Tsugumomo is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Hamada, started in 2007. Two volumes of the series were published in English by the now-defunct JManga service between August 2011 and March 2012. An animetelevision series adaptation aired from April to June 2017. A second season premiered on April 5, 2020.
Tsugumomo is written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Hamada, who began serializing the manga in 2007. The series was initially published in Futabasha's Comic Seed! web magazine, before being moved to their WEB Comic High! magazine on August 20, 2008. It later switched to the publisher's new Monthly Action magazine with the first issue on May 25, 2013. The first volume of the series was one of the titles made available in English upon the launch of the digital manga publishing website JManga on August 17, 2011. The second volume was added on March 22, 2012. Those two volumes were the only ones published before the company shut down in May 2013.
Anime
An anime adaptation of the series was announced via a wraparound band on the 18th volume of the manga on September 12, 2016, and was later confirmed to be a television series. It premiered in April 2017. The anime television series is directed and had scripts written by Ryōichi Kuraya at studio Zero-G. Yasuharu Takanashi composed the music at Pony Canyon. The anime aired from April 3 to June 19, 2017 on Animax, Tokyo MX and BS11. The series ran for 12 episodes. Crunchyroll licensed the series and streamed it in North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Funimation dubbed it and released it on home video in North America. A second season titled Tsugu Tsugumomo has been announced, and aired from April 5 to June 21, 2020, with the staff and cast members reprising their roles. A new 20-minute original video animation was also produced through crowdfunding. It was bundled with the manga's 24th volume released on January 22, 2020.
Reception
Sales
The 7th volume of the series ranked at 22nd place on the Oricon manga sales chart, selling 19,102 copies; the 9th volume ranked at 29th place, with 23,470 copies sold; the 10th volume also ranked at 29th, with 24,454 copies sold; the 12th volume reached 16th place, with 22,500 copies sold; the 13th volume ranked at 24th place, with 22,551 copies sold; the 15th volume ranked at 42nd place, with 24,145 copies sold; the 17th volume reached 45th place, with 17,843 copies sold, and the 18th volume ranked at 44th place, with 19,563 copies sold.
