Tokyo Tarareba Girls

Tokyo Tarareba Girls (Japanese: 東京タラレバ娘, Hepburn: Tōkyō Tarareba Musume, lit. "Tokyo 'What If' Girls") is a Japanese josei manga series written and illustrated by Akiko Higashimura. It was serialized in Kodansha's Kiss magazine from March 2014 to April 2017 and later collected in nine bound volumes. It is licensed for an English-language release by Kodansha USA. The manga won the Eisner Award for "Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia" in 2019.

Tokyo Tarareba Girls
Cover of the first tankōbon volume
東京タラレバ娘
(Tōkyō Tarareba Musume)
GenreComedy, Romance[1]
Manga
Written byAkiko Higashimura
Published byKodansha
English publisher
MagazineKiss
DemographicJosei
Original runMarch 24, 2014 – April 25, 2017
Volumes9
Television drama
Produced byMasatoshi Kato
Written byYūko Matsuda
Music byYūgo Kanno
Original networkNippon TV
Original run January 18, 2017 – March 22, 2017
Episodes10
Manga
Tokyo Tarareba Girls Extra Edition: Tarare Bar
Written byAkiko Higashimura
Published byKodansha
MagazineKiss
DemographicJosei
Original runOctober 25, 2017 – December 25, 2018
Volumes1
Manga
Tokyo Tarareba Girls Returns
Written byAkiko Higashimura
Published byKodansha
English publisher
Kodansha USA
MagazineKiss
DemographicJosei
Original runOctober 25, 2018 – December 25, 2018
Volumes1

A 10-episode Japanese television drama series adaptation was broadcast on Nippon TV from January to March 2017. The manga also inspired three spin-off manga series written and illustrated by Higashimura and serialized in Kiss magazine: Tarare Bar in 2017, Tokyo Tarareba Girls Returns in 2018, and Tokyo Tarareba Girls Season 2 in 2019. The second spin-off, Tokyo Tarareba Girls Returns, is licensed for an English-language release by Kodansha USA.

Plot

Rinko, a screenwriter living in Tokyo, remains unmarried at 33-years-old. She has not been satisfied in love or at work and often goes out drinking with Kaori and Koyuki, her best friends since high school. One day, while the three women are dining and drinking at an izakaya as usual, complaining about the men they have dated, a mysterious and handsome young man with blond hair named Key tells them that they remain unmarried because they are always talking about "If I had done..." or "If he had been...". After hearing this, Rinko makes up her mind to get married by 2020, the year of the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Characters
Rinko Kamata (鎌田 倫子, Kamata Rinko)
Portrayed by: Yuriko Yoshitaka[2]
Kaori Yamakawa (山川 香)
Portrayed by: Nana Eikura[3]
Koyuki Torii (鳥居 小雪)
Portrayed by: Yuko Oshima[3]
Key (キー) / Haruki Kagitani (鍵谷春樹)
Portrayed by: Kentaro Sakaguchi[3]
Tetsuro Hayasaka (早坂 哲郎)
Portrayed by: Ryohei Suzuki[3]
Ryo Samejima (鮫島 涼)
Portrayed by: Yūta Hiraoka[3]
Mami Shibata (芝田 マミ)
Portrayed by: Ren Ishikawa[3]
Yasuo Torii (鳥居 安男)
Portrayed by: Akio Kaneda[3]
Yoshio Marui (丸井 良男)
Portrayed by: Kei Tanaka[3]
Tara (タラ)
Voiced by: Ryō Katō[3]
Reba (レバ)
Voiced by: Ayaka Nishiwaki[3]

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Akiko Higashimura, Tokyo Tarareba Girls was serialized in Kodansha's josei manga magazine Kiss from the May 2014 issue (released on March 24, 2014) to the June 2017 issue (released on April 25, 2017).[4][5] Kodansha collected and published the individual chapters in nine tankōbon volumes from September 2014 to July 2017.[6][7]

Kodansha USA licensed the manga for an English-language release in North America. It was first released digitally in February 2017,[8] and later in print from June 2018 to October 2019.[9][10]

