![]() Okouchi dislikes the constant attention her family and peers give her, and is jealous of Shizuka's condition. The student body president of Shizuka and Mamoru's school, and a friend of Shizuka's. He is very similar in personality to Mamoru, only older. He is an architect, and is fascinated by old buildings. In a small bit of irony, Keiko is a professional glass artist, and comments on Glass's translucency when she is introduced. She is not drawn at all in most of the manga, instead her trademark glasses, cigarette, and bandanna float in midair. Keiko's Translucent Syndrome has progressed to the permanent "Fully Transparent Syndrome" stage, and as such she is completely invisible. Keiko Haruna ( Haruna Keiko) An adult friend of Shizuka, whom Shizuka meets during a checkup for her Translucent Syndrome. Seems to have feelings for Shizuka, but is too immature to articulate them. ![]() He also likes to create silly games, like walking in lockstep with Shizuka spontaneously, seeing "old men" in housing architecture, or monsters in cloud formations. He is obsessed with monsters as well as Gundam models. He is a painter, and assists Shizuka in creating better skin tone greasepaint tones to hide her condition when it is minor. ![]() Mamoru Tadami ( Tadami Mamoru) Mamoru is an outgoing, childish extrovert, who encourages Shizuka to come out of her shell, despite (or because of) her condition. She has decided that she wishes to be a "cherry tree actress" - one that is mostly ignored unless she is on stage, where she will blossom like a cherry tree. Shizuka is very talented for a young actress, but this is offset by her very timid and insecure nature. Shizuka contracted the strange "Translucent Syndrome" 3 years before the manga started, which cuts her off from both normal social interaction with her peers, and from her dreams of becoming a stage actress. Shizuka Shiroyama ( Shiroyama Shizuka) The shy 14-year-old main character of the manga. The fictional condition is used in the series as a metaphor for the common childhood anxiety of feeling lonely and disconnected from other people, as well as-through the threat of the condition worsening-a fear of growing up. Fully Transparent Syndrome is marked by complete and permanent invisibility, rather than the temporary partial invisibility of the normal syndrome. Shizuka is also in danger of gaining "Fully Transparent Syndrome", or otherwise having her translucency become permanent, which will occur if she spends too long a stretch in her translucent stage. However, as it worsens it begins to affect her entire body, leaving her increasingly more translucent and for increasingly longer random periods of time. ![]() Initially Shizuka's condition only affects her arms and legs, and only partially, at seemingly randomly times and durations. Unfortunately for Shizuka, there is no known cure or treatment for Translucent Syndrome, other than it is tied to the emotional state of the person affected positive emotions like happiness and love cause it to retract, negative emotions like stress and sadness cause it to accelerate. The series revolves around Shizuka's high school life after she contracts "Translucent Syndrome", a mysterious condition which has only one symptom: The victim's body randomly turns translucent (and later completely invisible), but is otherwise left perfectly normal and healthy. The protagonist of the series is a shy young girl named Shizuka and her outgoing male friend Mamoru. It was licensed by Dark Horse Comics for English language release in the North America in July 2007. Translucent ( トランスルーセント―彼女は半透明, Toransurūsento: Kanojo wa Hantōmei, "Translucent: She is Translucent") is a Japanese seinen manga series written by Kazuhiro Okamoto and serialized in Comic Flapper. The cover of the first volume of Translucent ![]()
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