Aoi Honō

Aoi Honō (アオイホノオ, lit. "Blue Blazes") is a Japanese coming-of-age manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Shimamoto. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from March 2007 to July 2008, when the magazine ceased its publication; a chapter was published in YS Special in October 2008, before being transferred to Shogakukan's then-brand-new shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sunday in May 2009. Aoi Honō is a fictionalized account of Shimamoto's time as a student at the Osaka University of Arts, which he attended alongside Hideaki Anno, Hiroyuki Yamaga, and Takami Akai.

Aoi Honō
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Moyuru Honō
アオイホノオ
GenreComing-of-age
Manga
Written byKazuhiko Shimamoto
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics Special
Magazine
  • Weekly Young Sunday
  • (March 8, 2007–July 31, 2008)
  • YS Special
  • (October 2008)
  • Monthly Shōnen Sunday
  • (May 12, 2009–present)
DemographicSeinen, shōnen
Original runMarch 8, 2007 – present
Volumes28
Television drama
Blue Fire
Directed byYuichi Fukuda
Produced byJunpei Nakagawa
Written byYuichi Fukuda
Music byEishi Segawa
StudioTV Tokyo
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run July 19, 2014 – September 27, 2014
Episodes11

It was adapted into a live-action Japanese television drama, titled Blue Fire in English, that aired from July to October 2014. The drama was streamed on Viki with English subtitles. The real Takami Akai and Hiroyuki Yamaga make cameos in the television series: Akai plays a bathhouse manager in episode 10, while Yamaga plays the bartender at a restaurant where his counterpart passes out (which, according to Yamaga, is based on an actual incident) in episode 7.

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