Threads of Destiny | |
赤い糸 (Akai Ito) | |
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Genre | Romance[1] |
Serial novel | |
Akai Ito | |
Written by | Mei |
Published by | Goma Books |
Magazine | Mahō no Toshōkan |
Published | 2007 |
Volumes | 5 |
Manga | |
Akai Ito | |
Written by | Mei |
Illustrated by | Cocco Kashiwaya |
Published by | Goma Books |
Imprint | Orion Comics |
Original run | November 1, 2008 – May 29, 2009 |
Volumes | 6 |
Television drama | |
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Written by |
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Music by | Yugo Kanno |
Original network | Fuji TV |
Original run | December 6, 2008 – February 28, 2009 |
Episodes | 11 |
Live-action film | |
Directed by | Shosuke Murakami |
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Written by | Chiho Watanabe |
Music by | Yugo Kanno |
Released | December 20, 2008 |
Runtime | 108 mins. |
Video game | |
Akai Ito DS | |
Developer | Alchemist |
Genre | Adventure[2] |
Platform | Nintendo DS |
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Video game | |
Akai Ito Destiny DS | |
Developer | Alchemist |
Genre | Adventure[3] |
Platform | Nintendo DS |
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Threads of Destiny[1] (Japanese: 赤い糸, Hepburn: Akai Ito, lit. "Red Thread") is a 2006 cell phone novel series written by Mei. Akai Ito was first published on the website Mahō no Toshōkan, where it became the #1 ranked story within the first month of publication. The popularity of Akai Ito has been associated with the boom of cell phone novels in the mid-2000s in Japan. The novel was later published as a series of five books, which sold a consecutive total of 1.8 million physical copies.
The success of Akai Ito has led to a manga adaptation by Cocco Kashiwaya, a television and film project released under the title Threads of Destiny, and two video game adaptations.