Gate: Jieitai Kano Chi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri

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Gate: Jieitai Kano Chi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri
Original title ゲ ー ト 自衛隊 彼 の 地 に て 、 斯 く 戦 え り
transcription Gēto: Jieitai Kano Chi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri
genre Fantasy, military
novel
country JapanJapan Japan
author Takumi Yanai
illustrator Daisuke Izuka (novel), Kurojishi (light novel)
publishing company Self-published → AlphaPolis
First publication April 2006 - ...
expenditure 5 (main row), 5+ (secondary row)
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Takumi Yanai
Illustrator Satoru Sao
publishing company AlphaPolis
First publication July 2011 - ...
expenditure 13+
Anime television series
title Gate
Original title GATE 自衛隊 彼 の 地 に て 、 斯 く 戦 え り
GATE 自衛隊 彼 の 地 に て 、 斯 く 戦 え り 炎 龍 編
transcription Gate: Jieitai Kano Chi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri
Gate: Jieitai Kano Chi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri: Enryū-hen
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 2015-2016
Studio A-1 Pictures
length 25 minutes
Episodes 24
Director Takahiko Kyogoku
music Yoshiaki Fujisawa
First broadcast July 4th - September 19, 2015
January 9th - March 26th 2016 on Tokyo MX
synchronization

Gate: Jieitai Kano Chi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri ( Japanese ゲ ー ト 自衛隊 彼 の 地 に て 、 斯 く 戦 え り , Gēto: ~ , Eng. "Tor: This is how the self-defense forces fought in that place") is a series of novels by Takumi Yanai . The work has also been adapted as a manga , and since July 2015 as an anime series that is also being released in German-speaking countries.

action

One day a "gate" opens in the middle of Tokyo's busiest shopping district, Ginza , from which an army of monsters and ancient soldiers streaks and causes a massacre, but after a brief moment of surprise, the Japanese army (SDF) and police beat them back . It turns out that the enemy army comes from another world where magic exists but which otherwise largely corresponds to the Roman Empire from a cultural and technological point of view . The Japanese government is sending the SDF to the other side of the gate - which it calls the "Special Region" - to build a bridgehead there to secure their country and to force those guilty of this attack to negotiate.

The protagonist of the action is First Lieutenant Yōji Itami ( 伊丹 耀 司 ) , a 33-year-old certified Special Forces soldier, otaku and idler, whose meaning in life he sees only in his hobby. During the invasion of Ginza, where he happened to be attending a doujinshi event, he brings a large number of civilians to safety and organizes the first defense efforts, which is why he is celebrated as a hero and receives a promotion. On the other side of the gate, he is sent on exploratory missions to learn more about the world and its inhabitants, and befriends the high elf Tuka Luna Marceau ( テ ュ カ ・ ル ナ ・ マ ル ソ ー , Tyuka Runa Marusō ) ; the young magician Lelei La Lelena ( レ レ イ ・ ラ ・ レ レ ー ナ , Rerei Ra Rerēna ) , who learned the Japanese language very quickly and therefore worked as a translator and mediator between the two cultures; Rory Mercury ( ロゥリィ·マーキュリー , Rourii Mākyurī ) , an immortal demigoddess and apostle of the death of God Emroy ( エムロイ , Emuroi ) ; and with the dark elf Yao Haa Dushi ( ヤ オ ・ ハ ー ・ デ ュ ッ シ , Yao Hā Dyusshi ) .

Itami and his squad take part in various peace missions and humanitarian missions during their stay in the Special Region and are gradually gaining the trust of the population. After she helped the imperial princess Piña Co Lada ( ピ ニ ャ ・ コ ・ ラ ー ダ , Pinya Ko Rāda ) fight a bandit horde and this witness of the technical superiority of the Japanese army, the princess tries everything to protect her father, Emperor Molto Sol Augustus ( モ ル ト ・ ソ ル ・ ア ウ グ ス タ ス , Moruto Soru Augusutasu ) to seek peace with the Japanese government. However, the peace efforts are threatened by hostile elements: the US, Russia and China envy Japan for their free access to this new world, which represents a new, untouched source of resources for them; and the emperor's eldest son, the arrogant and insane Zorzal El Caesar ( ゾ ル ザ ル ・ エ ル ・ カ エ サ ル , Zoruzaru Eru Kaesaru ) , seeks revenge on the Japanese after Itami freed a Japanese prisoner from his clutches and humiliated him badly. Zorzal rises himself emperor and prepares to instigate a new war against Japan, which threatens to bring the empire to the brink of annihilation. The SDF sees itself forced to intervene actively in the political events of the country in order to maintain the status quo and the chance for a bilateral peace.

