


Main article: List of Ushio and Tora characters As of 2015, the manga had over 30 million copies in circulation. Ushio and Tora won the 37th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category in 1992 and the Seiun Award in the Best Comic category in 1997. In North America, the OVA series has been licensed by ADV Films in 1998, and re-released in 2003, while the anime television series was licensed by Sentai Filmworks in 2015. It was later adapted into a 39-episode anime television series produced by MAPPA and Studio VOLN, which aired from July 2015 to June 2016. The manga was adapted into a 11-episode (including an additional episode) original video animation (OVA) produced by Pastel and released from September 1992 to October 1993. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from January 1990 to October 1996, with its chapters collected into thirty-three tankōbon volumes. Ushio and Tora ( Japanese: うしおととら, Hepburn: Ushio to Tora) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiro Fujita.
