Kin-iro Mosaic | |
Cover of the first manga volume, featuring the main characters (from left-to-right): Karen Kujo, Shinobu Omiya, and Alice Cartelet
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きんいろモザイク (Kin'iro Mozaiku) |
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Genre | ComedyYuri |
Manga | |
Written by | Yui Hara |
Published by | Houbunsha |
English publisher | |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Manga Time Kirara Max |
Original run | June 2010 – present |
Volumes | 6 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Tensho |
Written by | Yuniko Ayana |
Music by | Ruka Kawada |
Studio | Studio Gokumi |
Licensed by | |
Original network | AT-X, Tokyo MX, BS11 Digital |
English network | |
Original run | July 6, 2013 – September 21, 2013 |
Episodes | 12 |
Anime television series | |
Hello!! Kin-iro Mosaic | |
Directed by | Tensho |
Written by | Yuniko Ayana |
Music by | Ruka Kawada |
Studio | Studio Gokumi |
Licensed by | |
Original network | AT-X, Tokyo MX, SUN, KBS, TVh, TVA, BS11 |
English network | |
Original run | April 5, 2015 – June 21, 2015 |
Episodes | 12 |
Kin-iro Mosaic (Japanese: きんいろモザイク Hepburn: Kin'iro Mozaiku?, lit. "Golden Mosaic"), also known by the abbreviation Kinmoza (きんモザ?), is a Japanese 4-panel manga written and illustrated by Yui Hara. The series began serialization in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Max magazine in June 2010 and is licensed in English by Yen Press. A television anime adaptation by Studio Gokumi aired in Japan between July and September 2013, with a second season airing between April and June 2015.
Shinobu Omiya is a Japanese high school girl who, five years ago, had a homestay in England with a girl named Alice Cartelet. One day, Shinobu receives a letter from Alice saying she is coming to Japan to live with her. Surely enough, Alice appears and joins Shinobu and her friends Aya Komichi and Yoko Inokuma at her school, soon followed by Alice's friend from England, Karen Kujo.
The original manga by Yui Hara began serialization in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Max magazine in June 2010. Six tankōbon volumes and an anthology comic have been released as of June 27, 2015. The series has been licensed in English by Yen Press.