Rec (manga)

Rec
Cover of the first tankōbon volume
GenreRomantic comedy
Manga
Written byQ-Tarō Hanamizawa
Published byShogakukan
MagazineMonthly Sunday Gene-X
DemographicSeinen
Original runNovember 19, 2002March 19, 2013
Volumes16
Anime television series
Directed byRyūtarō Nakamura
Produced by
  • Takumi Fujimori
  • Mitsuteru Shibata
  • Yoshihisa Nakayama
  • Shinichi Nakamura
  • Kozue Kaneniwa
  • Mitsutoshi Kubota
Written byReiko Yoshida
Music byKei Haneoka
StudioShaft
Original networkTBS, BS-i
Original run February 3, 2006 March 31, 2006
Episodes9 + OVA

Rec (stylized as REC) is a Japanese manga series by Q-Tarō Hanamizawa. It was serialized by Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Sunday Gene-X from November 2002 to March 2013, with its chapters collected in sixteen tankōbon volumes. The story follows the relationship between Fumihiko Matsumaru, a salaryman, and Aka Onda, an aspiring voice actress. A nine-episode anime adaptation by Shaft aired between February and March 2006; an original video animation episode was also produced.