Kisshō Tennyo

Kisshō Tennyo (Japanese: 吉祥天女) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Akimi Yoshida. It was serialized by Shogakukan in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic between February 1983 and June 1984 and collected in four bound volumes.^[1][2] Kisshō Tennyo received the 1983 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga.^[3]

Kisshō Tennyo
Cover of the first tankōbon volume
吉祥天女
Genre	Drama, mystery
Manga
Written by	Akimi Yoshida
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Bessatsu Shōjo Comic
Demographic	Shōjo
Original run	February 1983 – June 1984
Volumes	4
Television drama
Directed by	Naomi Tamura Toshiaki Kondō
Written by	Haruko Fukushima
Original network	TV Asahi
Original run	April 15, 2006 – June 24, 2006
Episodes	10
Live-action film
Directed by	Ataru Oikawa
Written by	Ataru Oikawa
Music by	Hiroyuki Kozu
Studio	Blue Planet
Released	June 30, 2007
Runtime	116 minutes

Characters

The main character, Sayoko Kanō, is implied to be a descendant (or possibly avatar) of the goddess Kisshō Tennyo.

Media

Manga

The individual chapters of the manga were collected in four tankōbon volumes released between September 1983 and September 1984. The series was re-released by Shogakukan in a two-volume bunkoban edition in February 1995.^[4][5]

List of volumes

No.	Release date	ISBN
1	September 26, 1983[1]	4-09-131301-9
2	February 25, 1984[6]	4-09-131302-7
3	June 26, 1984[7]	4-09-131303-5
4	September 26, 1984[2]	4-09-131304-3

Live-action

From April 15, 2006, to June 24, 2006, TV Asahi aired a live-action television adaptation of Kisshō Tennyo. There were 10 episodes in total. It was directed by Naomi Tamura and Toshiaki Kondō and starred Sayuri Iwata in the lead role of Sayoko Kanō.^[8]

On June 30, 2007, Blue Planet also released a live-action film adaptation of the series, directed by Ataru Oikawa and starring Anne Suzuki in the lead role.^[9] On December 21, 2007, Happinet Pictures released the film on DVD.^[10]

Reception

Manga artist Kyoko Okazaki references a scene of Kisshō Tennyo in her 1989 manga Pink.^[11]

References

1. 吉祥天女〔ＦＣ〕 1 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 19, 2019. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
2. 吉祥天女〔ＦＣ〕 4 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 19, 2019. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
3. 小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者. Shogakukan (in Japanese). Archived from the original on March 27, 2019. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
4. 吉祥天女（きっしょうてんにょ） １ (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 19, 2019. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
5. 吉祥天女（きっしょうてんにょ） ２ (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 19, 2019. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
6. 吉祥天女〔ＦＣ〕 2 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 19, 2019. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
7. 吉祥天女〔ＦＣ〕 3 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 19, 2019. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
8. 吉祥天女 (2006). Yahoo! Japan. Archived from the original on June 18, 2019. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
9. "Kisshô Tennyo". IMDb. Archived from the original on February 9, 2017. Retrieved March 23, 2009.
10. "Kissho Tennyo Special Edition". cdjapan.co.jp. Archived from the original on October 8, 2012. Retrieved March 22, 2009.
11. Spies 2003, p. 45.

Literatur

• Spies, Alwyn (2003). Studying Shojo Manga. Global Education, Narratives of the Self and Pathologization of the Feminine. University of British Columbia.

External links

• Kisshō Tennyo (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Kisshō Tennyo at IMDb