Silent Möbius
Silent Möbius | |
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Original title | サ イ レ ン ト メ ビ ウ ス |
transcription | Sairento Mebiusu |
genre | Action , science fiction , cyberpunk |
Manga | |
country | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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 ) |
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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
- ↑ Fred Patten: Watching Anime, Reading Manga - 25 Years of Essays and Reviews p. 48. Stone Bridge Press, 2004.
- ↑ a b Animerica No. 8/3, p. 21
- ↑ a b c Trish Ledoux and Doug Ranney: The Complete Anime Guide p. 46 f. Tiger Mountain Press, Issaquah (Washington), 1995
- ↑ a b c AnimaniA No. 4/99, p. 24 ff.
Web links
- Silent Möbius in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry about the manga and the anime series on Anime News Network (English)