Chiisai Hito

Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari
First tankōbon volume cover
ちいさいひと 青葉児童相談所物語
GenreDrama[1]
Manga
Written byMitsuhiro Mizuno
Illustrated byJin Kyōchikutō [ja]
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
Magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runNovember 2, 2010 – October 25, 2013
Volumes6
Manga
Shin Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari
Written byMitsuhiro Mizuno
Illustrated byJin Kyōchikutō
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineShōnen Sunday S
DemographicShōnen
Original runJuly 25, 2016 – November 24, 2023
Volumes14

Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari (ちいさいひと 青葉児童相談所物語, "Little People: Aoba Children's Counseling Center Story") is a Japanese manga series written by Mitsuhiro Mizuno and illustrated by Jin Kyōchikutō [ja]. It was first serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from November 2010 to June 2012, and later in Shōnen Sunday S from June 2012 to October 2013, with its chapters collected in six tankōbon volumes. A sequel, Shin Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari, was serialized in Shōnen Sunday S from July 2016 to November 2023, with its chapters collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes.

Publication

Written by Mitsuhiro Mizuno and illustrated by Jin Kyōchikutō [ja], with cooperation of Junichi Komiya (a former Saitama Shimbun reporter who had been covering the abuse issue for about 20 years),[2] Chiisai Hito was first serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from November 2, 2010,[3] to June 20, 2012.[4] It was later serialized in Shōnen Sunday S from June 25, 2012,[5] to October 25, 2013.[6] Shogakukan collected its chapters in six tankōbon volumes, released from November 18, 2011,[7] to November 18, 2013.[8]

A sequel, titled Shin Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari (新・ちいさいひと 青葉児童相談所物語), was serialized in Shōnen Sunday S from July 25, 2016,[9] to November 24, 2023.[10] Shogakukan collected its chapters in fourteen tankōbon volumes, released from December 17, 2016,[11] to March 18, 2024.[12]

Chiisai Hito

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1 November 18, 2011[7]978-4-09-123449-0
2 April 18, 2012[13]978-4-09-123655-5
3 October 18, 2012[14]978-4-09-124002-6
4 January 18, 2013[15]978-4-09-124173-3
5 August 16, 2013[16]978-4-09-124369-0
6 November 18, 2013[8]978-4-09-124496-3

Shin Chiisai Hito

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1 December 16, 2016[11]978-4-09-127432-8
2 June 16, 2017[17]978-4-09-127650-6
3 January 18, 2018[18]978-4-09-128081-7
4 July 18, 2018[19]978-4-09-128340-5
5 January 18, 2019[20]978-4-09-128786-1
6 June 18, 2019[21]978-4-09-129229-2
7 January 17, 2020[22]978-4-09-129550-7
8 October 16, 2020[23]978-4-09-129550-7
9 May 18, 2021[24]978-4-09-850530-2
10 December 17, 2021[25]978-4-09-850740-5
11 June 17, 2022[26]978-4-09-851155-6
12 March 16, 2023[27]978-4-09-851777-0
13 February 16, 2024[28]978-4-09-853191-2
14 March 18, 2024[12]978-4-09-853192-9

Reception

Chiisai Hito was one of the 50 manga titles selected for a manga exhibition about the promotion of human rights, held by the Tokyo Metropolitan Human Rights Promotion Center in 2015.[29][30] In September 2015, the manga began its electronically distribution on Manga Kingdom and Comic Shogakukan Books, and the number of downloads exceeded 370,000 in about a month, the highest number of electronically distributed works by Shogakukan;[1] part of the sales were donated to the Orange Ribbon Campaign, as part of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's "Child Abuse Prevention Promotion Month".[31] According to Manga Zenkan, Chiisai Hito was the 17th best-selling manga in 2015.[32]

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