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
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 July 11, 2024, 30 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[ 41] 978-4-09-852052-7
29 November 10, 2023[ 42] 978-4-09-853028-1
30 July 11, 2024[ 11] 978-4-09-853510-1
Reception
Volume 2 sold 24,521 copies by May 17, 2009,[ 43] volume 9 sold 20,415 copies by November 18, 2012,[ 44] and volume 10 sold 17,068 copies by June 16, 2013.[ 45]
Aoi Honō was one of the Jury Recommended Works in the Story Manga division at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2009.[ 46] In 2010, the manga received 23 points in the 3rd Manga Taishō , placing last among the ten nominees.[ 47] The manga received Excellence Award of the Manga Division at the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2014.[ 48] [ 49] In 2015, along with Asahinagu , it won the 60th Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category.[ 50] In February 2015, Asahi Shimbun announced that Aoi Honō was one of nine nominees for the nineteenth annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize .[ 51]
Notes
^ Only the first volume was published under the Young Sunday Comics imprint.
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