Sora ga Suki!

Sora ga Suki!
A book cover featuring an illustration of a winking teenage boy with a hat and a cigarette superimposed over a Parisian cafe.
Cover of the second collected volume
空がすき!
GenreComedy[1]
Created byKeiko Takemiya
Manga
Published byShogakukan[a]
ImprintFlower Comics
MagazineShūkan Shōjo Comic
DemographicShōjo
Original runMarch 1971 – October 1972
Volumes2 (List of volumes)
Sequels
  • Marude Haru no Yō Ni (1972)
  • Noel! (1975)

Sora ga Suki! (Japanese: 空がすき!, lit. 'I Love the Sky!' or 'I Like the Sky!') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Keiko Takemiya. It was originally serialized in the manga magazine Shūkan Shōjo Comic in two parts: from March to May 1971, and from August to October 1972. It was later published as a collected edition by Shogakukan, and was the first manga series by Takemiya to be published in this format.

The series follows a teenaged con artist in Montmartre who develops a friendship with the son of one of his marks. It is heavily influenced by musical theater, with characters expressing their feelings and emotions through dance and song lyrics, and its largely male cast composed of bishōnen (lit. "beautiful boys", a term for androgynous male characters) was atypical for shōjo manga (girls' manga) of the era. Sora ga Suki! was Takemiya's breakthrough work as a manga artist, and her first critical success as a creator. Two sequels, Marude Haru no Yō Ni (まるで春のように, 'Just Like Spring') and Noel!, were published in 1972 and 1975, respectively.

  1. ^ Takemiya 2016, p. 70.


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