Joshiraku

Joshiraku
Cover of the first manga volume
じょしらく
(Joshiraku)
GenreComedy[1]
Manga
Written byKōji Kumeta
Illustrated byYasu
Published byKodansha
ImprintWide KC
MagazineBessatsu Shōnen Magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runSeptember 9, 2009September 9, 2013
Volumes6
Anime television series
Directed byTsutomu Mizushima
Written byMichiko Yokote
Music byMasaru Yokoyama
StudioJ.C.Staff
Licensed by
Original networkMBS, TBS, CBC, BS-TBS
Original run July 5, 2012 September 28, 2012
Episodes13 (List of episodes)
Original animation DVD
Directed byTsutomu Mizushima
Written byMichiko Yokote
Music byMasaru Yokoyama
StudioJ.C.Staff
ReleasedFebruary 8, 2013

Joshiraku (Japanese: じょしらく, lit. "Rakugo Girls") is a Japanese comedy manga series written by Kōji Kumeta and illustrated by Yasu, telling the everyday lives of five young female rakugo comedians. It was serialised in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from September 2009 to September 2013 and the chapters compiled into six tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation animated by J.C.Staff aired in Japan between July and September 2012, with an original video animation episode released in February 2013.

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