Another

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Another
Novel Another (ア ナ ザ ー) logo.svg
genre Horror , his
novel
author Yukito Ayatsuji
publishing company Kadokawa Shoten
magazine Yasei Jidai
First publication August 2006 - May 2009
expenditure 1
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Yukito Ayatsuji
Illustrator Hiro Kiyohara
publishing company Kadokawa Shoten
magazine Young Ace
First publication April 4, 2010 - February 4, 2012
expenditure 4 + 1 extra volume
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2012
Studio PA Works
length 25 minutes
Episodes 12 in 1 season
Director Tsutomu Mizushima
music Kō Ōtani
First broadcast January 10th - March 27th, 2012 on KNB

First publication in German		 August 5, 2016 on Anime on Demand
synchronization
Movie
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2012
length 109 minutes
Rod
Director Takeshi Furusawa
script Takeshi Furusawa, Sachiko Tanaka
music Gorō Yasukawa
camera Tokushō Kikumura
cut Masahiro Ōnaga
occupation

Another is a Japanese horror novel by Yukito Ayatsuji . The series was published from 2006 to 2009 in Japan and was used as his - Manga , Anime adapted television series and live action.

content

The 15-year-old Kōichi Sakakibara ( 榊 原 恒 一 ) moves to live with his grandparents and his aunt Reiko because his father has to go to India because of his work. At Yomiyama Middle School, he was in grades 3-3, which Kōichi found strange from the start. The class is isolated as much as possible from everyone else in the school. Kōichi notices a classmate with an eye patch, Mei Misaki ( 見 崎 鳴 ), but his classmates react as if they weren't there when he asks someone about her. Kōichi soon learns that the class has been cursed since a student named Misaki had died 26 years earlier. Since then, each year is in the class a surplus deceased, of / "Other" ( Another ), whose mere presence is the reason that monthly student of this class or their close relatives come in strange circumstances killed. Little by little, Kōichi finds out that one can end the curse by "killing" the other person over and over again, which exacerbates the desperate situation, since nobody, not even the dead person, knows who they are Other is.

publication

The story written by Yukito Ayatsuji was published in serial chapters from August 2006 to May 2009 in the magazine Yasei Jidai of the Kadokawa Shoten publishing house . In October 2009, the chapters were collected in a tankōbon ( ISBN 978-4-04-874003-6 ). The cover illustration is by Shiho "Shiffon" Enta. A version in two bunkobons followed in November 2011 ( ISBN 978-4-04-100001-4 and ISBN 978-4-04-100000-7 ), and a new edition in March 2012 ( ISBN 978-4-04-100142-4 and ISBN 978-4-04-100141-7 ) of which with illustrations by Noizi Ito .

An English translation of the first version of the bunkobon is to appear in March ( ISBN 978-0-316-25275-1 ) or July 2013 ( ISBN 978-0-316-25276-8 ) by Yen Press , initially only as one of the first two digital-only releases of the imprint.

Adaptations

Manga

The illustrator Hiro Kiyohara created a manga adaptation of the material, which appeared from issue 5/2010 (April 4, 2010) to 1/2012 (December 4, 2011) in Young Ace magazine, also by Kadokawa Shoten . The chapters were also published in four edited volumes between October 2010 and December 2011. Egmont Manga and Anime brought out a German publication of all volumes from July 2012 to January 2013. In the USA the manga was licensed by Yen Press and appeared there from October 2013 in an omnibus version, which contains all four volumes in one.

Then a side story called Another0 with Reiko as the protagonist ran in the same magazine in issues 2/2012 and 3/2012 . These chapters were published on May 24, 2012 as an anthology including an anime DVD.

Under the title Another + Zero - Luxury Edition , Egmont Manga published a bound manga book on March 3, 2016 , which, in addition to the four well-known volumes, also contains the bonus chapter Another0 , which has hitherto been unpublished in German-speaking countries .

