Kōnodori

Kōnodori
Cover of the first volume
コウノドリ
Manga
Written by	Yū Suzunoki
Published by	Kodansha
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Weekly Morning
Original run	June 21, 2013 (volume 1) – present
Volumes	14
Television drama
Directed by	Nobuhiro Doi Fuminori Kaneko
Written by	Mutsumi Yamamoto
Network	TBS
Original run	October 16, 2015 – December 18, 2015
Episodes	10

Kōnodori (コウノドリ) is an ongoing Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Yū Suzunoki. It is serialized in Weekly Morning magazine and published by Kodansha.^[1] It has 14 volumes compiling the chapters released as of June 2016. The manga won Best General Manga at the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards.

A TV Drama adaptation aired on the Tokyo Broadcasting System from October 16, to December 18, 2015.^[2]

Characters

• Sakura Kōnotori^[1] (played by Gou Ayano)
• Kae Shimoya (played by Mayu Matsuoka)
• Rumiko Komatsu (played by Yō Yoshida)
• Ryo Shirakawa (played by Kentaro Sakaguchi)
• Hiroshi Kase (played by Yusuke Hirayama)
• Mayumi Kadota (played by Nana Seino)
• Takuya Funakoshi (played by Akinaga Toyomoto)
• Director Osawa (played by Kazuyuki Asano)
• Sachiko Mukai (played by Noriko Eguchi)
• Megumi Arai (played by Sayaka Yamaguchi)
• Haruki Shinomiya (played by Gen Hoshino)
• Takayuki Imahashi (played by Nao Ōmori)
• Hiroyuki Nagai (played by Shun Oguri)

Volumes

• 1 (June 21, 2013)^[3]
• 2 (September 20, 2013)^[3]
• 3 (December 20, 2013)^[3]
• 4 (March 20, 2014)^[3]
• 5 (June 23, 2014)^[3]
• 6 (September 22, 2014)^[3]
• 7 (December 22, 2014)^[3]
• 8 (March 23, 2015)^[3]
• 9 (June 23, 2015)^[3]
• 10 (September 23, 2015)^[3]
• 11 (October 23, 2015)^[3]
• 12 (November 23, 2015)^[3]
• 13 (March 23, 2016)^[3]

Reception

Volume 6 reached the 22nd place on the weekly Oricon manga charts and, as of September 28, 2014, had sold 43,198 copies;^[4] volume 7 reached the 31st place and, as of December 28, 2014, had sold 47,885 copies;^[5] volume 8 reached the 15th place and, as of March 29, 2015, had sold 48,477 copies.^[6]

The manga won Best General Manga at the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards.^[7] It was number 35 on the 15th Book of the Year list by Da Vinci magazine in 2014.^[8] It was also nominated for Best General Manga at the 39th Kodansha Manga Awards.^[1]

References

External links

• Kōnodori on morning.moae.jp (Japanese)