Kakafukaka

Kakafukaka
Cover of volume 1 of the Japanese version, first released on August 12, 2014
カカフカカ
GenreRomance[1]
Manga
Written byTakumi Ishida
Published byKodansha
English publisher
ImprintKC Kiss
MagazineKiss
DemographicJosei
Original runOctober 25, 2013 (2013-10-25) – November 25, 2020 (2020-11-25)
Volumes12
Television drama
Kakafukaka: Kojirase Otona no Sharehouse (カカフカカ-こじらせ大人のシェアハウス-)
Directed byMomoko Fukuda
Written byKumiko Asō
Original network
Original run April 25, 2019 (2019-04-25) – June 28, 2019 (2019-06-28)
Episodes10

Kakafukaka (Japanese: カカフカカ) is a Japanese manga series by Takumi Ishida. Kakafukaka was serialized in the monthly josei manga magazine Kiss from October 25, 2013 to November 25, 2020. A live-action television drama adaptation titled Kakafukaka: Kojirase Otona no Sharehouse (カカフカカ-こじらせ大人のシェアハウス-, lit. "Kakafukaka: The Messed-up Adults' Sharehouse") was broadcast from April 25, 2019 to June 28, 2019 as part of MBS's Drama Tokku [ja] programming block.

Plot

Aki Terada, a young woman with no direction in her life, moves out of her apartment after breaking up with her cheating ex-boyfriend.[2] When she moves into a sharehouse, she discovers that one of her new roommates is Tomoya Hongyo, a novelist and her first boyfriend from middle school.[2] Hongyo reveals that he has erectile dysfunction for the past two years but discovers that close proximity with Aki has caused his condition to get better.[3] Deciding to test this further, he asks Aki to sleep with him in his bed, but their relationship begins to escalate the closer they get.[3]

Characters

Aki Terada (寺田 亜希, Terada Aki)
Portrayed by: Aoi Morikawa[2]
Aki is a 24-year-old freeter with no direction in her life.[4] She moves into a sharehouse after leaving her ex-boyfriend.[2]
Tomoya Hongyo (本行 智也, Hongyō Tomoya)
Portrayed by: Masaki Nakao[2]
Hongyo is a novelist and Aki's boyfriend from middle school.[2] He reveals to Aki that he has erectile dysfunction since two years ago, but he realizes that being physically close to her makes his condition better, and, as a result, asks her to sleep in his bed with him.[4]
Taichi Hase (長谷 太一, Hase Taichi)
Portrayed by: Kousei Yuki[2]
Hase is the owner of the sharehouse.[4] He is Hongyo's former editor.[2] Despite not having genuine interest in marriage nor romance, he proposes to Aki out of his parents pressuring him to get married, initially because of their compatible lifestyles.[4] He eventually comes to love Aki for real.[4] His distorted views of love came from his strained relationship with his mother and he is easily repulsed by women who get too physically close to him.[4]
Akari Kuritani (栗谷 あかり, Kuritani Akari)
Portrayed by: Risa Nakamura [ja][2]
Akari is a woman living at the sharehouse who works at a design company.[4] She is a fan of Hongyo.[2]

Media

Manga

Kakafukaka is written and illustrated by Takumi Ishida. It was serialized in the monthly manga magazine Kiss beginning in the December 2013 issue released on October 25, 2013[5] to the January 2021 issue released on November 25, 2020.[6] The chapters were later released in twelve bound volumes by Kodansha under the Kiss Comics imprint.

Ishida had created the series to challenge the ideas of traditional love, as shōjo manga typically valued emotional aspects of love over physical aspects.[4] In doing so, she placed equal focus on both aspects of love, claiming that they were "connected."[4]

In 2018, Kodansha USA announced that they had licensed the series in English for North American distribution, with the volumes distributed digitally.[1]

No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 August 12, 2014 (2014-08-12)978-4-06-340933-8July 17, 2018 (2018-07-17)[1][7]978-1-6421-2313-5
2 July 13, 2015 (2015-07-13)978-4-0634-0959-8August 21, 2018 (2018-08-21)[8]978-1-6421-2314-2
3 May 13, 2016 (2016-05-13)978-4-0634-0989-5November 27, 2018 (2018-11-27)[9]978-1-6421-2543-6
4 December 13, 2016 (2016-12-13)978-4-0639-8006-6January 22, 2019 (2019-01-22)[10]978-1-6421-2609-9
5 August 10, 2017 (2017-08-10)978-4-0639-8026-4March 26, 2019 (2019-03-26)[11]978-1-6421-2703-4
6 February 13, 2018 (2018-02-13)978-4-0651-0879-6April 23, 2019 (2019-04-23)[12]978-1-6421-2795-9
7 August 12, 2014 (2014-08-12)978-4-06-340933-8May 21, 2019 (2019-05-21)[13]978-1-6421-2832-1
8 February 13, 2019 (2019-02-13)978-4-0651-4231-8July 21, 2020 (2020-07-21)[14]978-1-6421-2920-5
9 August 9, 2019 (2019-08-09)978-4-0651-6723-6December 31, 2019 (2019-12-31)[15]978-1-6465-9188-6
10 March 13, 2020 (2020-03-13)978-4-0651-9003-6July 28, 2020 (2020-07-28)[16]978-1-6465-9609-6
11 September 11, 2020 (2020-09-11)978-4-0652-0752-9December 22, 2020 (2020-12-22)[17]978-1-6465-9873-1
12 March 12, 2021 (2021-03-12)978-4-0652-2724-4July 20, 2021 (2021-07-20)[18]978-1-6369-9236-5

Television drama

A live-action television series adaptation titled Kakafukaka: Kojirase Otona no Sharehouse (カカフカカ-こじらせ大人のシェアハウス-) was announced on March 24, 2019.[2] The series aired on April 25, 2019 on MBS as the flagship show of their new Drama Tokku [ja] programming block, with other broadcasts on TV Kanagawa, Television Saitama, and Amazon Prime Video.[19] It stars Aoi Morikawa as Aki, Masaki Nakao as Hongyo, Kousei Yuki as Hase, and Risa Nakamura [ja] as Akari.[2] The series is directed by Momoko Fukuda, with Kumiko Asō in charge of the script.[2] The opening theme song is "Like That!!" by lol.[20] The ending theme song is "Suki da yo (My Love)" by BoA.

Reception

In 2019, Kakafukaka had sold a consecutive total of 1.7 million physical copies.[2] It was selected as one of the recommended shōjo manga by an editor of Cheese! at the Shōjo Manga Fes 2018.[3]

References

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