Ninja high school
| Comic | |
|---|---|
| title | Ninja high school |
| Original title | Ninja high school |
| author | Ben Dunn |
| publishing company | Antarctic Press |
| First publication | 1987 - ... |
| expenditure | 178 |
Ninja High School is an American comic book by Ben Dunn that has been published since 1987. The series, comprising more than 170 issues, is inspired by the manga in terms of content and style and is about an American student who is swarmed by various admirers and has to fight off his rivals.
content
Boy Jeremy Feeple goes to Quagmire High School and is average in every way, at first glance. He grew up as a descendant of a ninja clan to which his mother Anna still actively belongs. And unlike Jeremy, his younger brother Ricky is also trained in martial arts. Despite this, he lives a normal life with his school friends until two girls suddenly come into his life. The young ninja Ichi-kun Ichinohei moves to Quagmire from Japan because she was promised to Jeremy. Asrial is a princess from the planet Salusia, who is sent to Earth to forge an alliance through marriage. Due to a computer glitch, Jeremy is chosen as the target of the marriage. A competition between the two battle-tested girls for the boy quickly ensues.
Not long after the two involuntary suitors, of whom Ichi-kun actually falls in love with Jeremy over time, Rivalsan Lendo appears in Quagmire. He runs the Rivalsan Ninja Corporation and wants to marry Ichi-kun instead of Jeremys in order to ally with her clan. So he attacks the student, his school and also the two girls. With combined forces, including the mad teacher Professor Steamhead and the Terminator-type fighter Arnie, they can repel the attack of the Ninja Corporation. Ichi-kun and Asriel reconcile over their fight. Eventually Asreal's mission is canceled as the computer error was detected.
Creation and publication
The first concept for Ninja High School came about in 1985. Ben Dunn wanted to create similar stories himself , inspired by the Japanese manga , and presented the first drafts at the Convention BayCon in California. The plot is mainly based on the high school fantasy comedies by Rumiko Takahashi . Finally, Ben Dunn founded the publishing house Antarctic Press , in which the series should appear.
The original English Language Manga was then published by Antarctic Press in December 1987, initially announced as a three-part mini-series that was eventually extended again and again and is still published at irregular intervals to this day. The stories in the booklets were later also published collectively in "Classic" editions, each comprising ten booklets. A CD-Rom for the series and a parodic retelling with the characters in super-deformed form were also released.
Both the booklets and the anthologies were published in German by Eidalon , the booklet series reached 12 issues and the volumes four.
Web links
- Entry in toonopedia (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Comment by Ben Dunn in the foreword to Ninja High School Classic Vol. 1, Eidalon 2003.
- ↑ a b Fred Patten: Watching Anime, Reading Manga - 25 Years of Essays and Reviews . Stone Bridge Press, 2004. p. 36.
- ↑ a b Frederik L. Schodt : Dreamland Japan - Writings on Modern Manga . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2011, ISBN 978-1-933330-95-2 , pp. 327 .
- ^ Ninja High School. German Comic Guide, accessed on February 5, 2018 .
- ^ Ninja High School (Classic). German Comic Guide, accessed on February 5, 2018 .