Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (Japanese: 漁港の肉子ちゃん, Hepburn: Gyokō no Nikuko-chan, "Nikuko of the Fishing Harbor") is a Japanese novel written by Kanako Nishi and published by Gentosha in April 2014. A manga adaptation with art by Sugisaku was serialized online via Gentosha's Comic Boost website from January 29, 2021 to March 11, 2022.^[2] It has been collected in two tankōbon volumes. An anime film adaptation by Studio 4°C premiered in Japan on June 11, 2021.

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
Novel volume cover
漁港の肉子ちゃん (Gyokō no Nikuko-chan)
Genre	Drama[1]
Novel
Written by	Kanako Nishi
Published by	Gentosha
Published	April 2014
Manga
Written by	Kanako Nishi
Illustrated by	Sugisaku
Published by	Gentosha
Magazine	Comic Boost
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	January 29, 2021 – March 11, 2022
Volumes	2 (List of volumes)
Anime film
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

Characters

Nikuko (肉子)

Voiced by: Shinobu Otake^[3]

Kikuko (キクコ)

Voiced by: Cocomi^[4]

Ninomiya (二宮)

Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae^[4]

Lizard (トカゲ)

Voiced by: Hiro Shimono^[5]

Gecko (ヤモリ)

Voiced by: Hiro Shimono^[5]

Sassan (サッサン)

Voiced by: Ikuji Nakamura^[6]

Miu (みう)

Voiced by: Riho Yoshioka^[6]

Darcia (ダリシア)

Voiced by: Matsuko Deluxe^[6]

Maria (マリア)

Voiced by: Izumi Ishii^[6]

Atsushi Yamanishi and Yuichi Yasoda had been cast in unspecified roles.^[6]

Media

Novel

The novel has more than 350,000 copies in print.^[1]

Manga

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN
1	May 24, 2021[7]	978-4-79-862268-2
2	March 24, 2022[8]	978-4-34-485016-3

Film

Main article: Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (film)

An anime film adaptation by Studio 4°C was announced on January 1, 2021, with Ayumu Watanabe as director, Satomi Ooshima as scriptwriter, Sanma Akashiya as producer, and Kenichi Konishi designing the characters.^[1] The film premiered on June 11, 2021.^[3] In October 2021, the film was screened In Competition as part of the Scotland Loves Animation film festival, where it won the "Golden Partridge" Jury Award.^[9]