Merry Nightmare
Merry Nightmare | |
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Original title | 夢 喰 い メ リ ー |
transcription | Yumekui Merī |
Logo of the anime | |
genre | Fantasy , action |
Manga | |
country | Japan |
author | Yoshitaka Ushiki |
publishing company | Hōbunsha |
magazine | Manga Time Kirara Forward |
First publication | August 10, 2008 - ... |
expenditure | 22nd |
Anime television series | |
title | Yumekui Merry |
Original title | 夢 喰 い メ リ ー |
transcription | Yumekui Merī |
Country of production | Japan |
original language | Japanese |
year | 2011 |
Studio | JCStaff |
length | 24 minutes |
Episodes | 13 |
Director | Shigeyasu Yamauchi |
First broadcast | January 7th - May 8th 2011 on TBS |
Merry Nightmare ( Japanese 夢 喰 い メ リ ー , Yumekui Merī , Eng . "Traumfresser Merry") is a manga by Yoshitaka Ushiki , which has been published in the Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine since August 2008 . It is about the high school student Yumeji Fujiwara, who has the ability to predict the dreams of other people and thus comes into contact with Merry Nightmare, who is trapped as a dream demon in the form of a young girl in the world of reality and after a return to the dream world seeks.
In 2011, the manga was adapted as an anime television series of the same name , which was created by JCStaff and directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi . The manga has also been published in German since 2015.
action
The high school student Yumeji Fujiwara ( 藤原 夢 路 , Fujiwara Yumeji ) has the ability to predict the nature of other people's dreams. However, it is not always entirely correct, but can definitely tell from the color scheme around you whether you are going to have a nightmare. He himself has been haunted by a recurring nightmare for a while, in which he is chased by cats within a shabby fantasy world . One day when he was walking home from school, he collided with Merry Nightmare ( メ リ ー ・ ナ イ ト メ ア ) falling from a tree and losing her hat. Shortly afterwards, Yumeji is back in this dream world. As it quickly turns out, the cats are the followers of John Doe ( ジ ョ ン ・ ド ゥ ), who reveals himself as a dream demon ( 夢魔 , muma ). He gives himself the title Chaser ( チ ェ イ サ ー , dt. "Pursuer") and states that he has a great interest in Yumeji in order to be able to enter the real world with the help of his body and attacks him. He is saved by Merry, who was looking for her hat. This, itself a dream demon but with the peculiarity of not having to have a human host in order to be able to live in reality, chases other dream demons so that they can take them back to their home, the dream world. Yumeji offers Merry his help to track down other people who are going to have nightmares, giving her the name Yumekui because like Baku she eliminates nightmares. Later, John Doe, who, when asked whether he is friend or foe, describes himself as an "ally of truth", tells him that a powerful dream demon named Pharos Hercules induces other dream demons to take possession of people with or against their will.
Origin and publications
The manga Yumekui Merry is both written and drawn by Yoshitaka Ushiki . He appears since August 10, 2008 in the magazine Manga Time Kirara Forward , which is published by Hōbunsha . So far, 21 anthologies have been published as Tankōbon .
