is a Japanese

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series written and illustrated by

Rieko Saibara is a Japanese manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1988 with , serialized in ''Weekly Young Sunday''. In 1989, she graduated from the Department of Visual Communication Design at Musashino Art University. Saibara has received numer ...

, based on her experiences as a housewife and mother. It was serialized on a weekly basis in the newspaper's morning edition from October 2002 to 26 June 2017. The manga was later collected into 14 volumes. It won several awards, including the Excellence Award at the 8th

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in 2004, the Short Story Award at the

Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Named after Osamu Tezuka, the is a yearly manga prize awarded to manga artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by Asahi Shimbun. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in Tokyo, Japan. Current ...

s in 2005, and the President of the House of Councilors Award at the 40th Japan Cartoonist Awards in 2011. was adapted into an

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television series directed by

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that aired on

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from 1 April 2009 to 25 March 2012. Spanning 142 episodes, the anime was licensed in English under the title '': Mom's Life'' on

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's video streaming website. was also adapted into a

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film directed by Shōtarō Kobayashi, released in theaters in Japan on 5 February 2011. The film starred the real-life divorced couple

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and

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as the titular and her husband. It won the Best Film for Asian New Talent Award at the 14th

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in 2011. Additionally, Koizumi won the Best Actress Award at the 66th Mainichi Film Awards in 2012 and Nagase won the Best Actor Award at the 20th

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Official manga website

Official anime website
(defunct; link via the Wayback Machine)
Official film website
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