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Boys on the Run (ボーイズ・オン・ザ・ラン) is a Japanese manga series by Kengo Hanazawa. '''The series takes place in modern day Japan and follows Tanishi Toshiyuki's transformation as he tries to win his loves heart from a rival love interest. The series is part sports, comedy, drama and romance'''. The series ran in Big Comic Spirits from 2005 to 2008. It was adapted into a live action film in 2010 and a drama in 2012.

Plot
A 29 27-year-old lonesome sales man, who works at a company that restocks vending machine prizes, falls in love with an attractive woman, Chiharu, from work. . but he has A rival named Aoyama that ends up being with her. He takes up boxing, after running into an old acquaintance who boxes, to fight his rival.

Cast

 * Kazunobu Mineta - Tanishi Toshiyuki
 * Mei Kurokawa
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In 2008 on the 49th issue of Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits the film adaptation of the manga was announced. The announcement also showed that the direct was Daisuke Miura and that Ginnan Boyz singer Kazunobu Mineta was casted for the lead character Toshiyuki Tanishi '''. Ginnan Boyz' even produced an original song for the film adaptation. ImaginAsian TV chose to have the live-action film adaptation to be available through VOD .'''

'''The film has reached overseas and has been screened at a 2011 Austin Film Fest (Could not get it to auto-cite and could not do it manually because there is no title, author, or publish date. Also make take awhile to open). The film also had a physical release on Amazon in 2012 .'''

Cast

 * Ryuhei Maruyama - Tanishi Toshiyuki
 * Airi Taira - Hana Ooiwa
 * Takumi Saito - Takahiro Aoyama
 * Tatsuya Ueda - Ryu Ando
 * Akina Minami - Chiharu Uemura
 * Miyoko Asada - Masako Tanishi
 * Eriko Sato - Shiho
 * Takanori Jinnai -Suzuki
 * Seishu Uragami - Shu Shishido
 * Yu Tokui - Kazuo Tanishi
 * Morooka Moro - Saida
 * David Ito - Tanaka
 * Asami Usuda - Akane Hasegawa
 * Atsushi - Yoshihisa

In the show adaptation, the main character Tanashi was played by KANJANI 8 member Ryuhei Maruyama '''. The series also features other celeberties such as: Airi Tara, Akina Minami, Takumi Saitou, Tatsuya Ueda, Takanori Jinnai, Eriko Satoh, and Miyoko Asada to name a few.'''

Episode list
A rough translation of the episodes

#1 Happy Birthday

#2 Cheers

#3 Proclamation

#4 Mahiru's Lineage

#5 "I Like You"

#6 Bad Woman

#7 The Man Who Came Back

#8 Love, Fist and Yukichi Fukuzawa

#9 Last Run

Reception
Although the manga was not able to make it to the top selling manga series of 2008, however the series is currently ranked #3459 in ratings and #2354 on aggregate fan review site MyAnimeList. This could be due to several reasons such as sharing the name of another bigger popular manga, 20th Century Boys, or due to the other more popular manga of time dominating the shelf space. The Ginnan Boyz' CD that featured the theme song for the adaptation debuted at #9 on Oricon .