Amanchu!

Amanchu!
The cover of the first volume.
あまんちゅ！
Genre	Slice of life
Manga
Written by	Kozue Amano
Published by	Mag Garden
Magazine	Monthly Comic Blade
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	29 November 2008 – 10 May 2021
Volumes	17
Anime television series
Directed by	Junichi Sato Kenichi Kasai
Produced by	Hisao Iizuka Satoshi Suzuki Ito Masaki Asuka Yamazaki Kaneko Hirotaka Yasuaki Ogawa
Written by	Deko Akao
Music by	GONTITI
Studio	J.C.Staff
Licensed by	Crunchyroll
Original network	AT-X, Tokyo MX, Sun TV, SBS, KBS, BS11
Original run	8 July 2016 – 23 September 2016
Episodes	12 + OVA
Anime television series
Amanchu! Advance
Directed by	Junichi Sato Kiyoko Sayama
Written by	Deko Akao Hiroko Fukuda
Music by	GONTITI
Studio	J.C.Staff
Licensed by	Crunchyroll
Original network	AT-X, Tokyo MX, BS11
Original run	7 April 2018 – 23 June 2018
Episodes	12

Amanchu! (あまんちゅ！) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kozue Amano, which began serialization in Mag Garden's Monthly Comic Blade magazine from November 2008. An anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff aired in Japan between July and September 2016. The second season of the anime series aired between 7 April 2018^[1][2] and 23 June 2018.

The manga ended on 10 May 2021 and shipped its final volume in November 2021.^[3][4][5]

The title Amanchu! appears to be a combination of ama (海人 (male) or 海女 (female), "diver"), and -nchu (人), an Okinawan suffix that means "person" or "people", for example as in Uchinānchu (沖縄人, "Okinawan") or uminchu (海人, "diver").