Anime

At Studio PA Works , directed by Tsutomu Mizushima, an anime adaptation for Japanese television was created until 2012, which comprises twelve episodes. The script was written by Ryō Higaki, Yuriko Ishii provided the final character design based on the drafts by Noizi Ito , and Satoru Hirayanagi was responsible for the artistic direction.

From January 10 to March 27, 2012 after midnight (and thus on the previous television day ), the series was first broadcast on Kitanihon Hōsō . It was followed with a few days' delay on Chiba TV , Gifu Broadcasting , KBS Kyōto , Mie TV , Sun TV , Tokyo MX , TV Kanagawa , TV Saitama and TVQ Kyūshū Hōsō . An English subtitled version was broadcast by Crunchyroll as a simulcast and The Anime Network via streaming . A release on DVD and Blu-Ray for the English-speaking area was licensed by Sentai Filmworks and in Germany including the following original video animation by Kazé Germany .

The manga volume Another0 published on May 24, 2012 contained an original video animation with an episode 0 of the anime series, which tells Mei Misaki's story.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German voice actor
Kōichi Sakakibara Atsushi Abe Henning Nöhren
Mei Misaki Natsumi Takamori Linda Foelster
Izumi Akazawa Madoka Yonezawa Marieke Oeffinger
Naoya Teshigawara Tomoaki Maeno René Dawn-Claude
Yūya Mochizuki Kazutomi Yamamoto Christian Pointer
Yukari Sakuragi Ai Nonaka Charlotte Uhlig
Reiko Naoko Sakakibara Jasmin Arnoldt
Tomohiko Kazami Mitsuhiro Ichiki Michael Ernst
Aya Ayano Mana Hirata Sarah Tkotsch
Makoto Ouji Gou Inoue Marcel Mann
Ikuo Takabayashi Shou Takano Konrad Bösherz
Junta Nakao Congo Kawanishi Fabian Oscar Vienna
Noboru Saruta Genki Muro Sebastian Fitzner
Tatsuji Chibiki Hiroaki Hirata Torsten Sense
Yousuke Sakakibara Takuro Kitagawa Gerrit Hamann
Sanae Mizuno Seiko Yoshida Laurine Betz

music

The music for the series was composed by Kō Ōtani , with Yoshikazu Iwanami directing the sound. For the opening credits the song Kyōmu Densen ( 凶 夢 伝 染 ) by Ali Project was used , the credits were underlaid with the title anamnesis by Annabel .

Real film

On August 4, 2012, a live-action film adaptation was released in Japanese cinemas. Directed by Takeshi Furusawa, the screenplay comes from him and Sachiko Tanaka and the music by Gorō Yasukawa . Kōichi was played by Kento Yamazaki , Mei by Ai Hashimoto and Reiko by Ai Katō .

The film opened in 230 theaters on the opening weekend and grossed 80 million yen, making it the ninth most successful.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ANOTHER (NOVEL) by Yukito Ayatsuji. Yen Press, accessed February 21, 2013 .
  2. ↑ NEW LICENSE ANNOUNCEMENTS. Yen Press, July 14, 2012, accessed February 21, 2013 .
  3. ↑ ANOTHER (MANGA) by Yukito Ayatsuji, art by Hiro Kiyohara. In: Yen Press. Retrieved March 7, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Another + Zero - Luxury Edition. In: Manganet. Egmont publishing companies , accessed March 7, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Sentai Filmworks Licenses Horror TV Anime 'Another'. In: Anime News Network. January 16, 2012, accessed July 2, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Kazé licenses Another and Magic Kaito. January 26, 2015, accessed January 27, 2015 .
  7. ↑ 『仮 面 ラ イ ダ ー』 が 『海 猿』 の V4 阻止！ 『ポ ケ モ ン』 20 億 、 『お お ​​か み こ ど も』 15 億 円 突破 と ア】 メ 強 し 画 成績 【映 映 . In: CinemaToday. August 7, 2012, Retrieved February 23, 2013 (Japanese).

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