Last Hero Inuyashiki
| Last Hero Inuyashiki | |
|---|---|
| Original title | い ぬ や し き |
| transcription | Inuyashiki |
 | |
| Manga | |
| country |
 Japan
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| author | Hiroya Oku |
| publishing company | Kodansha |
| magazine | Evening |
| First publication | January 28, 2014 - July 25, 2017 |
| expenditure | 10 |
| Anime television series | |
| title | Inuyashiki Last Hero |
| Country of production |
Japan
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| original language | Japanese |
| year | 2017 |
| Studio | MAPPA |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 11 |
| Director | Keiichi Sato |
| music | Yoshihiro Ike |
| First broadcast | October 12 - December 21, 2017 on Fuji TV ( noitaminA ), Iwate Menkoi TV , Sakuranbo TV |
First publication in German |
October 13 - December 22, 2017 on Amazon Video |
| Movie | |
| Original title | Inuyashiki |
| Country of production |
Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 127 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Shinsuke Sato |
| script | Hiroshi Hashimoto |
| music | Yutaka Yamada |
| camera | Tarō Kawazu |
| cut | Tsuyoshi Imai |
| occupation | |
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Last Hero Inuyashiki ( Japanese い ぬ や し き , Inuyashiki ) is a manga series by Hiroya Oku that was released in Japan between 2014 and 2017. It belongs to the genres of science fiction and his own and has been translated into German and other languages. In 2017 the manga was implemented as an anime series.
content
Inuyashiki, 58, looks particularly old for his age, has no friends and is disregarded by his family. Finally, he learns from his doctor that he has cancer and probably won't live much longer. Then he gets caught in an explosion in the park, after which his body has been replaced by a mechanical one, but still looks the same on the outside. After defending a homeless man against some youngsters, he decides to use his skills for good. He fights criminals and can even use his powers to cure cancer. But the youngster Shishigami Hiro also got caught in the explosion, with similar consequences. However, he only wants to protect himself and his family and friends against all who can threaten them. He doesn't care about other people. So he murders classmates he doesn't like and passers-by for fun. However, the police called on the scene cannot stop him. This is how Inuyashiki's fight against Shishigami finally comes about.
publication
The series was published from January 28, 2014 (issue 4/2014) to July 25, 2017 (issue 16/2017) in the Evening magazine of the Kodansha publishing house in Japan. The chapters were also brought out in ten anthologies ( Tankōbon ). These sold about 100,000 each in the first few weeks after publication.
A German translation was published by Egmont Manga from May 2016 to July 2018 with all ten volumes. Kodansha himself publishes the series in English translation, in France it is published by Editions Ki-oon and in Taiwan by Sharp Point Press.
Anime
Studio MAPPA adapted the work as an anime television series. Directed by Keiichi Satō assisted by Shūhei Yabuta, while the script was written by Hiroshi Seko. The 11 episodes were first broadcast in Japan from October 13 to December 22, 2017 after midnight (and thus on the previous television day ) on Fuji TV's animation block noitaminA and simultaneously on the affiliated channels Iwate Menkoi TV and Sakuranbo TV , as well as with an offset of up to one day also on Akita TV , TV Ehime , Nagano Hōsō , TV Shizuoka , Niigata Sōgō Hōsō , TV Kumamoto , Fukushima TV , Kansai TV , TV Shin-Hiroshima , TV Nishi-Nippon , Kagoshima TV , Sendai Hōsō , Tōkai TV and Saga TV .
Internationally, the series was streamed under the title Inuyashiki Last Hero by Amazon Prime Video as an international, exclusive streaming service for entertainment in simulcast , u. a. with German subtitles. Universum Anime licensed the Blu-rays and intends to release them in the first half of 2019.
synchronization
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Ichirō Inuyashiki | Fumiyo Kohinata | Christian Tramitz |
| Hiro Shishigami | Nijirō Murakami | Tim Schwarzmaier |
| Naoyuki Andō | Kanata Hongō | François Goeske |
| Shion Watanabe | Sumire Morohoshi | |
| Mari Inuyashiki | Sumire Uesaka | Catherine of Daake |
| Marie Inuyashiki | Hiroko Nishi | Dana Geissler |
| Koshi Inuyashiki | Ayaka Asai |
music
The music for the series comes from Yoshihiro Ike . The opening credits My Hero comes from Man with a Mission , the credits Ai o Oshietekureta Kimi e ( 愛 を 教 え て く れ た 君 へ ) by Qaijff.
Real film
On April 20, 2018, a live action film about Inuyashiki was released in Japanese cinemas. Directed by Shinsuke Satō , who previously also implemented Hiroya Oku's earlier work Gantz on film. Ichirō Inuyashiki was played by Noritake Kinashi , Hiro Shishigami by Takeru Satō .
reception
On Anime News Network, Jason Thompson compared the series with Gantz , an older work by the same author. Like this one, Inuyashiki is full of violence, but at the same time deals with moral issues. Oku breaks with the usual expectations of the initial situation that Inuyashiki's satire or a campaign of revenge suggests and finally develops a classic superhero story with an elderly hero. However, the pattern of good people who appear and who meet a villain is repeated over and over again, so that the hero can avenge them. In contrast to Gantz, this means that the series cannot maintain the tension. Otherwise it would certainly please fans of the previous series, while others might find the same criticisms. Artistically, the series is well implemented and offers many terrifying villains and body horror scenes that seem even more terrifying due to the everyday environment.
Web links
- Manga on Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inuyashiki Last Hero (TV). In: AnimeNewsNetwork. Retrieved November 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Gantz's Hiroya Oku to End Inuyashiki Manga in Volume 10. In: Anime News Network. May 17, 2017, accessed May 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, April 25-May 1. Anime News Network, May 6, 2016, accessed June 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, November 30-December 6. Anime News Network, December 9, 2015, accessed June 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Burak Dogan: "Inuyashiki Last Hero" appears on Universum Anime. In: Anime2You. August 1, 2018, accessed August 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Jason Thompson: House of 1000 Manga - Inuyashiki. Anime News Network, May 21, 2015, accessed June 3, 2016 .