Sunny (manga)

Sunny
The cover of the first volume of Sunny
Genre Drama,[1] slice of life[2]
Manga
Written by Taiyō Matsumoto
Published by Shogakukan
English publisher Viz Media
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Monthly Ikki (December 25, 2010 – September 25, 2014)
Monthly Big Comic Spirits (January 27, 2015 – July 27, 2015)
Original run December 25, 2010 – July 27, 2015
Volumes 6

Sunny is a Japanese slice of life seinen manga series created by Taiyō Matsumoto. It was serialized in Monthly Ikki by Shogakukan[3][4] and later transferred to Monthly Big Comic Spirits on January 27, 2015.[5][6] Sunny ended on July 27, 2015.[7]

Volumes

No.Japanese release dateJapanese ISBNEnglish release dateEnglish ISBN
1 August 30, 2011[8] ISBN 978-4-09-188557-9May 21, 2013[9] ISBN 978-1-4215-5525-6
2 February 29, 2012[10] ISBN 978-4-09-188576-0November 19, 2013[11] ISBN 978-1-4215-5526-3
3 January 30, 2013[12] ISBN 978-4-09-188613-2April 15, 2014[13] ISBN 978-1-4215-5969-8
4 October 30, 2013[14] ISBN 978-4-09-188635-4October 21, 2014[15] ISBN 978-1-4215-7340-3
5 May 30, 2014[16] ISBN 978-4-09-188654-5July 7, 2015[17] ISBN 978-1-4215-7972-6
6 October 30, 2015[18] ISBN 978-4-09-188685-9November 15, 2016[19] ISBN 978-1-4215-8860-5

Reception

Volume 1 was chosen as one of the Great Graphic Novels 2014 in the fiction section by the Young Adult Library Services Association.[20][21] It won the award for Best Graphic Novel at the 2nd Cartoonist Studio Prize.[3] It was nominated for Best American Edition of Foreign Material at the 2014 Harvey Awards.[22] In 2016, the manga won the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category, sharing it with Umimachi Diary.[23] It was also picked as a nominee for 'Best Comic' in the 44th annual Angoulême International Comics Festival held in 2017.[24]

On Anime News Network, Rebecca Silverman gave volume 1 an overall grade of B+.[25] Greg McElhatton of Comic Book Resources praised the art and claimed it was "the most accessible Matsumoto manga to date" in his review of the first volume.[26]

References

  1. ↑ "The Official Website for Sunny". Viz Media. Retrieved October 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Taiyo Matsumoto to End Sunny Manga Next Month". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Taiyo Matsumoto's Sunny Manga Wins Cartoonist Studio Prize". Anime News Network. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "Tekkonkinkreet's Taiyo Matsumoto to Start Sunny Manga". Anime News Network. 25 November 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  5. ↑ "Monthly Ikki Magazine Suspends Publication". 19 July 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Monthly Ikki's Replacement Magazine's Line-Up Announced". Anime News Network. September 24, 2014. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Taiyo Matsumoto to End Sunny Manga Next Month". Anime News Network. June 28, 2015. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
  8. ↑ Ｓｕｎｎｙ　第１集 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Sunny, Vol. 1". Viz Media. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  10. ↑ Ｓｕｎｎｙ　２ (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Sunny, Vol. 2". Viz Media. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  12. ↑ Ｓｕｎｎｙ　３ (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  13. ↑ "Sunny, Vol. 3". Viz Media. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  14. ↑ Ｓｕｎｎｙ　４ (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  15. ↑ "Sunny, Vol. 4". Viz Media. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  16. ↑ Ｓｕｎｎｙ　５ (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  17. ↑ "Sunny, Vol. 5". Viz Media. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  18. ↑ Ｓｕｎｎｙ　６ (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  19. ↑ "Sunny, Vol. 6". Viz Media. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  20. ↑ "Great Graphic Novels 2014". www.ala.org. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  21. ↑ "Strobe Edge Ranks in YALSA's Top 10 Graphic Novels for Teens". Anime News Network. 2 February 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  22. ↑ "Attack on Titan, Sunny, Showa: A History of Showa Japan Get Harvey Nods". Anime News Network. 16 July 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  23. ↑ "Haikyu!!, My Love Story!!, Sunny Win Shogakukan Manga Awards". Anime News Network. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  24. ↑ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (December 18, 2016). "Inuyashiki, Sunny, My Brother's Husband, Chiisakobee Nominated For Angoulême's Top Prize". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  25. ↑ "Sunny GN 1". Anime News Network. 9 June 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  26. ↑ McElhatton, Greg. "Sunny Vol. 1". Read About Comics. Retrieved 24 February 2018.


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