Tokyo Tarareba Girls | |
東京タラレバ娘 (Tōkyō Tarareba Musume) | |
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Genre | Romantic comedy[1][2] |
Manga | |
Written by | Akiko Higashimura |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Kiss |
Demographic | Josei |
Original run | March 24, 2014 – April 25, 2017 |
Volumes | 9 |
Television drama | |
Directed by |
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Produced by | Masatoshi Kato |
Written by | Yūko Matsuda |
Music by | Yugo Kanno |
Original network | Nippon TV |
Original run | January 18, 2017 – March 22, 2017 |
Episodes | 10 |
Manga | |
Tokyo Tarareba Girls Extra Edition: Tarare-Bar | |
Written by | Akiko Higashimura |
Published by | Kodansha |
Magazine | Kiss |
Demographic | Josei |
Original run | October 25, 2017 – December 25, 2018 |
Volumes | 1 |
Manga | |
Tokyo Tarareba Girls Returns | |
Written by | Akiko Higashimura |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher |
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Magazine | Kiss |
Demographic | Josei |
Original run | October 25, 2018 – December 25, 2018 |
Volumes | 1 |
Manga | |
Tokyo Tarareba Girls Season 2 | |
Written by | Akiko Higashimura |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher |
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Magazine | Kiss |
Demographic | Josei |
Original run | April 25, 2019 – September 25, 2021 |
Volumes | 6 |
Live-action television film | |
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2020 | |
Directed by | Yuma Suzuki |
Written by | Yūko Matsuda |
Music by | Yugo Kanno |
Released | October 7, 2020 |
Runtime | 114 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.