(episodes 1–26) aired between July 3 and December 25, 2015, and the second part (episodes 27–39) aired between April 1 and June 24, 2016. For episodes 1 through 26, the opening theme is by Kinniku Shōjo Tai while the ending themes are "HERO" by Sonar Pocket and by Wakadanna. For season 2, episodes 1 through 13, the opening theme is by Kinniku Shōjo Tai while the ending theme is by Lunkhead. A complete box set, including all the thirty-nine episodes, was released in Japan on December 20, 2017. In North America, both seasons were streamed on Crunchyroll. The series was licensed by Sentai Filmworks in 2015, and began streaming with an English dub on Hidive in 2017. It has also been licensed in the United Kingdom by Manga Entertainment. Video games Ushio to Tora game was released for the Super Famicom (in Japan only) on January 22, 1993. The game is an action title created by Yutaka. Players can take the role of Ushio or Tora. Ushio to Tora: Shin'en no Daiyō was released for the Family Computer on July 9, 1993. Ushio is also featured as a playable character in the Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Weekly Shōnen Magazine crossover game Sunday vs Magazine: Shūketsu! Chōjō Daikessen. Stage play In July 2022, it was announced that the series would receive a stage play adaptation, directed by Naoyuki Yoshihisa and starring Keita Tokushiro as Ushio and Takehiro Haruhira as Tora. It ran at the Theater Sun Mall in Tokyo from August 18–21, 2022. Reception Manga By 2015, Ushio & Tora had over 30 million copies in circulation. The manga won the 37th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen category in 1992. It won the Seiun Award in the Best Comic category in 1997. On a 2020 poll conducted by the Goo website about the best Weekly Shōnen Sunday titles, Ushio & Tora ranked second. On TV Asahi's Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150.000 people voted for their top 100 manga series, the series ranked #48. Original video animation Charles McCarter of Ex.org wrote that "[t]he fun of this series stems entirely from the uneasy relationship with Ushio and Tora", praising as well Chikao Ohtsuka's performance as Tora "changing from frightening to hurt and offended in the blink of an eye." McCarter labeled the series as a "grown-up, supernaturally powered Calvin and Hobbes", and called the animation "relatively high", and the battle