publication

Former soldier Takumi Yanai originally published the novel under the pseudonym Todoku Takusan ( と ど く ＝ た く さ ん ) on the Arcadia website , where users can post self-written stories. From April 2006 to June 2009 three digital volumes were created. In 2010 the publishing house AlphaPolis became aware of him and offered him to publish the novel professionally. The first two volumes differ only slightly in their printed form from their web versions, in which the political criticism they contain has been defused - therefore referred to by the author as a "slightly toxic version" ( 弱毒 版 , jakudokuban ) - while the final volume of the web novel was rewritten and was extended to three printed volumes. From April 2010 to December 2011, five volumes were published by AlphaPolis:

Following these volumes, a number of side stories ( gaiden ) have been published since September 2012 , which take place after the main plot is over :

  • Gaiden: Nankai Hyōryū-hen ( 外 伝 南海 漂流 編 ), September 25, 2012, ISBN 978-4-434-17129-1 .
  • Gaiden Ni: Kurokami no Taisaiten-hen ( 外 伝 弐 黒 神 の 大 祭典 編 ), July 25, 2013, ISBN 978-4-434-18173-3 .
  • Gaiden San: Tasogare no Ryūkishi Densetsu-hen ( 外 伝 参 黄昏 の 竜 騎士 伝 説 編 ), April 22, 2014, ISBN 978-4-434-19120-6 .
  • Gaiden Yon: Hakugin no Shōki-hen ( 外 伝 四 白銀 の 晶 姫 編 ), December 23, 2014, ISBN 978-4-434-20085-4 .
  • Gaiden +: Tokuchi Meikyū Kōryaku-hen ( 外 伝 + 特地 迷宮 攻略 編 ), June 23, 2015, ISBN 978-4-434-20742-6 .

The cover illustrations of the five main volumes and gaiden are by Daisuke Izuka.

Since December 2012 a new edition has been published as a light novel , ie in Bunkoban format and with accompanying illustrations. One volume of the original edition in JIS-B6 paper format corresponds to two volumes of the new edition in the smaller DIN-A6 format. The illustrations in this issue are from Kurojishi.

Manga

AlphaPolis also had the series of novels adapted as a manga by the illustrator Satoru Sao . The manga has appeared as a webcomic on AlphaPolis' website since July 2011. These chapters have also been summarized in 13 printed anthologies ( Tankōbon ):

  1. June 15, 2012, ISBN 978-4-434-16703-4 .
  2. January 25, 2013, ISBN 978-4-434-17468-1 .
  3. July 18, 2013, ISBN 978-4-434-18048-4 .
  4. April 20, 2014, ISBN 978-4-434-19017-9 .
  5. September 22, 2014, ISBN 978-4-434-19601-0 .
  6. March 30, 2015, ISBN 978-4-434-20299-5 .
  7. June 23, 2015, ISBN 978-4-434-20675-7 .
  8. December 1, 2015, ISBN 978-4-434-21300-7 .
  9. June 1, 2016, ISBN 978-4-434-21993-1 .
  10. December 1, 2016, ISBN 978-4-434-22649-6 .
  11. April 1, 2017, ISBN 978-4-4342-3144-5 .
  12. December 1, 2017, ISBN 978-4-434-23969-4 .
  13. June 1, 2018, ISBN 978-4-434-24676-0 .

AlphaPolis also publishes four spin-off mangas:

  • Gate featuring The Starry Heavens by Chako Abeno, which reinterprets the plot in a comedic way, in which the three protagonists Tuka, Lelei and Rory form the girl group The Starry Heavens (two anthologies),
  • Gate: Teikoku no Bara Kishidan Piña Co Lada 14-sai ( ゲ ー ト 帝国 の 薔薇 騎士 団 ピ ニ ャ ・ コ ・ ラ ー ダ 14 歳 , dt. "Gate: The 14-year-old Piña Co Lada of the Imperial Order of Two Roses") by Yukie Shiren (total) Anthologies),
  • the gag manga Gate! ( げ ー と！ ) from Kuinji 51-gō, as well as
  • Mei-Kon ( め い ☆ コ ン ) drawn by Chi based on the text by Takumi Yanai, which depicts the manga that Yōji Itami is reading in Gate . This ended on October 22, 2015. The anthology followed on December 25, 2015 ( ISBN 978-4-434-21276-5 ).

Anime

In December 2014, the adaptation was announced as an anime television series. The series is animated by A-1 Pictures , directed by Takahiko Kyōgoku, with the character design adapted by Jun Nakai. The first season with 12 episodes ran from July 4 to September 19, 2015 after midnight (and thus on the previous TV day ) on Tokyo MX , as well as on TV Aichi , MBS , BS11 and AT-X with an offset of up to a week . The second season, Enryū-hen , followed from January 9 to March 26, 2016 on Tokyo MX, as well as with an offset on the other channels.

