River's Edge (manga)

{{Short description|Japanese manga series}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}}

{{Infobox animanga/Header

| name = River's Edge

| image = River's Edge cover.jpg

| caption = Cover to the 2023 release of River's Edge as published by Kodansha USA

| ja_kanji = リバーズ・エッジ

| ja_romaji = Ribāzu Ejji

| genre =

| creator = Kyoko Okazaki

}}

{{Infobox animanga/Print

| type = manga

| author = Kyoko Okazaki

| publisher = Takarajimasha

| publisher_en = {{English manga publisher|NA=Kodansha USA}}

| demographic = {{transl|ja|Josei}}

| imprint =

| magazine = CUTiE

| magazine_en =

| volumes = 1

| volume_list =

| published = 1994

}}

{{Infobox animanga/Other

| title = Live-action film

| content =

• River's Edge (2018)

}}

{{Infobox animanga/Footer}}

{{nihongo|River's Edge|リバーズ・エッジ|Ribāzu Ejji|lead=yes}} is a Japanese slice of life manga written and illustrated by Kyoko Okazaki. River's Edge was first published in the women's fashion magazine Monthly Cutie between 1993 and 1994.{{Cite web |title=リバーズ・エッジ│宝島社の公式WEBサイト 宝島チャンネル |url=https://tkj.jp/book/?cd=01082501 |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=宝島社の公式WEBサイト 宝島チャンネル}}{{Cite book |last1=Chen |first1=Novia Shih-Shan |title=Monstrous Women in Comics |last2=Ogawa |first2=Sho |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |year=2020 |isbn=9781496827623 |editor-last=Langsdale |editor-first=Samantha |language=en |chapter=On the Edge of 1990s Japan: Kyoko Okazaki and the Horror of Adolescence |doi=10.2307/j.ctv11sn67h.15 |jstor=j.ctv11sn67h.15 |editor-last2=Coody |editor-first2=Elizabeth Rae}}{{Rp|page=195}} River's Edge follows Haruna, a high school girl in a suburb of Tokyo, and her friends as they traverse the ups and downs of high-school life in the 90s.{{Cite web |others=Translated by Paul T. Narum |title="LIFE" Exhibition |url=http://www.arttowermito.or.jp/life/life.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318182455/http://www.arttowermito.or.jp/life/life.html |archive-date=2008-03-18 |access-date=2008-03-18 |website=Contemporary Art Gallery}}{{Rp|pages=195–196}}

Themes of bullying, homosexuality, drug-use and teenage pregnancy are explored through the lens of a coming of age story. The manga was highly influential in Japanese literature.

A film adaptation of the manga was released in 2018. Kodansha USA publishes the manga in English.{{cite web|title=Kodansha USA Licenses Kyoko Okazaki's River's Edge Manga, The Dawn of the Witch Novels|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-23/kodansha-usa-licenses-kyoko-okazaki-river-edge-manga-the-dawn-of-the-witch-novels/.183931|website=Anime News Network|last=Pineda|first=Rafael Antonio|date=March 23, 2022|access-date=August 16, 2023}}