Kimagure Orange Road (きまぐれオレンジ☆ロード Kimagure Orenji Rodo) is a popular shonen romantic comedy manga and anime series from the 1980s and 1990s.

Written by Izumi Matsumoto and serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump, it was later adapted into an anime series broadcasted on Nippon Television, animated by Studio Pierrot and directed by veteran animator Osamu Kobayashi with character designs by Akemi Takada and scripts by Kenji Terada. In the mid-1990s it was novelized as well.

The series deals with a love triangle between the main character, an indecisive esper named Kyosuke Kasuga, Madoka Ayukawa, a mercurial and enigmatic girl with a tough past, and Hikaru Hiyama, Madoka's ditzy and energetic best friend. Kyosuke falls in love with Madoka, and Madoka wants to return those feelings, but cannot because of Hikaru's involvement with Kyosuke.

The series consist of 18 volumes of manga (when first printed), 48 TV anime episodes, 8 OVAs, 2 animated movies, and 3 novels published as Shin KOR (New Kimagure Orange Road) written by Matsumoto and Terada. Translations of the manga and novels exist in several languages, including Chinese and French. The Shin KOR novels have not officially been translated into English, although all three have fan translations available at various websites.

In the United States, the TV series, OVAs, and the first movie were licensed by AnimEigo, though these licenses expired in August 2006 and they were unable to renew the license due to undisclosed reasons. The second movie, based on first Shin KOR novel, is licensed by ADV Films. In addition, there is a five volume "cinema" radio drama set on compact disc. It has a slightly different storyline than the anime or manga, but more closely resembles the anime. The CD dramas are published by Victor Entertainment.

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