No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 September 12, 2014[6]978-4-06-340935-2June 26, 2018[11]978-1-63236-685-6
2 May 13, 2015[12]978-4-06-340956-7August 7, 2018[13]978-1-63236-686-3
3 August 12, 2015[14]978-4-06-340964-2October 16, 2018[15]978-1-63236-687-0
4 December 11, 2015[16]978-4-06-340974-1December 31, 2018[17]978-1-63236-688-7
5 May 13, 2016[18]978-4-06-340988-8February 12, 2019[19]978-1-63236-735-8
6 September 13, 2016[20]978-4-06-340997-0April 9, 2019[21]978-1-63236-736-5
7 January 13, 2017[22]978-4-06-398007-3June 25, 2019[23]978-1-63236-800-3
8 April 13, 2017[24]978-4-06-398017-2August 6, 2019[25]978-1-63236-801-0
9 July 13, 2017[7]978-4-06-398024-0October 15, 2019[26]978-1-63236-857-7

Spin-offs

Tokyo Tarareba Girls inspired three spin-off manga series, also written and illustrated by Akiko Higashimura.

The first manga series, titled Tokyo Tarareba Girls Extra Edition: Tarare Bar (東京タラレバ娘番外編 タラレBar, Tōkyō Tarareba Musume Bangai-hen: Tarare Bar), features Tara and Reba—the talking codfish milt and liver mascots from Rinko's fantasies—running a bar and giving relationship advice in response to reader-submitted questions. It was serialized in Kodansha's josei manga magazine Kiss from the December 2017 issue (released on October 25, 2017) to the February 2019 issue (released on December 25, 2018).[27] Kodansha collected and published the 10 chapters in a single tankōbon volume on March 13, 2019.[28][29]

The second manga series, titled Tokyo Tarareba Girls Returns (東京タラレバ娘 リターンズ, Tōkyō Tarareba Musume Ritānzu), follows the lives of Rinko, Kaori, and Koyuki after the events of Tokyo Tarareba Girls. It was serialized in Kiss from the December 2018 issue (released on October 25, 2018) to the February 2019 issue (released on December 25, 2018).[30][31] Kodansha collected and published the three chapters in a single tankōbon volume on March 13, 2019.[28][32] At their 2019 Anime NYC panel, Kodansha USA announced they licensed the series for an English-language release, available digitally on December 24, 2019.[33]

The third manga series, titled Tokyo Tarareba Girls Season 2 (東京タラレバ娘 シーズン2, Tōkyō Tarareba Musume Shīzun 2), follows a new cast of characters and is centered around 30-year-old Reina Hirota, a single, part-time librarian who lives with her parents. It began serialization in Kiss in the June 2019 issue (released April 25, 2019), with serialization on-going.[34][35] Kodansha published the first tankōbon volume on October 11, 2019.[36][37]

Live-action

A 10-episode Japanese television drama series adaptation of Tokyo Tarareba Girls was broadcast on Nippon TV from January 18 to March 22, 2017.[2][38] It starred Yuriko Yoshitaka as Rinko, Nana Eikura as Kaori, Yuko Oshima as Koyuki, and Kentaro Sakaguchi as Key.[3] Its opening theme song was "Tokyo Girl" by J-pop girl group Perfume.[39] The series was released on DVD and Blu-ray in Japan on August 2, 2017.[40]

Reception

Volume 2 of Tokyo Tarareba Girls reached the 5th place on the weekly Oricon manga chart[41] and, as of May 24, 2015, had sold 95,639 copies;[42] volume 3 reached the 17th place on the chart[43] and, as of August 23, 2015, had sold 110,632 copies;[44] volume 4 reached the 12th place[45] and, as of December 20, 2015, had sold 114,433 copies;[46] volume 5 reached the 6th place[47] and, as of May 29, 2015, had sold 157,244 copies;[48] volume 6 reached the 4th place and, as of September 18, 2016, had sold 112,865 copies;[49] volume 7 reached the 1st place and, as of January 21, 2017, had sold 73,574 copies.[50]

The series ranked number two on the 2015 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Top 20 Manga for Female Readers survey,[51] and was again number two on the same list the following year.[52] Kadokawa Media Factory's book and manga news magazine Da Vinci ranked the series number 19 on its 2017 "Book of the Year" list.[53]

Tokyo Tarareba Girls was nominated for the 9th Manga Taishō in 2016,[54] finishing in ninth place with 29 points.[55] It was also nominated for Best General Manga at the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.[56] The manga won an Eisner Award in the category "Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia" in 2019.[57]

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