Which Company Published The Doki Doki Little Ooyasan Manga?

So, I managed to find the company that published this book in Japan – it’s Futabasha. I just checked the credits in the back of the book for this post, and there is the Futabasha logo in the top right corner of the title page. Futabasha is one of the mid-size publishing houses that prints a lot of unusual titles.

As for printed copies, Futabasha releases are usually very easy to read: printed on nice paper, standard A5-sized tankobo format, all credits fully listed. You can look up a new copy to buy online through Japanese retail stores or through their online catalog too. As for English language prints, as far as I can tell, Futabasha content has never been given a ‘mainstream’ English language license, so you’d look to import a copy of the Japanese version, or search second-hand online. I really enjoy looking through listings for these to find occasional copies of harder to find Futabasha printed versions too.

Doki Doki Little Ooyasan was published by Futabasha in Japan. I purchased the tankobon volumes for Doki Doki Little Ooyasan a few years ago from various Japanese bookstores and used sellers. All the copies I got were published by Futabasha under their usual imprint for such publications.

Futabasha isn’t exactly a ‘pub’ you’d associate with much in the way of glamour outside of the manga arena, but they do publish loads of really quirky, offbeat titles. ‘Doki Doki Little Ooyasan’ would be a perfect fit for their catalog. In terms of bibliographic data, the Futabasha published edition would list the company on the spine of the collected volumes and first pages of each, as well as libraries and Japanese online bookstores etc.

To see if it has been released in English, I found no English releases published by North American publishers. There are scanned copies of the manga on-line and a couple of fan translations (here and here). You can find the Japanese edition published by Futabasha in print at secondhand shops or used bookstores. I managed to find a copy in one of them after some time.

This manga was published by Futabasha in Japan. I recognize the physical volumes on my bookshelves, and the publisher credit on the colophon page is unmistakable. It makes sense that this niche manga would be published by the company that puts out such a wide variety of other titles.

For collecting, Doki Doki will be published in Japanese by Futabasha, and you can pick up copies at import-friendly stores or used bookshops. The other volumes by Futabasha that are out of print are always a delight to rummage through in the used shops, completely offbeat as they are, and you can often find great oddities published by larger houses that you’d never have considered.