A-un (manga)

A-un (阿・吽) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mari Okazaki. The series is set in the Heian period and follows two prominent Buddhist monks: Saichō, who founded the Enryaku-ji temple, and Kūkai, who established the Mount Kōya temple. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Big Comic Spirits from May 2014 to May 2021.

A-un
First volume cover
阿・吽
Genre	Historical[1][2]
Manga
Written by	Mari Okazaki
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Monthly Big Comic Spirits
Original run	May 27, 2014 – May 27, 2021
Volumes	14

Publication

A-un, written and illustrated by Mari Okazaki, was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Big Comic Spirits from May 27, 2014,^[1][3] to May 27, 2021.^[4][5] Shogakukan collected its chapters in fourteen tankōbon volumes, released from October 10, 2014,^[6] to September 10, 2021.^[7]

Volumes

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN
1	October 10, 2014[8]	978-4-09-186712-4
2	May 12, 2015[9]	978-4-09-187104-6
3	December 8, 2015[10]	978-4-09-187409-2
4	June 10, 2016[11]	978-4-09-187704-8
5	January 12, 2017[12]	978-4-09-189439-7
6	June 12, 2017[13]	978-4-09-189592-9
7	January 12, 2018[14]	978-4-09-189778-7
8	August 9, 2018[15]	978-4-09-860096-0
9	February 12, 2019[16]	978-4-09-860267-4
10	October 11, 2019[17]	978-4-09-860504-0
11	March 12, 2020[18]	978-4-09-860586-6
12	September 11, 2020[19]	978-4-09-860734-1
13	February 12, 2021[20]	978-4-09-860836-2
14	September 10, 2021[21]	978-4-09-861101-0

Reception

The series was commended by manga authors Ryoko Yamagishi, Yuki Suetsugu and Masami Yuki and writers Rio Shimamoto and Kazuki Kaneshiro.^[22] It was one of the Jury Recommended Works at the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2020.^[23]