is the title of a series of unrelated short

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collections by

Mitsuru Adachi is a Japanese manga artist. After graduating from Gunma Prefectural Maebashi Commercial High School in 1969, Adachi worked as an assistant for Isami Ishii. He made his manga debut in 1970 with ''Kieta Bakuon'', based on a manga originally crea ...

. Four volumes compile stories selected from shōjo, shōnen,

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and

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works released from 1985 until 2009.

Volumes

Short Program

The first collection, titled simply ''Short Program'', collected stories published between 1985 and 1988. In

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published this in November 1988. In the

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published this collection in March 2000. The chapters are arranged differently from the Japanese release, for unknown reasons. As was customary with most manga published in the US at the time, the pages were 'flipped' so that they read left to right, rather than right to left as originally drawn. It is also printed at a larger paper size than the now-standard manga size.

Short Program 2

The second collection, titled ''Short Program 2'', collected stories published between 1988 and 1995. In Japan, Shogakukan published this in June 1996. In the United States, Viz Media published this collection in April 2004. Unlike the first volume, this collection was published right to left, in the now-standard paper size for manga.

Short Program 3

This volume was published in July 2007 in Japan.

Short Program: Girl's Type

This volume was published 11 May 2009 in Japan.

Reception

The ''

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's'' Jamie Rich called the first volume of ''Short Program'' "solid, escapist entertainment" and "as irresistibly infatuating as comic books can get." He described the worlds created by Adachi as "ageless", describing his style as having "crisp, delicate

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and having a "genuine sweetness".

Adaptation

A live-action series with the same name based on the manga was announced on December 13, 2021. The adaptation is produced by Atmovie Inc. and

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as an 11-episodes

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television drama, with the members of boy group

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alternately playing the male protagonist in each episode. It was premiered on

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starting March 1, 2022.

References

External links

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- Listing of Mitsuru Adachi's short stories * * {{Weekly Young Sunday 1988 manga 1996 manga 2007 manga Manga anthologies Mitsuru Adachi Shogakukan manga Viz Media manga