Silent Möbius

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Silent Möbius
Original title サ イ レ ン ト メ ビ ウ ス
transcription Sairento Mebiusu
genre Action , science fiction , cyberpunk
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Kia Asamiya
publishing company Kadokawa Shoten
magazine Monthly Comic Comp, Comic Dragon
First publication 1988 - 2003
expenditure 12
Anime movie
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1991
length 54 minutes
Director Michitaka Kikuchi , Kazuo Tomizawa
script Kei Shigema, Michitaka Kikuchi
production Keishi Yamazaki, Toru Miura
music Kaoru Wada
Anime movie
Original title サ イ レ ン ト メ ビ ウ ス 2
transcription Silent Möbius 2
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1992
length 60 minutes
Director Yasunori Ide
script Manabu Nakamura
production Hisao Yamada, Kinya Watanabe, Shigeaki Komatsu, Tohru Suzuki
music Kaoru Wada
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 1998
Studio Radix
length 23 minutes
Episodes 26th
Director Hideki Tonokatsu
production Makiko Iwata, Shinjiro Yokoyama, Toru Shimose
music Jimmie Haskell, Kenichi Sudo, Suzie Katayama, Takashi Furukawa
First broadcast April 7, 1998 - September 29, 1998 on TV Tokyo
German-language
first broadcast		 July 29, 2002 - August 19, 2002 on VOX
synchronization

Silent Möbius ( Japanese サ イ レ ン ト メ ビ ウ ス , Sairento Mebiusu ) is a completed manga series by the Japanese illustrator Kia Asamiya , which was implemented as an anime series and in two films. The manga mixes elements from cyberpunk and fantasy .

action

In 2023, overpopulated and polluted Tokyo will be haunted again and again by Lucifer Hawks , demons from another world, who raid and kill innocent people at random. The AMP ( Attacked Mystification Police ), a combat group made up of six young women with special, often supernatural skills, is supposed to protect the city from these attacks.

publication

The manga series was published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten from May 1988 to 2003 in a total of 12 volumes. The chapters first appeared in Monthly Comic Comp magazine , later in Comic Dragon . The first volumes are mainly devoted to introducing the characters, only from the fourth volume does the plot develop. An English version was published in several editions by Viz Media , a French version by Génération Comics and a Chinese version by Taiwan Tohan.

In Germany, the first six chapters appeared in the double editions 201/202 to 211/212 of the comic magazine Schwermetall from 1997 to 1998 . In 2000, Alpha Comic Verlag published the first volume in a mirrored US version with a translation from Japanese, but the previously announced second volume was missing. From 2003, Planet Manga began a new publication (including the additional prologue volume 0, also known as Möbius Klein ) in the original Japanese reading direction, with a dust jacket and a translation from Japanese. After volume 6, this version, originally laid out for 16 volumes, was also canceled.

Adaptations

Movies

On August 17, 1991, Silent Möbius, the first adaptation of the manga as an anime film, was released in cinemas. The 54 minute long film by the directors Michitaka Kikuchi and Kazuo Tomizawa sums up the plot of the first part of the manga, the music was composed by Kaoru Wada , the opening title Sailing is sung by the group Tokyo Shōnen .

On July 18, 1992, a second film by director Yasunori Ide followed. This deals with later chapters of the manga and the character Yuki Saiko.

In addition, a live-action film was released in Japan.

Anime series

In 1998, a 26-episode anime television series was directed by Hideki Tonokatsu . The character design was created by Seiki Tanaka and Yasuhiro Moriki, while Eiji Iwase was the artistic director. The production was done at Studio Radix on behalf of TV Tokyo . This aired the series from April 7, 1998 to September 29, 1998 in Japan.

The television series was released in German in 2002 by OVA Films . From July 29, 2002 to August 19, 2002, a shortened version was broadcast on VOX in which episodes 7 and 16 were omitted. The anime was broadcast in English and Korean by Animax as well as translated into French, Spanish and Portuguese.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Katsumi Liqueur Naoko Matsui
Kiddy phenyl Hiromi Tsuru
Nami Yamigumo Chieko Honda
Lebia Maverick Miho Nagahori
Yuki Saiko Maya Okamoto
Lum Cheng Akiko Hiramatsu
Rally Cheyenne Toshiko Fujita
Mana Isozaki Mommy Koyama
Robert DeVice Kōichi Hashimoto
Ralph Bombers Yasunori Matsumoto
Pink Cheyenne Gara Takashima

music

The music for the series was composed by Jimmie Haskell, Ken'ichi Sudō, Suzie Katayama and Takashi Furukawa. The opening credits are Kindan no Pensée ( 禁 断 の パ ン セ , kindan no panse , dt. "Forbidden Thoughts") by Saori Ishizuka, the credits were underlaid with the songs Silently by Karen Mok and Till The End Of Time by Jason Scheff & Mica Okudoi.

reception

The manga was the breakthrough on the manga market for the artist Kei Asamiya. The movies attracted particular attention at the beginning of the 1990s and are sometimes considered classics.

The television series is described in AnimaniA as a successful successor to the films, the character design is close to the manga, the plot is only roughly based on it. The animation quality is good and the music is appropriate. The Anime Guide also confirms the high quality of the anime films and names them as an outstanding example of cyberpunk. In contrast, the real film failed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fred Patten: Watching Anime, Reading Manga - 25 Years of Essays and Reviews p. 48. Stone Bridge Press, 2004.
  2. ↑ a b Animerica No. 8/3, p. 21
  3. ↑ a b c Trish Ledoux and Doug Ranney: The Complete Anime Guide p. 46 f. Tiger Mountain Press, Issaquah (Washington), 1995
  4. ↑ a b c AnimaniA No. 4/99, p. 24 ff.

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