Non Non Biyori

Non Non Biyori (のんのんびより) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Atto. The series was serialized in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Alive magazine from September 2009 to February 2021 and is licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment. The story is based on the same setting as Atto's former work, Toko-toko & Yume no Yume. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by Silver Link aired in Japan between October and December 2013 and has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks. A second anime season aired between July and September 2015. An anime film premiered in August 2018, and a third anime season aired between January and March 2021.

Non Non Biyori
Cover of first manga volume. From left to right: Renge Miyauchi, Komari and Natsumi Koshigaya, and Hotaru Ichijo.
のんのんびより
Genre	Comedy,^[1] iyashikei^[2]^[3]
Manga
Written by	Atto
Published by	Media Factory
English publisher	NA: Seven Seas Entertainment
Magazine	Monthly Comic Alive
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	September 26, 2009 – February 26, 2021
Volumes	16
Anime television series
Non Non Biyori (2013) Non Non Biyori Repeat (2015) Non Non Biyori Nonstop (2021)
Directed by	Shinya Kawatsura
Produced by	Yoshikazu Beniya Oshi Yoshinuma Masatoshi Ishizuka Mika Shimizu Youhei Kisara Fumiyuki Gou Rina Takahashi Youichi Nakamura
Written by	Reiko Yoshida
Music by	Hiromi Mizutani
Studio	Silver Link
Licensed by	NA: Sentai Filmworks SEA: Odex UK: MVM Entertainment
Original network	TV Tokyo, AT-X, TV Aichi, TV Osaka
Original run	October 8, 2013 – March 29, 2021
Episodes	36 + 3 OVA (List of episodes)
Anime film
Non Non Biyori Vacation
Directed by	Shinya Kawatsura
Produced by	Yoshikazu Beniya Fumiyuki Gou Shinpei Yamashita Hayato Kaneko Aya Iizuka Mieko Tsuruta Taiki Akasaka
Written by	Reiko Yoshida
Music by	Hiromi Mizutani
Studio	Silver Link
Licensed by	NA: Sentai Filmworks
Released	August 25, 2018 (2018-08-25)
Runtime	71 minutes
Manga
Non Non Biyori: Remember
Written by	Atto
Published by	Media Factory
Magazine	Monthly Comic Alive
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	May 27, 2021 – January 27, 2022
Volumes	1

Plot

The story takes place in the small fictional countryside village of Asahigaoka, a place lacking many of the conveniences that people from the city are accustomed to. The nearest stores are a few miles away and one of the local schools consists of only five students, each of whom is in a different grade of elementary or middle school. Hotaru Ichijo, a fifth grader from Tokyo, transfers into Asahigaoka Branch School and adjusts to countryside life with her new friends.

Characters

Main characters

Hotaru Ichijo (一条 蛍, Ichijō Hotaru)

Voiced by: Rie Murakawa^[4]

Hotaru is a fifth grade student who transfers into Asahigaoka Branch School from Tokyo due to her father's work transfer. She is quite tall for her age and has a crush on Komari to the point of frequently sewing various plush dolls of Komari to decorate her room with. She had come to Asahigaoka several times previously when she was younger because her relatives live nearby.

Renge Miyauchi (宮内 れんげ, Miyauchi Renge)

Voiced by: Kotori Koiwai^[4]

Renge is a first grade student. Her catchphrase is "Nyanpasū" (Meow-ning), a nonsensical phrase, and she plays the recorder. While she generally acts her age, she is often quite perceptive and eccentric. She adds a superfluous "n" at the end of sentences as a verbal tic. She is Hikage and Kazuho's younger sister.

Natsumi Koshigaya (越谷 夏海, Koshigaya Natsumi)

Voiced by: Ayane Sakura^[4]

Natsumi is a first-year middle school student. She is taller than Komari, her older sister. Rebellious and carefree, she often talks back to her mother, plays pranks on her older sister, and does poorly in school.

Komari Koshigaya (越谷 小鞠, Koshigaya Komari)

Voiced by: Kana Asumi^[4]

Komari is a second-year middle school student and Natsumi's older sister. She is quite short, a fact which she constantly bemoans as Natsumi often teases her for it. She has an innocent and easily scared personality, which Natsumi often takes advantage of.

Supporting characters

Suguru Koshigaya (越谷 卓, Koshigaya Suguru)

Suguru is a third-year middle school student and Natsumi and Komari's older brother. He doesn't speak and has very little presence besides occasional static visual comedy.

