Sprite (Manga)
| Manga | |
|---|---|
| title | Sprite |
| Original title | ス プ ラ イ ト |
| transcription | Supuraito |
| country |
 Japan
|
| author | Yūgo Ishikawa |
| publishing company | Shogakukan |
| magazine | Big Comic Superior |
| First publication | April 24, 2009 - April 10, 2015 |
| expenditure | 15th |
Sprite ( Japanese ス プ ラ イ ト , Supuraito ) is a manga series drawn and developed by the Japanese draftsman Yūgo Ishikawa . The series can be assigned to the horror and action genre. Demographically, he appears in a magazine aimed at young adult men (“ his ”).
action
After Suh provided her reclusive "sandpit friend" Tetsu with class notes on a friendly morning in Tokyo, she notices the only black flakes falling from the sky. After school, she and Miki and Kiriko visit their uncle Tanaka, who is currently depressed because the online role-playing game, with which he has spent most of his time for the past ten years, has just been discontinued. The group is surprised by an earthquake in their uncle's apartment on the 42nd and top floor of a skyscraper, followed by a black tide that floods all floors below. An expectant father from another apartment on the 42nd floor wants to seek help for his pregnant wife, dives into the black liquid in the flooded staircase and dies from it. Confused and desperate, his wife does the same as a result. She gives birth to her son in the liquid and hands the child to Shu. The boy already has hair. The group gets to know other survivors on the 42nd floor: the Aikawa couple, who, because of their bad experience in the Kobe earthquake, created emergency rations, and two unfriendly, selfish men who steal these supplies. Kiriko clears the buried steps to the roof and surprisingly finds a group of children camping upstairs, the oldest of them 258 years old when asked. This coincides with Tanaka's thesis that most people cannot see the black liquid and that it is time that makes life fleeting. As a result, the “children” have found a way of “evading” time and thus getting older. A short time later the black liquid flows off again. The group can leave the building and finds an overgrown, deserted cityscape, for which even the “children” have no explanation. Suh receives a text message from Tetsu on her mobile phone asking her what is wrong with her. The news reported that all residents of the 42nd floor have disappeared without a trace. Meanwhile, Albert discovers the foundation stone of a building that dates back to 2059.
characters
- Yoshiko Tokitō ( 時 任 好 子 ), usually called Suh ( ス ー , Sū ) for short , is a middle school student who is presented as very friendly and helpful.
- Shōgo Tanaka ( 田中 正午 ) is Suh's uncle, over 40 years old and unmarried. He lives with a Boston Terrier named Albert . For the past ten years he has mainly played Captain Bront in an online role-playing game.
- Miki Hirata ( 平 田 美 希 ) is a short friend of Suh who wants to become a meteorologist. Tanaka confuses her several times with Momotan , one of the NPCs in his game, and may have taken her as a model.
- Kiriko Ranmaru ( 蘭 丸 霧 子 ) is Suh's second close friend. Big and strong, she likes to take the initiative.
- The couple Aikawa ( 相 川 ) lost their child twelve years earlier when their house collapsed as a result of the 1995 Kobe earthquake . The woman is very sick.
publication
Sprite first appeared in the 10/2009 issue of Big Comic Superior published by Shogakukan . The manga was completed in 2015 and summarized in a total of 15 anthologies .
In German-speaking countries, all 15 volumes have been published by Carlsen Manga , in France the series is published by Kazé and in Italy by GP Manga.
reception
In his criticism of the first volume in Comix , Marc Röhling praises how Ishikawa “links the classic Manga linework [...] with etchings that create a very unique plasticity”. He also feels the scenario is "far more scary [...] than any earthquake".
Björn Bischoff also looked at the first volume in Alfonz . According to him, “the darkness doesn't really want to skip through the drawings,” which affects the atmosphere. In addition, Sprite takes a lot of time at first and hangs out with the “wrong characters” and “unnecessary silliness”. "Only in the last two or three chapters does Ishikawa get to the point, finally saying goodbye to the exposition, giving space to his main characters." But he admits that the story could develop its potential in the next volumes.
Web links
- Website for the German Manga at Carlsen
- Editions of Sprite in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Search form: Sprite. Carlsen Manga, accessed April 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Sprite. Bedetheque, accessed April 3, 2015 (French).
- ↑ Sprite 01. (No longer available online.) GP Manga, archived from the original on June 21, 2013 ; Retrieved April 3, 2015 (Italian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Marc Röhling: Mangas . In: Comix . No. 01/2014 . JNK, Verlag Jurgeit, Krismann & Nobst, Berlin 2014, DNB 1014791847 , p. 43 .
- ^ Björn Bischoff: Reviews. Tokyo is sinking into black . In: Alfonz - The comic reporter . No. 2 /2014 (April / May / June). Edition Alfons , Verlag Volker Hamann, 2014, ISSN 2194-2706 , DNB 1021857351 , p. 58 .
