There is a significant difference between the Manga and the later episodes of Anime adaptation. The following Volume 12 will be released on April 29, 2015. Outside Japan, the series was licensed by Digital Manga Publishing in North America.Īs of November 26, 2014, DMP translated Itazura Na Kiss Volume 11 has been released.

The producers of the anime adaptation call the original manga 'the bible of romance' for its influence on later manga such as Marmalade Boy and Fruits Basket. Despite the fact that it is 2 decades old, it still stands out as unique for it has the series follow the main characters well into their life, over a span of 10 years. Itazura na Kiss is a gem to the shoujo demographic, as it is the mother of a lot of cliches found in today's shoujo series. However the manga series continues to be published with the permission of the artist's widower. Despite its success, the manga was never completed due to the unexpected death of the author in a house accident while she was moving to another house with her husband and son. It became successful very quickly and became the manga series that Tada became known for in Japan.

Itazura na Kiss began to be serialized and published in 1990 by Shueisha through Margaret magazine. Mischievous Kiss (イタズラなKiss Itazura na Kiss) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Kaoru Tada.

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