SQ Begin W/Your Name!
| SQ Begin W/Your Name! | |
|---|---|
 Cover for Volume 1 | |
| SQ从你的名字开始 SQ: Cong Ni De Mingzi Kaishi | |
| Genre | Comedy, Romance, girls' love |
| Author | Tan Jiu |
| Publisher | Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Publishing House |
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| Original run | November 17, 2014 – present |
| Volumes | 1 |
SQ Begin W/Your Name! (Chinese: SQ从你的名字开始), also known as Tamen de Gushi (Chinese: 她们的故事 "Their Story") is a Chinese girls' love manhua written and illustrated by Tan Jiu. The manhua has been serialized independently online via Tan Jui's Weibo and Twitter accounts from November 17, 2014, and was later published to Tencent's ACQQ app in January, 2018. A paperback collecting chapters 1 through 141 was published by Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Publishing House on October 1, 2015, under the title SQ Begin W/Your Name!. The story follows the daily lives of Sun Jing and Qiu Tong, two teenagers attending different high schools, whose newly formed friendship slowly develops into something romantic.
Plot
[edit]After Sun Jing keeps seeing the same cute girl from another school at the bus stop each day, she becomes determined to ask her name. Once Sun Jing musters up the courage and introduces herself, she begins a new friendship with Qiu Tong.
Publication
[edit]Written and illustrated by Tan Jiu, SQ was first titled Tamen de Gushi and was serialized independently online via Tan Jui's Weibo and Twitter account from November 17, 2014, before it was added to Tencent's ACQQ app in January, 2018.[1]
The series was collected into volume format by Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Publishing House under the title SQ Begin W/Your Name!, with the first volume releasing on October 1, 2015. On January 15, 2018, Tan Jiu announced that the second print volume had been indefinitely postponed due to the publisher requesting the removal of several romantic scenes between Sun Jing and Qiu Tong.[2] Kadokawa licensed the series for a Japanese release in 2020.
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 1, 2015[3] | 978-7534044670 | February 10, 2020[4] | 978-4049130669 |
Reception
[edit]Erica Friedman of Yuricon gave the Japanese print volume an overall 9 out of 10 rating, praising the art and remarking that "I genuinely hope to see this title make it over here. It's really delightful and, as the comics often pass by with very little dialogue many are completely silent, it doesn't matter what language it's in."[5] Mey Rude included the series in Autostraddle's "8 Queer/Feminist Comics to Get Your Friends Into Comics", noting that the series is "a classic story about two high school girls who fall in love and act like teenagers. Fans of Buffy, Glee, Faking It, or any other show with queer teens will fall in love with this comic."[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "SQ". ACQQ. Tencent. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
- ^ "Sina Visitor System" #SQ# 单行本的事情想跟大家说一下，原定十月份出版的第二卷当时因为大会暂时停止，后来11月出版社要求去掉天桥上告白等剧情才可出版，意思是这样虽然是阉割版但是起码可以赚到版税，我与公司第一时间拒绝了，实在难以接受作品被这种形式删减最终还是决定现阶段暂时停止第二本的出版，对此我对等待单行本的大家表示非常抱歉，出单行本是画画的人赖以生存的方式，也是每个画画的人的愿望和梦想，所以一定程度影响了我的状态，不过我已经慢慢的恢复回来，不管是否有机会出版，我都会一直画下去的. weibo (in Chinese). January 15, 2018. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
- ^ 坛九 (2015). SQ Begin W/Your Name! (Chinese ed.). 浙江人民美术出版社. ISBN 978-7534044670.
- ^ "ＳＱ 1 君の名前から始まる". Kadokawa (in Japanese). Retrieved August 9, 2023.
- ^ Friedman, Erica (May 6, 2020). "SQ Kimi no Namae kara Hajimaru (SQ 君の名前から始まる)". Okazu. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
- ^ Rude, Mey (January 24, 2017). "Drawn to Comics: 8 Queer/Feminist Comics to Get Your Friends Into Comics". Autostraddle. Retrieved August 8, 2023.