives. It has a vague overall plot, but is mainly episodic. A series of Drama CDs and video games have been released, as well as an OVA made in flash animation. A live-action film, starring Jun Kaname as Jaguar, was released on January 12, 2008.
Plot
The story starts out with Kiyohiko "Piyohiko" Saketome trying to take a band audition. In his way he sees a strange man named Jaguar carrying a big case, which turns out to be holding only a small recorder. Piyohiko tries not to get distracted by him but fails, because when Jaguar plays his recorder, the most beautiful, passionate guitar-like sound comes out of it. He tries more and more record companies, but every time he meets Jaguar and somehow manages to miss his audition. Finally, Piyohiko gets accepted at a record company only to find at his new dorm that he is roommates with Jaguar. Jaguar becomes a teacher and sets up a recorder class at their music school, and Piyohiko ends up in that class instead of the guitar class he wanted...
Characters
; Jaguar Junichi ; Kiyohiko Saketome ; Hammer ; Takana Shirakawa ; Porgy ; Billy ; Hamidento ; Chichijirou Saketome ; Michael
Media
Manga
Pyū to Fuku! Jaguar is written and illustrated by Kyosuke Usuta. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from September 4, 2000 to August 23, 2010. Shueisha compiled its individual chapters into twenty tankōbon volumes published from September 4, 2001 to December 3, 2010.
Volume list
Video games
Two video games based on the series have been released by Konami. The first game, Pyū to Fuku! Jaguar: Ashita no Jump, is an RPG for the PlayStation 2 released on March 18, 2004. Pyū to Fuku! Jaguar: Byō to Daru! Megane-kun, an action game for the Game Boy Advance, was released on April 29 of the same year. Characters from Jaguar have also appeared in the Nintendo DS game Jump Super Stars and its sequel Jump Ultimate Stars, with Jaguar featured as a playable character in both games. Jaguar Junichi appears as a support character in J-Stars Victory VS, a fighting game for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita. Its European and North American release marks the first release of Pyu to Fuku! Jaguar material outside Japan. The English title of the manga is officially given in the game as Phwoo! Blows the Jaguar.
A 3-episode Flash-animated original video animation series produced by Kaeruotoko Shokai was released from November 19, 2007 to January 21, 2008. Another 3-episode original video animation titled Pyū to Fuku! Jaguar: Return of Yaku Ichinenburi was released from December 8, 2008 to February 23, 2009.
Live-action film
A live-action film was released on January 12, 2008. The DVD was released on June 23, 2008.
Anime film
An anime film titled Pyū to Fuku! Jaguar: Ima, Fuki ni Yukimasu was released on January 10, 2009.