Crunchyroll is streaming the series parallel to the Japanese broadcast with German and English subtitles in Europe (excluding the French-speaking areas), North and South America, the Middle East, North Africa, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The series will be released on Blu-ray in the USA by Sentai Filmworks . The series will be released in German from February 2017 by Anime House on DVD and Blu-ray.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Yōji Itami Jun'ichi Suwabe Patrick Schröder
Rory Mercury Risa Taneda Kathrin Hildebrand
Tuka Luna Marceau Hisako Kanemoto Nadine Ehrenreich
Lelei La Lelena Nao Tōyama Ramona Bess
Shino Kuribyashi Maaya Uchida Barbara Ehrlich
Piña Co Lada Haruka Tomatsu Christiane plant
Yao Ha Dusshi Yōko Hikasa Carolin Sophie Göbel
Akira Tomita Hiroki Yasumoto Jürgen Heimüller
Takeo Kurata Kaito Ishikawa Sven-Marcel Voss
Kouichirou Hazama Hiroshi Yanaka Raik Singer
Akira Yanagida Kouji Yusa Patrick grasses
Souichirou Kuwabara Kanehira Yamamoto Anjo Czernich
Mari Kurokawa Satomi Akesaka Nataša Rikanović
Kato El Altestan Chō Wolfgang Rositzka
Hamilton Uno Law Ikumi Hayama Stella Goritzki
Bozes Co Palesti Yumi Uchimaya Jenny Winkler
Zorzal El Caesar Katsuyuki Konishi
Tyuule Ami Koshimizu

music

The score was composed by Yoshiaki Fujisawa. The opening credits of the first season, Gate - Sora wa Akitsuki no Yō ni (GATE 〜 そ れ は 暁 の よ よ う 〜 ), and the second season, Gate II - Sekai o Koete (GATE II  〜 世界 を 超 え て 〜 ), are from Kishida Kyōdan & The Akeboshi Rockets . The end credits of the first season, Prism Communicate ( ぷ り ず む コ ミ ュ ニ ケ ー ト , Purizumu Komyunikēto ), and the second season, Itsudatte Communication ( い つ だ っ て コ ミ ュ ニ ケTan シ Tanennama , and Riso Kanemama , and their respective Naako Rollennyoto , and Naako Rollennyoto ) .

reception

The novel series was in 2013 with 170,000 copies sold in 26th place of the best-selling light novels and only one of the few by a small publisher in this list. While the series (novels and manga) sold around 1.5 million copies by December 2014, this rose to 2.4 million copies after the anime was announced in June 2015.

At the initiative of Takumi Yanai, the Self-Defense Forces in the Tokyo area are advertising new recruits with posters for the anime series.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 柳 内 た く み . AlphaPolis, accessed December 4, 2013 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Todoku Takusan (Takumi Yanai): 自衛隊 彼 の 地 に て 、 斯 く 戦 え り . In: Arcadia. May 7, 2010, Retrieved December 4, 2013 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ ゲ ー ト featuring The Starry Heavens. In: AlphaPolis. Retrieved July 3, 2015 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ ゲ ー ト 帝国 の 薔薇 騎士 団 ピ ニ ャ ・ コ ・ ラ ー ダ 14 歳. In: AlphaPolis. Retrieved July 3, 2015 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ げ ー と！ . In: AlphaPolis. Retrieved July 3, 2015 (Japanese).
  6. ↑ め い ☆ コ ン . In: AlphaPolis. Retrieved November 8, 2015 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-12-18/gate-jiei-tai-ka-no-chi-ni-te-kaku-tatakaeri-military-fantasy-novels-get-tv-anime /.82368
  8. ↑ Crunchyroll Adds "GATE" Anime to Summer 2015 Simulcast Lineup. In: Crunchyroll. July 2, 2015, accessed July 3, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Joseph Luster: Crunchyroll to Simulcast "GATE" Season 2. In: Crunchyroll. January 7, 2016, accessed August 10, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Sentai Filmworks Acquires Ushio & Tora, Gate, School-Live !, Wakaba Girl, Aoharu x Machinegun Anime. In: Anime News Network. July 2, 2015, accessed July 3, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Gate - Release date of Volume 1 postponed. Sumikai.com, January 2, 2017, accessed January 9, 2017 .
  12. ↑ a b list of speakers at aniSearch. aniSearch.de, accessed on January 17, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Top-Selling Light Novels in Japan by Series: 2013. In: Anime News Network. December 1, 2013, accessed April 6, 2014 .
  14. ↑ ゲ ー ト 外 伝 四 . AlphaPolis, accessed July 3, 2015 (Japanese).
  15. ↑ ゲ ー ト 外 伝 ＋ . AlphaPolis, accessed July 3, 2015 (Japanese).
  16. ↑ Summer TV anime "GATE" Featured on JSDF Recruitment Posters. In: Crunchyroll. June 27, 2015, accessed July 3, 2015 .