Oboreru Knife

Oboreru Knife
Cover of volume 1.
溺れるナイフ
Genre	Romance, slice of life
Manga
Written by	George Asakura
Published by	Kodansha
Demographic	shōjo
Magazine	Bessatsu Friend
Original run	October 13, 2004 – December 13, 2013
Volumes	17
Manga
Oboreru Knife: Yūgyo no Shizuku Iwa no Yume
Published	2012
Live-action film
Oboreru Knife

Oboreru Knife (溺れるナイフ^?) is a Japanese slice of life romance shōjo manga series written and illustrated by George Asakura and published by Kodansha. The chapters were serialized on Bessatsu Friend from October 13, 2004 to December 13, 2013 and compiled into 17 tankōbon volumes. It was published in French by Delcourt. A live action film adaptation of the same name is scheduled for release on November 5, 2016.

Volume 8 reached the 4th place on the Oricon weekly manga charts, selling 32,037 copies as of August 16, 2009; volume 9 reached the 23rd place, selling 29,902 copies as of January 17, 2010; volume 12 also reached the 23rd place, with 18,588 copies sold as of May 15, 2011; volume 14 reached the 22nd place, with 27,609 copies sold as of November 18, 2012; volume 15 reached the 40th place, selling 30,738 copies as of May 18, 2013; volume 16 reached the 25th place, selling 23,898 copies as of November 17, 2013; volume 17 reached the 18th place, selling 22,092 copies as of February 16, 2014.