The Limit | |
Cover of the first manga volume
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リミット (Rimitto) |
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Genre | Drama |
Manga | |
Written by | Keiko Suenobu |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher | |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Magazine | Bessatsu Friend |
Original run | October 13, 2009 – September 13, 2011 |
Volumes | 6 |
Television drama | |
Music by | Kōji Endō |
Original network | TV Tokyo |
Original run | July 12, 2013 – September 27, 2013 |
Episodes | 12 |
The Limit (Japanese: リミット? Hepburn: Rimitto) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Keiko Suenobu.
This manga focuses on Mizuki Konno, a typical high school junior at Yanno Prefectual High School. A group of high school girls is on their way to an exchange camp when the bus driver passes out and causes the bus to drop from a cliff. The few survivors gather together and try to survive until rescue arrives.
A live-action drama version of the manga aired on TV Tokyo between July 12, 2013, and September 27, 2013.
Cast
Carlo Santos of Anime News Network (ANN) gave volume 1 a B-. Rebecca Silverman, also of ANN, gave it a B.
By July 17, 2011, volume 5 had sold 30,934 copies in Japan. By December 18, 2011, volume 6 had sold 32,754 copies in Japan. In the week of October 14 to 20, 2012, volume 1 ranked in second place in the list of The New York Times Manga Best Sellers. It has sold 10 million copies in Japan.