Umimachi Diary

Umimachi Diary
File:Umimachi Diary.jpg Cover of the first volume
海街diary
Manga
Written by	Akimi Yoshida
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Josei
Magazine	Flowers
Original run	April 26, 2007 – present
Volumes	7
Live-action film
Our Little Sister (2015)

Umimachi Diary (Japanese: 海街diary, lit. "Seaside Town Diary") is a Japanese josei manga by Akimi Yoshida serialized in Monthly Flowers magazine.

A film adaptation titled Our Little Sister directed by Hirokazu Koreeda and starring Haruka Ayase, was first announced in the June 2014 issue of Monthly Flowers. The film was released on June 13, 2015.

Characters

• Sachi Kouda (香田 幸, Kouda Sachi)

The eldest sister of the Kouda family. She works as a nurse in a hospital. Very serious and reliable. She is 29 years old.

Sachi is played by Haruka Ayase in the film.

• Yoshino Kouda (香田 佳乃, Kouda Yoshino)

Second sister of the Kouda family. She works as an office lady in a bank. She loves drinking alcohol and is pretty embarrassing when drunken. She often dates younger and handsome boys. Once, she dated Tomoaki Fujii, one of the protagonists of Lovers' Kiss (former series of Akimi Yoshida also set in Kamakura). She is 22 years old.

Yoshino is played by Masami Nagasawa in the film.

• Chika Kouda (香田 千佳, Kouda Chika)

The younger sister of Kouda family. She is 19 years old. She works in a sports articles shops.

Chika is played by Kaho in the film.

• Suzu Asano (浅野 すず, Asano Suzu)

She shares the same father as the Kouda sisters. She is 13 and still in junior high school. She is very reliable and serious, and that got Sachi's attention. She lived in Sendai with her father and mother but after her mother's death, her father married Youko in Yamagata. She met her sisters at her father's funeral, and moved to Kamakura to live with them. She is very good at soccer.

Suzu is played by Suzu Hirose in the film.

Volumes

No.	Release date	ISBN
1	April 26, 2007	ISBN 978-4-09-167025-0
2	October 10, 2008	ISBN 978-4-09-167037-3
3	February 10, 2010	ISBN 978-4-09-167040-3
4	August 10, 2011	ISBN 978-4-09-167048-9
5	December 10, 2012	ISBN 978-4-09-167053-3
6	July 10, 2014	ISBN 978-4-09-167053-3
7	January 8, 2016	ISBN 978-4-09-167073-1

Reception

It won the Excellence Prize for manga at the 2007 Japan Media Arts Festival Awards and the 6th Manga Taishō. It was also nominated for the 1st Manga Taisho, where it came in 3rd place, for the 12th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, where it came in 2nd place, and for the 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. In 2016, the manga won the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category, sharing it with Sunny.

External links

• Umimachi Diary (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia