Tokyo Inferno
| Manga | |
|---|---|
| title | Tokyo Inferno |
| Original title | 彼女 を 守 る 51 の 方法 |
| transcription | Kanojo o Mamoru 51 no Hōhō |
| country |
 Japan
|
| author | Usamaru Furuya |
| publishing company | Shinchōsha |
| magazine | Comic bunch |
| First publication | September 9, 2006 - September 8, 2007 |
| expenditure | 5 |
Tokyo Inferno ( Japanese 彼女 を 守 る 51 の 方法 , Kanojo o Mamoru 51 no Hōhō , German "51 ways to save them") is a manga from the Mangaka Usamaru Furuya from 2006.
content
Tokyo on February 23, 20XX: To get a job at a well-known television station, the student Jin Mishima is on the artificially built island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay - a popular entertainment and shopping location. The Gothic Lolita Nanako Okano also wants to attend a concert near the station , but was cheated out of her ticket by her friend. The two young people meet by chance and discover that they know each other. In middle school they were classmates.
While the memories of school days are still sprouting in them, the earth is shaking. An earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale will destroy Tokyo within seconds. Jin and Nanako just got away with their lives, but are now faced with a catastrophic scenario: their hometown has turned into an unpredictable death trap. In the further course of the story it comes to the naked survival in the dangerous disaster focus.
Conception
In addition to his manga Tokyo Inferno, there is also a Japanese disaster novel with the same title. This comes from the author Minoru Watanabe . Watanabe wrote the novel in instructional form. He is also the author of the factual texts that are printed at the end of each of the five manga volumes. According to Tokyopop , the novel is intended to explain to the Japanese what can happen in the event of an earthquake. The book also explains emergency measures the reader can take to keep their loved ones and themselves safe. The Japanese original title Kanojo o Mamoru 51 no Hōhō from Manga and Roman is based on this objective .
Usamaru Furuya’s manga deals with a realistic scenario with a destructive earthquake in Tokyo . It is conceived as a mixture of reality and fiction.
Publications
In Japan, Tokyo Inferno came on the market in 2006 under the title Kanojo o Mamoru 51 no Hōhō . The publisher Shinchōsha published the manga series in advance in Comic Bunch magazine . Overall, the series is summarized in five volumes that appeared between 2006 and 2007.
In the English-speaking world, the manga is published by CMX under the title 51 Ways To Save Her . The Chinese licensee is Tong Li Publishing .
Tokyopop published Kanojo o Mamoru 51 no Hōhō in April and July 2010 under the title Tokyo Inferno . The five original volumes were combined in two large-format softcover editions with 480 pages each. The publisher's age recommendation is 15+. The German title Tokyo Inferno causes confusion among readers, as the anime Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 was released in 2009 , which has a similar title and also has some parallels to the manga series. In the anime, too, Odaiba is destroyed by an earthquake. However, Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 was created independently of Tokyo Inferno .
filming
The Japanese director Takashi Miike planned a 120-minute implementation of the manga as a real film in 2006. Itaru Era and Hisako Fujihara were supposed to write the script . Producer of the project of Excellent film should Hidehiro Ito be. Miike describes the content as a realistic scenario, with the focus on the human drama. The film project has not yet been realized.
Individual evidence
- ^ TOKYOPOP Forum on the novel Kanojo o Mamoru 51 no Hōhō
- ↑ Tokyo Inferno on the official website of Shinchōsha (Japanese)
- ↑ Tokyo Inferno on the official website of Tong Li Publishing ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Chinese)
- ↑ AnimeY about the release of Tokyo Inferno in Germany
- ^ Tokyopop dealer preview April to September 2010
- ^ Official website of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
- ↑ Takashi Miike's Blog ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. about the film adaptation of Tokyo Inferno
