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
Original run	October 25, 2013 – present
Volumes	24

Synopsis

Shiori Honda is a high school English teacher whose dream of being a guitarist died when her brother fled home, leaving the family with his 20 million yen debt. A decade later, on her 27th birthday, she is haunted by the spirit of Jimi Hendrix, one of the most famous members of the 27 Club. He delivers an ultimatum: become a musical legend in a year, or die. Guided by her ghostly mentor, Shiori must now assemble a band and make her name.

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 August 25, 2025, 24 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[25]	978-4-7575-9207-0
23	December 24, 2024[26]	978-4-7575-9587-3
24	August 25, 2025[5]	978-4-3010-0022-8

Reception

The manga placed fourth in Rakuten Kobo's second E-book Award in the "Long Seller Comic" category in 2024.^[27]

See also

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