Lovely Muco (Japanese: いとしのムーコ, Hepburn: Itoshi no Mūko) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takayuki Mizushina. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Evening from April 2011 to September 2020, with its chapters collected in 17 tankōbon volumes. It tells the story of Muco, the Shiba Inu of glassblower Komatsu-san.[5]
Written and illustrated by Takayuki Mizushina, Lovely Muco was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Evening from 12 April 2011[6] to 23 September 2020.[7] Kodansha collected its chapters in 17 tankōbon volumes, released from 23 April 2012[8] to 23 November 2020.[9]
In 2013 and 2014, a short anime based on the manga by Doga Kobo was used as interstitials on the Fuji TV programme Non-Stop!. A separate anime series started airing on 3 October 2015.[42][43]
Reception
Lovely Muco ranked sixth on the "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2013" poll by Honya Club online bookstore.[44]
^"ラブリームービー いとしのムーコ シーズン2" (in Japanese). Fuji Television On Demand. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
^テレビ東京・あにてれ いとしのムーコ (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. Archived from the original on 3 August 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
^秋田・ガラス作家の愛犬モデルの漫画「いとしのムーコ」、コミック誌に連載へ [Dog model of Akita-glass artist cartoon "beloved of Muko", to serialized in comic magazine] (in Japanese). Akita Keizai Shimbun. 7 April 2011. Archived from the original on 1 November 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.