Akuma-kun
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| Original title | 悪 魔 く ん | ||||||
| transcription | Akuma-kun | ||||||
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| genre | Fantasy | ||||||
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 Japan
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| author | Shigeru Mizuki | ||||||
| publishing company | various | ||||||
| magazine | various | ||||||
| First publication | 1963-1990 | ||||||
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| Original title | Akuma-kun | ||||||
| Country of production |
Japan
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| Year (s) | 1966-1967 | ||||||
| length | 25 minutes | ||||||
| Episodes | 26th | ||||||
| music | Takeo Yamashita | ||||||
| First broadcast | Oct. 6, 1966 - March 30, 1967 on NET TV | ||||||
| Movie | |||||||
| Original title | Akuma-kun | ||||||
| Country of production |
Japan
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| Publishing year | 1986 | ||||||
| length | 80 minutes | ||||||
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| Director | Toshio Ōi | ||||||
| script | Yoshio Urasawa | ||||||
| music | Yūsuke Honma | ||||||
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| Country of production |
Japan
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| original language | Japanese | ||||||
| Year (s) | 1989-1990 | ||||||
| Studio | Toei animation | ||||||
| length | 25 minutes | ||||||
| Episodes | 42 | ||||||
| Director | Jun'ichi Sato | ||||||
| music | Nozomi Aoki | ||||||
| First broadcast | April 15, 1989 - March 24, 1990 on TV Asahi | ||||||
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Akuma-kun ( Japanese 悪 魔 く ん ) is a manga series by Shigeru Mizuki that has been adapted as a television series, television film, anime series, and anime film.
content
The series is roughly about a hero who is known as Akuma-kun (English: "Devil Boy") and who wants to make the world a better place; in some series as the Messiah who wants to usher in the Millennial Kingdom of Peace . For this he borrows the powers of the Akuma, whereby Akuma stands not only for the Christian devil, with which Akuma is usually translated, but for various ghosts and monsters ( Yōkai ) from myths and Japanese folk beliefs, as is common for the works of Mizuki is.
The hero meets Dr. Faust , who initiates him in how to summon a devil and who gives him King Solomon's flute, with which he can also control devils. The hero is subordinate to twelve subordinates, who are referred to as the Twelve Apostles ( 十二 使徒 , jūni shito ).
Shigeru Mizuki published several manga series on Akuma-kun, which differ not only in the plot, but also in the protagonist.
Publications and Adaptations
Shigeru Mizuki published the stories about Akuma-kun from 1963 as Kashihon manga, i. H. Manga for the Lending Library Market.
Manga
- Akuma-kun (1964)
- The first manga Akuma-kun was published by Tōkōsha in 1964 in three volumes. Originally five volumes were planned, but the series was prematurely discontinued due to poor sales. The protagonist here is Ichirō Matsushita ( 松下 一郎 ).
- Akuma-kun (1966-1967)
- 1966 followed in Kōdansha's monthly manga magazine Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine (today: Gekkan Shōnen Magazine ) and later until 1967 in the weekly sister magazine Shūkan Shōnen Magazine . The new protagonist was Shingo Yamada ( 山田 真 吾 ).
- Akuma-kun Fukkatsu: Sennen Ōkoku (1970–1971)
- Akuma-kun Fukkatsu: Sennen Ōkoku ( 悪 魔 く ん 復活 千年 王国 , dt. "Devil Boy Resurrection : Thousand Year Reich ") was published in Shūeisha's Shūkan Shōnen Jump and again used the character of Ichirō Matsushita.
- Fukkatsu! Akuma-kun (1976)
- The short story Fukkatsu! Akuma-kun ( 復活! 悪 魔 く ん ) in Gekkan Shōnen Magazine was a crossover with Mizuki's most famous work Ge Ge Ge no Kitarō , in which Ichirō Matsushita fought against Kitarō.
- Akuma-kun Seikimatsu Taisen (1987–1988)
- Akuma-kun Seikimatsu Taisen ( 悪 魔 く ん 世紀末 大 戦 , Eng. "Devil Boy: The Great War at the End of the Century") was published by Kōbunsha in their magazine Comic BE! and is a direct continuation of the first manga.
- Saishinban Akuma-kun (1988–1990)
- Saishinban Akuma-kun ( 最新 版 悪 魔 く ん , German "devil youth: new version") appeared in Kōdansha's comic BonBon and served as a template for the later anime films. The hero in this version is Shingo Umoregi ( 埋 れ 木 真 吾 ).
- Nostradamus Taiyogen (1993-1994)
- Nostradamus Taiyogen ( ノ ス ト ラ ダ ム ス 大 予 言 , Nosutoradamusu Taiyogen , German " Nostradamus great predictions") appeared in 1993 and 1994 in two volumes by Tatsumi Shuppan . This work went back to the figure of Shingo Yamada.
Some of the individual works were reprinted by other publishers.
Dorama
The second Akuma-kun manga from 1966/7 with Shingo Yamada as the protagonist was filmed as a 26-part dorama series. It was broadcast on Nihon Educational Television ( NET TV , now: TV Asahi ) between October 6, 1966 and March 30, 1967 .
In the early evening of September 15, 1986, a television movie called Akuma-kun was broadcast on Fuji TV . This represents a new interpretation, since the protagonist in this Shingo is Itō ( 伊藤 真 吾 ).
Anime
The series was produced in 1989 by Toei Animation , an anime series directed by Jun'ichi Satō . This is based on the manga Saishinban Akuma-kun . The 42-episode series was broadcast from April 15, 1989 to March 24, 1990 by TV Asahi in Japan.
The opening credits of the series were underlaid with the song Akuma-kun ( 悪 魔 く ん ) by Kōrogi '73 & Wild Cats, for the credits one used the title 12 Friends by YF Zombie Company.
Two films were shown at Toei Animation's annual Tōei Manga Matsuri film festival: On July 15, 1989, the 40-minute film Akuma-kun and on March 10, 1990, the 25-minute long Akuma-kun: Yōkoso Akuma Land e !! ( 悪 魔 く ん よ う こ そ 悪 魔 ラ ン ド へ !! , Akuma-kun: Yōkoso Akuma Rando e !! ).
synchronization
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) |
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| Akuma-kun | Yūko Mita |
| Dr. fist | Ichirō Nagai |
| Hyakume | Sanae Miyuki |
| Mephisto II | Toshio Furukawa |
Video game
In 1990, Bandai published a computer role-playing game for the Famicon console for the anime series. In the role of Akuma-kun, the player can summon different demons to fight for him in several rounds.
Web links
- Anime website at Toei Animation (Japanese)
- Entry on the anime on Anime News Network (English)
- Akuma-kun (drama from 1966) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 悪 魔 く ん (1966) . In: allcinema. Retrieved April 3, 2011 (Japanese).
- ↑ 悪 魔 く ん (1986) . In: allcinema. Retrieved April 3, 2011 (Japanese).