Tactics (Manga)

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Tactics
Original title tactics
genre Comedy , action, fantasy
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Sakura Kinoshita , Suzume Momono → Kazuko Higashiyama
publishing company Square Enix → Mag Garden
magazine G Fantasy → Comic Blade → Comic Blade Masamune → Comic Avarus
First publication December 2000 - 2013
expenditure 15th
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2004
Studio Studio Deen
length 25 minutes
Episodes 25th
Director Hiroshi Watanabe
music Kei Haneoka
First broadcast October 6, 2004 - March 30, 2005 on TV Tokyo
synchronization

Tactics is a completed manga series by Sakura Kinoshita and Kazuko Higashiyama , which has been released in Japan since 2000 . It falls into the comedy and action genres and has also been implemented as an anime series.

content

Kantarō Ichinomiya ( 一 ノ 宮 勘 太郎 ) is a young ethnologist and ghost hunter in the Taishō period , the early 20th century in Japan. He can see spirits and nature gods and has magical abilities. But he is friends with many spirits and tries to appease evil spirits by helping them. He lives on his ethnological books and payments for expelling ghosts. Yōko, a kitsune , is his servant because he gave her a name and has so attached her to himself.

For a long time Kantarō has been looking for the Oni- eating Tengu , from whose strength he wants to benefit. Finally, he can find him on an assignment, gives him the name Haruka ( 春華 ) and thus binds him to himself. From now on, Haruka helps Kantarō with his assignments, but is often tied into his plans without knowing about it. A powerful opponent of the two is Raikō Minamoto ( 源 頼 光 ), the government's ghost hunter, who would have liked to defeat the Oni-eating Tengu himself.

publication

A pilot appeared in issue 1/2001 (December 2000) of the magazine G Fantasy of the publisher Square Enix before in issue 5/2001 the serial publication launched, written by Sakura Kinoshita and Suzume Momono. In 2002 the series moved to Mag Garden and Suzume Momono was replaced by Kazuko Higashiyama. The manga first appeared in Comic Blade magazine , then in 2003 in the newly founded Comic Blade Masamune and after its discontinuation in 2007 in Comic Avarus . The series was completed in 2013. The chapters have also been published in 15 edited volumes.

Carlsen Comics published the first seven volumes in German translation from October 2002 to January 2007. Tokyopop brought out eight volumes in English from the 2007 to 2009 series, and two volumes were published by ADV Manga in 2004 and 2005 . Ediciones Mangaline in Spanish and Tong Li in Chinese. The English version was temporarily available on the JManga Internet platform.

Anime adaptation

Studio Deen produced an anime adaptation of the manga for television in 2004 . The screenplay by Ken'ichi Kanemaki was directed by Hiroshi Watanabe . The character design was created by Mariko Oka and Michiyo Akutsu was the artistic director .

The series was broadcast from October 6, 2004 to March 30, 2005 after midnight (and thus on the previous television day ) by TV Tokyo in Japan. In 2007 and 2008, an English dubbing was shown on television in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. There is also a Filipino and a Korean version.

Voice actor

role Japanese voice
Kantarō Ichinomiya Kōki Miyata
Haruka Takahiro Sakurai
Yōko Tomoko Kawakami
Reiko Grandma Minami

music

The music in the series was composed by Kei Haneoka. The song Secret World was used for the opening credits , the closing title is Mienai Chikara , both sung by Miki Akiyama. The songs were composed by Kazuya Nishioka, the text is by Yuriko Mori.

Light novels

Mag Garden Novels, a subsidiary of Mag Garden , published three light novels about the series, written by Nanami Nari .

reception

The American critic Jason Thompson attests the manga " clever plots " and an interesting handling of Japanese folklore. The core of the story, however, is the "sweet, slightly suggestive relationship between Kan and Haruka: a little boy and his adult protector." The character design is kept in an anime-like style, typical and simple, but still allows for some picturesque backgrounds and details . Without violence and ugliness, with only a few conflicts, the series is “moving, easy reading” . The German magazine AnimaniA awards the manga "Witz und Charme" , which could also be transferred to the anime version. This is mainly due to the direction and the character design, which is based on the original. In Japan, the television series was well received by fans of the manga. In the Anime Encyclopedia , the series is assigned to the harem . But in tactics the harem is formed from traditional ghost figures, which gives the anime a special charm.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tactics 15 ド ラ マ CD 付 き 初 回 限定 版 マ ッ グ ガ ー デ ン コ ミ ッ ク ス ス ス ペ シ ャ ル / ア ヴ ァ ル ス コ ミ ッ ク ス . HMV, accessed February 13, 2016 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ 2001 年 １ 月 号 . (No longer available online.) In: GFantasy. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009 ; Retrieved on February 19, 2013 (Japanese, content from G Fantasy , 1st half year 2011). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www5e.biglobe.ne.jp
  3. ↑ MASAMUNE WEB. 2007, archived from the original on September 26, 2007 ; Retrieved on February 19, 2013 (Japanese, after a few seconds it will automatically be redirected to the Comic Avarus website .).
  4. ^ Tactics. German Comic Guide, accessed on February 18, 2013 .
  5. ↑ a b Jason Thompson (Ed.): The Complete Guide to Manga. Del Rey, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8 , p. 360.
  6. ↑ Information on Light Novel. Mag Garden, accessed February 9, 2016 .
  7. ↑ AnimaniA 08-09 / 2006, p. 71.
  8. ↑ Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Berkeley 2006, Stone Bridge Press. P. 637.

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