It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from December 2006 to July 2008, when the magazine ceased its publication, and it was then transferred to Big Comic Spirits where it ran from September 2008 to March 2015; its chapters were collected in 14 tankōbon volumes.

A 6-episode television drama adaptation was broadcast on NHK from January to February 2010.

[6] The series was then transferred to Weekly Big Comic Spirits, where it ran from September 6, 2008,[7] to March 16, 2015.

[10] In June 2009, it was announced that the series would receive television drama adaptation.

[28][29] It was one of the Jury Recommended Works at the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2010.