Aoi Honō

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]

Aoi Honō
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Moyuru Honō
アオイホノオ
GenreComing-of-age[1]
Manga
Written byKazuhiko Shimamoto
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics Special[lower-alpha 1]
Magazine
DemographicSeinen, shōnen
Original runMarch 8, 2007 – present
Volumes28
Television drama
Blue Fire
Directed byYuichi Fukuda
Produced byJunpei Nakagawa
Written byYuichi Fukuda
Music byEishi Segawa
StudioTV Tokyo
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run July 19, 2014 – September 27, 2014
Episodes11

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

Media

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 May 12, 2023, 28 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[11]978-4-09-852052-7

Reception

Volume 2 sold 24,521 copies by May 17, 2009,[41] volume 9 sold 20,415 copies by November 18, 2012,[42] and volume 10 sold 17,068 copies by June 16, 2013.[43]

Aoi Honō was one of the Jury Recommended Works in the Story Manga division at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2009.[44] In 2010, the manga received 23 points in the 3rd Manga Taishō, placing last among the ten nominees.[45] The manga received Excellence Award of the Manga Division at the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2014.[46][47] In 2015, along with Asahinagu, it won the 60th Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category.[48] In February 2015, Asahi Shimbun announced that Aoi Honō was one of nine nominees for the nineteenth annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.[49]

Notes
  1. Only the first volume was published under the Young Sunday Comics imprint.

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