Days is a Japanese sportsshōnenmanga series written and illustrated by Tsuyoshi Yasuda. It is published by Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine since April 2013, with its chapters compiled into 38 individual tankōbon volumes as of May 2020. An anime television series adaptation produced by MAPPA was broadcast from July to December 2016. As of January 2017, the manga had over 4.5 million copies in circulation. In 2016, the manga won the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in the shōnen category.
Plot
Days follows the struggles of Tsukushi Tsukamoto, a shy, clumsy and bullied teenager about to start high school. He decides to get into Seiseki High School so he can be with his neighbor and childhood friend Sayuri Tachibana, who is one year his senior. Just as he is bullied after visiting Sayuri at her work, Tsukushi is saved by Jin Kazama, who scares away the bullies by attacking them with nunchucks, and declares himself to be a vagrant and lost in town. Jin then asks Tsukushi if he likes soccer and asks him to join him the same night for a futsal match as his team is one player short. Tsukushi surprises Jin by showing up after running almost ten miles under the heavy rain and without one shoe, after another run-in with his bullies. Short, young and clumsy, Tsukushi plays incredibly bad but keeps running throughout the whole match despite having injured his foot, showing such an effort that it motivates his other teammates. After a final sprint, Tsukushi manages to score the decisive goal, smashing his head against the pole by doing it. He finds out later that Jin will also be a freshman at Seiseki, and decides to join the soccer club to play with him, unknowing that the soccer club in Seiseki is nationwide famous and looked after by students from all the country. He manages to make it to the team despite being incredibly frail, weak and clumsy thanks to his continuous efforts and amazing perseverance, and further he shows incredible ability in motivating the rest of the team to work as hard as possible.
Written and illustrated by Yasuda Tsuyoshi, Days began in Weekly Shōnen Magazine on April 24, 2013. Kodansha has compiled its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on July 17, 2013. As of May 15, 2020, thirty-eight volume have been published. Kodansha USA publishes the manga in a digital-only format.
Anime
An anime television adaptation by MAPPA began airing on July 2, 2016. Crunchyroll streams the series with English subtitles as it airs in Japan. Crunchyroll misreported that the Days anime had been licensed for a second season, but the television anime's story will end with three original anime DVDs in 2018. The project will depict the All-Japan High School Soccer Tournament's Tokyo Preliminary Round with Tōin Academy, and it will be available in limited editions of manga volumes 26 to 28 on March 16, May 17, and July 17. Two original video animations are bundled with the 21st and 22nd volumes of the manga, released on March 17, 2017 and May 17, 2017, respectively.
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Reception
Volume 2 reached the 44th place on the weekly Oricon manga charts and, as of September 22, 2013, has sold 24,745 copies; volume 3 reached the 36th place and, as of November 24, 2013, has sold 35,528 copies; volume 4 reached the 41st place and, as of January 19, 2014, has sold 24,837 copies; volume 5 reached the 32nd place and, as of March 23, 2014, has sold 41,911 copies; volume 6 reached the 40th place and, as of May 18, 2014, has sold 25,067 copies; volume 7 reached the 25th place and, as of July 20, 2014, has sold 34,421 copies; volume 8 reached the 18th place and, as of September 21, 2014, has sold 41,871 copies; volume 9 reached the 21st place and, as of December 21, 2014, has sold 44,586 copies; volume 10 reached the 20th place and, as of February 22, 2015, has sold 49,901 copies. The manga had 4.5 million copies in print as of January 2017. The series was nominated for the shōnen category at the 39th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2015, and won in the same category at the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016. It was also number twelve in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2014.
