Given Manga Volumes: Complete 9-Volume Collecting Guide

All 9 Given Manga Volumes — What a Complete Collection Looks Like

Given (ギヴン) by Natsuki Kizu (キヅナツキ) is a completed BL (boys’ love) romance manga with 9 volumes total. BL is a manga genre focused on romantic relationships between male characters — and Given is one of the most acclaimed titles in the category. Nine books, and you have the entire story from first page to last.

All 9 volumes are available in English from SuBLime Manga, a Viz Media publishing label that specializes in boys’ love titles. The series was originally published in installments in Chéri+, a manga anthology magazine in Japan, and collected into volumes by Shinshokan. Magazine serialization began in April 2013, with the first collected volume published in December 2014 and the final volume releasing in September 2023.

Because the series is complete, collecting Given means building a definitive, closed set. There’s no waiting for the next volume, no cliffhanger anxiety, no wondering if the story will land its ending. It already did. You can read the whole thing at your own pace knowing every storyline reaches its conclusion.

For a romance manga — especially one in the BL genre — nine volumes is a sweet spot. It’s long enough for the characters and relationships to develop real depth, but short enough that collecting every volume doesn’t require a massive investment of money or shelf space. Compared to series that run 20, 30, or 50+ volumes, this is wonderfully manageable.

The Easiest Way to Collect All 9 Volumes

Nine volumes is one of the most approachable collection sizes in manga. Here’s how to think about putting together your set.

Standard Paperback Editions

All nine English volumes are published by SuBLime Manga in standard paperback format. These are the editions you’ll find at most major retailers — bookstores, online shops, and manga-focused stores all tend to carry them. The covers are gorgeous, and the physical dimensions are consistent across the full run, so they look great lined up on a shelf.

Where to Buy

The English editions of Given are widely available through major retailers. You can find them at bookstores like Barnes & Noble, online through Amazon and other shops, or at your local comic and manga store if they carry SuBLime titles. Availability is generally solid since the series comes from a well-established publisher.

If you’re building the set over time, starting with Volume 1 is the obvious move — but there’s no wrong order to buy them in if you spot a volume at a good price. Just read them in order.

Digital Editions

If shelf space or budget is a concern, digital editions offer the lowest-cost path to reading the complete series. SuBLime’s digital releases are available through multiple platforms, and you can often find them priced below their physical counterparts at list price. Digital also means instant availability — no waiting for shipping, no worrying about whether a volume is currently in stock.

Bundle Deals and Promotions

At the time of writing, there is no confirmed English-language box set for Given. That said, it’s always worth checking whether retailers are running any bundle promotions, especially during major seasonal sales. Nine volumes is the kind of set size that retailers sometimes package together for a discount.

Even without a box set, buying all nine Given manga volumes at list price is reasonable. Compare that to collecting a 25+ volume series and the difference is significant.

Volume-by-Volume Breakdown

Here’s a spoiler-light guide to what each volume covers, focusing on the key romantic storylines and emotional turning points. This should help you know what you’re getting into — or help you figure out where you left off if you’ve read some of the series before.

Volumes 1–3 — Mafuyu and Uenoyama Find Their Sound

Volume 1 is where everything begins. Ritsuka Uenoyama is a gifted guitarist who’s lost his passion for music. Mafuyu Sato is a quiet, enigmatic boy carrying a broken guitar and a heavy emotional past. When Uenoyama agrees to teach Mafuyu guitar, their connection starts pulling both of them out of their respective funks. The setup sounds simple — two boys, a guitar, a band forming — but Natsuki Kizu layers in so much emotional texture from the very first chapter that you can feel the story building toward something big.

The romance here is subtle and magnetic. It’s told through glances, through music, through the way two people start orbiting each other before either one fully understands why. If you’ve seen the anime adaptation, you know this pull. In the manga, it’s even more intimate — Kizu’s art does extraordinary things with silence and the empty space around her characters, letting emotion fill the gaps between panels.

Volume 2 deepens everything. The band — which also includes the older pair, Akihiko Kaji and Haruki Nakayama — starts to take real shape. Mafuyu begins finding his voice, literally and emotionally. The tension between him and Uenoyama builds in a way that feels achingly real. You can see both characters struggling with feelings they don’t have language for yet.

What makes these early volumes so effective is how grounded they are. This isn’t a fantasy or a melodrama. It’s two people falling for each other in the middle of band practice, school hallways, and convenience store trips. The ordinariness makes the emotional moments hit harder.

