Tsuredure Children


Tsuredure Children is a Japanese four-panel manga written and illustrated by Toshiya Wakabayashi. An anime adaptation by Studio Gokumi aired from July 4 to September 19, 2017. Funimation has licensed the series in North America.

Plot

Tsuredure Children tells various romantic stories about how it is hard to say "I love you", between young male and female students attending the same high school, in an omnibus format. All of the stories are loosely connected to each other.

Characters

Second year

;Haruhiko Takase
;Saki Kanda
;Jun Furuya
;Yuki Minagawa
;Takurō Sugawara
;Chizuru Takano
;Takeru Gōda
;Ayaka Kamine
;Chiaki Uchimura
;Kana Ījima
;Ayane Matsuura
;Chiyo Kurihara
;Takao Yamane
;Tomomichi Motoyama
;Kazuko Hosokawa

Third year

;Masafumi Akagi
;Ryōko Kaji
;Shin'ichi Katori
;Satsuki Sasahara
;Erika Shibasaki

First year

;Hotaru Furuya
;Yūki Kaga
;Kaoru Nanase

Others

;Hideki Yukawa

Media

Manga

Wakabayashi originally started publishing the story online in 2012 without actually giving it a title; it became known simply as "Toshiya Wakabayashi's 4-koma comic collection". Afterward, it started serialization in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine on August 9, 2014 and was published in the magazine until March 9, 2015. The manga was transferred to Weekly Shōnen Magazine starting on April 15, 2015. with entirely redrawn art. The series ended on July 11, 2018, and has been collected into 12 tankōbon volumes.
In North America, Kodansha USA has started digitally publishing an English version.
VolumeRelease dateISBNASINSource
1August 16, 2014
2January 9, 2015
3June 17, 2015
4December 17, 2015
5April 15, 2016
6August 17, 2016
7February 17, 2017
8June 16, 2017
9October 17, 2017
10November 17, 2017
11March 16, 2018
12August 17, 2018

Anime

A TV anime adaptation was announced in February 2017. Studio Gokumi produced the anime with Hiraku Kaneko directing, series scripts is written by Tatsuhiko Urahata, and Etsuko Sumimoto is the character designer adapting Wakabayashi's original designs. The anime aired from July 4 to September 19, 2017 on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, and BS11. NAS produced the anime. Inori Minase performed the opening theme titled "Ai Mai Moko" while Yui Ogura performed the ending theme titled "Dear". The anime episodes will be released as DVDs bundled with the limited edition of manga volume 9, 10, and 11, each contains 4 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the anime. Funimation has licensed the series in North America.

Episode list