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Kimagure Orange Road (Japanese: きまぐれオレンジ☆ロード, Hepburn: Kimagure Orenji Rōdo, "Capricious Orange Road")[1] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Izumi Matsumoto
It was serialized in the shōnen manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump from issue No. 15 on March 26, 1984, to No. 42 on September 28, 1987.[2][3] The 156 individual chapters were collected in 18 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha from September 10, 1985, through August 4, 1995. The series was republished in a 10 volume aizōban edition, and a 10 volume bunkoban edition. A special chapter, "Panic in the Bathhouse!", was created for Matsumoto's Comic On CD-ROM manga series and published in Super Jump issue No. 10 of 1996.[4] A second special was published in Weekly Playboy issue No. 44 of 1999.
In March 2013, Hivelinx released the manga first volume in English as an e-book for NTT Solmare's Facebook app "ComicFriends," and for Amazon Kindle and Apple iBooks.[5] In March 2014, Digital Manga Guild acquired its rights and released Kimagure Orange Road through its eManga website.[6] The series was expanded to 20 volumes for the English digital release.[7] The manga was crowdfunded for a six volume omnibus print edition with a new translation, and reached its goal as of May 5, 2016. All six omnibus volumes, published under the Platinum Manga imprint of Digital Manga Publishing, were made available for purchase exclusively on eManga's website and Amazon on starting December 2016.
References
edit- ^ Gilson, Che (2014-12-03). "Manga Review: Kimagure Orange Road". Otaku USA. Sovereign Media. Archived from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ 週刊少年ジャンプ 1984/03/26 表示号数15. Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on 2017-02-23. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
- ^ 週刊少年ジャンプ 1987/09/28 表示号数42. Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on 2017-02-23. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
- ^ "Kimagure Orange Road Manga to Return in One-Shot Story". Anime News Network. 2009-04-08. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
- ^ "Kimagure Orange Road Manga Posted in English on Kindle". Anime News Network. March 1, 2013. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
- ^ "Digital Manga Adds Sweet Blue Flowers, Kimagure Orange Road, Asobi ni Ikuyo! on eManga". Anime News Network. March 27, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
- ^ ""Kimagure Orange Road" - eManga". emanga.com. Retrieved 5 September 2016.