Horikoshi: A Tale of Love

Horikoshi: A Tale of Love (Japanese: 堀越 愛と幸せの物語, Hepburn: Horikoshi: Ai no Monogatari), is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryotaro Sekizawa, with illustrations provided by Natsuki Tanihara. It was published by Kodansha starting on September 13, 1999, and ran for four volumes. It is the first light novel series to be written by Sekizawa and his first work he didn't illustrate himself. The series follows a hapless Horikoshi High School boy named Naoki Miyashita, who is diagnosed with ADHD and fairly antisocial until one night when he befriends Katsumi Hino, a choir student who is considered to be the princess of the class he takes, and slowly, a romance blossoms between them as they try to deal with their own internal struggles and fears along with various events happening in their lives. The series was translated and published in the United States by Tokyopop in 2006, though the publishing rights were later taken over by

In addition to the light novel series, a manga adaptation of the series, written by Hajime Machida, was published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine starting in 2001. In 2004, an anime film adaptation called Horikoshi: I Want to Believe, or as it was titled internationally A Midnight Rose, was produced by Studio Deen and released by Toho as a double bill with Yellow House on August 13, 2004.

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Characters
Naoki Miyashita (宮下直樹, Miyashita Naoki) Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi (Film, Japanese)

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Katsumi Hino (日野克己, Hino Katsumi) Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (Japanese, Film)

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Manga series
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Film
Main article: A Midnight Rose

A film adaptation based off the novels, called Horikoshi: I Want to Believe, or internationally as A Midnight Rose, was released in 2004. It was written by Ryotaro Sekizawa with Koji Masunari serving as the director. It was produced by Toho Company and animated by Studio Deen, who previously did the animation for Teen Samurai in 2000. Toho released the film as a double bill with another film based on a Ryotaro Sekizawa work, Yellow House, on August 13, 2004.