Lovely Muco

Lovely Muco
Cover of the first manga volume
いとしのムーコ
(Itoshi no Mūko)
Genre
Manga
Written byTakayuki Mizushina
Published byKodansha
English publisher
ImprintEvening KC
MagazineEvening
DemographicSeinen
Original run12 April 2011 – 23 September 2020
Volumes17
Anime television series
Lovely Movie: Lovely Muuuuuuuco!
Directed byTakenori Mihara
StudioDoga Kobo
Original networkFuji TV
Original run 29 July 2013 – 23 December 2013
Episodes21
Anime television series
Lovely Movie: Lovely Muuuuuuuco! Season 2
Directed byTakenori Mihara
StudioDoga Kobo
Original networkBS Fuji[3]
Original run 27 April 2014 – 5 October 2014
Episodes22
Anime television series
Directed byRomanov Higa
StudioDLE
Original networkTV Tokyo[4]
Original run 3 October 2015 – 26 March 2016
Episodes25
Manga
Daisuki! Itoshi no Muco
Written byTakayuki Mizushina
Published byKodansha
ImprintEvening KC
MagazineComic Days
DemographicSeinen
Original run10 September 2023 – present

Lovely Muco (Japanese: いとしのムーコ, Hepburn: Itoshi no Mūko) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takayuki Mizushina. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Evening from April 2011 to September 2020, with its chapters collected in 17 tankōbon volumes. It tells the story of Muco, the Shiba Inu of glassblower Komatsu-san.[5]

  1. ^ Lovely Muco!. Kodansha USA. Archived from the original on 31 May 2023. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  2. ^ Alverson, Brigid (6 July 2022). "Kodansha Announces New Manga Licenses at Anime Expo". ICv2. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  3. ^ "ラブリームービー いとしのムーコ シーズン2" (in Japanese). Fuji Television On Demand. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  4. ^ テレビ東京・あにてれ いとしのムーコ (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. Archived from the original on 3 August 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  5. ^ 秋田・ガラス作家の愛犬モデルの漫画「いとしのムーコ」、コミック誌に連載へ [Dog model of Akita-glass artist cartoon "beloved of Muko", to serialized in comic magazine] (in Japanese). Akita Keizai Shimbun. 7 April 2011. Archived from the original on 1 November 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.