New Nobunaga Chronicles
Japanese manga series
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New Nobunaga Chronicles: High School is a Battlefield (新・信長公記 〜ノブナガくんと私〜, Shin Shinchō Kōki: Nobunaga-kun to Watashi; 'The New Official History of Nobunaga: Nobunaga and Me') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinobu Kaitani. It was first serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine March 2019 to June 2020 and later on the Comic Days manga application from July 2020 to September 2021, with its chapters collected in eight tankōbon volumes. A ten-episode television drama adaptation aired from July to September 2022.
- Weekly Young Magazine (2019–2020)
- Comic Days (2020–2021)
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| Written by | Shinobu Kaitani |
| Published by | Kodansha |
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| Original run | March 25, 2019 – September 6, 2021 |
| Volumes | 8 |
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| Music by | Yuki Hayashi |
| Studio | ytv |
| Original network | NNS (ytv, Nippon TV) |
| Original run | July 24, 2022 – September 25, 2022 |
| Episodes | 10 |
Plot
Characters
- Nobunaga Oda (織田 信長, Oda Nobunaga)
- Portrayed by: Ren Nagase[3]
- Oda Nobunaga's clone.
- Miyabi Kusakabe (日下部 みやび, Kusakabe Miyabi)
- Portrayed by: Anna Yamada[4]
- The class president.
- Ieyasu Tokugawa
- Portrayed by: Yukiyoshi Ozawa[5]
- Tokugawa Ieyasu's clone.
- Hideyoshi Toyotomi
- Portrayed by: Daigo Nishihata[5]
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi's clone.
- Kanbei Kuroda
- Portrayed by: Gaku Hamada[5]
- Kuroda Kanbei's clone.
- Masamune Date
- Portrayed by: Shohei Miura[5]
- Date Masamune's clone.
- Mitsuhide Akechi
- Portrayed by: Riku Hagiwara[6]
- Akechi Mitsuhide's clone.
- Shingen Takeda (武田 信玄, Takeda Shingen)
- Portrayed by: Shinnosuke Mitsushima
- Takeda Shingen's clone.
- Kenshin Uesugi (上杉 謙信, Uesugi Kenshin)
- Portrayed by: Atsuhiro Inukai[6]
- Uesugi Kenshin's clone.
- Naomasa Ii
- Portrayed by: Taro Suruga[7]
- Ii Naomasa's clone.
- Shigeharu Takenaka
- Portrayed by: Shuntarō Yanagi[7]
- Takenaka Shigeharu's clone.
- Tadakatsu Honda
- Portrayed by: Ryouhei Abe[7]
- Honda Tadakatsu's clone.
- Kiyomasa Katō
- Portrayed by: Kenta Suga[7]
- Katō Kiyomasa 's clone.
- Tadatsugu Sakai
- Portrayed by: Seiya Osada[7]
- Sakai Tadatsugu's clone.
- Yasumasa Sakakibara
- Portrayed by: Shūichirō Naitō[7]
- Sakakibara Yasumasa's clone.
- Motonari Mōri
- Portrayed by: Hisamichi Kataoka[7]
- Mōri Motonari's clone.
- Toshiie Maeda
- Portrayed by: Kouta Nomura[7]
- Maeda Toshiie's clone.
- Yukimura Sanada
- Portrayed by: Yūta Tanokura[7]
- Sanada Yukimura's clone.
- Yoshimoto Imagawa
- Portrayed by: Kōya Matsudai[7]
- Imagawa Yoshimoto's clone.
- Takanobu Ryūzōji
- Portrayed by: Taisei Kusano[7]
- Ryūzōji Takanobu's clone.
Media
Manga
Written and illustrated by Shinobu Kaitani, New Nobunaga Chronicles was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from March 25, 2019,[8][9] to June 15, 2020.[10][11] The series was later transferred to the Comic Days manga application, where it ran from July 6, 2020,[10][11] to September 6, 2021.[12][13] Kodansha collected its chapters in eight tankōbon volumes, released from July 5, 2019, to November 18, 2021.[1][14]
Volumes
| No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN |
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| 1 | July 5, 2019[15] | 978-4-06-516358-0 |
| 2 | October 4, 2019[16] | 978-4-06-517232-2 |
| 3 | January 6, 2020[17] | 978-4-06-518221-5 |
| 4 | April 6, 2020[18] | 978-4-06-519202-3 |
| 5 | August 5, 2020[19] | 978-4-06-520468-9 |
| 6 | December 9, 2020[20] | 978-4-06-521720-7 |
| 7 | May 12, 2021[21] | 978-4-06-522587-5 |
| 8 | November 18, 2021[14] | 978-4-06-525874-3 |
Drama
In May 2022, it was announced that the series would receive a television drama adaptation;[3] it aired for ten episodes from July 24 to September 25 of that same year on NNS stations, including Yomiuri TV and Nippon TV.[22][23]