Kazuho Miyauchi (宮内 一穂, Miyauchi Kazuho)

Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka

Kazuho is Renge's older sister and the only teacher in the local school. She is also a 24-year-old graduate of Asahigaoka Branch School. She is fond of sleeping. Since all the students essentially study on their own in the classroom due to their different grades, she often spends class time napping.

Kaede Kagayama (加賀山 楓, Kagayama Kaede)

Voiced by: Rina Satō

Kaede is a 20-year-old graduate of Asahigaoka Branch School who runs the local candy store. As a result the other characters, and Renge in particular, call her "Dagashi-ya" (駄菓子屋, lit. "Candy Store"). Her store also runs a ski rental business and mail order service.

Hikage Miyauchi (宮内 ひかげ, Miyauchi Hikage)

Voiced by: Misato Fukuen

Hikage is Renge's older sister who is a first-year high school student studying in Tokyo. She is also a graduate of Asahigaoka Branch School. She also appears in the author's other work Koakuma Meringue (こあくまメレンゲ, lit. "Little Devil's Meringue"). When she returns to the village she tries to impress her siblings and friends with her trendy and "city-girl" ways only to be upstaged by Hotaru's genuine modern knowledge.

Yukiko Koshigaya (越谷 雪子, Koshigaya Yukiko)

Voiced by: Akiko Hiramatsu

Yukiko is Natsumi, Komari, and Suguru's mother. She is often strict, particularly towards Natsumi, who slacks off a lot. She is also a graduate of Asahigaoka Branch School. When she was a student, she took care of Kazuho as Kaede did with Renge when she was younger (according to the author in the afterword).

Konomi Fujimiya (富士宮 このみ, Fujimiya Konomi)

Voiced by: Ryōko Shintani

Konomi is a graduate of Asahigaoka Branch School who lives next door to the Koshigayas. She is a third-year student at a nearby high school.

Honoka Ishikawa (石川 ほのか, Ishikawa Honoka)

Voiced by: Ayahi Takagaki

Honoka is a first grade student who comes to visit her grandmother during summer vacation and becomes friends with Renge. She also appears in the author's other work Toko-toko (とことこ).

Aoi Nizato (新里 あおい, Niizato Aoi)

Voiced by: Shino Shimoji^[5]

Aoi is a first-year middle schooler who lives in Okinawa and works at her family's inn. A member of her school's badminton club, she quickly befriends Natsumi over their shared age and interest in the sport.

Shiori (しおり, Shiori)

Voiced by: Misaki Kuno^[6]

Shiori is the daughter of a police box officer, one year younger than Renge.

Akane Shinoda (篠田 あかね, Shinoda Akane)

Voiced by: Aimi Tanaka^[6]

Akane is a first-year high school student, a junior of Konomi, and in charge of flute in the brass band club.

Media

Manga

The manga by Atto was serialized in Media Factory's Comic Alive magazine from the November 2009 issue sold on September, 26 2009,^[7] to the April 2021 issue sold on February 26, 2021, and ran for 120 chapters.^[8] It has been published in 16 tankōbon volumes from June 29, 2015, to March 23, 2021.^[9][10] Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the series in North America.^[11] In May 2021, a short spinoff manga titled Non Non Biyori: Remember began serialization.^[12][13]

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	March 23, 2010^[14]	978-4-0406-6521-4	June 29, 2015^[9]	978-1-626921-48-1
2	December 22, 2010^[15]	978-4-0406-6522-1	September 15, 2015^[9]	978-1-626921-61-0
3	October 22, 2011^[16]	978-4-0406-6523-8	January 26, 2016^[9]	978-1-626921-82-5
4	July 23, 2012^[17]	978-4-0406-6524-5	May 23, 2016^[9]	978-1-626922-72-3
5	February 23, 2013^[18]	978-4-0406-6525-2	September 6, 2016^[9]	978-1-626923-29-4
6	September 21, 2013^[19]	978-4-0406-6526-9	January 17, 2017^[9]	978-1-626923-86-7
7	July 23, 2014^[20]	978-4-0406-6813-0	May 23, 2017^[9]	978-1-626924-86-4
8	March 23, 2015^[21]	978-4-0406-7282-3	September 12, 2017^[9]	978-1-626925-42-7
9	December 22, 2015^[22]	978-4-0406-7860-3	January 23, 2018^[9]	978-1-626926-77-6
10	September 23, 2016^[23]	978-4-0406-8542-7	July 31, 2018^[9]	978-1-626927-86-5
11	May 23, 2017^[24]	978-4-0406-9252-4	April 2, 2019^[9]	978-1-642750-26-3
12	February 23, 2018^[25]	978-4-0406-9686-7	September 3, 2019^[9]	978-1-642754-85-8
13	November 21, 2018^[26]	978-4-040651-80-4	August 25, 2020^[9]	978-1-645055-22-8
14	August 23, 2019^[27]	978-4-040640-16-7	January 5, 2021^[9]	978-1-64505-948-6
15	May 23, 2020^[28]	978-4-040646-34-3	October 12, 2021^[9]	978-1-64827-312-4
16	March 23, 2021^[10]	978-4-04-680308-5	July 5, 2022^[9]	978-1-63858-149-9
Remember	March 23, 2022^[29]	978-4-04-681161-5	—	—

