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Junjo Romantica: Pure Romance

Junjo Romantica: Pure Romance
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Cover of the first Japanese tankōbon volume
純情ロマンチカ
(Junjō Romanchika)
Genre Yaoi, Comedy, Romance, Slice of life
Manga
Written by Shungiku Nakamura
Published by Kadokawa Shoten
English publisher
Demographic Shōjo
Magazine Asuka Ciel (until 2014), Emerald (now)
Original run December 14, 2003 – present
Volumes 20 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Junjou Romantica
Directed by Chiaki Kon
Music by MOKA☆
Studio Studio Deen
Licensed by
Original network TV Hokkaido
Original run April 10, 2008June 26, 2008
Episodes 12
Anime television series
Junjou Romantica 2
Directed by Chiaki Kon
Music by MOKA☆
Studio Studio Deen
Licensed by
Original network TV Hokkaido
Original run October 12, 2008December 27, 2008
Episodes 12
Original video animation
Directed by Chiaki Kon
Studio Studio Deen
Released December 20, 2012
Runtime 25 minutes
Anime television series
Junjou Romantica 3
Directed by Chiaki Kon
Music by MOKA☆
Studio Studio Deen
Licensed by
Original network Tokyo MX, SUN TV, AT-X, tvk, CTC, TVS, Gifu TV, BS11, TVQ
Original run July 8, 2015September 23, 2015
Episodes 12
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Junjo Romantica: Pure Romance (Japanese: 純情ロマンチカ/ピュア ロマンス Hepburn: Junjō Romanchika?, lit. "Pure-Hearted Romantica"), stylized as Junjo Romantica ~Pure Romance~, is a yaoi series by Shungiku Nakamura. It focuses on four storylines: the main couple, which comprises the bulk of the books, and three other male couples that provide ongoing side stories ("Junjo Egoist", "Junjo Terrorist", and "Junjo Mistake"). It has expanded into several CD-dramas, a manga series running in Asuka Ciel, a light novel series titled "Junai Romantica" running in The Ruby magazine, and a 67-episode anime series. The third season was recently released in July 2015.

Shungiku Nakamura has written a second series based on Junjou Romantica titled Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi (lit. "The World's Greatest First Love") focusing on a shōjo manga editor and his first love, which was also animated by Studio Deen in 2011.

Written by Shungiku Nakamura, Junjo Romantica: Pure Romance began serialization in Asuka Ciel in 2002. The individual chapters have been compiled into fifteen tankōbon volumes by Kadokawa Shoten. The first volume was released on June 2, 2003; as of July 1, 2015, 19 volumes have been released.

The series was licensed for an English-language release in North America by Blu Manga, an imprint of Tokyopop, until Tokyopop's closure in May 2011. As of April 2011, 12 English volumes have been released. An attempt to gauge relative sales of manga titles by online vendors (based on publicly available "bestseller" listings) suggests that Junjo Romantica was the best-selling yaoi manga series of 2008 among online vendors. Volume 10 was #6 in the manga category of the New York Times "Graphic Books" weekly bestseller list for July 11, 2009, and volume 12 was #4 on the same list for September 10, 2010.


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