Longing for Home

Longing for Home (望郷太郎, Bōkyō Tarō, "Homesick Tarō") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Yamada [ja]. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning since September 2019.

Longing for Home
First tankōbon volume cover
望郷太郎へ (Bōkyō Tarō)
Genre	Dystopian[1] Science fiction[2]
Manga
Written by	Yoshihiro Yamada [ja]
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	US: Kodansha
Imprint	Morning KC
Magazine	Morning
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	September 5, 2019 – present
Volumes	11

Publication

Written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Yamada [ja], Longing for Home started in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning on September 5, 2019.^[3][4] Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes, with the first one released on December 23, 2019.^[5]

In August 2024, Kodansha began publishing the series in English on their K Manga service.^[6]

Volumes

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN
1	December 23, 2019[7]	978-4-06-517990-1
2	May 22, 2020[8]	978-4-06-518965-8
3	October 23, 2020[9]	978-4-06-518996-2
4	March 23, 2021[10]	978-4-06-522307-9
5	August 23, 2021[11]	978-4-06-524103-5
6	February 22, 2022[12]	978-4-06-526920-6
7	July 22, 2022[13]	978-4-06-528556-5
8	January 23, 2023[14]	978-4-06-530277-4
9	June 22, 2023[15]	978-4-06-532013-6
10	January 23, 2024[16]	978-4-06-534369-2
11	June 21, 2024[17]	978-4-06-535956-3

Reception

Alongside Blue Period, Bōkyō Tarō ranked fifteenth on Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list of best manga of 2021 for male readers.^[18] The manga was nominated for the 26th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2022.^[19] It was nominated for the 48th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category in 2024.^[20]

See also

• Hyouge Mono, another manga series by the same author