The Full-Time Wife Escapist | |
逃げるは恥だが役に立つ (Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu) | |
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Genre | |
Manga | |
Written by | Tsunami Umino |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher | Kodansha Comics |
Magazine | Kiss |
Demographic | Josei |
Original run | November 9, 2012 – April 13, 2020 |
Volumes | 11 |
Television drama | |
Directed by | Fuminori Kaneko |
Produced by | Yasuharu Ishii Nobuhiro Doi |
Written by | Akiko Nogi |
Music by | Kenichiro Suehiro MAYUKO |
Licensed by | Viki |
Original network | TBS |
Original run | October 11, 2016 – December 20, 2016 |
Episodes | 11 |
The Full-Time Wife Escapist (逃げるは恥だが役に立つ, Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu, lit. Running away is shameful, but useful) is a Japanese romance josei manga series written and illustrated by Tsunami Umino. The original title is from a Hungarian proverb szégyen a futás, de hasznos, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈse̝ːɟɛnɒ ˌfutɑ̈ːʃ dɛ ˈhɒsnoʃ].[1] It was published by Kodansha, with serialization in Kiss magazine since November 9, 2012[2] and eleven volumes released across the whole series timeframe.[3]
The series later got a live-action adaptation that began airing on TBS in October 2016, with Yui Aragaki and Gen Hoshino as the leads. Viki has licensed the series in North America. Aragaki and Hoshino, the leads, would go on to marry in real life.[4]
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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1 | June 13, 2013[5] | 978-4-06-340911-6 | February 28, 2017[6] | 978-1-68-233479-9 |
2 | October 11, 2013[7] | 978-4-06-340920-8 | April 25, 2017[8] | 978-1-68-233589-5 |
3 | February 13, 2014[9] | 978-4-06-340924-6 | May 23, 2017[10] | 978-1-68-233590-1 |
4 | October 10, 2014[11] | 978-4-06-340936-9 | July 11, 2017[12] | 978-1-68-233591-8 |
5 | April 13, 2015[13] | 978-4-06-340954-3 | August 8, 2017[14] | 978-1-68-233600-7 |
6 | October 25, 2015[15] | 978-4-06-340968-0 | November 7, 2017[16] | 978-1-68-233964-0 |
7 | June 13, 2016[17] | 978-4-06-340984-0 | December 5, 2017[18] | 978-1-64-212052-3 |
8 | October 13, 2016[19] | 978-4-06-340998-7 | December 26, 2017[20] | 978-1-64-212084-4 |
9 | March 13, 2017[21] | 978-4-06-398013-4 (regular edition) 978-4-06-362356-7 (special edition) | January 30, 2018[22] | 978-1-64-212109-4 |
10 | August 9, 2019[23] | 978-4-06-516720-5 | December 27, 2022[24] | 978-1-68-491559-0 |
11 | April 13, 2020[25] | 978-4-06-519231-3 | February 21, 2023[26] | 978-1-68-491660-3 |
Volume 5 reached the 47th place on the weekly Oricon manga charts and, as of April 19, 2015, had sold 20,288 copies.[27]
The series won the award for Best Shōjo Manga at the 39th Kodansha Manga Awards.[28]
The television drama was very popular[29] and the ending theme Koi (恋) by Gen Hoshino featuring the cast dancing the Koi Dance ("love dance") became a craze in Japan.[30] As of 2023, the music video for the song currently has over 280 million views on YouTube.[31]