Akane-banashi

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Akane-banashi
Cover of the first tankōbon volume, featuring Akane and her father
あかね噺
Genre
Manga
Written byYuki Suenaga
Illustrated byTakamasa Moue
Published by
Jump Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Jump
DemographicShōnen
Original runFebruary 14, 2022 – present
Volumes10

Akane-banashi (Japanese: あかね噺, "Akane's Story") is a Japanese manga series written by Yuki Suenaga and illustrated by Takamasa Moue. It follows teenager Akane Osaki as she aims to reach the highest rank in rakugo, partly to avenge her father, who was expelled from the profession six years earlier. The rakugo in the series is supervised by professional rakugoka Keiki Hayashiya. Akane-banashi has been serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump since February 2022, with the chapters collected into 10 tankōbon volumes as of March 2024. Viz Media has licensed the series for English release in North America.

Akane-banashi has received a positive reception from reviewers and was nominated for the 2022 Next Manga Award, the 16th Manga Taishō, and the 47th Kodansha Manga Award.

Plot

Growing up, Akane admired her father and his rakugo, a traditional Japanese form of storytelling where a lone performer, called a rakugoka, depicts a long, complicated, and usually funny story involving multiple characters, who are distinguished by changes in pitch, tone, slight turns of the head, and hand movements, all while sitting in place. But when she was in elementary school, her father and all the other applicants were expelled from the Arakawa School during the promotional test to obtain rakugo's third and highest rank of shin'uchi. Six years later, Akane, who had been secretly receiving lessons from her father's former master, sets out to become a shin'uchi of the Arakawa School to avenge her father and prove rakugo is a legitimate profession.

Characters

Akane Osaki (桜咲朱音)
Voiced by: Akane Yamaguchi
A 17-year-old high school girl with a love of rakugo that she developed while watching her father Tohru (), a former rakugoka known as "Shinta Arakawa" (阿良川志ん太). As a child, she got angry whenever a classmate or their parents looked down on her father for his chosen career, and hates that he was forced to give up his dream and get a "real job". Akane is set to become a formal rakugoka apprentice, starting at the first rank known as zenza, under Shiguma Arakawa after graduating high school.
Shiguma Arakawa (阿良川志ぐま)
Voiced by: Takuya Saito
The number two master of the Arakawa School who specializes in sentimental tales of the ninjo-banashi style and who taught Akane's father. After Shinta was expelled, Shiguma felt unfit to take on any more pupils. But he has been secretly teaching Akane rakugo for the last six years, and agrees to formally take her on as a pupil after she graduates high school, which is unusually late.
Guriko Arakawa (阿良川ぐりこ)
Voiced by: Masayuki Suzuki
Master Shiguma's newest pupil who joined shortly before Shinta was expelled and just recently reached rakugo's second rank of futatsume.
Kyoji Arakawa (阿良川享二)
A 28-year-old futatsume in his ninth year of rakugo under Master Shiguma. Ever since Shinta was expelled, Kyoji is the disciplinarian who keeps the other pupils in line. His seriousness makes the back-and-forth banter in his rakugo even funnier. He is a lightweight, and gets drunk after one sip of alcohol. He offers to take Akane under his wing.
Koguma Arakawa (阿良川こぐま)
A 29-year-old futatsume in his 11th year of rakugo under Master Shiguma. He is a
Tokyo University
graduate and the Shiguma School's best terakoya; master of old literary teachings. He meticulously researches every rakugo story he performs, including the daily customs of the period it came from, and turns into a completely different person onstage as far as his appearance and demeanor.
Maikeru Arakawa (阿良川まいける)
A futatsume and the most senior pupil under Master Shiguma. He fancies himself a ladies' man.
Issho Arakawa (阿良川一生)
Voiced by: Yuki Tamai
The number one master of the Arakawa School, who is considered one of the greatest rakugoka of his generation. Six years ago, he was the chief judge who expelled Akane's father and the other shin'uchi applicants.
Kaisei Arakawa (阿良川魁生)
An obnoxious futatsume under Master Issho. He reached that rank at 19-years-old, after only two years of apprenticeship. He is particularly skilled at portraying seductive characters, which makes his silly ones stand out even more.

