The Full-Time Wife Escapist

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The Full-Time Wife Escapist
Nigeru wa Haji.jpg
Cover of the first volume
逃げるは恥だが役に立つ
(Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu)
Genre
  • Romance
Manga
Written byTsunami Umino
Published byKodansha
English publisherKodansha Comics
MagazineKiss
DemographicJosei
Original runNovember 9, 2012 – April 13, 2020
Volumes11
Television drama
Directed byFuminori Kaneko
Produced byYasuharu Ishii
Nobuhiro Doi
Written byAkiko Nogi
Music byKenichiro Suehiro
MAYUKO
Original networkTBS
Original run October 11, 2016 – December 20, 2016
Episodes11
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The Full-Time Wife Escapist (逃げるは恥だが役に立つ, Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu) is a Japanese romance josei manga series written and illustrated by Tsunami Umino. The original title is from a Hungarian proverb: "Running away is shameful, but useful" (szégyen a futás, de hasznos, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈse̝ːɟɛnɒ ˌfutɑ̈ːʃ dɛ ˈhɒsnoʃ]).[1] It published by Kodansha, with serialization in Kiss magazine since November 9, 2012[2] and eleven volumes released across the whole series timeframe.[3]

The series later got a live-action adaptation that began airing on TBS in October 2016, with Yui Aragaki and Gen Hoshino as the leads.

Characters[]

Mikuri Moriyama (森山 みくり, Moriyama Mikuri)
Portrayed by: Yui Aragaki
The 25-year-old protagonist. A graduate student who was recently fired from her temporary job. Mikuri studied psychology in graduate school and is a licensed clinical psychologist, and often internally psycho-analyzes Hiramasa. After losing her temp job, she is given the chance to become a housekeeper at Hiramasa's home, desperate for any source of income. After learning that her parents were about to move to the countryside when her father retires, she enters a contract marriage with Hiramasa, allowing her a place to live and a stable source of employment.
Hiramasa Tsuzaki (津崎 平匡, Tsuzaki Hiramasa)
Portrayed by: Gen Hoshino
The 36-year-old male lead. A salaryman of who is one of the top workers in his company. Despite being 36, he is still a virgin and calls himself a "professional bachelor". He enters a contract common law marriage with Mikuri because he thinks it will be useful to have someone live with him who can take care of him if need be. Fairly quickly after marrying Mikuri, he begins to have feelings and desires for her, which he tries to suppress. Mikuri speculates that Hiramasa struggles with hypervigilant narcissism, as he completely avoids any situation that may interrupt his way of life or self image.
Ryota Kazami (風見涼太, Kazami Ryota)
Portrayed by: Ryohei Otani
Hiramasa's coworker. He is 27 and often wonders if marriage is a good thing, and breaks up with his girlfriend in the first volume after she wants marriage and he does not. He later moves into the same neighborhood as Mikuri's aunt Yuri.
Yuri Tsuchiya (土屋百合, Tsuchiya Yuri)
Portrayed by: Yuriko Ishida
Mikuri's 52-year-old aunt who insists Mikuri calls her by her first name and not as "Aunt." She is single and has never married, and mentions that she made it to menopause a virgin. Yuri is shown to be a career woman with a good amount of wealth, but laments that she should have gotten married when she was younger even if it would end in divorce. She sees Kazami break up with his girlfriend at the restaurant and holds resentment towards him.
Numata (沼田, Numata)
Portrayed by: Arata Furuta
Hiramasa's gay coworker who socializes with him and Kazami. When he is first invited to Hiramasa and Mikuri's apartment, he shows his skills as a great cook. He catches on early that Hiramasa and Mikuri are not a real couple, but fantasizes that Hiramasa married Mikuri to hide that he is in a relationship with Kazami, which is untrue.
Hideshi Hino (日野秀司, Hino Hideshi)
Portrayed by: Takashi Fujii
Another of Hiramasa's coworkers, he is a typical married man with kids.

Volumes[]

No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 13 June 2013 (2013-06-13)[4]978-4-06-340911-628 February 2017 (2017-02-28)[5]—
2 11 October 2013[6]978-4-06-340920-825 April 2017 (2017-04-25)[7]—
3 13 February 2014[8]978-4-06-340924-623 May 2017 (2017-05-23)[9]—
4 10 October 2014[10]978-4-06-340936-911 July 2017 (2017-07-11)[11]—
5 13 April 2015[12]978-4-06-340954-38 August 2017 (2017-08-08)[13]—
6 25 October 2015[14]978-4-06-340968-07 November 2017 (2017-11-07)[15]—
7 13 June 2016[16]978-4-06-340984-05 December 2017 (2017-12-05)[17]—
8 13 October 2016[18]978-4-06-340998-726 December 2017 (2017-12-26)[19]—
9 13 March 2017[20]978-4-06-398013-4 (regular edition)
ISBN 978-4-06-362356-7 (special edition released on the same day)		30 January 2018 (2018-01-30)[21]—
10 9 August 2019[22]978-4-06-516720-5TBA—
11 13 April 2020[23]978-4-06-519231-3TBA—

Reception[]

Volume 5 reached the 47th place on the weekly Oricon manga charts and, as of April 19, 2015, had sold 20,288 copies.[24]

The series won the award for Best Shōjo Manga at the 39th Kodansha Manga Awards.[25]

The television drama was very popular[26] and the ending theme Koi (恋) by Gen Hoshino featuring the cast dancing the Koi Dance ("love dance") became a craze in Japan.[27] The music video for the song currently has over 200 million views on YouTube.[28]

References[]

  1. ^ "逃げるは恥だが役に立つ（６）". kc.kodansha.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  2. ^ "海野つなみ新連載「逃げるは恥だが役に立つ」Kissで開幕". Natalie (in Japanese). November 9, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
  3. ^ "Nigeru ha Hachida ga Yakunitatsu vo". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved December 1, 2017.
  4. ^ "逃げるは恥だが役に立つ（１）". kc.kodansha.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved May 12, 2015.
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  22. ^ "逃げるは恥だが役に立つ".
  23. ^ "逃げるは恥だが役に立つ".
  24. ^ "Japanese Comic Ranking, April 13–19". Anime News Network. April 22, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
  25. ^ "Yowamushi Pedal, The Seven Deadly Sins Win 39th Kondansha Manga Awards". Anime News Network. May 12, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
  26. ^ "Overall rating of popular TV drama 'Nigehaji' hits 30%". Mainichi. The Mainichi Newspapers Co., Ltd. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  27. ^ "New 'Love Dance' takes Japan by storm, thanks to a Japanese drama and a handsome J-Pop star". Japan Today. GPlus Media Co. Ltd. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  28. ^ hoshinogen official channel (Sep 20, 2016). "星野源 - 恋【MV & Trailer】/ Gen Hoshino - Koi". Gen Hoshino. YouTube. Retrieved December 17, 2018.

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