Arms

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Arms
Original title ARMS
genre Action , science fiction , shons , drama
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Kyōichi Nanatsuki
Illustrator Ryōji Minagawa
publishing company Shogakukan
magazine Shōnen Sunday
First publication 1997-2002
expenditure 22nd
Anime television series
title Project Arms
Original title PROJECT ARMS
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2001
Studio TMS Entertainment
length 25 minutes
Episodes 52 in 2 seasons
production Fukashi Azuma, Masahito Yoshioka
music Daisuke Ikeda
First broadcast April 7, 2001 - September 29, 2001 on TV Tokyo
synchronization

Arms is a manga by the Japanese artist Ryōji Minagawa and the author Kyōichi Nanatsuki . The work was as anime - TV series implemented and received the Shogakukan Manga Award 1999 in the category Shōnen .

The story revolves around the boy Ryō Takatsuki, who has an experimental weapon, a so-called ARMS, in place of his arm and is therefore hunted by a secret organization. The work can be classified into the genres of action , science fiction and drama .

action

The student Ryō Takatsuki lives alone with his mother, as his father has long since left them. He used to teach him hand-to-hand combat techniques so that he is physically superior to his classmates. The girl Katsumi Akagi is close to him, they have known each other for a long time.

One day the boy Hayato Shingū is transferred to school. He immediately starts a fight with Ryou, is physically equal to this and threatens to kill him. When he kidnaps Katsume, Ryō also wants to compete against Hayato. In the fight it turns out that Hayato has a weapon instead of his arm, a so-called ARMS. It turns out that Ryou is also in possession of such a weapon. Until now he always believed that his arm was injured in an accident. It now turns out that these ARMS are experimental weapons made up of thousands of nanochips. They were planted on four people, including Ryō and Hayato, when they were younger, replacing certain limbs. However, for a long time neither knew of their fate. The organization Egrigori, which created the ARMS, is now looking for the four test subjects with their own members, who are also equipped with ARMS, the so-called Keith series.

Such an agent of the Egrigori now appears at the school and Ryō and Hayato have to fight against him together. Soon they also meet the other two ARMS owners, Takashi Tomoe and the girl Kei Kuruma. The four must now fight against the organization Egrigori, by which they are hunted.

Conception

The series is partly inspired by the story Alice in Wonderland . The ARMS of the four young people are named after characters from the story and have partly adopted their characteristics.

Manga

The manga was published from 1997 and 2002 in the magazine Shonen Sunday the publisher Shogakukan in Japan. The story was later summarized in 22 tankōbon (anthologies).

The manga was published in the United States by Viz Media , in French by Kana and in Italian by Planet Manga . A translation into Korean has also been published.

The first five volumes of the series were published in German from August 2003 to October 2004 by Planet Manga. The translation was by John Schmitt-Weigand. The series was canceled after the second volume had been placed on the "List of Media Harmful to Young People" and thus indexed by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young Persons .

Anime

2001 produced TMS Entertainment a 26-part anime - television series called Project Arms directed by Hajime Kamegaki and Hirotoshi Takaya . The character design comes from Masaki Sato and Junichi Azuma was the artistic director. The series was broadcast from April 7, 2001 to September 29, 2001 on TV Tokyo .

In the same year, a follow-up season Project Arms: The 2nd Chapter with another 26 episodes was produced. This aired from October 6, 2001 to March 30, 2002 in Japan.

The first season has also been translated into English and Italian. Both seasons were broadcast on Tagalog by ABS-CBN.

synchronization

role Japanese voice actor ( seiyū )
Ryō Takatsuki Nobutoshi Canna
Hayato Shingu Shin'ichirō Miki
Katsume Akagi Tomoko Miura
Takeshi Tomoe Yūji Ueda
Kei Kuruma Minami Takayama

music

The music for the series was composed by Daisuke Ikeda . The first season credits , FreeBird and Breathe on Me , were produced by New Cinema Tokage. The end credits were Just Wanna Be from WAG and Call my Name from Garnet Crow.

For the second season opening credits, WAG produced Time Waits for No One , while the credits were supported by Timeless Sleep by Garnet Crow and Owaranai Yume no Nakad ( 終 わ ら な い 夢 の 中 で ) from PROJECT ARMS.

reception

The manga ARMS won the 1999 Shogakukan Manga Prize in the Manga category.

In Splashcomics Brigitte Schönhense describes the first volume as action-packed and exciting, the characters are interesting and the plot has potential. However, some actions are implausible and the idea behind the action is not new. The drawings have an unmistakable style that is reminiscent of Spriggan's predecessor . Fights are staged dynamically and bloody details are presented.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AnimePro on the manga
  2. ↑ a b Review at Splashcomics
  3. ↑ http://www.comicguide.de/php/detail.php?id=72792&file=h&display=long
  4. ↑ Shogakukan on the 1999 winners

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