Tamon’s B-Side (Japanese: 多聞くん今どっち!?, Hepburn: Tamon-kun Ima Dotchi!?) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Shiwasu. It was originally a one-shot published in Hakusensha‘s shōjo manga magazine Hana to Yume in August 2021, before being serialized in the same magazine from October of the same year.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Yuki Shiwasu, Tamon’s B-Side was initially a one-shot published in Hakusensha‘s Hana to Yume magazine on August 5, 2021. It began its serialization in the same magazine on October 20 of the same year. As of September 2023, six tankōbon volumes have been released.

In February 2023, Viz Media announced that they licensed the series for English publication, with the first volume set to be released in Q4 2023.

Other media

A voice drama adaptation, featuring Takuya Eguchi, Toshiki Masuda, and =Love member Maika Sasaki, was included in an issue of Hana to Yume published on October 20, 2022.

Reception

In 2022, Tamon’s B-Side was nominated for the Next Manga Awards in the Print Manga category, where it placed 11th out of 50 nominees. It ranked sixth for the same award in the following year. The series ranked ninth in the 2023 edition of Takarajimasha‘s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list of best manga for female readers. It also ranked fourth in the “Nationwide Publishers Recommended Comics of 2023” list. The series has been nominated for the 47th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōjo category.

See also

• Takane and Hana, another manga series by the same author.

Tamon’s B-Side
First tankōbon volume cover
多聞くん今どっち!? (Tamon-kun Ima Dotchi!?)
Genre	Romantic comedy
Manga
Written by	Yuki Shiwasu
Published by	Hakusensha
English publisher	NA Viz Media
Magazine	Hana to Yume
Demographic	Shōjo
Original run	October 20, 2021 – present
Volumes	6 (List of volumes)