Kosaku Shima
Kosaku Shima (Japanese: 島耕作, Hepburn: Shima Kōsaku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane. It depicts the growth and career of a fictional salaryman named Kōsaku Shima. It has been serialized in Kodansha's Morning, starting with the first series Kachō Shima Kōsaku in 1983 and has currently been divided into eight parts. The current part, Shagai Torishimariyaku Shima Kōsaku, began in 2022.
| Kosaku Shima | |
Kachō Shima Kōsaku volume 1 cover | |
| 課長島耕作 (Kachō Shima Kōsaku) | |
|---|---|
| Manga | |
| Kōsaku Shima Series | |
| Written by | Kenshi Hirokane |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Magazine | Morning |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | 1983 – present |
| Volumes | 80 |
The manga has also been published as 7 bilingual volumes (Japanese-English) called Division Chief Kosaku Shima and President Kosaku Shima, and in French and German. In addition to various manga there has also been one comedic ONA, and two comedic anime adaptations lasting 11 episodes each, a live action film, and a single episode TV drama. The character also acts as the "host" or framing device for a business documentary series on NHK World, Shima Kosaku's Asian Entrepreneurs.
As of February 2022, the series had over 47 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series. In 1991, the manga won the 15th Kodansha Manga Award in the General category.