Kurokami

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kurokami ( Japanese 黒 神 , German "Black God") is a manga by the two South Koreans Dall-Young Lim (text) and Sung-woo Park . Since it is intended for the Japanese market, it was first written in Korean, but then translated into Japanese.

Towards the end of 2008, the manga was through the studio Sunrise as Anime - television series adapted.

terminology

The plot of Kurokami takes place in a fictional world which, although outwardly corresponds to the real world, has some special features. In it exist the so-called Mototsumitama (also called Tera Guardian ), which have supernatural abilities and are supposed to maintain the “balance of existence”. However, some of them became corrupt, causing conflict between them. Ordinary people, on the other hand, are referred to as double liners . There are always exactly three pieces of them, which have exactly the same external appearance. However, there is among these a root (Engl. Root ) and 2 copies. If one copy meets the other, the “luck” of both is transferred to the root ; if a copy hits the root only that of the respective copy. The people who have lost their happiness as a result, very soon die in simple accidents. However, when the root unites the happiness of the other people, he becomes the master root and possesses supernatural happiness and success. By betraying this knowledge to normal people, the Negative Root arose - people who killed their root and were given all their happiness. In addition to this happiness, they also gain superhuman abilities that a normal root does not have.

The Mototsumitama it is still possible a Contract (Engl. Pact ) to respond to a man by both parts of her body interact with each other. As a result, both can get into a state called synchro and give the Mototsumitama much more power. To do this, however, the partners must have the same will. The force released by Synchro is referred to as Exceed , which expresses itself differently with each Mototsumitama and puts the human partner in mortal danger if the stress is too high.

action

A few years before the main act, Keita Ibuki is out with his mother. They notice a doppelganger of his mother. Subconsciously, the entire "happiness" of his mother is transferred to the stranger. Lost by her luck, Keita's mother is soon run over by a car in front of his eyes. Shocked by this, he works as a game programmer a few years later (in the anime he is a normal student) and has all his hands to do with staying afloat.

One day he meets at a Ramenstand the Mototsumitama Kuro, in the form of a young girl but neglected. Keita offers her something to eat and gets into conversation with her because of his observation of doppelgangers. While trying to clear him up, Kuro is attacked by a master root . In the following fight, Keita is near death when he loses his arm (in the anime his heart is injured) and could only be saved by Kuro exchanging her arm (in the anime heart) with his and thus making a pact with him. In the anime, however, Kuro was able to defeat the Master Root normally and disappears shortly afterwards. However, the two meet again later and are shortly afterwards attacked by the leader of the Master Root who had attacked them before. Kuro can defeat him, but Keita is seriously injured and Kuro can only save him by exchanging her heart with his and making a pact with him. Thereupon they insist on difficult times and fight against the Shishigami clan to prevent the brother from imbalancing the world. They understand each other better and better, which can also be felt in combat, because both become stronger through the synchronization. Together they fly to Okinawa , where they meet Kuro's brother, but cannot defeat him in battle. However, Kuraki, Keita's former school friend, is able to defeat Renshin with his Mototsumitama and pull into a black hole that was triggered by the destruction of a sacred stone.

Characters

Keita Ibuki ( 伊 吹 慶 太 , Ibuki Keita )
He is the protagonist of the plot. As a child, he and his mother met someone who looked just like them. The next day his mother was killed. Years later, he's a troubled video game developer who happens to run into Kuro at a frame stand . He doesn't reciprocate Akane's feelings for him because he doesn't seem to notice them. In the anime version, Keita is portrayed as an ordinary high school student. Contrary to the Manwha model, he is not particularly arrogant and not averse to Kuro.
Kuro ( ク ロ )
With the background of being the princess of Tera Guardians , whose following was completely destroyed by her brother, she enters the world of men to stop him. So she befriends Keita first. In Manwha, she is often portrayed boxing in fights , which she wants to have learned from a professional boxer. In the anime, she has no particular fighting style. In both cases, however, she can fall into a riot that makes her attacks very powerful.
Akane Sano ( 佐野 茜 , Sano Akane )
She is Keita's childhood friend. Her double liner is Yuki Kaionji, the partner of Reishin (Kuro's brother). She loves Keita, but Keita doesn't notice.

Origin and publications

The manga was written by Dall-Young Lim and mainly designed by Sung-woo Park . In the background, the draftsmen Do-Kyoung Kim, Hyuck-Jin Kwon, Jin-Ju Jung, Myoug-Ho Jo (Issue 1), Young-Shin Do and Yun-Hee Shin also worked on the drawings and based themselves on the specifications of Sung -woo park.

In Japan, Kurokami was published by Square Enix in Young Gangan magazine. The chapters from the magazine have so far appeared in eight bound editions ( Tankōbon ).

After the release in Japan , Kurokami has also been released in the US since October 17, 2007 . Three translated editions have been published in North America and the United Kingdom and are published by Yen Press . In French-speaking countries, the manga was published by Editions Ki-oon. There it was published under the title Kurokami Black God . In Taiwan and other Chinese-speaking regions, traditional Chinese translation was provided by Ching Win Publishing Co., Ltd. offered.

Anime

Television series
Original title 黒 神 The Animation
Kurokami: The Animation
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 2008-2009
length 25 minutes
Episodes 23
genre Action , fantasy
First broadcast January 8, 2009 on TV Asahi
synchronization

The studio Sunrise began in 2008 with the production of Anime - TV series Kurokami: The Animation ( 黒神 The Animation). The series will be broadcast synchronously in three countries on January 8, 2009 on TV Asahi (Japan), AniBOX (South Korea) and ImaginAsian TV (USA). However, the first episode of the series premiered on December 27, 2008 in front of 150 people selected by lot in the FS Shidome Hall.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Keita Ibuki Daisuke Namikawa
Kuro Noriko Shitaya
Steiner Jōji Nakata
Daichi Kuraki Satoshi Hino
Akane Sano Sayaka Ohara
Excel Yukari Tamura
Punipuni Yumi Toma

music

The opening song is sympathizer from Minami Kuribayashi . The end-credits song is Irodori no Nai Sekai ( 彩 の 無 い 世界 , "A World Without Colors") by Yōsei Teikoku .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurokami Black God. Bedetheque, accessed on August 28, 2014 (French).
  2. ↑ エ ベ ン ト . (No longer available online.) In: 『黒 神 The Animation』 オ フ ィ シ ャ ル サ イ ト . Archived from the original on January 26, 2009 ; Retrieved January 8, 2009 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kurokami-anime.net

Web links