is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sho Kitagawa. It was serialized in

Shueisha (lit. "Gathering of Intellect Publishing Co., Ltd.") is a Japanese company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company was established in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The foll ...

's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''

Weekly Young Jump is a Japanese ''seinen'' manga magazine published by Shueisha. Launched in 1979, it is published under Shueisha's ''Jump'' line of magazines. The chapters of series that run in ''Weekly Young Jump'' are collected and published in ''tankōbon'' v ...

'' from 1997 to 2000, with its chapters collected in 15 ''

tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or ...

'' volumes. It was adapted into a two-season

television drama In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super- ...

broadcast on TBS; the first one was broadcast from April to June 2003, and the second one from October to December 2004.

Plot

The series follows (portrayed by

Takashi Sorimachi is a Japanese actor and singer. He is mostly famous for having portrayed Eikichi Onizuka in the 1998 live-action drama adaptation of the popular manga series ''Great Teacher Onizuka'', and the assassin O in Hong Kong action film '' Fulltime Kil ...

), an ex-delinquent and currently a school art teacher who takes care of his 5-year-old daughter, (portrayed by Nana Yamauchi), of whom he has no idea who her mother is. He also lives with his four siblings whose fathers are all different. Enzo's daughter suffers from severe atopic dermatitis, so he throws himself into managing her diet to alleviate her condition. Enzo pursues life passionately for his little girl and his family. This is a story about how desperately Enzo tries to hold his family together in spite of all the hardships.

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by , ''Hotman'' was serialized in

's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''

'' from 1997 to 2000. Shueisha collected its chapters in fifteen ''

'' volumes, released from June 19, 1997, to October 19, 2000; an additional volume, ''Hotman 2003'', was released on June 20, 2003.

Drama

The manga was adapted into a

which was broadcast for two seasons on TBS. The first season was broadcast from April 10 to June 19, 2003; the second season, ''Hotman 2'', was broadcast from October 7 to December 23, 2004.

References

External links

* * * {{Weekly Young Jump - 1979–1999 Drama anime and manga Seinen manga Shueisha manga Shueisha franchises TBS Television (Japan) dramas