Sora no Manimani

Sora no Manimani
Sora no Manimani manga volume 1 cover.
宙のまにまに
Genre	Romantic comedy, Slice of life
Manga
Written by	Mami Kashiwabara
Published by	Kodansha
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Afternoon
Original run	November 2005 – September 2011
Volumes	10
Anime television series
Directed by	Shinji Takamatsu
Studio	Studio Comet
Original network	AT-X
Original run	July 7, 2009 – September 22, 2009
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)

Sora no Manimani (宙のまにまに, At the Mercy of the Sky^?) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Mami Kashiwabara. The manga was serialized between the November 2005 and September 2011 issues of Kodansha's Afternoon manga magazine, and was collected into 10 volumes. A 12-episode anime adaptation by Studio Comet and directed by Shinji Takamatsu aired in Japan between July and September 2009.

Sora no Manimani revolves around Saku Ōyagi, a bookworm who moves back to the town he lived in as a child after seven years. He had a childhood friend named Mihoshi Akeno who loved astronomy and would always take Saku outside against his will to look at the stars, or do other outdoor activities, whereas Saku would rather have stayed inside with his books. Saku broke his arm the day he moved away after trying to catch Mihoshi falling out of a tree; Saku resented her for this, and that she never saw him off. However, this was a misunderstanding since he was too stubborn to listen to the whole story (the fall had put her in the hospital so she could not see him off), and later becomes friends with Mihoshi again after they meet attending the same high school. Mihoshi convinces Saku to join the astronomy club she is a member of, despite Saku actually wanting to join literature club instead. Hime Makita, a girl in Saku's class who has a crush on him, also joins the astronomy club.

The manga, written and illustrated by Mami Kashiwabara, was serialized in Kodansha's Afternoon between the November 2005 and September 2011 issues. It was collected into 10 tankōbon volumes released in Japan between June 23, 2006 and September 23, 2011.