Daytime Shooting Star

Daytime Shooting Star (ひるなかの流星, Hirunaka no Ryūsei) is a Japanese shōjo manga written and illustrated by Mika Yamamori. It ran in Margaret from 2011 to 2014. A live-action film adaptation of the same name was released in 2017, as well as a collaboration clothing line with Earth Music & Ecology in 2014.^[2]

Daytime Shooting Star
Cover of volume 12
ひるなかの流星 (Hirunaka no Ryūsei)
Genre	Romance[1]
Manga
Written by	Mika Yamamori
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA: Viz Media
Imprint	Margaret Comics
Magazine	Margaret
Original run	May 20, 2011 – November 5, 2014
Volumes	13
Live-action film

Plot

Suzume Yosano's parents move to Bangladesh when her father's position gets relocated, while Suzume herself moves to Tokyo to live with her uncle, Yukichi. On the way to her uncle's house, Suzume gets lost and is helped by a stranger. She later learns on her first day of school that the stranger is her homeroom teacher, Satsuki Shishio.^[3]

Characters

Suzume Yosano (与謝野 すずめ, Yosano Suzume)

Played by: Mei Nagano

Suzume is the main protagonist who moved from the countryside to Tokyo to live with her uncle when she goes to high school. She is in love with Mamura and confesses to him, which he accepts, after which they begin to date.

Satsuki Shishio (獅子尾 五月, Shishio Satsuki)

Played by: Shohei Miura

Satsuki is Suzume's homeroom teacher who has a crush on Suzume. After she confesses to him for a second time, he agrees to secretly date her. However, by the time they are getting back together, Suzume is already dating Mamura.

Daiki Mamura (馬村 大輝, Mamura Daiki)

Played by: Alan Shirahama

Mamura is Suzume's classmate who sits in front of her. Being a gynophobe, Suzume uses it to blackmail him into being her friend. His appearance was based on model Kentaro Sakaguchi.^{[4][unreliable source?]}

Yuyuka Nekota (猫田 ゆゆか, Nekota Yuyuka)

Played by: Maika Yamamoto

Yuyuka is a blunt girl with a hard time of getting along with other classmates. She hides behind a cute exterior that is friendly and outgoing in order to make friends. Initially, Yuyuka was only pretending to be nice to get closer to Mamura, but the two later become honest friends. She eventually confesses to him, who rejects her, saying that he has feelings for Suzume.

Nana Kameyoshi (亀由 奈々, Kameyoshi Nana)

Played by: Shieri Ohata

Nana is one of Suzume's classmates.

Monika Tsurutani (鶴谷 モニカ, Tsurutani Monika)

Played by: Rina Koyama

Monika is Suzume's half-Japanese classmate who later begins dating Manabu Inukai.

Manabu Inukai (犬飼 学, Inukai Manabu)

Manabu is Suzume's classmate who serves as class president. He later begins dating Monika Tsurutani.

Togyuu Minagawa (皆川 土牛, Minagawa Togyuu)

Togyuu is Suzume's upperclassmen who can be a bit of a playboy and is interested in Yuyuka.

Yukichi Kumamoto (熊本 諭吉, Kumamoto Yukichi)

Played by: Ryuta Sato

Yukichi is Suzume's unmarried uncle who runs a café and is friends with Shishio.

Media

Manga

Daytime Shooting Star is written and illustrated by Mika Yamamori. The series first was announced on May 3, 2011.^[5] The manga was serialized in the bi-weekly magazine Margaret from May 20, 2011, to November 2014. The chapters were later released in bound volumes by Shueisha under the Margaret Comics imprint.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of Margaret, Yamamori collaborated with Momoko Koda, the author of No Longer Heroine, to release the crossover comic Heroine Shooting Star. Heroine Shooting Star was released in Mini Margaret, a booklet that was distributed as a magazine gift in the May 20, 2013 issue of Margaret.^[6] In 2014, Yamamori collaborated with Suu Morishita, the author of Like a Butterfly, to produce two crossover comics, Hibi Shooting Star and Daytime Chōchō.^[7]

Wanting to promote the live-action movie, Yamamori released Daytime Shooting Star: Side Story Blue in the February 3, 2017 issue of Margaret.^[8] It was followed up by Daytime Shooting Star: Side Story Red in the March 28, 2017 issue of Margaret.^[9]

In 2018, Viz Media announced at the New York Comic Con that they were licensing the series for English distribution, with all comics being published under the Shojo Beat imprint.^[10]

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	October 25, 2011[11]	978-4-08-846708-5	July 2, 2019[12]	978-1-9747-0667-9
2	February 24, 2012[13]	978-4-08-846744-3	September 3, 2019[14]	978-1-9747-0668-6
3	June 25, 2012[15]	978-4-08-846786-3	November 5, 2019[16]	978-1-9747-0669-3
4	October 25, 2012[17]	978-4-08-846843-3	January 7, 2020[18]	978-1-9747-0670-9
5	February 25, 2013[19]	978-4-08-846888-4	March 3, 2020[20]	978-1-9747-0671-6
6	May 24, 2013[21]	978-4-08-845042-1	May 5, 2020[22]	978-1-9747-0672-3
7	September 25, 2013[23]	978-4-08-845095-7	July 7, 2020[24]	978-1-9747-1507-7
8	December 25, 2013[25]	978-4-08-845139-8	September 1, 2020[26]	978-1-9747-1508-4
9	March 25, 2014[27]	978-4-08-845177-0	November 3, 2020[28]	978-1-9747-1509-1
10	June 25, 2014[29]	978-4-08-845224-1	January 5, 2021[30]	978-1-9747-1510-7
11	October 24, 2014[31]	978-4-08-845281-4	March 2, 2021[32]	978-1-9747-1511-4
12	February 24, 2015[33]	978-4-08-845344-6	May 4, 2021[34]	978-1-9747-1512-1
Side Stories	August 25, 2015[35]	978-4-08-845430-6	–	—

Live-action film

In mid-September 2016, the live-action film adaptation was announced.^[36] The film stars Mei Nagano as Suzume, Shohei Miura as Shishio, and Alan Shirahama as Mamura. The film was released in Japan on March 24, 2017 in 272 theaters and opened at #5 on opening weekend.^[37] The film's theme song is "Hayaku Aitai" by Dream Ami.^[38]

Yamamori released Daytime Shooting Star: Side Story Blue in the February 3, 2017 issue of Margaret^[7] and Daytime Shooting Star: Side Story Red in the March 28, 2017 issue of Margaret^[7] to promote the film. Nagano and Shirahama were also featured in a collaboration commercial as their characters to cross-promote handbags from Samantha Vega, a sister brand of Samantha Thavasa.^[39]

Reception

The series has 1.93 million copies in print and 500,000 in paid digital copies.^[36]