Straighten Up! Welcome to Shika High's Competitive Dance Club

Straighten Up! Welcome to Shika High's Competitive Dance Club (Japanese: 背すじをピン!と~鹿高競技ダンス部へようこそ~, Hepburn: Sesuji o Pin! to: Shikakō Kyōgi Dance-bu e Yōkoso) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takuma Yokota. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from May 2015 to February 2017 and published in ten volumes.

Straighten Up! Welcome to Shika High's Competitive Dance Club
First tankōbon volume cover
背すじをピン!と~鹿高競技ダンス部へようこそ~
(Sesuji o Pin! to: Shikakō Kyōgi Dance-bu e Yōkoso)
Manga
Written byTakuma Yokota
Published byShueisha
English publisher
ImprintJump Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Jump
English magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runMay 11, 2015February 13, 2017
Volumes10

Publication

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Written and illustrated by Takuma Yokota, Straighten Up! Welcome to Shika High's Competitive Dance Club ran in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from May 11, 2015,[1] to February 13, 2017.[2][3] The series' individual chapters were collected into ten tankōbon volumes.[4] A spin-off chapter was released in Weekly Shōnen Jump on April 11, 2016.[5]

Viz Media published the series in English in their digital magazine Weekly Shonen Jump as part of their Jump Start initiative.[6]

Volumes

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No. Release date ISBN
1 November 4, 2015[7]978-4-08-880556-6
2 December 4, 2015[8]978-4-08-880557-3
3 February 4, 2016[9]978-4-08-880608-2
4 April 4, 2016[10]978-4-08-880655-6
5 June 3, 2016[11]978-4-08-880691-4
6 August 4, 2016[12]978-4-08-880752-2
7 October 4, 2016[13]978-4-08-880793-5
8 December 2, 2016[14]978-4-08-880824-6
9 February 3, 2017[15]978-4-08-881005-8
10 April 4, 2017[4]978-4-08-881050-8

Reception

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In 2016, the series won the Next Manga Award in the print manga category.[16] In a 2017 poll by the Anime! Anime! website, the series ranked first on the list of the top ten completed manga people want to receive an anime adaptation.[17]

References

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  1. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (April 16, 2015). "Shōnen Jump Magazine Launches 3 New Series in May". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  2. ^ Sherman, Jennifer (February 5, 2017). "Shonen Jump Teases Shika High's Competitive Dance Club Manga's Climax". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  3. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (February 9, 2017). "Shika High's Competitive Dance Club Manga Ends in Shōnen Jump on Monday". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  4. ^ a b 背すじをピン!と~鹿高競技ダンス部へようこそ~ 10 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  5. ^ Hallmark, Kyle (March 28, 2016). "4 Weekly Shonen Jump Manga Get Spinoff Chapters in April". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  6. ^ Ressler, Karen (May 4, 2015). "Viz's Shonen Jump to Add Welcome to Shika High's Competitive Dance Club, Devily Man Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  7. ^ 背すじをピン!と~鹿高競技ダンス部へようこそ~ 1 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  8. ^ 背すじをピン!と~鹿高競技ダンス部へようこそ~ 2 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  9. ^ 背すじをピン!と~鹿高競技ダンス部へようこそ~ 3 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  10. ^ 背すじをピン!と~鹿高競技ダンス部へようこそ~ 4 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  11. ^ 背すじをピン!と~鹿高競技ダンス部へようこそ~ 5 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  12. ^ 背すじをピン!と~鹿高競技ダンス部へようこそ~ 6 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  13. ^ 背すじをピン!と~鹿高競技ダンス部へようこそ~ 7 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  14. ^ 背すじをピン!と~鹿高競技ダンス部へようこそ~ 8 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  15. ^ 背すじをピン!と~鹿高競技ダンス部へようこそ~ 9 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  16. ^ "「第2回 次にくるマンガ大賞」1位は「背すじをピン!と」に決定". Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. February 5, 2016. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  17. ^ Sherman, Jennifer (March 13, 2017). "Straighten Up!, Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san Top Poll of Anime Fans Want". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
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