Aoi Honō

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Aoi Honō
Aoi Honō v1 cover.jpg
Manga volume 1 cover
アオイホノオ
GenreComing-of-age[1]
Manga
Written byKazuhiko Shimamoto
Published byShogakukan
Magazine
DemographicSeinen, shōnen
Original runMarch 8, 2007 – present
Volumes24
Television drama
Blue Fire[2]
Directed by
Produced byJunpei Nakagawa
Written byYuichi Fukuda
Music byEishi Segawa
StudioTV Tokyo
Licensed byViki
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run July 19, 2014 – September 27, 2014
Episodes11
Wikipe-tan face.svg Anime and manga portal

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 live-action Japanese television drama, titled Blue Fire in English,[2] that aired in July 2014 and ended in October 2014.[3] The drama is legally streaming on Viki with English subtitles.[4]

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Aoi Honō is written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Shimamoto. The manga debuted in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday on March 8, 2007.[5] After the magazine ceased publication on July 31, 2008,[6] a chapter of Aoi Honō was published the Big Comic Spirits special supplementary issue YS Special in October 2008.[7] The series was then transferred to the then brand new magazine Monthly Shōnen Sunday on May 12, 2009.[8] Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on February 5, 2008.[9] As of December 11, 2020, twenty-four volumes have been released.[10]

Volume list[]

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1 February 5, 2008[9]978-4-09-151268-0
2 May 11, 2009[11]978-4-09-121650-2
3 December 12, 2009[12]978-4-09-122109-4
4 June 11, 2010[13]978-4-09-122389-0
5 November 12, 2010[14]978-4-09-122578-8
6 June 10, 2011[15]978-4-09-122828-4
7 November 11, 2011[16]978-4-09-123278-6
8 May 11, 2012[17]978-4-09-123249-6
9 November 12, 2012[18]978-4-09-123880-1
10 June 12, 2013[19]978-4-09-124257-0
11 December 12, 2013[20]978-4-09-124440-6
12 July 11, 2014[21]978-4-09-125126-8
13 January 9, 2015[22]978-4-09-125517-4
14 July 10, 2015[23]978-4-09-126254-7
15 May 12, 2016[24]978-4-09-127249-2
16 October 12, 2016[25]978-4-09-127435-9
17 May 12, 2017[26]
May 10, 2017 (SE)[27]		978-4-09-127623-0
978-4-09-941891-5 (SE)
18 November 10, 2017[28]
November 8, 2017 (SE)[29]		978-4-09-128014-5
978-4-09-943001-6 (SE)
19 May 11, 2018[30]
May 9, 2018 (SE)[31]		978-4-09-128288-0
978-4-09-943015-3 (SE)
20 December 12, 2018[32]978-4-09-128725-0
21 July 12, 2019[33]978-4-09-129346-6
22 December 12, 2019[34]978-4-09-129524-8
23 June 12, 2020[35]978-4-09-850138-0
24 December 11, 2020[10]978-4-09-850345-2

Reception[]

Volume 2 sold 24,521 copies by May 17, 2009,[36] volume 9 sold 20,415 copies by November 18, 2012,[37] and volume 10 sold 17,068 copies by June 16, 2013.[38]

Aoi Honō was one of the Jury Recommended Works in the Story Manga division at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2009.[39] In 2010, the manga received 23 points in the 3rd Manga Taishō, placing last among the ten nominees.[40] The manga received Excellence Award of the Manga Division at the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2014.[41][42] In 2015, along with Asahinagu, it won the 60th Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category.[43] In February 2015, Asahi Shimbun announced that Aoi Honō was one of nine nominees for the nineteenth annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.[44]

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