Goldfish (comic)
| Comic | |
|---|---|
| title | Goldfish |
| author | Nana Yaa Kyere |
| publishing company | Tokyopop |
| First publication | 2016-2019 |
| expenditure | 3 |
Goldfisch is a German comic series by the illustrator Nana Yaa Kyere , which was published by Tokyopop from 2016 to 2019 . The work can be divided into the genres Action , Adventure, Fantasy and Comedy classify and stylistic and narrative of is Shonen - manga inspired.
action
The fisherman boy Morrey Gibbs grew up with his brother Spencer without his parents, in a world ruled by toxic water and mangrove forests full of dangerous monsters. Many people and animals mutate on contact with the water and civilization is limited to small villages in the wild. Morrey's father was a treasure hunter and the boy admires him and wants to emulate him, although he has not returned home for a long time and her mother died without her husband. Spencer always encourages his brother to be sensible and lead a simple, peaceful life. When the two boys are working for the mayor of their village, they come across one of his artifacts. When the mayor is attacked at the same time by artifact hunters, the so-called procurers, Morrey drinks the liquid that charms him and receives the Midas powers: everything he touches turns into gold. The first thing he touches on his escape is his brother, who turns to gold and sinks into the water. This is how they escape the procurers, but Morrey must now find a way to turn his brother back. His only companion is his mutated pet Otta.
In his village, Morrey quickly realizes that the others want to take advantage of his powers. Only the girl Shelly, the inventive daughter of a rich engineer, really wants to help him. They go to their friend Zaka who knows magic. His mother calls a loa to help Morrey. But he only wants to release him from his powers and transform Spencer back when two magical artifacts are sacrificed to him. With combined forces - Shelly's inventions, Zaka's magic and Morrey's skill and zest for action - they go on a search. In the process, Morrey learns that he can use his powers to shape and control gold. But as soon as they have won an artifact, two procurers join them: Sharp and Stalker. They want to take the artifact to themselves and to the "art dealer" by force. He lets the procurers search the whole world for artifacts that previously all belonged to him and were scattered around the world. The friends survive the fight but lose the artifact. So they have to start looking again with even better equipment. In doing so, they come across another group of procurers. The three steal an artifact from them and in the fight the stalker, believed to be dead, appears, who takes their side in order to allow Zaka's voodoo powers to heal his serious injuries. From him and the other procurers, Morrey learns that his father was one of them, but one day he stole an artifact from his master: the Holy Grail. He was supposed to be punished and has not been seen since. When they return to Zaka's mother happy with the artifact - and now stalker in tow - the three find her murdered by Sharp. Otta was kidnapped by her to lure Morrey with the Midas artifact to the art dealer's headquarters. To protect his friends, Morrey secretly goes on a trip to the art dealer with Stalker.
In Morrey's absence, Zaka and Shelly decide to continue helping him. To do this, Zaka first uses the artefact he has won and brings Spencer back to life. They travel with him after Morrey. Meanwhile, he and Stalker enter the art dealer's fortress, where Morrey goes in search of Otta. He finds it at the art dealer and there is a confrontation. Because while Morrey wants to apologize for the theft of his father, the art dealer is only out for revenge and possession of the artifact. He wants to fulfill his late wife's last wish by reuniting their collective collection. In all the time of the search he has become a supernatural, semi-liquid being. He attacks Morrey, and Spencer joins them. He reveals that he is actually Morrey's father, who took in the Grail when he tried to revive his late wife with it and became young. With his strength he can save his son, but both are captured by the art dealer. With them and the artifacts they brought with them, the art dealer's scattered collection is complete again. But contrary to expectations, it is not a happy moment, because the collection cannot fill the void his wife has left. Then he becomes completely beside himself and wants to devour all the artifacts. To prevent the art dealer from devouring Spencer, Morrey turns him back into gold at his own request. With this renewed failure, the art dealer finally dissolves. Stalker tries a fresh start with one of the artifacts, Zaka and Shelly can finally admit their love and Morrey embarks on new adventures to find the lost loa and revive Spencer.
Creation and publication
Nana Yaa Kyere had the idea for the series about the boy Morrey and his Midas forces back in 2012 and had unsuccessfully applied to publishers with the concept at the time. After she had then discarded the idea, it was brought out again and revised in 2014 for a storytelling and character design workshop organized by Tokyopop . In order to apply again and to increase the chances of being accepted, Kyere shortened the story to the length of a tape. When she got the approval, the publisher preferred to make a multi-part series out of the concept. During the implementation, the draftsman was supported by an assistant for grid work. On the part of the publisher, the implementation was overseen by an editor who checked the script, storyboard, drawings and the finished work. While storyboard and Indian ink were traditionally done with pencil and ink, sketches, drawings and the final version were created digitally using the scanned storyboard pages and ink drawings. The work on the third volume took longer than for the two previous ones, because despite the planning of the story from the beginning there were gaps in the narrative. There were also health problems. Eventually, the story ended with a seven and a half chapter rather than six chapters.
Goldfisch was published by Tokyopop in three volumes in German in 2016, 2017 and 2019. The publisher recommends the series from 13 years of age. An English translation has been published since 2018. The nobi nobi! also published a French version.
filming
In November 2018, the publisher announced that the series would be filmed. The adaptation is to be produced by the animation studio Studio Seufz , and the project is also funded by the media and film company Baden-Württemberg .
reception
In October 2016, the Tagesspiegel wrote the story of combining “well-known elements of manga, fairy tales and myths into a remarkably fresh mixture”. Influences are the Midas saga and other ancient and Nordic myths, Grimm's fairy tales and mangas such as Dragon Ball . Both the ensemble of characters, in the center a “naive, somewhat unworldly” protagonist, and the mixture of humor, drama and action are reminiscent of the latter. The world of the story is designed in detail, the drawings "sophisticated and impress with differentiated figures with expressive facial expressions and meticulously executed backgrounds that convey a lot of depth thanks to finely graduated grids". The exact lines are loosened up by chibi inlays, the panel structure is varied and creates “additional dynamism through changing image formats and open frames”. Götz Piesbergen from SplashComics especially praises the drawings and character design, which make them "unmistakable". The story was also a success, in a world with “a lot of ingenious ideas” that were skilfully implemented.
In 2017, Goldfish won first place in the audience-determined AnimaniA Award in the Best Manga National category.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nana Yaa Kyere: Goldfisch , Vol. 1. Afterword. Tokyopop, 2016.
- ↑ Nana Yaa Kyere: Goldfisch , Vol. 2nd epilogue. Tokyopop, 2017.
- ↑ Nana Yaa Kyere: Goldfisch , Vol. 3. Afterword. Tokyo, 2019.
- ↑ Goldfish T01 | nobi nobi! Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Maximilian G: Goldfisch Manga gets its own anime. In: Japaniac - Anime & Manga news and information about Japan! November 30, 2018, accessed on May 20, 2020 (German).
- ^ "Goldfish" by Nana Yaa: Goldjunge in Nöten , tagesspiegel.de , October 13, 2016
- ↑ Splashcomics - Reviews - Review - Goldfisch Volume 1. Retrieved on June 4, 2020 .
- ↑ A. Delseit: AnimaniA Award 2017: The winners. In: AnimaniA. August 9, 2017, accessed June 4, 2020 (German).