Production

A rakugo performance

Author Yuki Suenaga stated that Akane-banashi originated with Akane, a character he created but did not know what to do with.[3] A fan of manzai and conte, he was interested in rakugo, but felt it was too difficult to get into. Suspecting there were many people who felt the same way, and that it would be unexpected of the character, he decided to have Akane perform rakugo. Suenaga stated that because he is new to rakugo, he is able to predict the things readers might not know, and can depict them in the manga in a way they will understand.[3] The serialization of Akane-banashi was proposed in the fall of 2021.[4] With the help of rakugoka Keiki Hayashiya, who supervises the rakugo in the manga, Suenaga interviewed more than 20 rakugoka, including Momoka Chokaroh and Miyaji Katsura.[4]

Artist Takamasa Moue said when he first heard about the series he found it interesting, but worried whether readers of Weekly Shōnen Jump would be interested in rakugo. Realizing it was his job to make them interested, he said he tried to get readers emotionally invested in the characters, and to broaden the scope to appeal to those unfamiliar with rakugo.[3] Having previously only had a passing interest in rakugo, Moue said he had fun researching it for Akane-banashi.[5] To draw the rakugo scenes in the manga, Moue listens to a performance of the relative story and thinks about how to convey the speed and intonation.[3]

Danshi Tatekawa VII, expelled a group of zenza in 2002, after feeling that they were not showing enough effort to reach futatsume.[6] Although Kazuhiro Ito of Good Life with Books also noted the similarities, he reported that Suenaga stated Issho Arakawa was instead modeled after Enshō Sanyūtei VI.[7] Horii also pointed out that the Rakugo Cafe seen in the series is modeled after a real café with a similar name in Jinbōchō, Tokyo.[6] According to Hayashiya, the Yasaka-tei and Edobashi-tei theaters in the manga were modeled after the Suehiro-tei in Shinjuku and the Oedo Nihonbashi-tei in Nihonbashi, respectively.[8][9] For the colored title page of chapter 29, Moue was inspired by The Breakfast Club.[10] The Shikisai Festival seen in the manga was modeled after the Rakugo Association's Sharakusai Festival.[11] The story "Giboshi" that is depicted in chapter 87 is a little-known rakugo story that was revived by Kyotaro Yanagiya. Suenaga stated that he received permission to use it in Akane-banashi.[12]

Publication

Written by Yuki Suenaga and illustrated by Takamasa Moue, Akane-banashi began serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump's 11th issue of 2022, which was released on February 14, 2022.[13][14] The rakugo in the series is supervised by professional rakugoka Keiki Hayashiya.[15] Publisher Shueisha is collecting the individual chapters into tankōbon volumes, with the first released on June 3, 2022.[16]

Both Shueisha and Viz Media began releasing the series in English digitally the same day it began in Japan, the former on its Manga Plus website and application.[14] Viz began publishing Akane-banashi in print in summer 2023.[17]

