Junjo Romantica: Pure Romance
| Junjo Romantica: Pure Romance | |
Cover of the first Japanese tankōbon volume
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純情ロマンチカ (Junjō Romanchika) |
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| 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 |
| 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, 2008 – June 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, 2008 – December 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, 2015 – September 23, 2015 |
| Episodes | 12 |
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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