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is a Japanese comedy manga series written by Kōji Kumeta and illustrated by Yasu, telling the everyday lives of five young female rakugo comedians. It was serialised in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from September 2009 to September 2013 and the chapters compiled into six tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation animated by J.C.Staff aired in Japan between July and September 2012, with an original video animation episode released in February 2013.

Key facts

Animanga/Header.image
Joshiraku manga volume 1 cover.jpg
Animanga/Header.caption
Cover of the first manga volume
Animanga/Header.ja_kanji
じょしらく
Animanga/Header.ja_romaji
Joshiraku
Animanga/Header.genre
Comedy
Animanga/Print.type
manga
Animanga/Print.author
Kōji Kumeta
Animanga/Print.illustrator
Yasu
Animanga/Print.publisher
Kodansha
Animanga/Print.imprint
Wide KC
Animanga/Print.magazine
Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine
Animanga/Print.first
September 9, 2009
Animanga/Print.last
September 9, 2013
Animanga/Print.volumes
6
Animanga/Video.type
oad
Animanga/Video.director
Tsutomu Mizushima
Animanga/Video.writer
Michiko Yokote
Animanga/Video.music
Masaru Yokoyama

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is a Japanese comedy manga series written by Kōji Kumeta and illustrated by Yasu, telling the everyday lives of five young female rakugo comedians. It was serialised in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from September 2009 to September 2013 and the chapters compiled into six tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation animated by J.C.Staff aired in Japan between July and September 2012, with an original video animation episode released in February 2013.

==Characters== All of the girls' surnames end with the character , which is often used in stage names for performers.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Joshiraku” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.