- ISBN 978-4-8322-7748-9 , October 27, 2008
- ISBN 978-4-8322-7804-2 , May 12, 2009
- ISBN 978-4-8322-7856-1 , November 11, 2009
- ISBN 978-4-8322-7903-2 , April 13, 2010
- ISBN 978-4-8322-7968-1 , December 11, 2010
- ISBN 978-4-8322-7988-9 , February 27, 2011
- ISBN 978-4-8322-4051-3 , August 11, 2011
- ISBN 978-4-8322-4136-7 , April 12, 2012
- ISBN 978-4-8322-4202-9 , October 12, 2012
- ISBN 978-4-8322-4308-8 , June 12, 2013
- ISBN 978-4-8322-4367-5 , November 12, 2013
- ISBN 978-4-8322-4439-9 , May 12, 2014
- ISBN 978-4-8322-4514-3 , January 10, 2015
- ISBN 978-4-8322-4568-6 , May 12, 2015
- ISBN 978-4-8322-4662-1 , February 12, 2016
- ISBN 978-4-8322-4717-8 , July 12, 2016
- ISBN 978-4-8322-4791-8 , January 2017
- ISBN 978-4-8322-4881-6 , October 2017
- ISBN 978-4-8322-4926-4 , March 2018
- ISBN 978-4-8322-4976-9 , September 2018
- ISBN 978-4-8322-7093-0 , May 2019
Tokyopop has published the manga in German in 20 volumes since December 2015:
- ISBN 978-3-8420-1962-1 , December 2015
- ISBN 978-3-8420-1963-8 , February 2016
- ISBN 978-3-8420-1964-5 , April 2016
- ISBN 978-3-8420-1965-2 , June 2016
- ISBN 978-3-8420-1966-9 , August 2016
- ISBN 978-3-8420-1967-6 , October 2016
- ISBN 978-3-8420-1968-3 , December 2016
- ISBN 978-3-8420-1969-0 , March 2017
- ISBN 978-3-8420-1970-6 , April 2017
- ISBN 978-3-8420-1971-3 , June 2017
- ISBN 978-3-8420-1972-0 , August 2017
- ISBN 978-3-8420-1973-7 , October 2017
- ISBN 978-3-8420-1974-4 , December 2017
- ISBN 978-3-8420-2300-0 , February 2018
- ISBN 978-3-8420-3534-8 , April 2018
- ISBN 978-3-8420-3535-5 , June 2018
- ISBN 978-3-8420-4596-5 , September 2018
- ISBN 978-3-8420-4597-2 , October 2018
- ISBN 978-3-8420-4952-9 , December 2018
- ISBN 978-3-8420-5223-9 , April 2019
Anime
Based on the manga, a film of the same name was created as an anime television series, which was animated by JCStaff under the direction of Shigeyasu Yamauchi , who also wrote the script. Hideki Shirane directed the composition and script . The character design based on the manga was created by Masahiro Fujii . The artistic directors were Kenji Matsumoto and Yuki Yukie , who also made the background graphics.
The series premiered on the Japanese broadcaster TBS from January 7th to May 8th 2011 after midnight, on the previous television day . Two days later, the broadcast on MBS also began . About two weeks later, the broadcasters CBC , BS-i and KAB began broadcasting.
The anime deviates from the manga in that it introduces additional characters such as Chizuru Kawakami or the opposing dream demon Mystletainn, which are the focus of the second half of the anime.
synchronization
role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) |
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Yumeji Fujiwara | Nobuhiko Okamoto |
Merry Nightmare | Ayane Sakura |
Isana Tachibana | Ai Kayano |
Engi three-piece | Aya Endo |
John Doe | Jōji Nakata |
Chizuru Kawakami | Kana Ueda |
Tachibana's father | Keiji Fujiwara |
Ryota Iijima | Ken'ichi Suzumura |
Saki Kirishima | Mariya Ise |
Mei Hoshino | Natsumi Takamori |
Takateru Akiyanagi | Shinnosuke Tachibana |
Yui Kōnagi | Tomoko Akiya |
Pharos Hercules | Kenta Miyake |
Mystletainn | Sayuri Yahagi |
music
In the opening credits of the series the title Daydream Syndrome was played, which was interpreted by Marina Fujiwara and composed by void from IOSYS . The credits were accompanied by the piece Yume to Kibō to Ashita no Atashi ( ユ メ と キ ボ ー と ア シ タ の ア タ シ ), which was interpreted by Ayane Sakura, the voice of Merry Nightmare. IOSYS named ARM and minami as the composer of the title. The background music for the series was composed and arranged by Keiichi Oku , who was previously involved in the music of, for example, Ojamajo Doremi , Marmalade Boy and Denji Sentai Megaranger .
Web links
- Tokyopop's website about the manga
- Official website of the anime (Japanese)
- TBS website about the anime (Japanese)
- Entry of manga and anime in the Encyclopedia of Anime News Network (English)