Even Though We’re Adults
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- Takako Shimura
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- Japanese
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• Ja Kanji — おとなになっても • Ja Romaji — Otona ni Nattemo • Genre — * Drama • Yuri
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• Type — manga • Author — Takako Shimura • Publisher — Kodansha • Magazine — Kiss • First — March 25, 2019 • Last — August 24, 2023 • Volumes — 10 • Volume List — #Publication
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• Type — drama • Network — Hulu, Nippon TV • First — April 26, 2025 • Last — July 5, 2025 • Episodes — 12 Even Though We're Adults is a Japanese yuri manga written and illustrated by Takako Shimura. It was serialized in Kodansha's Kiss magazine from March 2019 to August 2023. A live-action television drama adaptation aired from April to July 2025.
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When Ayano – an elementary school teacher in her 30s – runs into a friendly woman, Akari, at her favorite bar, sparks begin to fly. As the night ends, Ayano goes in to kiss Akari. However, their newly-formed relationship becomes even more complicated when Akari finds out that Ayano has a husband.
Manga
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Written and illustrated by Takako Shimura, Even Though We're Adults was serialized in Kodansha's Kiss magazine from March 25, 2019, to August 24, 2023. The series was collected in ten tankōbon volumes from October 2019 to November 2023. The series is licensed for an English release in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment.
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Drama
A live-action television drama adaptation starring Mizuki Yamamoto and Chiaki Kuriyama was announced on February 18, 2025. It aired on Hulu from April 26 to July 5 of the same year.
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Erica Friedman of Yuricon in her review of Volume 1 noted her ambivalent relationships towards Shimura's work due to the "varying degrees of verisimilitude" that Shimura has toward gender and sexual minorities within their work, further criticizing that "this story feels equal parts solid and kind of icky. It may also be that I'm not particularly thrilled to have either another "messy relationship with a married woman story" or a story that makes the lesbian performatively self-loathy. At the same time, there are elements here that keep bringing me back to this story" In her volume 6 review, she went on to praise the series as a whole: "I'm still of the belief that this is Shimura-sensei's best work to date and I just hope she has a clear ending in mind – whether it's the ending I want, or not." Anna Williams, writing from Comic Book Resources, noted that Shimura handled the topics of marriage, cheating, and discovering one's sexuality in adulthood, with "expertise and grace", remarking that the series "is an absolute must-read series for anyone searching for a yuri manga that chooses to take a much more somber, bittersweet look at love."
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