Yaiba
Yaiba is a manga series by the Japanese draftsman Gosho Aoyama , which appeared for the first time from 1988 to 1993 and was also implemented as an anime series. It comprises about 4,300 pages and is aimed primarily at a young, male readership, so it can be assigned to the Shōnen genre.
action
The boy Yaiba Kurogane lives in the jungle with his father Kenjuro. In order to realize his dream of becoming a great samurai , Yaiba trains. Since the father limited his upbringing mainly to learning to fight the sword, Yaiba is a bit clumsy in society.
One day the father and son's camp is attacked by a wild tiger who is after the two of them, a gorilla, that has just been roasted. Although the two initially plan to cook the tiger instead of the gorilla, they flee with the tiger into a box because a horde of gorillas wants to attack Yaiba and his father. The box belongs to a transport of exotic fruits and so the three travelers are loaded onto an airplane and flown to Narita in Japan.
At the airport there, the three are followed as troublemakers by the security staff. With the help of the tiger, Yaiba can fight those present at the airport, except for the winner of the Asia Kendo Cup, Raizo Mine, who has just returned from a tournament. His daughter Sayaka, who picked him up, challenges Yaiba and wants to know who he is. It turns out that Kenjuro is Raizo's one-time rival.
Kenjuro then brings Yaiba to the mines, which meets with displeasure. Sayaka's grandmother makes an offer. Should Yaiba defeat the strongest fighter in her dojo, in which she is a trainer, he can live and train with them for free. Yaiba succeeds. From then on he lived with the Mines, while his father kept disappearing on short or long training trips. The "civilized world" outside the jungle allows Yaiba to discover a lot of new things and presents him with some problems.
Publications
Yaiba appeared in Japan from 1988 to 1993 in individual chapters in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday , which was published weekly with a circulation of about 1.5 million. The Shogakukan Publishing House also published these individual chapters in 24 paperback anthologies. Several new editions of the anthologies were later published in various formats.
Soleil has been publishing the anthologies in France since January 2006. In Spain, the volumes have been published by Planeta DeAgostini since July 2006. Star Comics has been publishing the books in Italy since February 2007 .
Success and Awards
The manga series became a bestseller in Japan. Masanao Amano sees the reason for the popularity in the "typical shônen -Mangas action together with a noble main actor and lovable supporting characters" .
Gosho Aoyama won the 38th Shogakukan Manga Prize in the children's category for Yaiba in 1993 .
Guest appearances
Aoyama let Yaiba appear in other of his works and vice versa, the figure of the Kaito Kid also appears in Yaiba . Kuroba and Nakamori from Kaito Kid can be seen briefly in one scene. This confirms that they go to the same school as Yaiba. Aoyama later drew the chapter Conan vs. KID vs. Yaiba , in which he contrasts the main characters from his manga Detective Conan , Kaito Kid and Yaiba . The chapter was also filmed as an anime special episode for Detective Conan .
filming
One of the animation studio Pastel entitled Kenyu Densetsu Yaiba produced (剣勇伝説Yaiba) animated series beamed the Japanese television station TV Tokyo from April 1993 to April of 1994th The 51-episode series was directed by Kunihiko Yuyama . The title song and the credits were sung by the band Kabuki Rocks . The series also ran on Polish, Portuguese, Filipino and Chilean television, among others.