Aoi Honō

アオイホノオ
Aoi Honō
The cover of the first tankōbon of Aoi Honō
Genre	Coming-of-age story, drama
Manga
Written by	Kazuhiko Shimamoto
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Young Sunday Spirits Zokan YS Special Monthly Shōnen Sunday
Original run	2007 – present
Volumes	16
Television drama
Directed by	Yūichi Fukuda
Written by	Yūichi Fukuda
Music by	Eishi Segawa
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	July 2014 – October 2014
Episodes	11

Aoi Honō (アオイホノオ^?, lit. "Blue Blazes") is a Japanese coming-of-age manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Shimamoto. It is a fictionalized account of his time as a student at the Osaka University of Arts, which he attended alongside Hideaki Anno, Hiroyuki Yamaga, and Takami Akai. It was adapted into a Japanese television drama that aired in July 2014 and ended in October 2014.

It received 23 points in the 3rd Manga Taishō, placing last among the ten nominees.

In February 2015, Asahi Shimbun announced that Aoi Honō was one of nine nominees for the nineteenth annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Volume 2 sold 24,521 copies by 17 May 2009, volume 9 sold 20,415 copies by 18 November 2012, and volume 10 sold 17,068 copies by 16 June 2013.