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The Royal Tutor (Japanese: ???????, Hepburn: ?shitsu Ky?shi Haine) is a Japanese manga series by Higasa Akai. It started serialization in Square Enix's Monthly G Fantasy magazine in November 2013. It has been collected in eight tank?bon volumes as of March 2017. Yen Press has licensed the manga and distribute monthly chapters digitally. An anime television adaptation by Bridge that started from April 4, 2017 to June 20, 2017. A stage play has been announced as well.
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Plot
Heine Wittgenstein, a man often mistaken for a small child, has been summoned to the royal palace of Glanzreich by the king to act as the royal tutor to the four younger princes--Kai, Bruno, Leonhard, and Licht-into capable candidates to the throne. However, he finds his task difficult because of the complicated personalities of his charges, who had managed to cause every tutor they had to quit.
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Characters
Main Characters
- Heine Wittgenstein (??????????????, Haine Witogenshutain)
- Voiced by: Keisuke Ueda (Japanese); Micah Solusod (English)
- The titular royal tutor. Heine is an adult man who is often mistaken for a child due to his short stature. In contrast to his childlike looks, he's a very serious person who doesn't show much emotion, except when it comes to being mistaken for a child. He has a multitude of talents, and is stern but kind towards his charges. Not much is known about his past, except that he apparently knew the king long before he came to the palace to take up his duties, used to tutor at a church (he still does), and was a violent man in the past. He also was accused of being a criminal in the past, which turns out to be a false accusations.
- Kai von Glanzreich (??????????????, Kai Fon Gurantsuraihi)
- Voiced by: Y?ya Asato (Japanese); Daman Mills (English)
- The 17 year old second prince, nicknamed "The Glaring Prince". He has a reputation of being aloof and scary, and it's rumored that he was kicked out of the military academy for getting into brawls. As it turns out, he was suspended because he beat a student who bullied and abused his brother Bruno. He's actually a kindhearted, introverted young man who's bad at social interactions and likes cute and soft things. He likes Heine because he's the first tutor to actually talk to him, and because he thinks of him as a cute pet. He is mistaken as scary because he has trouble speaking and often looks as if he is glaring due to his naturally sharp eyes. In the later chapters of the manga, Kai has returned to Military Academy and is currently away on a training trip.
- Bruno von Glanzreich (????????????????, Bur?no Fon Gurantsuraihi)
- Voiced by: Y?to Adachi (Japanese); Christopher Wehkamp (English)
- The 16-year-old third prince, nicknamed "The Browbeating Brainiac Prince". He's considered to be a child prodigy and a genius. At first, he's dismissive of Heine because he never went to university and assumed that there's nothing that he could teach him, but his attitude changes when Heine beats him soundly in all the challenges he imposes on him, such as chess and mathematics. He starts to idolize him after that and calls him "master", much to Heine's chagrin. In the later chapters of the manga, he has left the palace to travel to his admired professor's country as a consort.
- Leonhard von Glanzreich (??????????????????, Reonharuto Fon Gurantsuraihi)
- Voiced by: Daisuke Hirose (Japanese); Alejandro Saab (English)
- The 15-year-old fourth prince, nicknamed "The Everest-Pride Prince". He considers himself the most beautiful person on the continent. However, it's quickly revealed that behind his haughty demeanor, he is actually a very childish person prone to sulking and running away from his problems. He's a slow learner, and has an intense hatred of teachers because he was abused by them, though this slowly starts to change because of Heine's influence. He looks up to his older brother Bruno. He is extremely athletic and appears to love torte. Although he is not too intelligent, his simplistic way of thinking actually helps in creating solutions to certain problems. He often acts as a tsundere, pretending to be mean but in actuality wanting to be paid attention to and particularly enjoys being praised.
- Licht von Glanzreich (???????????????, Rikuto Fon Gurantsuraihi)
- Voiced by: Shouta Aoi (Japanese); Stephen Sanders (English)
- The 14-year-old fifth and youngest prince, nicknamed "The Playboy Prince". He's very cheerful and easy-going, and is fond of being surrounded by beautiful women. He has a tendency to sneak out into town, because of his secret job as a waiter at a café. He's surprisingly a perceptive and serious young man despite his image as a playboy. Recently, he has moved out of the palace as he realizes he had half-hearted feelings towards being a king as he grew to love his job as a waiter, and decided to no longer be a king but instead live independently and as a normal person working as a waiter.
Other members of the Glanzreich Family
- Viktor von Glanzreich (??????????????????, Vikut?ru Fon Gurantsuraihi)
- Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa (Japanese); David Wald (English)
- The current King of Glanzreich and the father of the five princes and princess. He ascended to the throne at a young age and is known for his wisdom. He gets surprisingly emotional when seeing his children after a long time away.
- Adele von Glanzreich (???????????????, Aderu Fon Gurantsuraihi)
- Voiced by: Michi Matsui (Japanese); Jad Saxton (English)
- The youngest child of the Glanzreich family and the only girl. She is a cheerful, playful three-year-old who enjoys coloring and playing with the royal dog, Shadow. She is already engaged to a foreign prince.
- Eins von Glanzreich (????????????????, Ainsu Fon Gurantsuraihi)
- Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (Japanese); J. Michael Tatum (English)
- The eldest prince. He is a genius who is the overwhelming favorite to succeed the throne. However, Viktor considers him to be unfit for the throne due to reasons not yet explained.
- Maria von Granzreich (???????????????, Maria Fon Gurantsuraihi)
- Voiced by: Kazuko Sugiyama (Japanese); Linda Leonard (English)
Other Characters
- Maximilian Rosenberg (???????, Makushimirion)
- Voiced by: Shinnosuke Tachibana (Japanese); Dallas Reid (English)
- A palace guard from a well-to-do family. He has a cheerful demeanor. He's known as the greatest fencer among the guards. He's Ernst Rosenberg's cousin.
- Ludwig Steiner (??????, R?towiku)
- Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese); Jarrod Greene (English)
- A palace guard from a commoner family. He has a serious demeanor.
- Ernst Rosenberg
- Voiced by: Joel McDonald (English)
- A count who's also the high steward of the eldest prince Eins. He's been behind many of the obstacles that stand between the four princes and their paths to the throne, such as being the one to tell on Licht's secret job as waiter to his father, and introducing Bruno to the professor he admires in hopes that he removes himself from the race to the throne in order to study abroad in the professor's country. He's Maximilian's cousin.
- Ralf von Fuchs (??????????, Rarufu fon Fukkusu)
- Voiced by: Keito Okuyama
- A former student of the military academy that Bruno and Kai used to attend. He was jealous of Bruno's success at the academy leading him to wrongfully believe that he earned his grades because of his royal lineage. He attacked Bruno, and Kai got into a fight with him leading to his expulsion from the academy, while Kai got his violent reputation from that fight. Kai later attempted to apologize, only for Ralf to capture him, Heine, and Maximillian and threaten them. He is currently in prison for his attempt of kidnapping Kai.
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Media
Manga
The manga is written and illustrated by Higasa Akai. It debuted in the December 2013 issue of Monthly GFantasy. Square Enix has published the compiled volumes since June 27, 2014. Currently there are seven volumes. Yen Press had announced its license of the series in 2015, and they are currently releasing translated chapters monthly digitally.
Volumes List
Anime
An anime television series adaptation by Bridge aired from April 4, 2017 to June 20, 2017. Funimation has licensed the series in North America.
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References
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External links
- The Royal Tutor at Square Enix (in Japanese)
- Official anime website (in Japanese)
- The Royal Tutor (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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