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 15, 2006. 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 originally published in the US by Viz Media before the publishing rights were assumed by Kodansha USA.

In addition to the light novel series, a manga adaptation of the series, also written by Sekizawa, was published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine starting in 2008. In 2011, an anime film adaptation called A Midnight Rose was produced by Kyoto Animation and Nippon Television Network Movies, with Shochiku and Paramount Japan K.K. handling distribution.

Plot
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Characters
Naoki Miyashita (宮下直樹, Miyashita Naoki) Voiced by: Michael Angarano (film); Hiroki Takahashi (Japanese, film)

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Katsumi Hino (日野克己, Hino Katsumi) Voiced by: Hilary Duff (film); Yukari Tamura (Japanese)

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Light novels
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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 2011. It was written by Ryotaro Sekizawa with Yasuhiro Takemoto serving as the director. It was produced by Shochiku, Paramount Productions (Japan) G.K. and Nippon Television Network Movies and animated by Kyoto Animation, who also did the animation for The Boy from the Blue: Adventures of Poloi and The Story of Quincy, along with the latter's film adaptation. Shochiku and Paramount Japan K.K. handled the distribution in Japan, whilst Paramount distributed it outside of Japan. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed a worldwide total of $96.4 million against a budget of $3 million.