Slow Start

• Name — Slow Start • Ja Kanji — スロウスタート • Ja Romaji — Surou Sutāto • Genre — * Comedy • Slice of life

• Type — manga • Author — Yuiko Tokumi • Publisher — Houbunsha • Magazine — Manga Time Kirara • First — 2013 • Volumes — 13

• Type — TV series • Director — Hiroyuki Hashimoto • Writer — Mio Inoue • Music — Yoshiaki Fujisawa • Studio — CloverWorks • Network — Tokyo MX, GYT, GTV, BS11, TVA, Kansai TV • First — January 7, 2018 • Last — March 25, 2018 • Episodes — 12 Slow Start is a Japanese four-panel manga series by Yuiko Tokumi, serialized in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara since 2013. It has been collected into thirteen tankōbon volumes. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by CloverWorks aired between January 7 and March 25, 2018.

Following an unfortunately timed case of the mumps, middle school student Hana Ichinose ends up missing all of her high school exams. Unable to stay in her hometown, Hana moves into her cousin's apartment building and spends a gap year as a "middle school rōnin", before finally attending high school a year later than planned. The series follows Hana as she spends time with her new friends, Eiko, Kamuri, and Tamate, without letting on that she is a year older than them.

• Hana Ichinose • Reina Kondō • Hana is a shy and modest girl who is good at studying, but not athletic. After catching mumps and missing out on her high school entry exams, she was forced to take a gap year and moved into her cousin's apartment building before attending Hoshio Private Academy as a first year. As a result, Hana is self-conscious about her current standing and that she does not have anyone of her old school friends in her company, and is therefore very glad to build up an immediate friendship with Eiko, Kamuri and Tamate. Named after 一. • Tamate Momochi • Ayasa Itō • Tamate is a bubbly and energetic girl from Hana's class who likes to be friends with everyone she meets. She is notable for her protruding upper-jaw incisors and likes to be called "Tama" due to her dislike for her full name's association with the word tamatebako. Tama lives with her two grandmothers and enjoys cooking. Named after 百. • Kamuri Sengoku • Maria Naganawa • Kamuri is a childish girl whose physical development greatly lags behind her actual age. She is an old friend of Eiko from elementary school whom she admires and becomes timid around others whenever Eiko is absent. Whenever she is addressed with a sensitive topic, she somehow manages to twitch her hair ribbon as an expression. Her main hobbies are eating and sleeping (the latter of which is perhaps the primary reason for her belated development), although she is an extremely fast runner at sports. Her name is derived from kanmuriwashi. Named after 千. • Eiko Tokura • Tomomi Mineuchi • Eiko is a gentle and level-headed girl with a natural charisma which has made her popular with her peers without any effort. She likes making accessories and has a crush on her homeroom teacher Kiyose Enami. Named after 十. • Hiroe Hannen • Maaya Uchida • Hiroe is a resident of the apartment building where Hana and Shion live. After an experience not dissimilar to Hana's led her to miss her university exams, the guilt of lying to her peers caused her to become a shut-in. She soon starts to become more confident after meeting Hana and is one of the few people who knows about her situation. Named after 万. • Shion Kyōzuka • Mao Ichimichi • Shion is Hana's adult cousin and the landlady of a boarding house where Hana resides for the duration of her high school period. She is graceful and well-endowed, but behaves more like a teenager than an adult woman. Her favorite hobby is taking a close interest in Hana's private life. Named after 10,000,000,000,000,000. • Kiyose Enami • Manami Numakura • Kiyose is Hana's homeroom teacher who seems lethargic all the time and not interested in performing her job. It is because of these traits that she becomes an object of interest for Eiko. Kiyose was originally scheduled to play a supporting role, so she is the only main character not named after a unit of numbers.

• Amane Ōtani • Yuna Yoshino • She is the manager of the track and field club. • Maho Ogano • Yuka Nukui • Maho is a member of the track and field club and runs a short distance. • Nanae Takahashi • Inori Minase • Nanae is a member of the gardening club and goes to school early in the morning to take care of the flowerbeds. • Sachi Tsubakimori • Marika Kōno • Sachi is a schoolgirl who likes stalking Eiko.

• Kyōzuka • Kenta Sasa • Hazuki's father as well as Hana and Shion's grandfather. His first name is unknown. • Hazuki Ichinose • Yoko Hikasa • Hazuki is Hana's mother. Her maiden name is Kyōzuka. • Takeru Ichinose • Rikiya Koyama • Takeru is Hana's father. He is two years younger than Hazuki. • Miki Tokura • Tomori Kusunoki • Eiko's younger sister, who is a year younger than her. She is supportive of her older sister and makes her soup everyday. Her similarity in appearance to Eiko is what led Kamuri to choose to go to Hoshio Private Academy. • Saeko Tokura • Saeko is Eiko and Miki's mother. • Yōji Tokura • Yōji is Eiko and Miki's father. • Takako • Kiyoko Miyazawa • Takako is Tamate's maternal grandmother. Her surname is unknown. • Fumi • Chika Makihara • Fumi is Tamate's paternal grandmother. Her surname is unknown. • Sengoku • Mrs. Sengoku is Kamuri's mother. Her first name is unknown. • Nishiki Sengoku • Nishiki Kamuri's father.

The manga series by Yuiko Tokumi began serialization in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara in 2013. As of November 2025, the series has been compiled into thirteen tankōbon volumes. An anthology comic was released on February 27, 2018.

An anime television series adaptation, directed by Hiroyuki Hashimoto and produced by CloverWorks, aired in Japan between January 7 and March 25, 2018. Mio Inoue supervised the series' scripts and Masato Yasuno designed the characters. The opening theme is "ne! ne! ne!" by STARTails☆ (Reina Kondō, Tomomi Mineuchi, Maria Naganawa, and Ayasa Itō) and the ending theme is While Listening to the Wind's Voice by Sangatsu no Phantasia. Aniplex of America have licensed the anime and are streaming it on Crunchyroll. The series ran for 12 episodes.

Characters from the series appear alongside other Manga Time Kirara characters in the 2018 mobile RPG, Kirara Fantasia.

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