Futatsu no Spica
| Futatsu no Spica | |
|---|---|
| Original title | ふ た つ の ス ピ カ |
| transcription | Futatsu no Spica |
| genre | Science fiction , drama |
| Manga | |
| country |
 Japan
|
| author | Kou Yaginuma |
| publishing company | Media Factory |
| magazine | Comic flapper |
| First publication | September 2001 - August 2009 |
| expenditure | 16 |
| Anime television series | |
| Country of production |
Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| Year (s) | 2003-2004 |
| Studio | Group TAC |
| length | 24 minutes |
| Episodes | 20th |
| Director | Tomomi Mochizuki |
| production | Eizo Kondo |
| music | Kazunori Miyake |
| First broadcast | November 1st, 2003 on NHK |
| Television series | |
| year | 2009 |
| Episodes | 7th |
| Director | Takeyoshi Yamamoto , Ayuko Tsukahara |
| First broadcast | June 8, 2009 on Nippon TV |
Futatsu no Spica ( Japanese ふ た つ の ス ピ カ ) is a manga series by Kou Yaginuma , which appeared in Japan from 2001 to 2009. It was also adapted as a drama and anime television series, and is known internationally as Twin Spica .
content
The Japanese government launched its own space program in the 2000s and the first rocket was due to launch in 2010. But the start fails and the rocket crashes over a city and kills not only the space travelers, but also many residents. Among the victims is the mother of one year old Asumi Kamogawa. Her father was one of the rocket engineers who soon has to give up his job and earn his living as a construction worker. When Asumi was six years old, her mother, who had been in a coma, died. In search of a nice resting place for her urn, Asumi meets a boy with a lion's head. He is said to be the ghost of one of the spacemen and is surprised that she can see him. Soon the two meet more often and the boy feeds Asumi’s enthusiasm for space travel.
When Asumi leaves middle school, she moves to the National Space School. This high school is to train the young astronauts for the newly launched space program. Asumi soon found friends at school with her enthusiasm for space. But her father's involvement in the rocket launch many years earlier also led to conflict.
publication
The series was published from September 2001 to August 2009 in Comic Flapper magazine by Media Factory . He brought out the chapters in 16 volumes. An English translation was published by Vertical , a Chinese translation by Tong Li Publishing .
Anime television series
In 2003, Studio Group TAC produced a 20-part anime series on the manga. The main writer was Tomomi Mochizuki and Tomomi Mochizuki directed. The character design was created by Masako Gotō and the artistic direction was Asuka Komiyama . Eizo Kondo was responsible as the producer .
The series was broadcast from November 1, 2003 to March 27, 2004 by NHK in Japan. Animax showed the anime in 2007 in Latin America and Asia, QTV in the Philippines.
synchronization
| role | Japanese voice |
|---|---|
| Asumi Kamogawa | Akiko Yajima |
| Lion-san | Takehito Koyasu |
music
The music for the series was composed by Kazunori Miyake . The opening credits are underlaid with the song Venus Say by Buzy and the closing title is Miagetegoran Yoru no Hoshiwo by Begin.
Dorama
In 2009, an adaptation of the manga as a 7-part dorama was created under the direction of Takeyoshi Yamamoto and Ayuko Tsukahara . The scripts were written by Shūko Arai and Daigo Matsui . This was broadcast from June 18 to July 30, 2009 by Nippon TV in Japan.
reception
The German magazine MangasZene calls the anime “a successful mixture of everyday drama and science fiction”, with the latter appearing rather soberly in the children's education, but with a “fascination with space”. The focus is on the lives of people who come into contact with astronautics and how it affects them both positively and negatively. The secondary characters are also well worked out and "humorous and optimistic scenes" are "balanced with the dramatic and serious ones". So with the plot, the anime is also close to the template when it comes to character design. The animations are “quite simple, but that doesn't detract from the fascination of the series”.
Web links
- Entry on Manga and the adaptations on Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b MangasZene No. 23, p. 19.