Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari | |
ちいさいひと 青葉児童相談所物語 | |
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Genre | Drama[1] |
Manga | |
Written by | Mitsuhiro Mizuno |
Illustrated by | Jin Kyōchikutō |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Imprint | Shōnen Sunday Comics |
Magazine |
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Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | November 2, 2010 – October 25, 2013 |
Volumes | 6 |
Manga | |
Shin Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari | |
Written by | Mitsuhiro Mizuno |
Illustrated by | Jin Kyōchikutō |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Imprint | Shōnen Sunday Comics |
Magazine | Shōnen Sunday S |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | July 25, 2016 – November 24, 2023 |
Volumes | 13 |
Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari (ちいさいひと 青葉児童相談所物語, "Little People: Aoba Children's Counseling Center Story") is a Japanese manga series written by Mitsuhiro Mizuno and illustrated by Jin Kyōchikutō . It was first serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from November 2010 to June 2012, and later in Shōnen Sunday S from June 2012 to October 2013, with its chapters collected in six tankōbon volumes. A sequel, Shin Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari, was serialized in Shōnen Sunday S from July 2016 to November 2023, with its chapters collected in thirteen tankōbon volumes.
Written by Mitsuhiro Mizuno and illustrated by Jin Kyōchikutō[2] Chiisai Hito was first serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from November 2, 2010,[3] to June 20, 2012.[4] It was later serialized in Shōnen Sunday S from June 25, 2012,[5] to October 25, 2013.[6] Shogakukan collected its chapters in six tankōbon volumes, released from November 18, 2011,[7] to November 18, 2013.[8]
, with cooperation of Junichi Komiya (a former Saitama Shimbun reporter who had been covering the abuse issue for about 20 years),A sequel, titled Shin Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari (新・ちいさいひと 青葉児童相談所物語), was serialized in Shōnen Sunday S from July 25, 2016,[9] to November 24, 2023.[10] Shogakukan collected its chapters in thirteen tankōbon volumes, released from December 17, 2016,[11] to February 16, 2024.[12]
No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN |
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1 | November 18, 2011[7] | 978-4-09-123449-0 |
2 | April 18, 2012[13] | 978-4-09-123655-5 |
3 | October 18, 2012[14] | 978-4-09-124002-6 |
4 | January 18, 2013[15] | 978-4-09-124173-3 |
5 | August 16, 2013[16] | 978-4-09-124369-0 |
6 | November 18, 2013[8] | 978-4-09-124496-3 |
No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN |
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1 | December 16, 2016[11] | 978-4-09-127432-8 |
2 | June 16, 2017[17] | 978-4-09-127650-6 |
3 | January 18, 2018[18] | 978-4-09-128081-7 |
4 | July 18, 2018[19] | 978-4-09-128340-5 |
5 | January 18, 2019[20] | 978-4-09-128786-1 |
6 | June 18, 2019[21] | 978-4-09-129229-2 |
7 | January 17, 2020[22] | 978-4-09-129550-7 |
8 | October 16, 2020[23] | 978-4-09-129550-7 |
9 | May 18, 2021[24] | 978-4-09-850530-2 |
10 | December 17, 2021[25] | 978-4-09-850740-5 |
11 | June 17, 2022[26] | 978-4-09-851155-6 |
12 | March 16, 2023[27] | 978-4-09-851777-0 |
13 | February 16, 2024[12] | 978-4-09-853191-2 |
Chiisai Hito was one of the 50 manga titles selected for a manga exhibition about the promotion of human rights, held by the Tokyo Metropolitan Human Rights Promotion Center in 2015.[28][29] In September 2015, the manga began its electronically distribution on Manga Kingdom and Comic Shogakukan Books, and the number of downloads exceeded 370,000 in about a month, the highest number of electronically distributed works by Shogakukan;[1] part of the sales were donated to the Orange Ribbon Campaign, as part of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's "Child Abuse Prevention Promotion Month".[30] According to Manga Zenkan, Chiisai Hito was the 17th best-selling manga in 2015.[31]