Volumes

No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 June 3, 2022[18]978-4-08-883150-3August 8, 2023[19]978-1-9747-3648-5
  • Story 1: "On That Day" (あの日, Ano Hi)
  • Story 2: "Six Years" (6年, 6-Nen)
  • Story 3: "First Performance" (初高座, Hatsu Kōza)
  • Story 4: "Who Is That?" (何者, Nanimono)
  • Story 5: "Proper Channels" (通すべき筋, Tōsubeki Suji)
  • Story 6: "Senior Pupils" (兄弟子達, Anideshitachi)
  • Story 7: "Kibataraki" (気働き)
Akane requests to become a formal rakugo apprentice under Shiguma Arakawa, her father's former master who has been secretly giving her lessons for the last six years. Before deciding, he has her perform in front of an audience for the first time at Rakugo Cafe. There, she is well-received by the audience, shocks Shiguma's pupil Guriko with her skills, and meets Kaisei, a pupil of Issho Arakawa, the man who expelled her father. Akane is formally taken on as an apprentice after Shiguma meets with her mother for the first time since Akane's father was expelled. Shiguma's pupil Kyoji takes Akane under his guidance and, when she is disappointed with the audience reception at another performance of hers, calls her rakugo selfish and puts her on the path to learning kibataraki or mindful action; which includes altering your performance to each audience and anticipating what they want ahead of time. He does this by having her work as a waitress at Umi, an izakaya.
2 August 4, 2022[20]978-4-08-883193-0October 10, 2023[21]978-1-9747-4053-6
  • Story 8: "In Order to Entertain" (喜んでもらう為に, Yorokonde Morau Tame Ni)
  • Story 9: "After the Delight" (喜びの先, Yorokobi no Saki)
  • Story 10: "Epitome" (背中, Senaka)[a]
  • Story 11: "Myopic" (短絡的, Tanraku Teki)
  • Story 12: "The Dreamer" (夢見るあの子, Yumemiro Ano Ko)
  • Story 13: "Goal and Condition" (目的と条件, Mokuteki to Jōken)
  • Story 14: "The Type to Hold a Grudge" (根に持つタイプ, Nenimotsu Taipu)
  • Story 15: "Koguma's Rakugo" (こぐまの落語, Koguma no Rakugo)
  • Story 16: "The Karaku Cup Begins" (可楽杯開幕, Karaku Hai Kaimaku)
During a performance at a retirement home, Akane shocks Koguma with the kibataraki she has learned. In school, Akane's teacher Machiko Iwashimizu is concerned that her student is so firmly set on becoming a rakugoka that she will not even be applying for colleges. After attending a performance by Akane at the urging of Akane's classmate Jumbo Ozaki and seeing how passionate she is about rakugo, Iwashimizu changes her mind and informs Akane of the Karaku Cup, a rakugo competition for students. Akane wants to enter in order to win the prize, a conversation with head judge Issho Arakawa. Master Shiguma allows her to enter but under the condition that she win only with "
senpai Koguma Arakawa for help, and he inspires her to research the Edo period
. As the first day of the Karaku Cup begins, the unknown Akane draws attention after receiving praise from the emcee, Kaisei.
3 October 4, 2022[22]978-4-08-883260-9December 12, 2023[23]978-1-9747-4098-7
  • Story 17: "The Karaku Cup Prelims" (可楽杯予選, Karaku Hai Yosen)
  • Story 18: "Shut It" (せからしか, Sekarashika)
  • Story 19: "The Karaku Cup Finals" (可楽杯本選, Karaku Hai Honsen)
  • Story 20: "BM"
  • Story 21: "Hikaru's Rakugo" (ひかるの落語, Hikaru no Rakugo)
  • Story 22: "As A Performer" (表現者として, Hyōgensha Toshite)
  • Story 23: "Lull" (, Nagi)
  • Story 24: "Infinite Blessings" (寿限り無し, Kotobuki Kagiri Nashi)
  • Story 25: "The Disappearing Stage" (消える高座, Kieru Kōza)
Akane is one of eight contestants to proceed to the finals of the Karaku Cup, and positions herself as one of the three poised to win. In the finals, Karashi Nerimaya, winner of the last two years, performs his "adapted rakugo", which takes the basic concepts of a classic story and places them in a modern setting. Hikaru Koragi, a popular voice actress, uses her acting skills to perform a theatrical style of heart-warming rakugo. After these two performances where the contestants purposefully showed off their strong points, Akane successfully adapts her performance to the audience's current mood so that they naturally focus on her story as she essentially "disappears" from the stage. She shows a deeper connection to the characters' minds and outlooks, just as Master Shiguma wanted her to learn.
