is the title of a series of unrelated short manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 collections by Mitsuru Adachi

Mitsuru Adachi

is a Japanese manga artist. After graduating from Gunma Prefectural Maebashi Commercial High School in 1969, Adachi worked as an assistant for Isami Ishii. He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kieta Bakuon, based on a manga originally created by Satoru Ozawa...

. Four volumes compile stories selected from shōjo

Shojo

The term refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10-18. The name romanizes the Japanese 少女 , literally: "little female". Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative and graphic styles, from historical drama to science fiction — often with a strong...

, shōnen

Shonen

The term refers to manga marketed to a male audience aged roughly 10 and up. The Kanji characters literally mean "few" and "year", respectively, where the characters generally mean "comic"...

, josei

Josei

also known as or , is a term that refers to the target demographic of manga created mostly by women for late teenage and adult female audiences. Readers range from 15-44. In Japanese, the word josei means simply "woman", "female", "feminine", "womanhood" and has no manga-related connotations at...

 and seinen

Seinen

is a subset of manga that is generally targeted at a 20–30 year old male audience, but the audience can be older with some manga aimed at businessmen well into their 40s. In Japanese, the word Seinen means "young man" or "young men" and is not suggestive of sexual matters...

 works released from 1985 until 2009.

Short Program

The first collection, titled simply Short Program, collected stories published between 1985 and 1988. In Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, Shogakukan

Shogakukan

is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, manga, non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan.Shogakukan founded Shueisha which founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hitotsubashi Group, one of the largest publishing groups in Japan...

 published this in November 1988. In the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, Viz Media

VIZ Media

VIZ Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, is an anime, manga, and Japanese entertainment company. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha, and...

 published this collection in March 2000. The chapters are arranged differently from the Japanese release, for unknown reasons. As was customary with most manga published in the US at the time, the pages were 'flopped' so that they read left to right, rather than right to left as originally drawn. It is also printed at a larger paper size than the now-standard manga size.

Short Program				ISBN 4091218814 (original release)
				ISBN 409127871X (2005 re-release)
Short Program				ISBN 156931473X
Japanese chapter	Viz chapter	English title	Japanese title	Rōmaji title	Serialized	Publication date
1	7	The Current State of Affairs	近況	Kinkyō	Shōnen Big Comic Shonen Big Comic was a bi-weekly manga magazine published by Shogakukan in Japan from 1979 to 1987. From 1976 to 1979, the magazine was titled before being renamed Shōnen Big Comics in 1979.In 1987, the magazine changed format and was renamed Weekly Young Sunday...	January 1987
2	6	At the Intersection	交差点前	Kōsaten Mae	Shōnen Big Comic	April 1986
3	3	Short Program	ショート・プログラム	Shōto Puroguramu	Young Sunday	March 1987
4	2	Take Off	テイク・オフ	Teiku Ofu	Young Sunday	April 1988
5	1	Change	チェンジ	Chenji	Weekly Shōnen Sunday	November 1985
6	8	Plus 1	プラス1	Purasu Wan	Ciao Ciao (magazine) is a Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Shogakukan for young girls . The first issue was launched in 1977. As of 2009, the circulation was 815,455. Formerly, the magazine attached paper crafts, but now attaches various goods that are different every month...	June 1986
7	9	Purple	むらさき	Murasaki	Ciao	June 1985
8	4-5	What's Going On!?	なにがなんだか	Nani ga Nanda ka	Shōnen Big Comic	January 1985

Short Program 2

The second collection, titled Short Program 2, collected stories published between 1988 and 1995. In Japan, Shogakukan published this in June 1996. In the United States, Viz Media published this collection in April 2004. Unlike the first volume, this collection was published right to left, in the now-standard paper size for manga.

