Finder (Manga)

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Original title フ ァ イ ン ダ ー シ リ ー ズ
transcription Faindā Shirīzu
country JapanJapan Japan
author Ayano Yamane
publishing company Biblos , Libre
magazine Be × Boy
First publication 2002 - ...
expenditure 8th

Finder ( Japanese フ ァ イ ン ダ ー シ リ ー ズ , Faindā Shirīzu ) is a manga series that belongs to the Yaoi genre. It comes from the Japanese illustrator Ayano Yamane and has been published since 2002. Eight volumes have been published so far.

content

Akihito Takaba is a photographer through and through. He prefers to follow stories with the yakuza and other criminals, which he can sell to the newspapers as well as to the police.

In one of these jobs he photographs Ryuichi Asami, who has so far been able to keep his involvement in the yakuza's dirty business a secret. Asami notices that someone saw and photographed the deal and wants the film negatives. He's not squeamish with Akihito when he gets hold of him. But even after Akihito has recovered reasonably from this first collision with Asami, he can't help taking photos. And the next argument with Asami is not long in coming.

Asami slowly develops a certain fondness for Akihito, which ensures that, contrary to Akihito's wishes, their paths cross more and more frequently. Until Akihito is drawn into the power struggles of the various Mafia groups when the Chinese triad boss Feilong kidnaps him to China to meet Asami.

publication

The manga was published in 2002 by the Japanese publisher Biblos in Be × Boy magazine , which also published three anthologies. In 2007 the series switched to Libre , who published the first three volumes again and three more until 2011:

  • Volume 1: Finder no Hyōteki ( フ ァ イ ン ダ ー の標的 , Faindā no Hyōteki , subtitle: You're My Love Prize in Viewfinder )
  • Volume 2: Finder no Ori ( フ ァ イ ン ダ ー の 檻 , Faindā no Ori , subtitle: You're My Love Prize in Binding Cage )
  • Volume 3: Finder no Sekiyoku ( フ ァ イ ン ダ ー の 隻 翼 , Faindā no Sekiyoku , Subtitle: You're My Love Prize of One Wing )
  • Volume 4: Finder no Ryoshū ( フ ァ イ ン ダ ー の 虜 囚 , Faindā no Ryoshū )
  • Volume 5: Finder no Shinjitsu ( フ ァ イ ン ダ ー の 真 実 , Faindā no Shinjitsu )
  • Volume 6: Finder no Netsujō ( フ ァ イ ン ダ ー の 熱情 , Faindā no Netsujō )

There are translations of the first volumes into English, Italian, Chinese and German. The latter is published by Tokyopop in six volumes. Volume 1 Finder: In the crosshairs , the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People has placed the index for writings harmful to young people , and is therefore only available for adults and may not be advertised or openly offered. The justification for the indexing was the trivialization of a rape. The new edition of Volume 1, which was published in 2011, did not change anything, as the new adaptation only extended to the translation; according to Tokyopop, there was no censorship.

Adaptations

Anime

On February 29, 2012, an original video animation for the manga was published by ANiMix Project in Japan . The Seiyū Tetsuya Kakihara as Akihito, Takaya Kuroda as Asami and Nobuo Tobita as Feilong participated in the simply animated implementation with the title Finder no Hyōteki ( フ ァ イ ン ダ ー の標的 , Faindā no Hyōteki ) .

radio play

Geneon Entertainment released a radio play on two CDs in 2007. In 2011 Libre Publishing released two more radio play CDs containing an adaptation of the third volume.

Artbook

The art book , published in 2007, includes a presentation of the characters and insights into the plot, an additional comic, an interview between the author and Ryoji Minagawa, the Project Arms author, and an insight into Ayano Yamane's working methods.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ANiMiX プ ロ ジ ェ ク ト 「フ ァ イ ン ダ ー の 標的」 DVD. In: Movic & Libre Publishing. Retrieved April 20, 2012 (Japanese).