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Wave, Listen to Me!
Wave, Listen to Me! (Japanese: 波よ聞いてくれ, Hepburn: Nami yo Kiitekure) is a Japanese manga series by Hiroaki Samura. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon since July 2014, with its chapters collected in 13 tankōbon volumes as of August 2026. The manga is published in North America by Kodansha Comics. An anime television series adaptation produced by Sunrise aired from April to June 2020 on MBS's Animeism block. A television drama adaptation, titled in English as Born to Be on Air!, aired on TV Asahi from April to June 2023.
Minare Koda, a floor manager at a small restaurant in Sapporo, tries to deal with her bad breakup with an ex-boyfriend. In the process, she drunkenly vents her frustrations to an older man sitting next to her at a local bar. The following day, she discovers that the man works as a producer at a nearby radio station, which broadcast her drunken ramblings over the airwaves.
As Minare's voice gains her more attention than her work at the restaurant, she ends up becoming a late-night radio talk show host at the same station, trying to balance her talk show with her daytime life to make ends meet.
Written and illustrated by Hiroaki Samura, Wave, Listen to Me! started in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon on July 25, 2014. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on May 22, 2015. As of August 21, 2026, 13 volumes have been released.
In North America, Kodansha USA began releasing the manga digitally on January 24, 2017. Kodansha started publishing the manga in print on May 26, 2020.
An anime television series adaptation was announced in October 2019. The series is animated at Sunrise and directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa, with Shōji Yonemura handling series composition, Takumi Yokota designing the characters and Motoyoshi Iwasaki composing the series' music. It aired from April 4 to June 20, 2020, on the Animeism programming block on MBS, TBS and BS-TBS, as well as HBC. Tacica performs the series' opening theme song "Aranami", while Harumi contributed to the series' ending theme song "Pride." The show had an advanced screening event for the first two episodes at United Cinema Toyosu in Tokyo on March 22 with Riho Sugiyama, Shinshū Fuji, Manaka Iwami and Sayaka Ohara joining a talk show on stage.
Funimation (later Crunchyroll LLC) licensed the series for streaming in North America.
A television drama adaptation was announced in February 2023, starring Fuka Koshiba as Minare Koda. The series, titled in English as Born to Be on Air!, was directed by Takashi Sumida, Osamu Katayama, and Hisashi Ueda, based on a screenplay by Kazunao Furuya, and the music was composed by Yuki Hayashi and Shōgo Yamashiro. It aired on TV Asahi and its affiliates from April 21 to June 9, 2023.
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Wave, Listen to Me!
Wave, Listen to Me! (Japanese: 波よ聞いてくれ, Hepburn: Nami yo Kiitekure) is a Japanese manga series by Hiroaki Samura. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon since July 2014, with its chapters collected in 13 tankōbon volumes as of August 2026. The manga is published in North America by Kodansha Comics. An anime television series adaptation produced by Sunrise aired from April to June 2020 on MBS's Animeism block. A television drama adaptation, titled in English as Born to Be on Air!, aired on TV Asahi from April to June 2023.
Minare Koda, a floor manager at a small restaurant in Sapporo, tries to deal with her bad breakup with an ex-boyfriend. In the process, she drunkenly vents her frustrations to an older man sitting next to her at a local bar. The following day, she discovers that the man works as a producer at a nearby radio station, which broadcast her drunken ramblings over the airwaves.
As Minare's voice gains her more attention than her work at the restaurant, she ends up becoming a late-night radio talk show host at the same station, trying to balance her talk show with her daytime life to make ends meet.
Written and illustrated by Hiroaki Samura, Wave, Listen to Me! started in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon on July 25, 2014. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on May 22, 2015. As of August 21, 2026, 13 volumes have been released.
In North America, Kodansha USA began releasing the manga digitally on January 24, 2017. Kodansha started publishing the manga in print on May 26, 2020.
An anime television series adaptation was announced in October 2019. The series is animated at Sunrise and directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa, with Shōji Yonemura handling series composition, Takumi Yokota designing the characters and Motoyoshi Iwasaki composing the series' music. It aired from April 4 to June 20, 2020, on the Animeism programming block on MBS, TBS and BS-TBS, as well as HBC. Tacica performs the series' opening theme song "Aranami", while Harumi contributed to the series' ending theme song "Pride." The show had an advanced screening event for the first two episodes at United Cinema Toyosu in Tokyo on March 22 with Riho Sugiyama, Shinshū Fuji, Manaka Iwami and Sayaka Ohara joining a talk show on stage.
Funimation (later Crunchyroll LLC) licensed the series for streaming in North America.
A television drama adaptation was announced in February 2023, starring Fuka Koshiba as Minare Koda. The series, titled in English as Born to Be on Air!, was directed by Takashi Sumida, Osamu Katayama, and Hisashi Ueda, based on a screenplay by Kazunao Furuya, and the music was composed by Yuki Hayashi and Shōgo Yamashiro. It aired on TV Asahi and its affiliates from April 21 to June 9, 2023.