Template:Nihongo is the title of thirty Japanese fictional short stories which focus on a group of teenage girls attending three affiliated all-girl schools. A common theme throughout the stories are the intimatelesbian relationships between the characters. The stories, while written by Sakurako Kimino and illustrated by Chitose Maki, were the product of a reader participation game run by MediaWorks in the bishōjo magazine Dengeki G's Magazine. The game started in the January 2004 issue of the magazine and concluded in the February 2005 issue; this resulted in twenty-five short stories (except for the first) which had been directly influenced by reader participation votes in ten separate rounds of voting. The short stories later spawned many other adaptations in the Strawberry Panic! series, including an anime, manga, and light novel series.
The first three stories appeared in the February 2004 issue of the magazine which was released on December 30, 2003.[1] Three more were published each month up to May 30, 2004, which at the time meant that eighteen stories had been published. This was the completion of the first story arc entitled the Etoile Chapter. The next story arc entitled the Dormitory Panic Chapter comprised seven stories in greater length than the earlier stories. These seven stories were published between June 30 and December 30, 2004, which corresponds to the August 2004 through February 2005 issues of Dengeki G's Magazine. This concluded the reader participation game at twenty-five stories.
After a three-month hiatus, more stories returned in the May 2005 issue of Dengeki G's Magazine on March 30, 2005. This small series of five separate stories was written as a supplementary bibliography of the twelve girls in the story. The series concluded in the September 2005 issue on July 30, 2005. None of the original thirty stories were ever published again in bound volumes.
*The magazine printed both of these as "Tamao/Amane", though one of them should have been "Tamao/Chikaru". It is uncertain which coupling received more votes.
Round 3 (July 2004 issue)
Ranking
Coupling
Votes
01
Nagisa/Tamao
1215
02
Kizuna/Chikaru
*375
03
Hikari/Amane
*376
04
Nagisa/Amane
281
05
Kizuna/Kagome
221
06
Tamao/Amane
135
07
Nagisa/Hikari
125
08
Nagisa/Chikaru
101
09
Tamao/Chikaru
90
10
Nagisa/Shizuma
74
11
Hikari/Yaya
68
12
Nagisa/Kizuna
65
13
Hikari/Tamao
62
14
Hikari/Chiyo
56
15
Amane/Chikaru
52
16
Tsubomi/Yaya
51
17
Nagisa/Chiyo
49
17
Chiyo/Amane
49
19
Kizuna/Remon
46
20
Kizuna/Amane
45
21
Hikari/Chikaru
44
22
Shizuma/Amane
41
23
Kizuna/Chiyo
39
24
Nagisa/Tsubomi
33
24
Hikari/Tsubomi
33
26
Hikari/Kagome
29
27
Tamao/Remon
28
28
Chiyo/Yaya
26
29
Tamao/Tsubomi
23
30
Yaya/Chikaru
21
31
Shizuma/Tsubomi
19
31
Chiyo/Tsubomi
19
33
Chiyo/Kagome
18
33
Kizuna/Tamao
18
35
Hikari/Shizuma
17
35
Tsubomi/Kagome
17
37
Chiyo/Tamao
15
37
Chiyo/Chikaru
15
37
Tamao/Yaya
15
40
Chiyo/Remon
14
41
Nagisa/Yaya
12
41
Shizuma/Chikaru
12
41
Tamao/Kagome
12
41
Amane/Yaya
12
41
Kizuna/Tsubomi
12
46
Tsubomi/Chikaru
11
47
Amane/Tsubomi
10
47
Chikaru/Kagome
10
49
Kizuna/Shizuma
9
50
Hikari/Kizuna
8
51
Amane/Kagome
7
52
Shizuma/Kagome
6
52
Kizuna/Yaya
6
54
Amane/Remon
5
55
Shizuma/Chiyo
4
55
Yaya/Kagome
4
55
Chikaru/Remon
4
55
Kagome/Remon
4
59
Nagisa/Kagome
3
59
Nagisa/Remon
3
59
Shizuma/Yaya
3
59
Yaya/Remon
3
63
Shizuma/Tamao
0
63
Shizuma/Remon
0
63
Hikari/Remon
0
63
Tsubomi/Remon
0
*This is how the results appeared in the magazine. It is possible that the publishers accidentally switched them.
