Kitarubeki Sekai

Kitarubeki Sekai ( Japanese 来るべき世界 , Eng. "Probably the future world") is a manga by Osamu Tezuka . The science fiction manga published in 1951 comprises around 300 pages.

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The story takes place mainly in the uranium federation, the "Republic of the Stars", in Japan , as well as on a small island, where the scientist Dr. Yamadano discovered a strange being. This is neither animal nor human and is called Fumoon . It was created through human nuclear weapon tests. Yamadano takes the being home with him. The hobby detective Higeoyaji finds out about him and is sent by the Fumoon with his supernatural powers to the uranium federation, where he is quickly imprisoned and forced to do hard labor.

War rages between the Uranium Federation and the Republic of the Stars. A boy from the Republic of the Stars named Rock is trained to be an assassin, but is caught in the Uranium Federation. Higeoyaji's nephew Kenichi is looking for his uncle and becomes friends with a Fumoon. The Fumoons are planning a world domination.

Emergence

In addition to Metropolis and Lost World , Kitarubeki Sekai is part of a cycle of early science fiction works by Tezuka. Like the other two mangas, Kitarubeki Sekai's title and concept were inspired by a film that Tezuka had not seen himself, Here What's To Come (1938), which in its Japanese version has the same title as the manga.

While the story has about 300 manga pages, it is said to have originally been laid out on 700 pages. 400 pages were cut because the editor of the manga thought 700 pages would be too long a story for a comic book. Even so, Kitarubeki Sekai was Tezuka's longest manga publication to date. Many of the more than 20 characters that are important for the plot are characters from Tezuka's Star System , i.e. characters that he also used in many other manga from his work.

Publications

Kitarubeki Sekai comprises two paperbacks, Akahon , each with over 160 pages. These were published in January and February 1951 in Japan by the Fuji Shobo publishing house. Reprints were published by Seirindō in 1976 , Meicho Kankōka in 1980, and Fusion Product in 1999. New editions appeared in 1972 in the Shōnen Manga Gekijō series in Shiroku format (127 mm × 188 mm) by Chikuma Shoten , in 1977/8 by Kōdansha , in 1990 as bindings in Duodezimo format by Shogakukan and in 1995 as bindings in Bunko format by Kadokawa Shoten .

In the fall of 2003, the manga appeared under the title Next World in English by Dark Horse Comics . Taifu Comics published a French translation .

reception

Susanne Phillipps saw in the manga allusions to the political events at the time of its creation: “ Above all the surprising outbreak of the Korean War and the fear of its expansion to other states, the signing of the peace treaty of San Francisco and the security pact between Japan and the UNITED STATES."

Jason Thompson saw the manga as a typical representative of Tezuka's early career: "crazy, caricatured, illogical and infinitely resourceful, with hints of the mature brilliance that would follow."

Web links

Kitarubeki Sekai at Tezuka Osamu @ World (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . New York 2007, Del Rey, ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8 , p. 242.
↑ 来るべき世界 . In: 手塚治虫のすべて . Retrieved June 1, 2009 (Japanese).
^ Susanne Phillipps: Osamu Tezuka. Figures, themes and narrative structures in the entire Manga work . iudicum, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-89129-810-7 , p. 384.

[Thompson-1] Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . New York 2007, Del Rey, ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8 , p. 242.

[2] 来るべき世界 . In: 手塚治虫のすべて . Retrieved June 1, 2009 (Japanese).

[3] Susanne Phillipps: Osamu Tezuka. Figures, themes and narrative structures in the entire Manga work . iudicum, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-89129-810-7 , p. 384.