is a Japanese
romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...
manga
Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...
series written and illustrated by
Kaneyoshi Izumi
is a Japanese Mangaka, manga artist. Her debut short story, "" ( "Angel"), was published in the September 1995 issue of ''Bessatsu Shōjo Comic'' magazine and won the 36th Shogakukan Comic Award. Izumi also won the Shogakukan Manga Award in t ...
. It was serialized in
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 ...
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Betsucomi
, known as before 2000, is a monthly Japanese manga magazine published by Shogakukan. It was conceived as a or "special issue" of its sister magazine ''Shōjo Comic''. It is released on the 13th of each month.
Serializations
Current
* '' ...
'' magazine from October 2002 to May 2006 and later collected into nine
bound volumes under the Flower Comics imprint.
In 2006, ''Sonnan ja nē yo'' won the 51st
Shogakukan Manga Award
The is one of Japan's major manga awards, and is sponsored by Shogakukan, Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga and features candidates from a number of publishers. It is the oldest manga award in Japan, being ...
in the
''shōjo'' category.
Publication
''Sonnan ja nē yo'' was serialized in
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 ...
's ''
Betsucomi
, known as before 2000, is a monthly Japanese manga magazine published by Shogakukan. It was conceived as a or "special issue" of its sister magazine ''Shōjo Comic''. It is released on the 13th of each month.
Serializations
Current
* '' ...
'' magazine from the November 2002 issue (released in October) to the June 2006 issue (released in May).
Shogakukan collected the individual chapters into nine
bound volumes under the Flower Comics imprint. The first volume was released on March 26, 2003, and the last volume was released on June 26, 2006.
List of volumes
Reception
''Sonnan ja nē yo'' won the 51st
Shogakukan Manga Award
The is one of Japan's major manga awards, and is sponsored by Shogakukan, Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga and features candidates from a number of publishers. It is the oldest manga award in Japan, being ...
in the
''shōjo'' manga category in 2006.
The manga reached a circulation of 1,200,000 copies with six volumes in May of that year.
References
External links
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2002 manga
Romantic comedy anime and manga
Shogakukan manga
Shōjo manga
Winners of the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga
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