4 December 2, 2022[24]978-4-08-883419-1February 13, 2024[25]978-1-9747-4302-5
  • Story 26: "Where You Belong" (来ていい場所, Kite Ii Basho)
  • Story 27: "Conversation" (座談会, Zadankai)
  • Story 28: "I'm Glad" (よかった, Yokatta)
  • Story 29: "A Wonderful World" (素敵な世界, Suteki na Sekai)
  • Story 30: "Before Being a Rakugoka" (落語家である前に, Rakugoka de Aru Mae ni)
  • Story 31: "Zenza Training Begins" (前座修行開幕, Zenza Shugyō Kaimaku)
  • Story 32: "Yasaka-Tei" (弥栄亭)
  • Story 33: "A Place of Learning" (修練の場, Shūren no Ba)
  • Story 34: "Background Listening" (捨て耳, Sute Mimi)
5 March 3, 2023[26]978-4-08-883427-6April 9, 2024[27]978-1-9747-4334-6
  • Story 35: "Opening Act" (開口一番, Kaikōichiban)
  • Story 36: "One Fan's Worth" (扇子一本分, Sensu Ippon-bun)
  • Story 37: "Rakugo Quest" (落語クエスト, Rakugo Kuesuto)
  • Story 38: "Manners and Etiquette" (礼儀と作法, Reigi to Sahō)
  • Story 39: "Ookanban" (大看板, Ōkanban)
  • Story 40: "The Image of Greatness" (傑物の背, Ketsubutsu no Se)
  • Story 41: "Sharaku the Unteaching" (師資不承のしゃ楽, Shishibushō no Sharaku)
  • Story 42: "Evaluation" (値踏み, Nebumi)
  • Story 43: "Wonder Child" (麒麟児, Kirinji)
6 June 2, 2023[28]978-4-08-883492-4June 11, 2024[29]978-1-9747-4575-3
  • Story 44: "First Practice on the Road" (初めての出稽古, Hajimete no Degeiko)
  • Story 45: "Two Steps" (二つの手順ステップ, Futatsu no Suteppu)
  • Story 46: "Date" (デート, Dēto)
  • Story 47: "Fetching Tea" (お茶汲み, Ochakumi)
  • Story 48: "Fetching Tea, Part 2" (お茶汲み②, Ochakumi②)
  • Story 49: "Fetching Tea, Part 3" (お茶汲み③, Ochakumi③)
  • Story 50: "Master's Desire" (師匠の望み, Shishō no Nozomi)
  • Story 51: "Goldfish" (金魚割り, Kingyowari)
  • Story 52: "Embodiment" (体現者, Taigensha)
  • Story 53: "Fascinating News" (おもしろい報せ)
7 August 4, 2023[30]978-4-08-883592-1August 13, 2024[31]978-1-9747-4623-1
  • Story 54: "Zenza Renseikai" (前座錬成会)
  • Story 55: "The Vibe of the Renseikai" (錬成会の空気)
  • Story 56: "She's Here" (彼女がいる)
  • Story 57: "The Rakugo Swamp" (落語の沼)
  • Story 58: "Framework of the Art" (芸の骨格)
  • Story 59: "A Difficult Choice" (難しい三択)
  • Story 60: "Only One Side" (たった一面)
  • Story 61: "Time Machine" (タイムマシン)
  • Story 62: "Judging Standards" (審査基準)
8 October 4, 2023[32]978-4-08-883691-1
  • Story 63: "The Worst Compatibility" (相性最悪)
  • Story 64: "This Is So Stupid" (くだらんね)
  • Story 65: "Most of All" (一番は)
  • Story 66: "Let's Forget About It" (忘れようか)
  • Story 67: "Still That Girl" (あの日のまま)
  • Story 68: "When Feelings Get Too Strong" (強すぎる思い)
  • Story 69: "Dad's Magic" (おっ父の魔法)
  • Story 70: "The Rakugoka Shinta Arakawa" (落語家 阿良川志ん太)
  • Story 71: "Resolution" (解像度)
9 December 4, 2023[33]978-4-08-883791-8
  • Story 72: "Changing Time" (替り目)
  • Story 73: "And the Winner Is..." (勝者は)
  • Story 74: "The Shikisai Festival" (志喜彩祭)
  • Story 75: "The Shikisai Festival, Part 2" (志喜彩祭②)
  • Story 76: "The Shikisai Festival, Part 3" (志喜彩祭③)
  • Story 77: "I'm Burning Up" (燃えてますよ)
  • Story 78: "A Shallow Man" (軽薄な男)
  • Story 79: "The Man Who Will Be Your Guidepost" (標に成り得る男)
  • Story 80: "Chocho Konjakutei the Ookanban" (大看板・今昔亭ちょう朝)
10 March 4, 2024[34]978-4-08-883822-9
  • Story 81: "Chocho Konjakutei the Ookanban, Part 2" (大看板・今昔亭ちょう朝②)
  • Story 82: "Art of Sunshine" (〝陽〟の芸)
  • Story 83: "Cho-Han Dice" (丁半博打)
  • Story 84: "Present Location" (現在地)
  • Story 85: "My Plan" (私の秘策)
  • Story 86: "New Breeze" (新風会)
  • Story 87: "External Validation" (外付けの自信)
  • Story 88: "Got Me Licked" (舐めやがって)
  • Story 89: "Tanuki Stories" (狸の噺)
11 May 2, 2024[35]978-4-08-884023-9

