Majin Devil
Majin Devil ( Japanese 魔 人 ～ DEVIL ～ ) is a manga series by Oh! Great , which appeared in around 450 pages from 1999 to 2000. The science fiction and horror comic is made up of two stories that gradually meet in the course of the plot.
action
For some time now, more and more people have been disappearing in a small Japanese town. Speculation that a demon roams the city at night unsettles the city's residents. The media suspect that they are vampires .
Tetsu and his little sister Satomi live alone in the city. One morning Tetsu meets a non-human being in a back alley who is just about to eat a person to the bone. Tetsu recognizes the danger and flees. The being pursues and kills him. However, he comes back to life and is now immortal. All of his wounds heal quickly. As it turns out, while fighting, Tetsu contracted a hereditary disease that made it possible to survive death. His sister is also infected. Both became "majins". They find the vampire who infected them, but cannot hunt him down.
In another part of the city, Kazuya Idetora is attacked by spider-like creatures, but he is able to defeat them. In the underground of the city he and his crush Tomoe Ashihara discovers a laboratory in which experiments are carried out on humans. There, the test subjects are injected with a serum that turns them into "majins". In a fight with a giant majin, it turns out that Kazuya has a second personality hidden inside. It is about the majin god, the "pale vampire". With the help of a scientist, Kazuya can destroy the majin in him and thus end the horror of the vampires.
Publications
Majin Devil was published weekly in Japan from 1999 to 2000 as a sequel story in the manga magazine Shōnen Magazine , which was primarily aimed at elementary and middle school students and was the best-selling manga magazine at the time , along with Shōnen Jump . The Kōdansha- Verlag published the individual chapters published in the magazine in 2001 in two anthologies.
The two anthologies have been translated into four languages. In addition to being translated into Chinese in 2002, they were published in Italy from August to September 2002 by Star Comics . In France she brought out Panini Comics in 2003. The same publisher was also responsible for the publication of the two volumes in German-speaking countries in September 2003 and March 2004.
reception
The Berliner Morgenpost expressed disappointment at the manga after reading the second volume: "Too bad, is that the search for immortality and the question of the value of the same turns out the story as a figment in the course of the second volume and rough the manga the well The charm of the first volume can not hold. "
In 2004, the first volume of the series in Germany was placed on the "List of writings harmful to young people" and thus indexed by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oh! Great: "Majin-Devil"; Planet Manga. Berliner Morgenpost, January 17, 2004, accessed on August 26, 2014 (in the payment archive).
- ↑ Federal Gazette No. 142 of July 31, 2004.