Daytime Shooting Star
Daytime Shooting Star is a Japanese shōjo manga written and illustrated by Mika Yamamori. It ran in Margaret from 2011 to 2014. A live-action film adaptation of the same name was released in 2017, as well as a collaboration clothing line with Earth Music & Ecology in 2014.
Plot
Suzume Yosano's parents move to Bangladesh when her father's position gets relocated, while Suzume herself moves to Tokyo to live with her uncle, Yukichi. On the way to her uncle's house, Suzume gets lost and is helped by a stranger. She later learns on her first day of school that the stranger is her homeroom teacher, Satsuki Shishio.Characters
;Suzume Yosano;Satsuki Shishio
;Daiki Mamura
;Yuyuka Nekota
;Nana Kameyoshi
;Monika Tsurutani
;Manabu Inukai
;Togyuu Minagawa
;Yukichi Kumamoto
Media
Manga
Daytime Shooting Star is written and illustrated by Mika Yamamori. The series first was announced on May 3, 2011. The manga was serialized in the bi-weekly magazine Margaret from May 20, 2011, to November 2014. The chapters were later released in bound volumes by Shueisha under the Margaret Comics imprint.In honor of the 50th anniversary of Margaret, Yamamori collaborated with Momoko Koda, the author of No Longer Heroine, to release the crossover comic Heroine Shooting Star. Heroine Shooting Star was released in Mini Margaret, a booklet that was distributed as a magazine gift in the May 20, 2013 issue of Margaret. In 2014, Yamamori collaborated with Suu Morishita, the author of Like a Butterfly, to produce two crossover comics, Hibi Shooting Star and Daytime Chōchō.
Wanting to promote the live-action movie, Yamamori released Daytime Shooting Star: Side Story Blue in the February 3, 2017 issue of Margaret. It was followed up by Daytime Shooting Star: Side Story Red in the March 28, 2017 issue of Margaret.
In 2018, Viz Media announced at the New York Comic Con that they were licensing the series for English distribution, with all comics being published under the Shojo Beat imprint.
Live-action film
In mid-September 2016, the live-action film adaptation was announced. The film stars Mei Nagano as Suzume, Shohei Miura as Shishio, and Alan Shirahama as Mamura. The film was released in Japan on March 24, 2017, in 272 theaters and opened at #5 on opening weekend. The film's theme song is "Hayaku Aitai" by Dream Ami.Yamamori released Daytime Shooting Star: Side Story Blue in the February 3, 2017 issue of Margaret and Daytime Shooting Star: Side Story Red in the March 28, 2017 issue of Margaret to promote the film. Nagano and Shirahama were also featured in a collaboration commercial as their characters to cross-promote handbags from Samantha Vega, a sister brand of Samantha Thavasa.