Asahinagu

Asahinagu
The first volume of Asahinagu
あさひなぐ
Genre	Slice of life, sports
Manga
Written by	Ai Kozaki
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Big Comic Spirits
Original run	2011 – present
Volumes	20

Asahinagu (あさひなぐ) is an ongoing Japanese slice of life sports seinen manga series written and illustrated by Ai Kozaki. Published by Shogakukan, it is serialized on Big Comic Spirits magazine and has been compiled into twenty volumes.^[1] It revolves around a naginata club.

Characters

• Asahi Tōjima^[2]
• Maharu Miyaji^[2]
• Shōko Yasomura^[2]
• Sakura Konno^[2]

Volumes

• 1 (April 28, 2011)^[3]
• 2 (July 29, 2011)^[4]
• 3 (October 28, 2011)^[5]
• 4 (February 29, 2012)^[6]
• 5 (May 30, 2012)^[7]
• 6 (August 30, 2012)^[8]
• 7 (November 30, 2012)^[9]
• 8 (March 29, 2013)^[10]
• 9 (July 30, 2013)^[11]
• 10 (November 29, 2013)^[12]
• 11 (March 28, 2014)^[13]
• 12 (July 30, 2014)^[14]
• 13 (October 30, 2014)^[15]
• 14 (February 27, 2015)^[16]
• 15 (May 29, 2015)^[17]
• 16 (August 28, 2015)^[18]
• 17 (November 30, 2015)^[19]
• 18 (February 29, 2016)^[20]
• 19 (May 30, 2016)^[21]
• 20 (August 30, 2016)^[22]

Reception

Volume 5 reached the 26th place on the weekly Oricon manga charts and, as of June 3, 2012, has sold 22,686 copies;^[23] volume 6 reached the 29th place and, as of September 2, 2012, has sold 23,253 copies;^[24] volume 9 reached the 45th place and, as of August 4, 2013, has sold 27,893 copies;^[25] volume 10 reached the 39th place and, as of December 1, 2013, has sold 19,230 copies^[26] and volume 12 reached the 37th place and, as of August 3, 2014, has sold 23,263 copies.^[27]

It was number 17 on the 2012 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Top 20 Manga for Male Readers survey^[28] and it won the award for Best General Manga at the 60th Shogakukan Manga Awards.^[2]

References

External links

• Asahinagu (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia