Nagi no Oitoma

Did You Know?

• The protagonist Nagi Ōshima is a 28-year-old employee who quits her job and moves to the suburbs to start over.
• The spin-off series was serialized on the Champion Tap! website from January 26, 2017, to April 12, 2018.

Media

Misato Konari created the manga Nagi no Oitoma, which ran in Akita Shoten's josei magazine Elegance Eve from June 2016 to February 2025. Twelve collected volumes were published between June 2017 and June 2025. A spin-off series appeared on the Champion Tap! website from January 2017 to April 2018. A ten-episode live-action television adaptation aired on TBS from July to September 2019. Haru Kuroki starred as Nagi Ōshima. The drama was helmed by directors Toshio Tsuboi, Takeyoshi Yamamoto, Nobuhiro Doi, and Maiko Ōuchi, with a script by Satomi Ōshima. Yoshihiko Nakai produced the series, Pascals handled the music, and Miwa provided the theme song "Reboot."

Reception

The manga's circulation grew steadily, reaching over 1.5 million copies by October 2018, then 2 million by May 2019, 3 million by September 2019, 4 million by January 2021, and finally 5 million by May 2023. In the 2018 Manga Taishō awards, it earned a nomination and placed third among twelve contenders with 56 points; the following year it ranked tenth out of thirteen nominees with 25 points. On Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list for female readers, the series took third place in 2019, dropped to eleventh in 2020, and climbed back to sixth in 2026.

It received a nomination for the 23rd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2019, and that same year won the Excellence Award in the Manga Division at the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival. Da Vinci magazine's "Book of the Year" list ranked it ninth in 2019 and twentieth in 2025. The series was also nominated for the 43rd Kodansha Manga Award in the shōjo category. In 2020, it won the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in the same category.

The drama adaptation earned the Best Picture Award at the 102nd Television Drama Academy Awards and the 17th Confidence Award Drama Prize in 2019, plus the Excellent Award at the 2020 International Drama Festival in Tokyo.