River's Edge (manga)
| River's Edge | |
Cover to the 2023 release of River's Edge as published by Kodansha USA | |
| リバーズ・エッジ (Ribāzu Ejji) | |
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| Created by | Kyoko Okazaki |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Kyoko Okazaki |
| Published by | Takarajimasha |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | CUTiE |
| Demographic | Josei |
| Published | 1994 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Live-action film | |
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River's Edge (Japanese: リバーズ・エッジ, Hepburn: Ribāzu Ejji) is a Japanese slice of life manga written and illustrated by Kyoko Okazaki. River's Edge was first published in the women's fashion magazine Monthly Cutie between 1993 and 1994.: 195 River's Edge follows Haruna, a high school girl in a suburb of Tokyo, and her friends as they traverse the ups and downs of high-school life in the 90s.: 195–196
Themes of bullying, homosexuality, drug-use and teenage pregnancy are explored through the lens of a coming of age story. The manga was highly influential in Japanese literature.
A film adaptation of the manga was released in 2018. Kodansha USA publishes the manga in English.