is a Japanese coming-of-age manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Shimamoto. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from March 2007 to July 2008, when the magazine ceased its publication; a chapter was published in YS Special in October 2008, before being transferred to Shogakukan's then-brand-new shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sunday in May 2009. Aoi Honō is a fictionalized account of Shimamoto's time as a student at the Osaka University of Arts, which he attended alongside Hideaki Anno, Hiroyuki Yamaga, and Takami Akai. It was adapted into a live-action Japanese television drama, titled Blue Fire in English, that aired from July to October 2014. The drama was streamed on Viki with English subtitles. Cast Yūya Yagira – Moyuru Honō Ken Yasuda – Hideaki Anno Tsuyoshi Muro – Hiroyuki Yamaga Tomoya Nakamura – Takami Akai Mizuki Yamamoto – Tonko Morinaga Yuina Kuroshima – Hiromi Tsuda Kaname Endō – Masahiko Minami Gaku Hamada – Toshio Okada Kenji Urai – Kentarō Yano Yui Ichikawa – Jun Iwase Haruna Kojima – Masumi Seika Taketomi – Miyuki Jirō Satō – MAD Holy Anna Kon'no – Rumiko Takahashi Toshio Okada – Osamu Tezuka Voice Tōru Furuya – Narrator and Katsuya Niimi (Nine) Hiromi Tsuru – Yuri Nakao (Nine) Makio Inoue – Captain Harlock (Space Pirate Captain Harlock) Masako Nozawa – Tetsuro (Galaxy Express 999) Masako Ikeda – Maetel (Galaxy Express 999) – Joe Yabuki (Ashita no Joe) – Yōko Shiraki (Ashita no Joe) Kōichi Yamadera – Captain , Susumu Kodai and (Space Battleship Yamato) Katsumi Toriumi – Masato Wakamatsu (Miyuki) Ryōtarō Okiayu – Jun Kenzaki (Ring ni Kakero) Kappei Yamaguchi – Nobotta Ōyama (Otoko Oidon) Media Manga Aoi Honō is written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Shimamoto. The manga debuted in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday on March 8, 2007. After the magazine ceased publication on July 31, 2008, a chapter of Aoi Honō was published the Big Comic Spirits special supplementary issue YS Special in October 2008. The series was then transferred to the brand new shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sunday on May 12, 2009. Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on February 5, 2008. As of August 10, 2022, twenty-seven volumes have been released. Volume list Reception Volume 2 sold 24,521 copies by May 17, 2009, volume 9 sold 20,415 copies by November 18, 2012, and volume 10