Volume 3 delivers a pivotal climax for the Mafuyu-Uenoyama storyline. Without spoiling specifics, this volume contains one of the most emotionally powerful and deeply cathartic — as in, a release of all the tension the story has been building — scenes in BL manga. It involves a live performance, and it’s the moment where everything the first two volumes have been building toward comes together. If Volume 3 doesn’t get you, nothing will — but it will absolutely get you.

These first three volumes work beautifully as a self-contained emotional journey, even though the story continues beyond them. If you’re testing the waters with Given, reading through Volume 3 gives you a complete taste of what Kizu does best.

Volumes 4–6 — Akihiko and Haruki Take Center Stage

Starting with Volume 4, the romantic focus shifts significantly to the older pair in the band: Akihiko Kaji (the drummer) and Haruki Nakayama (the bassist). While Mafuyu and Uenoyama’s relationship continues to develop in the background, these middle volumes belong to Akihiko and Haruki — and their dynamic is very different from the first couple.

Where Mafuyu and Uenoyama’s romance is tender and tentative, Akihiko and Haruki’s is messy, complicated, and develops at a much slower pace — the kind of gradual, simmering romance where the tension keeps building before anything resolves. Akihiko is tangled up in a complicated situation involving his roommate and ex-boyfriend, pulled in multiple directions at once. Haruki has been quietly in love with Akihiko for what feels like forever without being able to act on it.

Volume 5 pushes these complications further. The emotional stakes get higher, and the tone shifts toward something more mature and raw. These aren’t teenagers figuring out first love — these are adults navigating real relationship baggage, jealousy, intimacy, and the gap between wanting someone and being ready to be with them.

Volume 6 continues to develop these threads and is often cited by fans as part of the emotional core of the entire series. The Akihiko-Haruki storyline doesn’t offer easy resolutions, and that’s what makes it compelling. Kizu treats these characters with the same care and honesty she brings to the younger couple, and the result is a romance that feels earned rather than inevitable.

If you’re someone who loves a romance that takes its time and rewards your patience, Volumes 4–6 are going to be your favorite stretch of the series.

Volumes 7–9 — Resolution and Finale

The final three volumes bring all the relationship threads together toward resolution — and they do so with the same emotional precision that defines the rest of the series.

Volume 7 begins drawing the various storylines back into alignment. Both couples are navigating new stages of their relationships — Mafuyu and Uenoyama are figuring out what their relationship looks like beyond the initial rush of new feelings, while Akihiko and Haruki are confronting the question of whether they can actually build something lasting together. The band itself — which has always been the connective thread holding the story together — plays a central role in how these characters find their way forward.

Volume 8 builds toward the final act with a sense of quiet momentum. Characters have conversations that have been a long time coming. Old wounds get revisited not to reopen them, but to let them finally heal. There’s a sense of everything converging, and Kizu doesn’t rush any of it — she gives each character the space to arrive at their own resolution naturally.

Volume 9 is the final volume, and it completes every major storyline in the series. Both romantic relationships reach meaningful conclusions. The band’s story reaches a satisfying endpoint. And the emotional journey that started with a broken guitar in Volume 1 comes full circle.

Without spoiling the ending: it’s the kind of conclusion that respects both the characters and the readers. It doesn’t tie everything up with an unrealistic bow, but it doesn’t leave you hanging either. For a series that’s so deeply about emotional honesty, the ending feels honest too.

The final volume was published in Japan in September 2023, and the English edition from SuBLime followed to complete the set. If you’ve been holding off on starting Given until it was done — it’s done. You can read the whole thing now.

Are Any Given Manga Volumes Hard to Find?

Good news: as a completed series from SuBLime Manga (a Viz Media publishing label), the print availability of Given is generally stable. SuBLime keeps its popular titles in circulation, and Given is one of the most well-known BL manga in English, which means demand supports ongoing reprints.

That said, BL titles can occasionally go between printings. When a publisher sells through one batch of physical copies and hasn’t yet printed the next batch, a specific volume may be temporarily unavailable. If you’re shopping for the full set and find that one volume is temporarily out of stock in paperback, don’t panic. This is normal manga publishing — a new printing is typically on the way. Here are a few things to keep in mind:

• Volumes in the middle of a series (like Volumes 4–6) sometimes sell more slowly at first but can become temporarily scarce after demand spikes — such as when the anime drives new readers to the manga.
• If a volume is listed as “temporarily out of stock” at one retailer, check others. Different shops restock at different times.
• Digital editions are always available as a fallback. If you’re mid-read and desperate to continue, grabbing a digital copy of a sold-out volume means you never have to wait.
• Resellers on marketplace platforms sometimes mark up volumes that are between printings. Before paying a premium, check whether the publisher has a reprint scheduled. For a series this popular from a publisher this established, patience usually pays off.

