Tokyo Tarareba Girls

Tokyo Tarareba Girls
Cover of the first tankōbon volume
東京タラレバ娘
(Tōkyō Tarareba Musume)
GenreRomantic comedy[1][2]
Manga
Written byAkiko Higashimura
Published byKodansha
English publisher
MagazineKiss
DemographicJosei
Original runMarch 24, 2014April 25, 2017
Volumes9
Television drama
Directed by
  • Seiichi Nagumo
  • Yuma Suzuki
  • Naoko Komuro
Produced byMasatoshi Kato
Written byYūko Matsuda
Music byYugo Kanno
Original networkNippon TV
Original run January 18, 2017 March 22, 2017
Episodes10
Manga
Tokyo Tarareba Girls Extra Edition: Tarare-Bar
Written byAkiko Higashimura
Published byKodansha
MagazineKiss
DemographicJosei
Original runOctober 25, 2017December 25, 2018
Volumes1
Manga
Tokyo Tarareba Girls Returns
Written byAkiko Higashimura
Published byKodansha
English publisher
  • NA: Kodansha USA
MagazineKiss
DemographicJosei
Original runOctober 25, 2018December 25, 2018
Volumes1
Manga
Tokyo Tarareba Girls Season 2
Written byAkiko Higashimura
Published byKodansha
English publisher
  • NA: Kodansha USA
MagazineKiss
DemographicJosei
Original runApril 25, 2019September 25, 2021
Volumes6
Live-action television film
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2020
Directed byYuma Suzuki
Written byYūko Matsuda
Music byYugo Kanno
ReleasedOctober 7, 2020 (2020-10-07)
Runtime114 minutes

Tokyo Tarareba Girls (Japanese: 東京タラレバ娘, Hepburn: Tōkyō Tarareba Musume, lit.'Tokyo 'What If' Girls') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akiko Higashimura. It was serialized in Kodansha's josei manga magazine Kiss from March 2014 to April 2017 and later collected in nine bound volumes. It is licensed for an English-language release by Kodansha USA. The manga won the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia in 2019.

A 10-episode live-action television drama series adaptation was broadcast on Nippon TV from January to March 2017. It was followed by a two-hour television special in October 2020. The manga also inspired three spin-off manga series written and illustrated by Higashimura and serialized in Kiss magazine: Tarare-Bar (2017–2018), Tokyo Tarareba Girls Returns (2018), and Tokyo Tarareba Girls Season 2 (2019–2021). The second spin-off, Tokyo Tarareba Girls Returns, is licensed for an English-language release by Kodansha USA.

  1. ^ "Tokyo Tarareba Girls Volume 1 Review". Anime UK News. June 28, 2018. Archived from the original on September 30, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  2. ^ Alverson, Brigid (March 23, 2018). "New from Kodansha: 'Attack on Titan' Box Sets, New Manga by 'Princess Jellyfish' Creator". ICv2. Archived from the original on March 14, 2023. Retrieved March 14, 2023.