Tokyo Tarareba Musume

Tokyo Tarareba Musume
Cover of volume 1.
東京タラレバ娘
Genre	comedy, romance
Manga
Written by	Akiko Higashimura
Published by	Kodansha
Demographic	josei
Magazine	Kiss
Original run	March 24, 2014 – present
Volumes	6
Television drama
Produced by	Masatoshi Kato[1]
Written by	Yūko Matsuda[1]
Network	NTV
Original run	January 2017 – scheduled

Tokyo Tarareba Musume (東京タラレバ娘) is an ongoing Japanese romance comedy manga series written and illustrated by Akiko Higashimura and published by Kodansha since March 24, 2014, with serialization on the josei manga magazine Kiss, and with the chapters compiled into six tankōbon volumes so far.^[1][2][3] A Japanese television drama series adaptation is scheduled to be broadcast on NTV starting in January 2017.^[1]

Characters

• Kaori^[4] played by Nana Eikura in the television series
• Rinko,^[4] played by Yuriko Yoshitaka in the television series^[1]
• Koyuki^[4]played by Yuko Oshima in the television series

Volumes

• 1 (September 12, 2014)^[5]
• 2 (May 13, 2015)^[6]
• 3 (August 12, 2015)^[7]
• 4 (December 11, 2015)^[8]
• 5 (May 13, 2016)^[9]
• 6 (September 13, 2016)^[10]

Reception

Volume 2 reached the 5th place on the weekly Oricon manga chart^[11] and, as of May 24, 2015, had sold 95,639 copies;^[12] volume 3 reached the 17th place on the chart^[13] and, as of August 23, 2015, had sold 110,632 copies;^[14] volume 4 reached the 12th place^[15] and, as of December 20, 2015, had sold 114,433 copies;^[16] volume 5 reached the 6th place^[17] and, as of May 29, 2015, had sold 157,244 copies;^[18] volume 6 reached the 4th place and, as of September 18, 2016, had sold 112,865 copies.^[19]

The manga was number two on the 2015 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Top 20 Manga for Female Readers survey,^[20] and was again number two on the same list the following year.^[21] It was nominated for the 9th Manga Taishō,^[22] finishing in ninth place with 29 points.^[23] It was also nominated for Best General Manga at the 40th Kodansha Manga Award.^[4]

References

External links

• Official website (Japanese)
• Tokyo Tarareba Musume (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia