Final volume cover, featuring (from top) Sentarō Kawabuchi, Kaoru Nishimi, and Ritsuko Mukae
坂道のアポロン (Sakamichi no Aporon)
Genre
Coming-of-age[1]
Romance[2]
Slice of life[2]
Created by
Yuki Kodama
Manga
Written by
Yuki Kodama
Published by
Shogakukan
Imprint
Flower Comics Alpha
Magazine
Monthly Flowers
Demographic
Josei
Original run
28 September 2007 – 28 July 2012
Volumes
10
Anime television series
Directed by
Shinichirō Watanabe
Produced by
Noriko Ozaki
Daisuke Konaka
Written by
Ayako Katō
Yūko Kakihara
Music by
Yoko Kanno
Studio
MAPPA
Tezuka Productions
Licensed by
AUS:Hanabee
NA:Sentai Filmworks
UK:Anime Limited
Original network
Fuji TV (Noitamina)
English network
NA:Anime Network, Neon Alley
Original run
12 April 2012 – 28 June 2012
Episodes
12 (List of episodes)
Live-action film
Directed by
Takahiro Miki
Written by
Izumi Takahashi [ja]
Music by
Suzuki Masato
Studio
Asmik Ace
C&I Entertainment [ja]
Released
10 March 2018 (2018-03-10)
Runtime
120 minutes
Kids on the Slope (Japanese: 坂道のアポロン, Hepburn: Sakamichi no Aporon, lit. "Apollo on the Slope") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Kodama. It was serialized in the manga magazine Monthly Flowers from 2007 to 2012, and was published as ten tankōbon volumes (collected editions) by Shogakukan. The series follows Kaoru Nishimi, an introverted high school student who discovers jazz music through his friendship with his delinquent classmate Sentarō Kawabuchi.
The series has been adapted twice: as a television anime series in 2012, and as a live-action film directed by Takahiro Miki in 2018. The anime adaptation is directed by Shinichirō Watanabe with music by Yoko Kanno, making it the third collaboration between Watanabe and Kanno following Macross Plus (1994–1995) and Cowboy Bebop (1998). The series was produced by MAPPA and Tezuka Productions, and aired on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block. In North America, the series was licensed by Sentai Filmworks and aired on the streaming service Crunchyroll, which simulcast the series during its original broadcast run.
The anime adaption of Kids on the Slope was widely acclaimed, with praise given to its direction, narrative, and music. Critics explored Kids on the Slope's depiction of Catholicism in Japan, its themes of male friendship and subtextual homoeroticism, and its relation to Watanabe's broader canon of works in their analysis of the series. Multiple outlets listed Kids on the Slope as among the best anime of the 2010s.
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