Longing for Home
Japanese manga series
Longing for Home (Japanese: 望郷太郎, Hepburn: Bōkyō Tarō; lit. 'Homesick Tarō') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Yamada. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning since September 2019.
01Plot
After a calamity causes Earth to enter an ice age, Taro Maizuru and his family evacuate to Basra, Iraq, where they temporarily enter artificial hibernation in an underground shelter until the ice age ends. Some time later, Taro wakes up to find the entire shelter abandoned. To his horror, he discovers that 500 years had passed, and his family are all dead after their hibernation machines failed. Without any companions or money, Taro begins his long trek across the world to Japan in search of a purpose in his life.
02Publication
Written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Yamada, Longing for Home started in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning on September 5, 2019. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes, with the first one released on December 23, 2019. As of July 22, 2026, 15 volumes have been published.
In August 2024, Kodansha began publishing the series in English on its K Manga digital service.
Volumes
| No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 23, 2019 | 978-4-06-517990-1 |
| 2 | May 22, 2020 | 978-4-06-518965-8 |
| 3 | October 23, 2020 | 978-4-06-518996-2 |
| 4 | March 23, 2021 | 978-4-06-522307-9 |
| 5 | August 23, 2021 | 978-4-06-524103-5 |
| 6 | February 22, 2022 | 978-4-06-526920-6 |
| 7 | July 22, 2022 | 978-4-06-528556-5 |
| 8 | January 23, 2023 | 978-4-06-530277-4 |
| 9 | June 22, 2023 | 978-4-06-532013-6 |
| 10 | January 23, 2024 | 978-4-06-534369-2 |
| 11 | June 21, 2024 | 978-4-06-535956-3 |
| 12 | January 22, 2025 | 978-4-06-535847-4 |
| 13 | June 23, 2025 | 978-4-06-539771-8 |
| 14 | January 22, 2026 | 978-4-06-542186-4 |
| 15 | July 22, 2026 | 978-4-06-544294-4 |
03Reception
Alongside Blue Period, Longing for Home ranked fifteenth on Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list of best manga of 2021 for male readers. The manga was nominated for the 26th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2022. It was nominated for the 48th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category in 2024.
Sources and credits
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