Futaba's (most) strange journey
Futaba's (highly) strange journey ( Japanese そ の 向 こ う の 向 こ う 側 , Sono Mukō no Mukōgawa , dt. "That other side opposite") is a manga by the Japanese illustrator Yoshitomo Watanabe from 2004 to 2008. The work was in several languages translated and has over 1000 pages.
action
Sixth grader Futaba Kudo is quite small for his age and has three siblings. One day on his way home, a girl named Kiara falls from the sky, who calls him her master. When she realizes that he is not her master and a mysterious woman attacks her, Kiara and Futuba flees with her. When Kiara throws Futuba's cell phone into the river, a portal opens and both enter the world from which Kiara comes.
Now Futuba wants to help Kiara find her master and back into his world. On their journey they meet the rabbit-like magician Belbel, who joins them. Futuba learns that Kiara is an "amaranthine", a being with great powers that can only be used by her master. They later meet Prince Virid Visette Viridian, who has been banished by his older brother and has to find an amaranthine. After a fight, he joins the group.
publication
The manga was published from March 2004 to February 2008 in the manga magazine Comic Blade published by Mag Garden . The individual chapters later appeared in six tankōbon . Small editions of DCs and other extras were added to the anthologies.
The work was published in the United States by Tokyo and in Singapore by Chuang Yi. A German version of the first six volumes was published by Tokyopop from January 2006. The translation is by Nadine Stutterheim.