In the Clear Moonlit Dusk | |
うるわしの宵の月 (Uruwashi no Yoi no Tsuki) | |
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Genre | Romance[1] |
Manga | |
Written by | Mika Yamamori |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Dessert |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Original run | July 21, 2020 – present |
Volumes | 7 |
In the Clear Moonlit Dusk (Japanese: うるわしの宵の月, Hepburn: Uruwashi no Yoi no Tsuki) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mika Yamamori. It began serialization in Dessert in July 2020. As of October 2023, the series' individual chapters have been collected into seven volumes.
Written and illustrated by Mika Yamamori, the series began serialization in Dessert on July 21, 2020.[2] As of October 2023, the series individual chapters have been collected into seven tankōbon volumes.[3]
In June 2021, Kodansha USA announced that they licensed the series for English publication.[4] In November 2021, Kodansha USA announced that the series would be released in print in Fall 2022.[5]
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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1 | December 11, 2020[6] | 978-4-06-521777-1 | July 13, 2021 (digital)[1] November 29, 2022 (print) | 978-1-64-651494-6 |
2 | May 13, 2021[7] | 978-4-06-523279-8 | September 21, 2021 (digital)[8] January 17, 2023 (print) | 978-1-64-651495-3 |
3 | November 12, 2021[9] | 978-4-06-525680-0 | February 8, 2022 (digital)[10] March 21, 2023 (print) | 978-1-64-651648-3 |
4 | May 13, 2022[11] | 978-4-06-527871-0 | June 6, 2023[12] | 978-1-64-651705-3 |
5 | November 11, 2022[13] | 978-4-06-529819-0 | July 25, 2023[14] | 978-1-64-651706-0 |
6 | May 12, 2023[15] | 978-4-06-531634-4 | December 19, 2023[16] | 978-1-64-651899-9 |
7 | October 13, 2023[3] | 978-4-06-533352-5 | — | — |
The series was nominated for the 2021 Next Manga Award on the print manga category.[17] In the list of Da Vinci magazine's top 50 manga series of 2021, the series ranked 38th.[18] The series won the semi-grand prize in the 2021 An An manga award.[19] In the 2021 edition of the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook's top manga for female readers, the series ranked fourth.[20] The series was nominated for the 46th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōjo manga category in 2022;[21] it was also nominated in the same category for the 47th edition in 2023 and the 48th edition in 2024.[22][23] In the 2022 edition of the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook's top manga for female readers, the series ranked eleventh.[24] The series won the Grand Prize of the 2023 edition of the ebookjapan Manga Award.[25]
Rebecca Silverman from Anime News Network praised the major characters and the story, though she also felt the character designs could be inconsistent at times.[26] Demelza from Anime UK News praised the story as unique and relatable and the artwork as clean and polished.[27]