Chiisai Hito

Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari is a Japanese manga series written by Mitsuhiro Mizuno and illustrated by. It was first serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from November 2010 to June 2012, and later in Shōnen Sunday S from June 2012 to October 2013, with its chapters collected in six volumes. A sequel, Shin Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari, was serialized in Shōnen Sunday S from July 2016 to November 2023, with its chapters collected in fourteen volumes.

Publication

Written by Mitsuhiro Mizuno and illustrated by, with cooperation of Junichi Komiya, Chiisai Hito was first serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from November 2, 2010, to June 20, 2012. It was later serialized in Shōnen Sunday S from June 25, 2012, to October 25, 2013. Shogakukan collected its chapters in six volumes, released from November 18, 2011, to November 18, 2013.
A sequel, titled Shin Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari, was serialized in Shōnen Sunday S from July 25, 2016, to November 24, 2023. Shogakukan collected its chapters in fourteen volumes, released from December 17, 2016, to March 18, 2024.

Reception

Chiisai Hito was one of the 50 manga titles selected for a manga exhibition about the promotion of human rights, held by the Tokyo Metropolitan Human Rights Promotion Center in 2015. In September 2015, the manga began its electronically distribution on Manga Kingdom and Comic Shogakukan Books, and the number of downloads exceeded 370,000 in about a month, the highest number of electronically distributed works by Shogakukan; part of the sales were donated to the Orange Ribbon Campaign, as part of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's "Child Abuse Prevention Promotion Month". According to Manga Zenkan, Chiisai Hito was the 17th best-selling manga in 2015.