Shiori Experience

Shiori Experience: Jimi na Watashi to Hen na Oji-san (Japanese: SHIORI EXPERIENCE ～ジミなわたしとヘンなおじさん～, Hepburn: Shiori Ekusuperiensu Jimi na Watashi to Henna Oji-san, "Shiori Experience: Plain Me and a Strange Man") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuko Osada [ja] and Kazuya Machida [ja]. It has been serialized in Square Enix's seinen manga magazine Monthly Big Gangan since October 2013.

Shiori Experience
First tankōbon volume cover
SHIORI EXPERIENCE ～ジミなわたしとヘンなおじさん～ (Shiori Ekusuperiensu Jimi na Watashi to Henna Oji-san)
Genre	Music[1]
Manga
Written by	Yuko Osada [ja] Kazuya Machida [ja]
Published by	Square Enix
Magazine	Monthly Big Gangan
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	October 25, 2013 – present
Volumes	22

Synopsis

Shiori Honda is a high school English teacher, whose teenage dreams of becoming a guitarist were cut short when her older brother, a guitarist himself, ran away from home, saddling the family with his 20 million yen debt. This caused Shiori to become disillusioned with her dream. Ten years later, upon her 27th birthday, Shiori suddenly finds herself haunted by the spirit of legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix, one of the originating members of the 27 Club. She soon learns from him that if she fails to become a legend within a year, she will die. With the famous musician's spirit as her mentor, Shiori sets out to assemble a band and make a name for herself.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Yuko Osada [ja] and Kazuya Machida [ja], Shiori Experience has been serialized in Square Enix's seinen manga magazine Monthly Big Gangan since October 25, 2013.^[2][3] Square Enix has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first two volumes were released on November 27, 2014.^[4] As of May 25, 2024, twenty-two volumes have been released.^[5]

Volumes

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN
1	November 27, 2014[4]	978-4-7575-4372-0
2	November 27, 2014[4]	978-4-7575-4371-3
3	February 20, 2015[6]	978-4-7575-4522-9
4	May 25, 2015[7]	978-4-7575-4651-6
5	October 24, 2015[8]	978-4-7575-4776-6
6	April 25, 2016[9]	978-4-7575-4970-8
7	November 25, 2016[10]	978-4-7575-5165-7
8	February 25, 2017[11]	978-4-7575-5261-6
9	September 25, 2017[12]	978-4-7575-5487-0
10	April 25, 2018[13]	978-4-7575-5702-4
11	August 25, 2018[14]	978-4-7575-5826-7
12	January 25, 2019[15]	978-4-7575-5987-5
13	August 24, 2019[16]	978-4-7575-6260-8
14	January 23, 2020[17]	978-4-7575-6483-1
15	August 25, 2020[18]	978-4-7575-6813-6
16	February 25, 2021[19]	978-4-7575-7115-0
17	August 25, 2021[20]	978-4-7575-7436-6
18	March 25, 2022[21]	978-4-7575-7842-5
19	September 24, 2022[22]	978-4-7575-8163-0
20	March 25, 2023[23]	978-4-7575-8487-7
21	October 25, 2023[24]	978-4-7575-8870-7
22	May 25, 2024[5]	978-4-7575-9207-0
23	December 24, 2024	978-4-7575-9587-3

Reception

The manga placed fourth in Rakuten Kobo's second E-book Award in the "Long Seller Comic" category in 2024.^[25]

See also

• Legends of the Dark King, another manga series by Yuko Osada
• Toto!: The Wonderful Adventure, another manga series by Yuko Osada