Written by Akimi Yoshida Demographic Josei Volumes 7 | Published by Shogakukan Magazine Flowers | |
Original run April 26, 2007 – present | ||
Umimachi Diary (Japanese: 海街diary, lit. "Seaside Town Diary") is a Japanese josei manga by Akimi Yoshida serialized in Monthly Flowers magazine.
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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
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.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.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.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.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.