The Pumpkin Wine

The Pumpkin Wine (Japanese: Theかぼちゃワイン, Hepburn: The Kabocha Wain; lit. 'The Pumpkin Wine') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuru Miura. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1981 to 1984. The Kabocha Wine received the 1983 Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category. The sequel to the manga, The Kabocha Wine — Sequel (The かぼちゃワイン sequel; lit. 'The Pumpkin Wine — Sequel') is a one-shot manga published by Seirindo on October 15, 2006. The third series of the manga, The Kabocha Wine — Another (The♥かぼちゃワインAnother; lit. 'The Pumpkin Wine — Another') is published by Akita Shoten. It has been adapted into a 95-episode anime series by Toei Animation. The sequel to the anime was in the form of an animated movie, called The Kabocha Wine: Nita no Aijou Monogatari (Theかぼちゃワイン ニタの愛情物語, The Pumpkin Wine: Nita's Love Story), which was released on July 14, 1984, by Toei Animation. On October 26, 2007, wint released a DVD for the live-action movie adaptation of the third manga series, called The Kabocha Wine — Another (The かぼちゃワインAnother; lit. 'The Pumpkin Wine — Another'). Directed by Hitoshi Ishikawa, the movie starred Yoko Kumada.