I Hear the Sunspot

A separate live-action television drama adaptation was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July 4, 2024, to September 19, 2024, and won the My Best TV Award in the 62nd Galaxy Award.

College student Taichi Sagawa learns that his lonely classmate, Kohei Sugihara, is deaf, and he enrolls in a part-time job to take notes for him in exchange for food. As the two become more acquainted with each other, they develop a strong friendship that eventually turns into love.

Kohei Sugihara (杉原 航平, Sugihara Kōhei) Voiced by: Makoto Furukawa (audio drama) Portrayed by: Hideya Tawada (film), Motoki Nakazawa (TV drama) Kohei is a college student who had a sudden hearing loss in high school, and because of his disability, he struggles to fit in and is usually seen alone. Taichi Sagawa (佐川 太一, Sagawa Taichi) Voiced by: Junya Enoki (audio drama) Portrayed by: Akira Onodera (film), Toranosuke Kobayashi (TV drama) Taichi is an optimistic and outgoing college student who takes on the job of taking notes for Kohei part-time in exchange for food. Yoko (ヨコ) Voiced by: Yoshiki Nakajima (audio drama) Portrayed by: Ryo Mitsuya (film)

I Hear the Sunspot is written and illustrated by Yuki Fumino as her debut work. Fumino came up with the idea of writing about the hearing impaired from being around friends and acquaintances who had a hearing disability. She wrote I Hear the Sunspot based on what she learned from them as well as visiting a sign language school. I Hear the Sunspot was serialized in the semi-monthly BL manga anthology Canna from December 22, 2013 to August 2014. Originally released as a single-volume story, it was followed up with I Hear the Sunspot: Theory of Happiness from April 22, 2015 to February 2016. After the story's end, Fumino continued with a third series, titled I Hear the Sunspot: Limit, from October 2016 to December 2019. A fourth series titled I Hear the Sunspot: Four Seasons began publication in December 2020 and is still ongoing. The chapters have been released in 7 bound volumes by France Shoin under the Canna Comics imprint as of April 2023. One Peace Books publishes I Hear the Sunspot in English for North American distribution.

A live-action television drama adaptation was announced on May 28, 2024. The series premiered its first episode on U-Next on June 26, 2024. It was then being broadcast from July 4, 2024, to September 19, 2024, for 12 episodes on TV Tokyo as part of their Drama Next programming block. The series stars Motoki Nakazawa as Kohei and Toranosuke Kobayashi as Taichi. It is directed by Fūga Yaegashi, Shō Makino, and Takanobu Harashima, with screenplay written by Izumi Kawasaki. In 2025, the series won the My Best TV Award in the 19th Grand Prix of the 62nd Galaxy Award.