Real (manga)

Real
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Tomomi Nomiya
リアル
(Riaru)
GenreDrama, sports[1]
Manga
Written byTakehiko Inoue
Published byShueisha
English publisher
ImprintYoung Jump Comics
MagazineWeekly Young Jump
DemographicSeinen
Original runOctober 28, 1999 – present
Volumes16

Real (Japanese: リアル, Hepburn: Riaru, stylized as REAL) is a Japanese wheelchair basketball-themed manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. It has been serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump since October 1999, with the chapters collected into 16 tankōbon volumes as of August 2024. The series has been irregularly published in the magazine. In North America, the series is licensed for English release by Viz Media.

By November 2020, the manga had over 16 million copies in circulation. In 2001, Real won an Excellence Award at the fifth Japan Media Arts Festival.

  1. ^ "The Official Website for Real". Viz Media. Archived from the original on December 12, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017.