Chapters not yet in tankōbon format

These chapters have yet to be published in a tankōbon volume. They were serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump.

  1. "This Breeze Feels Nice" (この風は心地いい)
  2. "Errands to Run" (用事があるんで)
  3. "Specialty" (十八番)
  4. "My Words" (私の言葉)
  5. "This is a Major Event" (事件だよ)
  6. "It's Been A While" (久しぶり)
  7. "It's Just Rakugo" (たかが落語だ)
  8. "Heartwarming" (微笑ましい)
  9. "Art and Nin" (芸と仁)
  10. "The Other Effect" (もう一つの効果)
  11. "The Rakugoverse" (落語ヴァース)
  12. "Exactly" (だからだよ)
  13. "The Furious" (怒髪天)
  14. "Tension and Release" (緊緩)
  15. "The Promise of the Past" (あの日の約束)
  16. "Butt Out" (口出し無用)
  17. "Today's Star" (今日の主役)

Other media

The first chapter of Akane-banashi received a motion comic adaptation, where

Jump Comics' official YouTube channel in two parts on June 4 and 5, 2022.[16][36] Akane and her father are voiced by Akane and Kappei Yamaguchi. In addition to being actual daughter and father, the Yamaguchis are also both rakugoka.[16]

Reception

By September 2022, the collected volumes of Akane-banashi had over 200,000 copies in circulation and volume one had been reprinted four times.[37] With the release of volume 10 in March 2024, the manga had 1.5 million copies in circulation.[38] The series has been recommended by Eiichiro Oda and Hideaki Anno.[39] It was nominated for the 2022 Next Manga Award in the print manga category and ranked 3rd out of 50 nominees.[40][41] The series ranked fourth in the 2023 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list of best manga for male readers.[42] It ranked third in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees Recommended Comics of 2023.[43] Akane-banashi ranked second in the 16th Manga Taishō, losing to Kore Kaite Shine by two points.[44] It was also nominated for the 47th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2023.[45] The New York Public Library included Akane-banashi on its 2023 list of the Best Books for Teens.[46] Anime News Network's Richard Eisenbeis chose it as the Best New Manga of 2023,[47] while Brigid Alverson of School Library Journal included it as one of the Top 10 Manga of 2023.[48] The Young Adult Library Services Association included the first volume of Akane-banashi on its 2024 list of Great Graphic Novels for Teens.[49]

Steven Blackburn of

wunderkind, already makes the latter character compelling. "That's a difficult dynamic to achieve, but Akane-banashi has somehow succeeded before it's even begun".[50] In a review for Multiversity Comics, Zach Wilkerson gave the "immensely charming and well crafted" first chapter an 8.5 rating, with particular praise for Moue's art.[51] Robbie Pleasant of the same website strongly praised the series and its art for successfully conveying how a performer's demeanor and voice changes as they perform different characters, despite manga being a static and soundless medium.[52]

In May 2022, Kota Mukaihara of Real Sound wrote that Akane-banashi was poised to be a breakout hit. He felt that although Akane's progress in rakugo seemed to be going unusually fast and smooth, with her not yet being confronted by a tough challenge or failing at something, this allows readers to follow her growth without unnecessary stress. Mukaihara speculated that, while this could simply be because the manga was still new and needed to develop quickly in order to gain momentum, it emphasizes Akane's cleverness and the depth of her determination and is a testament to the charm of the characters and the skill with which the story is written. He also wrote that while Akane's outgoing personality and unprecedented skill make her seem like a maverick, her positivity and down-to-earth nature make her a likable character.[1] Blackburn's colleague Ben Sockol praised later chapters of the series for "subverting the classic tournament arc trope", writing that Akane-banashi feels fresh and different from anything else in Weekly Shōnen Jump and is one of the most exciting manga currently running in the magazine as of June 2022.[53]

Notes

  1. ^ Originally titled "Model" in English when released on Manga Plus.

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