Chiisai Hito

Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari (ちいさいひと 青葉児童相談所物語, "Little People: Aoba Children's Counseling Center Story") is a Japanese manga series written by Mitsuhiro Mizuno and illustrated by Jin Kyōchikutō [ja].

A sequel, Shin Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari, was serialized in Shōnen Sunday S from July 2016 to November 2023, with its chapters collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes.

Written by Mitsuhiro Mizuno and illustrated by Jin Kyōchikutō [ja], with cooperation of Junichi Komiya (a former Saitama Shimbun reporter who had been covering the abuse issue for about 20 years),[2] Chiisai Hito was first serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from November 2, 2010,[3] to June 20, 2012.

[8] A sequel, titled Shin Chiisai Hito: Aoba Jidō Sōdanjo Monogatari (新・ちいさいひと 青葉児童相談所物語), was serialized in Shōnen Sunday S from July 25, 2016,[9] to November 24, 2023.

[29][30] In September 2015, the manga began its electronically distribution on Manga Kingdom and Comic Shogakukan Books, and the number of downloads exceeded 370,000 in about a month, the highest number of electronically distributed works by Shogakukan;[1] part of the sales were donated to the Orange Ribbon Campaign, as part of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's "Child Abuse Prevention Promotion Month".