Japanese manga series by Kazuhiko Shimamoto
First
tankōbon volume cover, featuring Moyuru Honō
Genre
Coming-of-age
[1]
Written by
Kazuhiko Shimamoto Published by
Shogakukan Imprint Shōnen Sunday Comics Special
[a] Magazine Demographic
Seinen ,
shōnen Original run March 8, 2007 – presentVolumes 28
Directed by Yuichi Fukuda Produced by Junpei Nakagawa Written by Yuichi Fukuda Music by Eishi Segawa Studio
TV Tokyo Original network TV Tokyo Original run July 19, 2014 – September 27, 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 was serialized in
Shogakukan 's
seinen manga magazine
Weekly Young Sunday from March 2007 to July 2008, when the magazine ceased its publication; a chapter was published in YS Special in October 2008, before being transferred to Shogakukan's then-brand-new
shōnen manga magazine
Monthly Shōnen Sunday in May 2009. Aoi Honō is a fictionalized account of Shimamoto's 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 live-action
Japanese television drama , titled Blue Fire in English,
[2] that aired from July to October 2014.
[3] The drama was streamed on
Viki with English subtitles.
[4] The real Takami Akai and Hiroyuki Yamaga make cameos in the television series: Akai plays a bathhouse manager in episode 10, while Yamaga plays the bartender at a restaurant where his counterpart passes out (which, according to Yamaga, is based on an actual incident) in episode 7.
[5]
Cast
Voice
Media
Manga
Aoi Honō is written and illustrated by
Kazuhiko Shimamoto . The manga debuted in
Shogakukan 's
seinen manga magazine
Weekly Young Sunday on March 8, 2007.
[6] After the magazine ceased publication on July 31, 2008,
[7] a chapter of Aoi Honō was published the
Big Comic Spirits special supplementary issue YS Special in October 2008.
[8] The series was then transferred to the brand new
shōnen manga magazine
Monthly Shōnen Sunday on May 12, 2009.
[9] Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual
tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on February 5, 2008.
[10] As of May 12, 2023, 28 volumes have been released.
[11]
Volumes
No.
Japanese release date
Japanese ISBN
1 February 5, 2008
[10]
978-4-09-151268-0
2 May 11, 2009
[12]
978-4-09-121650-2
3 December 12, 2009
[13]
978-4-09-122109-4
4 June 11, 2010
[14]
978-4-09-122389-0
5 November 12, 2010
[15]
978-4-09-122578-8
6 June 10, 2011
[16]
978-4-09-122828-4
7 November 11, 2011
[17]
978-4-09-123278-6
8 May 11, 2012
[18]
978-4-09-123249-6
9 November 12, 2012
[19]
978-4-09-123880-1
10 June 12, 2013
[20]
978-4-09-124257-0
11 December 12, 2013
[21]
978-4-09-124440-6
12 July 11, 2014
[22]
978-4-09-125126-8
13 January 9, 2015
[23]
978-4-09-125517-4
14 July 10, 2015
[24]
978-4-09-126254-7
15 May 12, 2016
[25]
978-4-09-127249-2
16 October 12, 2016
[26]
978-4-09-127435-9
17 May 12, 2017
[27] May 10, 2017 (
SE )
[28]
978-4-09-127623-0
978-4-09-941891-5 (
SE )
18 November 10, 2017
[29] November 8, 2017 (
SE )
[30]
978-4-09-128014-5
978-4-09-943001-6 (
SE )
19 May 11, 2018
[31] May 9, 2018 (
SE )
[32]
978-4-09-128288-0
978-4-09-943015-3 (
SE )
20 December 12, 2018
[33]
978-4-09-128725-0
21 July 12, 2019
[34]
978-4-09-129346-6
22 December 12, 2019
[35]
978-4-09-129524-8
23 June 12, 2020
[36]
978-4-09-850138-0
24 December 11, 2020
[37]
978-4-09-850345-2
25 August 11, 2021
[38]
978-4-09-850680-4
26 March 11, 2022
[39]
978-4-09-851015-3
27 August 10, 2022
[40]
978-4-09-851269-0
28 May 12, 2023
[11]
978-4-09-852052-7
29 November 10, 2023
[41]
978-4-09-853028-1
Reception
Volume 2 sold 24,521 copies by May 17, 2009,
[42] volume 9 sold 20,415 copies by November 18, 2012,
[43] and volume 10 sold 17,068 copies by June 16, 2013.
[44]
Aoi Honō was one of the Jury Recommended Works in the Story Manga division at the 13th
Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2009.
[45] In 2010, the manga received 23 points in the 3rd
Manga Taishō , placing last among the ten nominees.
[46] The manga received Excellence Award of the Manga Division at the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2014.
[47]
[48] In 2015, along with
Asahinagu , it won the 60th
Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category.
[49] In February 2015,
Asahi Shimbun announced that Aoi Honō was one of nine nominees for the nineteenth annual
Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize .
[50]
Notes
^ Only the first volume was published under the Young Sunday Comics imprint.
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