My Boy in Blue
My Boy in Blue is a Japanese romantic comedy shōjo manga series by Maki Miyoshi and serialized by Kodansha in Bessatsu Friend. The Japanese title is composed of acronyms for Police Officer and Joshi Kōsei, "high school girl". The first volume was published on April 12, 2013. A live-action film adaptation was announced in May 2016 with Ryūichi Hiroki as director, and premiered on March 25, 2017. The manga won the 41st Annual Kodansha Manga Award in the "Shojo" category in 2017. The manga ended in February 2020 with a total of sixteen volumes.
Plot
The story revolves around Kako Motoya, a first-year high school student, and Kota Sagano, a police man. The two meet at a mixer and begin to fall for each other until Kota realizes Kako is a high schooler. Nonetheless, the two marry in secret; the story follows their bizarre marriage and the troubles that occur.Characters
;Kako Motoya;Kota Sagano
;Heisuke Ōkami
;Mikado Yaguchi
;Jiro Nagakura
;Fumi Komori
;Yamamoto
;Kako's father
;Kako's mother
Reception
It was number fourteen in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2014.Volume 3 reached the 25th place of the weekly Oricon manga charts and, as of December 22, 2013, has sold 69,261 copies. Volume 4 reached the 12th place and, as of April 20, 2014, has sold 112,796 copies. Volume 5 reached the 5th place and, as of August 17, 2014, has sold 104,905 copies. As of May 2016, the series has sold 2.1 million copies.