Short Program 2			ISBN 4091218822 (original release)
			ISBN 4091278728 (2005 re-release)
Short Program 2			ISBN 156931473X
Chapter	English title	Japanese title	Rōmaji title	Serialized	Publication date
1	Before Spring Comes	春が来る前に…	Haru ga Kuru Mae ni...	Petit Comic Petit Comic is a Japanese josei manga magazine published by Shogakukan, aimed at young women over the age of 18. Many series in this anthology magazine are romance-oriented and some are well-known for featuring frank depiction of sexual situations...	April 1992
2	Subject - Wakaba	若葉マーク	Wakaba Māku	Weekly Young Sunday Weekly Young Sunday was a weekly manga magazine published by Shogakukan in Japan since the first issue on April 10, 1987. It replaced Shōnen Big Comic in Shogakukan's lineup of shōnen titles, and many of the titles in Shōnen Big Comic were continued in Young Sunday...	January 1995
3	A Stop on the Way	途中下車	Tochūgesha	Weekly Shōnen Sunday	September 1994
4	5×4P			Big Comic Superior Big Comic Superior is a semimonthly seinen manga magazine published since 1987-07-01 by Shogakukan in Japan. Its target audience is somewhere between the audience for Big Comic Original and Big Comic Spirits....	July - September 1992
5	4 on the Richter Scale	震度4	Shindo Yon	Weekly Shōnen Sunday	July 1988
6	Aim at the Ace	エースをつぶせ!	Ēsu o Tsubuse!	Shōgaku Shinensei	June 1986
7	Spring Call	スプリング・コール	Supuringu Kōru	Weekly Shōnen Sunday	April 1993
8	Spring Passes	ゆく春	Yuku Haru	Big Comic Spirits Big Comic Spirits is a weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Shogakukan and aimed at males 20–25 years old. It originally launched on October 14, 1980. The culture of food, sports, love relationships, and business provide the themes for its featured series, which often question conventional values...	May 1993
9	The Road Home	帰り道	Kaeri Michi	Young Sunday	October - November 1989
10	Sayonara Game	サヨナラゲーム	Sayonara Gēmu	Big Comic Big Comic is a semimonthly seinen manga magazine published since 1968-02-29 by Shogakukan in Japan. It was originally launched as a monthly magazine, but switched to twice monthly on the 10th and 25th beginning in April 1968. It is paired with sister magazine Big Comic Original, going on sale in the weeks...	1991 Summer Special

Short Program 3

This volume was published in July 2007 in Japan. No announcements have been made regarding an English-language release in North America.

Short Program 3			ISBN 4091278736 (original release)
			unreleased
Chapter	English title	Japanese title	Rōmaji title	Serialized	Publication date
1	Geta and Diamonds			Young Sunday	1999 issue 17
2	Blowing Any Which Way			Big Comic Spirits	1992 issue 8
3	Angel's Hammer			Big Comic	1998 issue 6
4	Memory Off			Weekly Shōnen Sunday	2000 issues 6-7
5	White Summer			Weekly Shōnen Sunday	2002 issues 36-37
6	Square Sea			Weekly Shōnen Sunday	1998 30th Anniversary Special Issue,
7	Idol A			Young Sunday	2005 issue 36/37 - 2007 issue 5/6,
8	The Runaway God			Big Comic One	16 October 2005
9	Short Mail			Shōnen Sunday Super Shonen Sunday Super is a bi-monthly shōnen manga magazine published by Shogakukan.-History & Background:Originally billed as a special edition of Shōnen Sunday entitled Shōnen Sunday Zōkan, it was renamed Shōnen Sunday Super in 1995. It is often the home of short term serials by established Shogakukan artists, as well...	2006 Special Winter Issue

Short Program: Girl's Type

This volume was published 11 May 2009 in Japan. No announcements have been made regarding an English-language release in North America.

Short Program: Girl's type			ISBN 4091216749 (original release)
			unreleased
Chapter	English title	Japanese title	Rōmaji title	Serialized	Publication date
1	A Word from the Freeloader			Weekly Shōjo Comic	1978 issue 11
2	A Word from the Freeloader, Continued
3	It's Hard Being a Freeloader
4	Lovers Declaration
5	Season
6	Pair of Aces			Weekly Shōjo Comic	1978 issue 16
7	Whimsical Punch			Weekly Shōjo Comic	1977 issue 34

Reception

The Wilamette Week's Jamie Rich called the first volume of Short Program "solid, escapist entertainment" and "as irresistibly infatuating as comic books can get." He described the worlds created by Adachi as "ageless", describing his style as having "crisp, delicate [lines]" and having a "genuine sweetness".

External links

• あだち充作品 リスト - Listing of Mitsuru Adachi's short stories