Aoi Honō
Aoi Honō | |
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アオイホノオ | |
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Genre | Coming-of-age[1] |
Manga | |
Written by | Kazuhiko Shimamoto |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Magazine |
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Demographic | Seinen, shōnen |
Original run | March 8, 2007 – present |
Volumes | 24 |
Television drama | |
Blue Fire[2] | |
Directed by | |
Produced by | Junpei Nakagawa |
Written by | Yuichi Fukuda |
Music by | Eishi Segawa |
Studio | TV Tokyo |
Licensed by | Viki |
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 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]
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)
- Ashita no Joe) – Joe Yabuki (
- – Yōko Shiraki (Ashita no Joe)
- Kōichi Yamadera – Captain , Susumu Kodai and (Space Battleship Yamato)
- Katsumi Toriumi – Masato Wakamatsu (Miyuki)
- Ryōtarō Okiayu – Jun Kenzaki (Ring ni Kakero)
- Kappei Yamaguchi – Nobotta Ōyama (Otoko Oidon)
Media[]
Manga[]
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 |
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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]
References[]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b "Blue Fire 青色火焰". TV Tokyo. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ "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
- ^ 2007年03月08日のアーカイブ. manganohi.jp (in Japanese). March 8, 2007. Archived from the original on December 18, 2007. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
【ヤングサンデー】「今週のヤンサン」更新!2007.3.8 vol.14 . . .BIGゲスト、熱血読切(前編)!カラー特大32P!アオイホノオ島本和彦 ペンに懸けるアツき青春を 完全描破!!! かつてない島本ワールドがここに!!! コイツは絶対見逃せないぜ!!!
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- ^ Jump up to: a b アオイホノオ 24 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on April 25, 2021. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
- ^ アオイホノオ 2 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 31, 2020. Retrieved October 31, 2020.
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- ^ アオイホノオ 12 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 31, 2020. Retrieved October 31, 2020.
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- ^ アオイホノオ 15 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 31, 2020. Retrieved October 31, 2020.
- ^ アオイホノオ 16 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 31, 2020. Retrieved October 31, 2020.
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- ^ "Japanese Comic Ranking, June 10–16". Anime News Network. June 21, 2013. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
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External links[]
- Aoi Honō (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Manga series
- 2007 manga
- Japanese television dramas based on manga
- 2014 Japanese television series debuts
- 2014 Japanese television series endings
- Coming-of-age anime and manga
- Manga adapted into television series
- Seinen manga
- Shogakukan manga
- Shōnen manga
- Television shows written by Yûichi Fukuda
- TV Tokyo original programming
- Winners of the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga