Weekly Playboy
"Kimagure Orange Road" was written and illustrated by Izumi Matsumoto and serialized in "Weekly Shōnen Jump" from issue No. 15 on March 26, 1984 to No. 42 on September 28, 1987. The 156 individual chapters were collected into 18 "tankōbon" volumes by Shueisha from September 10, 1985 through August 4, 1995. The series was republished in a 10 volume "aizōban" edition, and a 10 volume "bunkoban" edition. A special chapter, "Panic in the Bathhouse!", was created for Matsumoto's "Comic On" CD-ROM manga series and published in "Super Jump" issue No. 10 of 1996. A second special was published in "Weekly Playboy" issue No. 44 of 1999.