Pyū to Fuku! Jaguar (ピューと吹く! ジャガー) is a Japanese gag manga series written and illustrated by Kyosuke Usuta. The story is about Kiyohiko "Piyohiko" Saketome, an aspiring musician whose daily life takes a bizarre turn when he meets Jaguar, an eccentric man obsessed with recorders. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from August 2000 to August 2010, with its chapters collected in 20 tankōbon volumes. It was adapted into a series of flash-original video animations (OVAs) and a film, released from 2007 to 2009. A live-action film, starring Jun Kaname as Jaguar, was released in January 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 out that he will be staying at his new dorm with Jaguar as his roommate. Jaguar becomes a teacher and sets up a recorder class at their music school, and Piyohiko somehow ends up in that class instead of the guitar class he wanted. From thereon in, the story is an episodic chronicle of Piyohiko and Jaguar's lives, where they get into hijinks with fellow musicians and other bizarre characters.

Characters

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Kyosuke Usuta, ''Pyū to Fuku! Jaguar was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from August 22, 2000, to August 23, 2010. Shueisha collected its 435 individual chapters in 20 tankōbon volumes published from September 4, 2001, to December 3, 2010.

Volumes

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 (ピューと吹く！ジャガー 〜ビョ〜と出る！メガネくん〜), 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''.

Original video animation

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 (ピューと吹く! ジャガー リターン・オブ・約1年ぶり) 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 (ピューと吹く! ジャガー ～いま, 吹きにゆきます～) was released on January 10, 2009. The end credits music used for the film was "No You Girls", known in Japan as "Katherine: Girls Never Know" (キャサリン～ガールズ・ネヴァー・ノウ～), by Franz Ferdinand.