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Wave, Listen to Me!

Wave, Listen to Me! is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Wave, Listen to Me! rather than just read about it. In short: Wave, Listen to Me! (Japanese: 波よ聞いてくれ, Hepburn: Nami yo Kiitekure) is a Japanese manga series by Hiroaki Samura.

Key takeaways

Wave, Listen to Me! belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Wave, Listen to Me! to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Wave, Listen to Me! from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Wave, Listen to Me! (Japanese: 波よ聞いてくれ, Hepburn: Nami yo Kiitekure) is a Japanese manga series by Hiroaki Samura. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon since July 2014, with its chapters collected in 13 tankōbon volumes as of August 2026. The manga is published in North America by Kodansha Comics. An anime television series adaptation produced by Sunrise aired from April to June 2020 on MBS's Animeism block. A television drama adaptation, titled in English as Born to Be on Air!, aired on TV Asahi from April to June 2023.

Plot Minare Koda, a floor manager at a small restaurant in Sapporo, tries to deal with her bad breakup with an ex-boyfriend. In the process, she drunkenly vents her frustrations to an older man sitting next to her at a local bar. The following day, she discovers that the man works as a producer at a nearby radio station, which broadcast her drunken ramblings over the airwaves. As Minare's voice gains her more attention than her work at the restaurant, she ends up becoming a late-night radio talk show host at the same station, trying to balance her talk show with her daytime life to make ends meet.

Characters

Minare Koda (鼓田ミナレ, Koda Minare) Voiced by: Riho Sugiyama (Japanese); Terri Doty (English) Portrayed by: Fuka Koshiba An amateur radio talk show host. She starts out as a waitress at the restaurant Voyager, and often gets into trouble because of her anger management problems. Shortly after breaking up with her ex-boyfriend Mitsuo, she ranted about it and was broadcast over the radio leading her to get fired by the restaurant, as well as get a job opportunity working for a local radio station starting out as a weekly late night talk show host. Kanetsugu Matō (麻藤兼嗣, Matō Kanetsugu) Voiced by: Shinshū Fuji (Japanese); Christopher R. Sabat (English) Portrayed by: Kazuki Kitamura Minare's boss at the radio station. Mizuho Nanba (南波瑞穂, Nanba Mizuho) Voiced by: Manaka Iwami (Japanese); Tia Ballard (English) Portrayed by: Nanoka Hara Minare's co-worker at the radio station. Minare later moves into her apartment to live with her after getting evicted due to her inability to pay the rent. Katsumi Kureko (久連木克三, Kureko Katsumi) Voiced by: Kazuhiro Yamaji (Japanese); Charlie Campbell (English) Portrayed by: Mantarō Koichi Madoka Chishiro (茅代まどか, Chishiro Madoka) Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (Japanese); Monica Rial (English) Portrayed by: Aya Hirano Ryūsuke Kōmoto (甲本龍丞, Kōmoto Ryūsuke) Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa (Japanese); Zach Bolton (English) Chūya Nakahara (中原忠也, Nakahara Chūya) Voiced by: Masaaki Yano (Japanese); Ian Sinclair (English) Portrayed by: Ryota Katayose A chef at Voyager. Makie Tachibana (城華マキエ, Tachibana Makie) Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese); Katelyn Barr (English) Portrayed by: Yurika Nakamura A waitress at Voyager. She begins working there after her brother was at fault for an accident that led to restaurant's manager being hospitalized. She later develops feelings for Chuya. Yoshiki Takarada (宝田嘉樹, Takarada Yoshiki) Voiced by: Bin Shimada (Japanese); Kent Williams (English) Portrayed by: Mizuki Nishimura Manager and lead chef at the restaurant Voyager. Mitsuo Suga (須賀光雄, Suga Mitsuo) Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese); Austin Tindle (English) Minare's ex-boyfriend. Shinji Oki (沖進次, Oki Shinji) Voiced by: Kōki Uchiyama (Japanese); Jessie James Grelle (English) Minare's neighbor who lives in the unit below her.

Media

Manga Written and illustrated by Hiroaki Samura, Wave, Listen to Me! started in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon on July 25, 2014. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on May 22, 2015. As of August 21, 2026, 13 volumes have been released. In North America, Kodansha USA began releasing the manga digitally on January 24, 2017. Kodansha started publishing the manga in print on May 26, 2020.

Volumes

Anime An anime television series adaptation was announced in October 2019. The series is animated at Sunrise and directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa, with Shōji Yonemura handling series composition, Takumi Yokota designing the characters and Motoyoshi Iwasaki composing the series' music. It aired from April 4 to June 20, 2020, on the Animeism programming block on MBS, TBS and BS-TBS, as well as HBC. Tacica performs the series' opening theme song "Aranami", while Harumi contributed to the series' ending theme song "Pride." The show had an advanced screening event for the first two episodes at United Cinema Toyosu in Tokyo on March 22 with Riho Sugiyama, Shinshū Fuji, Manaka Iwami and Sayaka Ohara joining a talk show on stage. Funimation (later Crunchyroll LLC) licensed the series for streaming in North America.

Episodes

Drama A television drama adaptation was announced in February 2023, starring Fuka Koshiba as Minare Koda. The series, titled in English as Born to Be on Air!, was directed by Takashi Sumida, Osamu Katayama, and Hisashi Ueda, based on a screenplay by Kazunao Furuya, and the music was composed by Yuki Hayashi and Shōgo Yamashiro. It aired on TV Asahi and its affiliates from April 21 to June 9, 2023.

Reception Wave, Listen to Me! was nominated for the ninth, tenth and thirteenth Manga Taishō in 2016, 2017 and 2020, respectively. The series ranked 6th on Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook list of 2016 top manga for male readers.

Notes

References

External links Official manga website at Monthly Afternoon (in Japanese) Official anime website (in Japanese) Official drama website (in Japanese) Wave, Listen to Me! (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Wave, Listen to Me!

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Wave, Listen to Me! claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Wave, Listen to Me! before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Wave, Listen to Me! ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Wave, Listen to Me!

In research: Wave, Listen to Me! appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Wave, Listen to Me! in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Wave, Listen to Me! is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2014 manga, 2020 anime television series debuts, Anime and manga set in Hokkaido, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Wave, Listen to Me! outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Wave, Listen to Me! in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
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Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Wave, Listen to Me! in simple terms?

Wave, Listen to Me! (Japanese: 波よ聞いてくれ, Hepburn: Nami yo Kiitekure) is a Japanese manga series by Hiroaki Samura.

Why does Wave, Listen to Me! matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Wave, Listen to Me!?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Wave, Listen to Me!.