Aoi Honō

Aoi Honō (アオイホノオ, lit. "Blue Blazes") is a Japanese coming-of-age manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Shimamoto. It is a fictionalized account of his time as a student at the Osaka University of Arts, which he attended alongside Hideaki Anno, Hiroyuki Yamaga, and Takami Akai. It is adapted into a Japanese television drama that aired in July 2014.

Cast

• YÅ«ya Yagira - Moyuru Honō
• Ken Yasuda - Hideaki Anno
• Tsuyoshi Muro - Hiroyuki Yamaga
• Tomoya Nakamura - Takami Akai
• Mizuki Yamamoto - Tonko Morinaga
• Yuina Kuroshima - Hiromi Tsuda
• Kaname Endō - Masahiko Minami
• Gaku Hamada - Toshio Okada
• Kenji Urai - Kentarō Yano
• Yui Ichikawa - Jun Iwase
• Haruna Kojima - Masumi
• Seika Taketomi - Miyuki
• Jirō Satō - MAD Holy
• Toshio Okada - Osamu Tezuka

Voice

• Tōru Furuya - Narrator and Katsuya Niimi (Nine)
• Hiromi Tsuru - Yuri Nakao (Nine)
• Makio Inoue - Captain Harlock (Space Pirate Captain Harlock)
• Masako Nozawa - Tetsuro (Galaxy Express 999)
• Masako Ikeda - Maetel (Galaxy Express 999)
• Teruhiko Aoi - Jō Yabuki (Ashita no Joe)
• Hiroko Ushida - Yōko Shiraki (Ashita no Joe)
• Kōichi Yamadera - Captain Juzo Okita, Susumu Kodai and Ryu Hijikata (Space Battleship Yamato)
• Katsumi Toriumi - Masato Wakamatsu (Miyuki)
• Ryōtarō Okiayu - Jun Kenzaki (Ring ni Kakero)
• Kappei Yamaguchi - Nobotta ÅŒyama (Otoko Oidon)

Reception

It received 23 points in the 3rd Manga Taishō, placing last among the ten nominees.

In February 2015, Asahi Shimbun announced that Aoi Honō was one of nine nominees for the nineteenth annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Sales

Volume 2 sold 24,521 copies by 17 May 2009, volume 9 sold 20,415 copies by 18 November 2012, and volume 10 sold 17,068 copies by 16 June 2013.

References

External links

• Aoi Honō (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia