Meet seventeen-year-old Ginji Kusanagi. Things are going great for him; he's only in high school but he's on the eve of making his debut as a pro-boxer. He's also just met Minako Sasebo, the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, Ginji has an accident and dies...and is then reincarnated into a penguin! Will love be able to bloom between a boxing perguin and a beautiful girl!?
Things were going great for Ginji Kusanagi—not only did he just make his debut as a pro boxer, he also just met the girl of his dreams, Minako Sasebo. Unfortunately, Ginji has an accident and dies...and is then reincarnated into a penguin! In this most silly or romantic love comedies, will love be able to bloom between a boxing penguin and a beautiful girl!?
Summertime means beaches, girls in bikinis, and penguins on the loose! But all this fun isn't without its consequences. Poor Gin-chan discovers that he's just fathered an egg. Ginji claims innocence because he's still unfamiliar with his own penguin plumbing, but how's Minako going to feel about her two-timing penguin?!
Ginji Kusanagi "dies" but in order to stay close to Manako, his one true love, he comes back to life reincarnated as an Adelie penguin. If that's true, then how could Ginji have fathered an egg with pretty little penguin, Linda?! Minako doesn't seem to mind, but Ginji doesn't know how this could have happened. After all, he still doesn't know all the ins and outs of his own penguin plumbing. Does penguin parenthood mean that Gin's days as a footloose and fancy free single penguin are over?
Minako is finally reunited with Ginji! The only problem is that it's someone posing as Ginji trying to take advantage of Minako! What's a poor penguin to do? Can Gin-chan save Minako before it's too late?
What's going on?! Gin-chan's hooked up with a super hot bikini-clad weather announcer and he's even been given the key to her apartment! Gin was reincarnated as a penguin so that he could stay close to Minako, but has he given her up for the sexy weather girl on TV?!
Ginji Kusanagi has died and gained his wings. Unfortunately, these wings don't fly--Ginji's been reborn as a penguin! Because of a bizarre loophole in the cycle of reincarnation, Ginji will be allowed to come back to life as himself as long as he lives out the natural life of a penguin. The reason Ginji's going through all this trouble is just so that he can be close to the love of his life, Minako Sasebo. Now Ginji must face the ups and downs of life as a kept penguin living in Japan. Unrequited love was never quite as unrequited as this!
Gin-chan the penguin plays cupid for a couple of kids in puppy love. And then, Gin-chan learns more about himself and his own predicament when he meets a kindred spirit in the form of an osprey who has also been reincarnated from a human!
Unfortunately, as time passes, Minako's hopes for Ginji's miraculous return begin to fade...Plus, Gin meddles in the lives of humans and fellow reincarnated animals (with typically mixed results), revives his boxing career as a pugilistic penguin, and molts.
A new female trainer, Iida, arrives at the Irie Aquarium, and soon proves to be a formidable rival for Ginji's affections! The competition between Iida and Minako reaches soggy new lows during a pool party contest to win a trip to the South Pole, home to numerous species of Gin-chan's brothers-in-wings. Iida's nefarious plan involves a girl in a paper bikini and osmosis...you do the math!
With four volumes still to go, through a set of exceptional circumstances, Ginji is returned to his human form! Unfortunately, as a penguin, he was only wearing a tie and a coat of many feathers...Then, before Ginji can meet his beloved as his true self, he must rescue her from life-threatening danger!
Break out the seaweed cigars--Ginji is a father! Or, more accurately, the reluctant guardian to a badly behaved fledgling penguin named Popo who has imprinted on him. In between rescuing bratty Popo from a fatal fate at the paws of a feline, Ginji is intent on rescuing Minako from the "love that cannot be named," and Mike the genius penguin from himself. But when Gin attempts to play peeping penguin at Minako and her friends' physical fitness exam, who will rescue him!?
Rival city! Ginji vies with Minako's friend Helen for the role of Minako's guardian and gets upstaged as a stunt bird for Mike the Genius Penguin; Ginji's boxing coach's granddaughter and Nana the one-ton-of-fun walrus compete with Minako for (respectively) Ginji and Gin-chan's affections; and a Ginji look-alike threatens to steal Minako from human Ginji, and penguin Gin-chan from Minako (for a light snack)! Will the rivalry ever end...!?
Gin-chan's hopes for a romantic island vacation with Minako are dashed when she meets a dead ringer for Ginji in his mammalian form. Should Gin-chan sabotage Minako's budding relationship with his doppelgänger when all Gin-chan has to offer is mackerel-breath pecks on the cheek? There's no time for closure on this moral dilemma when Minako becomes a damsel in distress yet again. Has she survived (in alphabetical order) abduction by boat and minivan, beauty pageants, falls, flirting, freezing, haunted houses, imposters, jealous rages, paper swimwear, peeping Toms, stabbing, strangulation, and tipsiness only to perish by water? Plus, meet another reincarnated soul, in the form of a cuddly koala. This seemingly innocuous critter has no natural predators, a two-yard long appendix, and gets nineteen hours of sleep a day...but now that he's come to Irie City, he's also got an appalling personal agenda!
In the dramatic conclusion to Tuxedo Gin, the romantic comedy takes a serious turn. But first...heaven does its millennial spring cleaning, disrupting the supernatural process that traps Ginji's soul inside the body of a penguin. Just when Minako begins to figure out her pet's true identity, the man who murdered Ginji returns to add her to his list of victims! Now Ginji must decide whether to make the ultimate, permanent sacrifice to save the woman he loves...