Aoi Honō
Aoi Honō | |
The cover of the first tankōbon of Aoi Honō | |
アオイホノオ | |
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Genre | Coming-of-age. drama[1] |
Manga | |
Written by | Kazuhiko Shimamoto |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Demographic | Seinen, shōnen |
Magazine | Young Sunday Spirits Zokan YS Special Monthly Shōnen Sunday |
Original run | 2007 – present |
Volumes | 20 |
Television drama | |
Directed by | Yūichi Fukuda |
Written by | Yūichi Fukuda |
Music by | Eishi Segawa |
Original network | TV Tokyo |
Original run | July 2014 – October 2014 |
Episodes | 11 |
Aoi Honō (アオイホノオ, lit. "Blue Blazes") is a Japanese coming-of-age manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Shimamoto. It is a fictionalized account of his time as a student at the Osaka University of Arts, which he attended alongside Hideaki Anno, Hiroyuki Yamaga, and Takami Akai.[1] It was adapted into a Japanese television drama that aired in July 2014 and ended in October 2014.[2] The live action drama is legally streaming on Viki with English subtitles.[3]
Cast
- Yūya Yagira – Moyuru Honō
- Ken Yasuda – Hideaki Anno
- Tsuyoshi Muro – Hiroyuki Yamaga
- Tomoya Nakamura – Takami Akai
- Mizuki Yamamoto – Tonko Morinaga
- Yuina Kuroshima – Hiromi Tsuda
- Kaname Endō – Masahiko Minami
- Gaku Hamada – Toshio Okada
- Kenji Urai – Kentarō Yano
- Yui Ichikawa – Jun Iwase
- Haruna Kojima – Masumi
- Seika Taketomi – Miyuki
- Jirō Satō – MAD Holy
- Anna Kon'no – Rumiko Takahashi
- Toshio Okada – Osamu Tezuka
- Voice
- Tōru Furuya – Narrator and Katsuya Niimi (Nine)
- Hiromi Tsuru – Yuri Nakao (Nine)
- Makio Inoue – Captain Harlock (Space Pirate Captain Harlock)
- Masako Nozawa – Tetsuro (Galaxy Express 999)
- Masako Ikeda – Maetel (Galaxy Express 999)
- Teruhiko Aoi – Joe Yabuki (Ashita no Joe)
- Hiroko Ushida – Yōko Shiraki (Ashita no Joe)
- Kōichi Yamadera – Captain Juzo Okita, Susumu Kodai and Ryu Hijikata (Space Battleship Yamato)
- Katsumi Toriumi – Masato Wakamatsu (Miyuki)
- Ryōtarō Okiayu – Jun Kenzaki (Ring ni Kakero)
- Kappei Yamaguchi – Nobotta Ōyama (Otoko Oidon)
Reception
It received 23 points in the 3rd Manga Taishō, placing last among the ten nominees.[4]
In February 2015, Asahi Shimbun announced that Aoi Honō was one of nine nominees for the nineteenth annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.[5]
Sales
Volume 2 sold 24,521 copies by 17 May 2009,[6] volume 9 sold 20,415 copies by 18 November 2012,[7] and volume 10 sold 17,068 copies by 16 June 2013.[8]
References
- ^ a b "Ken Yasuda to Play Hideaki Anno in Aoi Honō Drama". Anime News Network. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ^ "College Life Manga Aoi Honō Gets Live-Action Show". Anime News Network. 4 May 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ Blue Fire, retrieved 2017-06-26
- ^ "Mari Yamazaki's Thermae Romae Wins Manga Taisho Award (Updated)". Anime News Network. 17 March 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ "19th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Nominees Announced". Anime News Network. 23 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ^ "Japanese Comic Ranking, May 11-17 (Updated)". Anime News Network. 20 May 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ "Japanese Comic Ranking, November 12-18". Anime News Network. 21 November 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ "Japanese Comic Ranking, June 10-16". Anime News Network. 21 June 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
External links
- Aoi Honō (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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