Fort of Apocalypse
| Manga | |
|---|---|
| title | Fort of Apocalypse |
| Original title | ア ポ カ リ プ ス の 砦 |
| transcription | Apocalypse no Toride |
| country |
 Japan
|
| author | Yū Kuraishi |
| Illustrator | Kazu Inabe |
| publishing company | Kodansha |
| magazine | Gekkan Shōnen Rival |
| First publication | September 3, 2011 - November 9, 2015 |
| expenditure | 10 |
Fort of Apocalypse ( Japanese ア ポ カ リ プ ス の 砦 , Apocalypse no Toride ) is a manga series by Yū Kuraishi and Kazu Inabe , which was released in Japan from 2011 to 2015. The work can be classified into the genres of shomen and horror.
content
The student Yoshiaki Maeda is convicted of a murder he did not commit. Nobody believes him that he happened to be at the scene and was the only one to see the perpetrator. So he is taken to a juvenile detention center, the Shoran-Gakuen. There he forms a community of cells with the inconspicuous Masafumi Yoshioka, the muscular Go Iwakura and Mitsuro Yamanoi, known as Neumann. Yoshiaki quickly notices how the other three stand up for one another. But soon afterwards there was an incident in the courtyard: a prisoner transport had an accident. When guards try to take care of the injured, they are attacked and bitten. The dead seem to come back to life and chaos gradually breaks out in the institution. The group of four notices that the city is burning in the distance and wants to bring Maeda to his family. They break out only to find that the zombie apocalypse has broken out around them.
publication
The series was published from September 2011 to November 2015 in the magazine Gekkan Shōnen Rival published by Kodansha . This brought out the chapters in ten anthologies. A German translation was published by Egmont Manga from November 2016 to May 2018 in a translation by Burkhard Höfler. An English version was published online on the Crunchyroll platform . The manga was also published in French by Pika Édition , Spanish by Editorial Ivréa , Italian by Planet Manga and in Chinese by Tong Li Publishing .
reception
On Anime News Network , Jason Thompson describes as a zombie blockbuster pulled up as a shōnen manga. The typical Shōnen characteristics and roles are quite easy to recognize, but the epic story is solid and exciting and the action is staged appropriately. Accordingly, he ranks Fort of Apocalypse among the ten best zombie mangas.
Web links
- Entry in the Incomplete Manga Guide
- Entry at Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jason Thompson : House of 1000 Manga - 10 Great Zombie Manga. Anime News Network, January 9, 2014, accessed June 22, 2018 .