Sket Dance

Sket Dance
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Himeko (left), Bossun (center), and Switch (right)
Genre	Comedy[1][2] Slice of life[3]
Manga
Written by	Kenta Shinohara
Published by	Shueisha
Imprint	Jump Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Jump
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	July 14, 2007 – July 8, 2013
Volumes	32 (List of volumes)
Light novel
SKET DANCE - Extra Dance
Written by	Sawako Hirabayashi
Illustrated by	Kenta Shinohara
Published by	Shueisha
Imprint	Jump j-Books
Demographic	Male
Original run	November 4, 2009 – July 2, 2010
Volumes	2
Anime television series
Directed by	Keiichiro Kawaguchi
Produced by	Ken Yoda
Music by	Shuhei Naruse
Studio	Tatsunoko Production
Original network	TXN (TV Tokyo)
English network	SEA: Animax Asia
Original run	April 7, 2011 – September 27, 2012
Episodes	77 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Sket Dance OVA
Directed by	Keiichiro Kawaguchi
Studio	Tatsunoko Production
Released	February 4, 2013
Runtime	27 minutes
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Sket Dance (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kenta Shinohara. The manga follows the adventures of the Sket-dan, a high school club whose goal it is to help the students and teachers of Kaimei High School with their problems, as they do whatever it takes to help make their campus a better place. The story is mainly told in the perspective of the Sket-dan's three members: Bossun, the leader of the group; Himeko, the "muscle" and the only female in the group; and Switch, the otaku and the "brains" of the group. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from July 2007 to July 2013, with its chapters collected in 32 tankōbon volumes.

The manga was adapted into an anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Production, and was broadcast on TV Tokyo from April 2011 to September 2012, airing 77 episodes. In 2009, Sket Dance won the 55th annual Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.