The overall picture is reassuring: Given is not a hard series to collect. It’s widely available, well-supported by its publisher, and only nine volumes long. Building the complete set is straightforward for most buyers.

The Series Is Finished — Your Collection Stays Complete

This is one of the best things about collecting Given right now: the original manga is done. The series finished its chapter-by-chapter run in Chéri+ magazine, and Volume 9 — the final volume — was released in Japan in September 2023. All nine English volumes from SuBLime are out.

Your nine-volume collection is the complete original Given manga — the full story Natsuki Kizu set out to tell, beginning to end.

One thing to know: a sequel story, *Given 10th Mix, began in Chéri+ in January 2024, set ten years after the events of the original series. SuBLime has licensed Given 10th Mix for English digital and physical release in late 2026. This is a separate work from the original nine-volume series — your collection of Volumes 1–9 remains the complete original story. But if you fall in love with these characters, there will be more to look forward to.

This matters for a few reasons:

• For readers, it means you can start the series knowing the original story has a real ending. No risk of an indefinite hiatus, no risk of the story losing its way over dozens of volumes. Nine books, beginning to end.
• For collectors, the original nine-volume series is a tidy, attractive collection piece that takes up minimal shelf space and looks beautiful together. The sequel is a separate title, so your set stays complete as-is.
• The anime adaptation (produced by the animation studio Lerche) has brought significant attention to the manga and may continue to do so. Periodic demand spikes from anime viewers can cause temporary stock fluctuations, but the manga itself is a finished product, and the set you build today is the set that exists for the original series.

If you’re the type of reader who prefers to collect completed series — and a lot of us are — Given is a perfect candidate. The original story is done, it’s great, and there’s even a sequel on the horizon if you want more.

Who Should Collect Given

Given isn’t for everyone, but it’s for a lot of people. Here’s who will get the most out of this nine-volume series:

BL romance readers who want character-driven storytelling. Given is first and foremost a character study. The romance is the engine, but the fuel is the emotional complexity of four distinct people navigating love, loss, music, and growing up. If you want BL that treats its characters like real people rather than stock types, this is it.

Readers new to BL manga. If you’ve been curious about boys’ love manga but don’t know where to start, Given is one of the most welcoming entry points available. The romance is sincere and well-paced across all nine volumes, the art is beautiful and expressive, and the story never relies on problematic tropes that can make some BL titles uncomfortable for newcomers. It’s a love story that happens to be between boys — and it’s a really good love story. One note for newer readers: the series is rated Mature by the publisher, and later volumes do contain some sexual content. It’s handled tastefully and in service of the story, but it’s worth knowing before you buy.

Music lovers. You can’t hear manga, obviously — but Kizu comes as close as any artist can to making you feel music on the page. The way she draws performances, the way sound and silence are part of the visual storytelling, the way the characters’ emotional breakthroughs are tied to musical moments — it’s remarkable. If music is important to you, Given speaks your language.

Collectors who prefer completed series. Nine volumes, all published, no waiting. You can buy the full set, line them up on your shelf, and know that’s the complete original story. A sequel (Given 10th Mix) is on the way, but it’s a separate title — your nine-volume set stands on its own. For readers who’ve been burned by series that go on hiatus or get cancelled, the certainty of a completed run is worth a lot.

Anime fans who want the original experience. If you watched the Given anime and fell in love with these characters, the manga is the definitive version of their story. The full original manga has now been adapted across the TV series (2019), the 2020 film, and the 2024 two-part film (Hiiragi mix and To the Sea), but the manga gives you more time with the characters, and the art is stunning in a way that’s distinct from the animation. The manga is where Given started, and it’s where the full emotional experience lives across all nine volumes.

Who might want to look elsewhere? If you’re looking for action, fantasy, or comedy-driven romance, Given probably isn’t your speed. It’s a quiet, emotionally intense series. The pacing is deliberate. The drama comes from real human feelings, not external conflicts or plot twists. That’s its greatest strength — but if you want something faster or lighter, there are better picks for you.

For everyone else: nine volumes, one beautiful story, zero regrets. Go grab Volume 1 and see for yourself.