Anime

See also: List of Non Non Biyori episodes

A 12-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by Silver Link and directed by Shinya Kawatsura, aired in Japan between October 8 and December 24, 2013, and was simulcast by Crunchyroll.^[30][31] An original video animation (OVA) episode was bundled with the seventh manga volume released on July 23, 2014, and another OVA was bundled with the tenth manga volume on September 23, 2016.^[32] A third OVA will be bundled with the complied volume of the Non Non Biyori Remember manga on March 23, 2022.^[33] The opening theme is "Nanairo Biyori" (なないろびより, Rainbow-colored Weather) by Nano Ripe, and the ending theme, composed by Zaq, is "Non Non Biyori" (のんのん日和) sung by Rie Murakawa, Ayane Sakura, Kana Asumi and Kotori Koiwai. The series is licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks, and in the United Kingdom by MVM Entertainment.^[34][35]

A second season, Non Non Biyori Repeat, aired in Japan between July 7 and September 22, 2015.^[36] The opening theme is "Kodama Kotodama" (こだまことだま, Echoing Words) by Nano Ripe and the ending theme is "Okaeri" (おかえり, Welcome Home) by Murakawa, Sakura, Asumi, and Koiwai.

An anime film, titled Non Non Biyori Vacation, premiered on August 25, 2018, with the staff and cast from the anime series returning to reprise their roles.^[37] The film's opening theme song is "Ao no Rakugaki" (あおのらくがき, Blue Graffiti) by Nano Ripe,^[38] and the ending theme song is "Omoide" (おもいで, Memories) composed by Zaq and performed by Murakawa, Sakura, Asumi, and Koiwai.^[39]

A third season, Non Non Biyori Nonstop, aired from January 11 to March 29, 2021. The staff and cast from the first two anime series are reprising their roles for the season.^[40][41] The opening theme is "Tsugihagi Moyō" (つぎはぎもよう, Patchwork Pattern) by Nano Ripe and the ending theme is "Tadaima" (ただいま, I'm Home) by Murakawa, Sakura, Asumi, and Koiwai.^[6] The third season ran for 12 episodes.^[42]

Reception

As of December 2015, the manga has sold over 1.3 million copies.^[43]

References

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2. ほんわか田舎生活で癒される！「のんのんびより」ヒットの理由とは. music-book.jp (in Japanese). February 18, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
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7. [Monthly Comic Alive November 2009 issue] (in Japanese). Media Factory. Archived from the original on October 1, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
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37. "New Non Non Biyori Anime Is Summer 2018 Film With Returning Cast, Staff". Anime News Network. December 24, 2017. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
38. "nano.RIPE｜20周年を飾る6thアルバム「ピッパラの樹の下で」リリース決定！" (in Japanese). Retrieved March 17, 2019.
39. "8/25(土)発売『劇場版 のんのんびより ばけーしょん』 オリジナルサウンドトラックジャケット公開！" (in Japanese). Retrieved March 17, 2019.
40. "Non Non Biyori TV Anime Gets 3rd Season". Anime News Network. May 11, 2019. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
41. "アニメ『のんのんびより』第3期の放送時期が判明" [Announcement for the broadcast of the third season for the anime series "Non Non Biyori"]. Dengeki (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works. May 23, 2020. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
42. "Non Non Biyori Nonstop Anime Has 12 Episodes". Anime News Network. January 2, 2021. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
43. "のんのんびより9巻 小冊子付き特装版" (in Japanese). Media Factory. Retrieved June 7, 2016.

External links

• Non Non Biyori at Media Factory (in Japanese)
• Anime official website (in Japanese)
• Non Non Biyori (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia