Tokyo Tarareba Musume

Tokyo Tarareba Musume
Cover of volume 1.
東京タラレバ娘
Genre	comedy, romance
Manga
Written by	Akiko Higashimura
Published by	Kodansha
Demographic	josei
Magazine	Kiss
Original run	March 24, 2014 – present
Volumes	7
Television drama
Produced by	Masatoshi Kato
Written by	Yūko Matsuda
Original network	NTV
Original run	January 2017 – scheduled

Tokyo Tarareba Musume (東京タラレバ娘^?) is an ongoing Japanese romance comedy manga series written and illustrated by Akiko Higashimura and published by Kodansha since March 24, 2014, with serialization on the josei manga magazine Kiss, and with the chapters compiled into six tankōbon volumes so far. A Japanese television drama series adaptation is scheduled to be broadcast on NTV starting in January 2017.

Rinko, a storywriter living in Tokyo remains unmarried at 33. She hasn't been satisfied both in love and at work and often drinks with Kaori and Koyuki, her best friends since high school. One day, when the three women drink at an izakaya, making complaints against men they've dated before as usual, a mysterious handsome man with blonde hair comes and tells them the reason they stay unmarried is they are just talking about "If I had done..." or "If he had been...". After this, Rinko makes up her mind to get married by 2020, the year of Tokyo Olympic Games.

Tarareba is a portmanteau of "tara" and "reba", both of which means "if" in Japanese.

Volume 2 reached the 5th place on the weekly Oricon manga chart and, as of May 24, 2015, had sold 95,639 copies; volume 3 reached the 17th place on the chart and, as of August 23, 2015, had sold 110,632 copies; volume 4 reached the 12th place and, as of December 20, 2015, had sold 114,433 copies; volume 5 reached the 6th place and, as of May 29, 2015, had sold 157,244 copies; volume 6 reached the 4th place and, as of September 18, 2016, had sold 112,865 copies; volume 7 reached the 1st place and, as of January 21, 2017, had sold 73,574 copies.