is a Japanese

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series written and illustrated by

Kazuhiro Fujita is a Japanese manga artist. He graduated from Nihon University. He made his professional manga debut in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' in 1989. He is most famous for the manga ''Ushio & Tora'', for which he won Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1 ...

and published by

Shogakukan is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, comics (manga), non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan. Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hit ...

. The first collection, ''Yoru no Uta'', contains five stories and was released in July 1995. The second collection, ''Akatsuki no Uta'', contains four stories and was released in February 2004. An

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(OVA) adaptation of the story "Puppet Princess", from ''Yoru no Uta'', was produced by

TMS Entertainment , formerly known as the , also known as or , is a Japanese animation studio established on October 22, 1946. TMS is one of the oldest and most famous anime studios in Japan, best known for numerous anime franchises such as ''Lupin the Third'', ...

and released in March 2000. It has been licensed in North America by

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Publication

The first collected volume, , includes five stories that were published in

's ''

Weekly Shōnen Sunday is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan since March 1959. Contrary to its title, ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' issues are released on Wednesdays. ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' has sold over 1.8billion copies since 1986, ...

'' and '' Shōnen Sunday Zōkan'' between 1988 and 1994. The volume was released on July 18, 1995. The second collected volume, , includes four stories that were published in Shogakukan's ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' and ''

Weekly Young Sunday was a weekly manga magazine published by Shogakukan in Japan since the first issue on March 27, 1987. It replaced ''Shōnen Big Comic'' in Shogakukan's lineup of shōnen titles, and many of the titles in ''Shōnen Big Comic'' were continued in ' ...

'' between 1996 and 2003. It was released on February 18, 2004. Shogakukan re-released the volumes in a '' bunkoban'' edition on April 15 and May 13, 2006.

''Yoru no Uta''

''Akatsuki no Uta''

''Puppet Princess''

, a story included in the ''Yoru no Uta'' collection, was adapted into a 42-minute

(OVA) produced by

and released on March 24, 2000. In North America, the OVA was licensed by

and released on DVD on August 28, 2001. In August 2020, Media Blasters announced that the OVA would be released on

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. It was released on Blu-Ray and DVD on February 23, 2021.

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