Bambino! Is a Japanese printing manga illustrated and written by Tetsuji Sekiya. The manga was serialized in the seinen magazine Big Comic Spirits of Shogakukan. At the time of February 2009, Shogakukan has published 14 bound volumes of the manga. It received the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga Kurosagi. NTV broadcast the live action television drama from April 18, 2007. It was broadcast in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico by Television Japan from January.