Tokusatsu Gagaga

Tokusatsu Gagaga (トクサツガガガ; "Gaga for Tokusatsu") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Niwa Tanaba. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits from August 2014 to May 2020, with its chapters collected in 20 tankōbon volumes.

Tokusatsu Gagaga
First tankōbon volume cover
トクサツガガガ
Genre	Office comedy[1]
Manga
Written by	Niwa Tanaba
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Weekly Big Comic Spirits
Original run	August 11, 2014 – May 11, 2020
Volumes	20
Television drama
Directed by	Hajime Suenaga Shinzo Nitta
Produced by	Sho Yoshinaga
Written by	Shigenori Tanabe
Music by	Akio Izutsu
Original network	NHK General TV
Original run	January 18, 2019 – March 1, 2019
Episodes	7

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Niwa Tanaba, Tokusatsu Gagaga was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits from August 11, 2014,^[2] to May 11, 2020.^[3] Shogakukan collected its chapters in twenty tankōbon volumes, released from November 28, 2014,^[4] to August 28, 2020.^[5]

Volumes

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN
1	November 28, 2014[4]	978-4-09-186606-6
2	March 30, 2015[6]	978-4-09-186810-7
3	June 30, 2015[7]	978-4-09-187060-5
4	September 30, 2015[8]	978-4-09-187217-3
5	December 28, 2015[9]	978-4-09-187363-7
6	March 30, 2016[10]	978-4-09-187516-7
7	June 30, 2016[11]	978-4-09-187638-6
8	September 30, 2016[12]	978-4-09-187784-0
9	January 30, 2017[13]	978-4-09-189259-1
10	May 30, 2017[14]	978-4-09-189512-7
11	September 29, 2017[15]	978-4-09-189645-2
12	January 30, 2018[16]	978-4-09-189783-1
13	May 30, 2018[17]	978-4-09-189880-7
14	September 28, 2018[18]	978-4-09-860076-2
15	January 30, 2019[19]	978-4-09-860207-0
16	May 30, 2019[20]	978-4-09-860287-2
17	September 30, 2019[21]	978-4-09-860408-1
18	January 30, 2020[22]	978-4-09-860528-6
19	May 29, 2020[23]	978-4-09-860620-7
20	August 28, 2020[5]	978-4-09-860711-2 978-4-09-943069-6 (LE)

Drama

A 7-episode Japanese television drama series adaptation, starring Fuka Koshiba as Kano Nakamura, was broadcast on NHK General TV from January 18 to March 1, 2019.^[24][25]

Reception

Tokusatsu Gagaga ranked 17th on Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook list of 2016 top manga series for male readers.^[26] Tokusatsu Gagaga ranked 15th on the "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics" by the Honya Club website in 2016.^[27] The manga was nominated for the 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2017.^[28] In 2019, on Da Vinci's magazine 18th annual "Book of the Year" list, Tokusatsu Gagaga ranked 29th.^[29]