Kosaku Shima
Kachō Shima Kōsaku volume 1 cover
課長島耕作
(Kachō Shima Kōsaku)
Manga
Kōsaku Shima Series
Written byKenshi Hirokane
Published byKodansha
MagazineMorning
DemographicSeinen
Original run1983 – present
Volumes80

Kosaku Shima (Japanese: 島耕作, Hepburn: Shima Kōsaku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane. It depicts the growth and career of a fictional salaryman named Kōsaku Shima. It has been serialized in Kodansha's Morning, starting with the first series Kachō Shima Kōsaku in 1983 and has currently been divided into eight parts. The current part, Shagai Torishimariyaku Shima Kōsaku, began in 2022.

The manga has also been published as 7 bilingual volumes (Japanese-English) called Division Chief Kosaku Shima and President Kosaku Shima, and in French and German. In addition to various manga there has also been one comedic ONA, and two comedic anime adaptations lasting 11 episodes each, a live action film, and a single episode TV drama. The character also acts as the "host" or framing device for a business documentary series on NHK World, Shima Kosaku's Asian Entrepreneurs.

As of February 2022, the series had over 47 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series. In 1991, the manga won the 15th Kodansha Manga Award in the General category.

Summary

At the start of the long-running series, Shima Kōsaku is a kachō, or section chief, of a huge conglomerate, Hatsushiba Electric. He is later promoted to buchō (division chief) and eventually promoted to manager and executive-director, and with each promotion the title of the series changed as well. He was promoted to the president of Hatsushiba Electric, and the title changed to "Shachō" Shima Kōsaku, which means "President Kōsaku Shima". The fictional conglomerate is modeled after Panasonic, or Matsushita Electric, where Hirokane worked before and is highly accurate in its portrayal of Japanese corporate culture.

Series

Spin-offs

Video games

Reception

As of February 2022, the series had over 47 million copies in circulation.[33] In 1991, Kachō Shima Kōsaku won the 15th Kodansha Manga Award in the General category.[34] In 2019, the series also received a Special Award at the 43rd Kodansha Manga Award, commemorating 110 years since Kodansha's founding.[35]

References

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  2. ^ 課長 島耕作（１７） (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
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  24. ^ 学生 島耕作（１） (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  25. ^ 学生 島耕作（6） (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
  26. ^ 学生 島耕作 就活編 (1) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
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  30. ^ 転生したら島耕作だった件. Kodansha. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  31. ^ 「騎士団長 島耕作」ゼロサムで連載決定！弘兼憲史「中世の騎士を楽しみにしている」. Natalie.mu (in Japanese). Natasha. January 28, 2019. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  32. ^ 騎士団長 島耕作 1巻 (in Japanese). Ichijinsha. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  33. ^ 島耕作が相談役退任、会社去る 「ハツシバ」時代から半世紀勤務. Asahi (in Japanese). February 22, 2022. Archived from the original on March 26, 2022. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
  34. ^ Joel Hahn. "Kodansha Manga Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 2007-11-21. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
  35. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (May 10, 2019). "43rd Annual Kodansha Manga Awards' Winners Announced". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 28, 2020.

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