Lovely Muco
| Lovely Muco | |
 Cover of the first manga volume | |
| いとしのムーコ (Itoshi no Mūko) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Slice of life |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Takayuki Mizushina |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Magazine | Evening |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | 26 April 2011 – present |
| Volumes | 10 |
| Anime television series | |
| Lovely Movie: Lovely Muuuuuuuco! | |
| Directed by | Takenori Mihara |
| Studio | Doga Kobo |
| Original network | Fuji Television |
| Original run | 29 July 2013 – 23 December 2013 |
| Episodes | 21 |
| Anime television series | |
| Lovely Movie: Lovely Muuuuuuuco! Season 2 | |
| Directed by | Takenori Mihara |
| Studio | Doga Kobo |
| Original network | BS Fuji[1] |
| Original run | 27 April 2014 – 5 October 2014 |
| Episodes | 22 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Romanov Higa |
| Studio | DLE |
| Original network | TV Tokyo[2] |
| Original run | 3 October 2015 – 26 March 2016 |
| Episodes | 25 |
Lovely Muco (Japanese: いとしのムーコ, Hepburn: Itoshi no Mūko) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takayuki Mizushina. It tells the story of Muco, the Shiba Inu[3] of glassblower Komatsu-san.
Manga
Mizushina first published Lovely Muco in Evening, a magazine by Kodansha.[4] Two years later, Japanese bookstore workers voted it the sixth in the list of most recommended manga.[5] As of 2017 eleven volumes have been published in Japanese, ten in English. [6]
Anime
In 2013 and 2014, a short anime based on the manga by Doga Kobo was used as interstitials on the Fuji TV programme Non-Stop!. A separate anime series started airing on October 3, 2015.[7]
Characters
- Muco (ムーコ, Mūko)
- Voiced by: Hitomi Yoshida (Lovely Movie & TV Anime)
The shiba-inu pet of Komatsu.
- Komatsu-san (こまつさん, Komatsu-san)
- Voiced by: Shinichi Tanioka (Lovely Movie) / Satoshi Hino (TV Anime)
Main character, a glassblower.
- Ushikou-san (うしこうさん, Ushikou-san)
- Voiced by: Mizuki Sano (Lovely Movie) / Junji Majima (TV Anime)
A bar patron and friend of Komatsu.
- Bouda-san (棒田さん, Bouda-san)
- Voiced by: Taisei Kurata (Lovely Movie) / Keiji Fujiwara (TV Anime)
A local barkeep.
- Rena-chan (玲奈ちゃん, Rena-chan)
- Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka (Lovely Movie & TV Anime)
Bouda's daughter.
- Shinohara-san (篠原さん, Shinohara-san)
- Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka (Lovely Movie & TV Anime)
Love interest.
- Dr.Mutou (Veterinary) (むとう先生（獣医さん）, Mutou-sensei (Jūui-san))
- Voiced by: Kazuhiro Watanabe (Lovely Movie) / Hiroki Takahashi (TV Anime)
- Tamaki-kun (タマキくん, Tamaki-kun)
- Voiced by: Yū Kobayashi (TV Anime)
References
- ^ "ラブリームービー いとしのムーコ シーズン2" (in Japanese). Fuji Television On Demand. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- ^ "テレビ東京・あにてれ いとしのムーコ" (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
- ^ "秋田・ガラス作家の愛犬モデルの漫画「いとしのムーコ」、コミック誌に連載へ" [Dog model of Akita-glass artist cartoon "beloved of Muko", to serialized in comic magazine] (in Japanese). Akita Keizai Shimbun. 7 April 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
- ^ "Lovely Muco! Manga by Kemono to Chat's Mizushina Gets New TV Anime". Anime News Network. 21 April 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
- ^ "全国書店員が選んだおすすめコミック" (in Japanese). Retrieved 27 June 2015.
- ^ "電子書籍ストア BookLive!". booklive.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-07-10.
- ^ Komatsu, Mikikazu (23 April 2015). ""Lovely Muco!" Manga Gets TV Anime Adaptation This Fall". Crunchyroll. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
External links
- KODANSHA ComicPlus Itoshino MUCO(in Japanese)
- TAKAYUKI MIZUSHINA Web・SINAMISM・(in Japanese) - （Official website）
- MUCO on Twitter (in Japanese)
- Lovely Muuuuuuuco!(in Japanese) - Fuji Television On Demand
- TV animation Itoshino MUCO Official website(in Japanese)
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