Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox animanga/Header Template:Infobox animanga/Print Template:Infobox animanga/Other Template:Infobox animanga/Footer Template:Nihongo is a Japanese manga series written by Template:Ill. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday from 2005 to 2008, and transferred to Big Comic Spirits in 2008. It has been adapted into a live-action film, titled The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji in 2013, which was followed by a sequel, The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio, released in 2016.
By May 2023, the manga had over 10 million copies in circulation. In 2014, Mogura no Uta won the 59th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.
Plot
Reiji Kikukawa, a silly young man still a virgin, managed to join the police. Remaining in a position of simple agent at the bottom of the ladder, Reiji is one day fired. In reality, this dismissal hides a completely different mission, because Reiji is offered to become an undercover agent, in other words, a "mole".
Media
Manga
Written and illustrated by Template:Ill, Mogura no Uta debuted in Shogakukan's [[Seinen manga|Template:Transliteration manga]] magazine Weekly Young Sunday on August 18, 2005.Template:Efn The magazine ceased its publication on July 31, 2008,[1] and the series moved to Big Comic Spirits on September 9 of that same year.[2] Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual Template:Transliteration volumes. The first volume was released on January 5, 2006.[3] As of August 30, 2024, 85 volumes have been released.[4]
Live-action films
The manga was adapted into a live-action film titled The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji, which was directed by Takashi Miike and released in Japan on February 15, 2014.[5][6][7] Miike also directed the sequels The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio (2016)[8] and The Mole Song: Final (2021).
Reception
Mogura no Uta won the 59th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category in 2014.[9] The manga had over 6.5 million copies in circulation by January 2016;[10] and over 10 million copies in circulation by May 2023.[11]
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External links
Template:Weekly Young Sunday Template:Weekly Big Comic Spirits Template:Shogakukan Manga Award - General