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Yoko Tsuno

Yoko Tsuno , formerly Joko Zuno , (original title: Yoko Tsuno ) is a Franco-Belgian comic series by Roger Leloup first published in 1970 .

action

The heroine of the series is Yoko Tsuno, a young electronics specialist from Japan. She has mastered a Japanese martial art and bravely stands up for justice and against crime. Together with Vic Video and the rather clumsy Knut Knolle, Yoko Tsuno has fantastic adventures. You will meet the people of the blue-skinned Vineans, who came to earth 2.4 million years ago in search of a new home because their own planet had become uninhabitable after a galactic catastrophe. Together with their Vinean friends Khany and little Poky, they travel into space and give the Vineans back their home. But even on earth there are puzzling phenomena to be investigated from times long past. With the little morning dew she adopted a daughter. Several times she goes on time travel and is accompanied by Monya, also a time traveler.

Vinea

The planet Vinea lies in the galaxy M33 in a binary star system and was abandoned by the Vineans 2.4 million years ago after a change in the two suns that made survival there impossible. Some of the Vineans were put into stasis and left behind on the planet, while eleven other groups set out to find a new home, many of them also in stasis. The Vineans found the primeval earth 400,000 years ago and settled there underground, as they did not have to adapt to the surface environment. Vinea has many cities from before the escape of the Vineans, including the submerged city of the abyss. Other places of importance in M33 are the runaway world Shyra and its moon Ixo, the space city of Kifa and the Ultima system.

main characters

  • Yoko Tsuno is a young electronics specialist from Japan. She masters Aikido and bravely stands up for justice. She seeks intelligent solutions to fantastic problems, but does not shy away from using physical force in an emergency.
  • Vic Video and Knut Knolle are her loyal friends. While Vic is the smart guy, Knut stumbles clumsily through the stories, but is still allowed to do his part to solve the puzzles. Knut is often lazy and grumpy, but has a good rapport with children. In Volume 1, Knut and Vic were both busy watching television.
  • Khany and Poky are Vineans. Poky is a little girl, Khany a young woman of Yoko age and not without influence in the company of the Vineans. Poky and Khany are twin sisters, but Poky was awakened from artificial deep sleep 20 years later.
  • Ingrid Hallberg is an organist aged Yoko and appears for the first time in volume 2. As a character, she usually relates Yoko Tsuno to the cover story. B. as a victim of a medical experiment in Volume 7 or discoverer of a forgotten military project from the First World War at Eltz Castle in Volume 14.
  • Morgentau is a little girl that Yoko more or less adopted and who has been with her since volume 16, in which it was the friend of the sea dragon. Morgentau is very good friends with Poky.
  • Myna is a small, feminine, human-like robot who was intended as a playmate for children, first appeared in Volume 18, and has appeared occasionally in Vinean adventures since. Myna is cheeky, very direct and occasionally takes the initiative in morally questionable situations. It moves on the fly and has a feline head.
  • Monya is a time traveler. With Yoko's help she tries to prevent the end of the world caused by an alien being stranded on earth. After she is successful she cannot go back to the future and remains on earth of the present. Monya has her first appearance in volume 11.
  • Emilia appears for the first time in volume 24. She is a fourteen-year-old, red-haired girl with a Scottish father and a Russian mother who is a good violin player and pilot.
  • Synda is Khany and Poky's mother. She was put into stasis on Vinea and has survived all events of the past 2.4 million years unscathed in this state. Since she was Kahny's age at the time, mother and daughter are indistinguishable from the outside, which is why Synda now prefers a different hairstyle in order not to be confused with Khany.
  • Karpan is a Vinean despot who tries to force the entire underground world of the Vineans under his rule and to conquer the surface of the earth. He has already been defeated once in volume 1, but appears again in volume 3, where he is killed at the hand of a Vinean technician when Yoko and Khany still want to intervene to save him.
  • Queen Hegora rules the city of the abyss as the tyrant in Volume 13. It turns out to be a gynoid, which can transfer its consciousness to a new body after severe injuries. Here, too, the initiative to destroy Hegora is torn from Yoko's hand when Hegora's service robot Tyrak Knut snatches the weapon and destroys all other reserve bodies. Yoko is used as the new ruler of the city, but Hegora lives on in her last body and intervenes in volume 18 to help the heroine by reviving Myna.
  • Tyrak is Queen Hegora's human-like robotic servant. He finally betrays his mistress by destroying her reserve body, making Yoko the new ruler and thus putting an end to Hegora's tyranny.
  • Mieke is a girl from the 16th century who can be seen for the first time in volume 20. Knut falls in love with her, and from then on she plays one of the many supporting roles in the adventures and cooks Waterzooi when the opportunity arises .
  • Angela is a robot that is supposed to represent an angel in the shape of a small, flying Vinean girl and was intended as a gift for morning dew. Angela has two small wings and is quite naive.
  • Zarka and Zhytta are two gynoids who served a group of Vineans who tried to forcibly usurp the earth. Zarka was captured by monks 800 years ago and chained in a monastery cellar, where she ran out of energy and was forgotten until Yoko freed her (Volume 25). Zhytta, who has the shape of a young girl, stayed underground and continued to serve her master Khar until she switched sides.
  • Balbok is Zhytta's playful robotic dragon. It can be enlarged and reduced by her at will, and when it is not needed it rests on a gem-studded control plate on her chest.
  • Khar is the last of the Vineans who tried to take over the earth by force, using people as slave labor for this reason. Considered a devil by monks in the 12th century, Khar changed his appearance accordingly and created robot dragons to frighten people with their superstitions. Khar dies in an attack on Yoko; he is shot down by Khany with one of his dragons.
  • Tevy is a hybrid of genetic information from humans and Vineans, which was created by the followers of Carpan and is needed to destroy the terrestrial microorganisms from Mars, which would also kill humans (Volume 27).
  • Akina is the AI of the ship that Yoko finds in the city of exiles and names it after a rival from her childhood. Since Akina is "bored" on board the Ryu, she is used again in volume 27; this time she controls the flight to Mars.

style

The author of the series, Roger Leloup , is a representative of the Ligne claire . The drawings have simple lines, flat colors and hardly any hatching. A key feature of the series is the elaborate display of technical details. This applies to real objects such as vehicles or technical devices as well as fictional objects, of which Leloup likes to make real models in order to ensure a coherent reproduction from every perspective. Leloup draws real scenes with photographic precision and attention to detail. Germany and its historical architecture can be found more often, for example:

background

Roger Leloup developed the adventure series in late 1968. Several short stories were created with the help of Maurice Tillieux . Album-length stories began in 1971.

The adventures appear in Spirou since 1970 . Dupuis publishes the albums and the complete edition. The first publication in German-speaking countries took place in Topix in 1976. Carlsen took over the series in 1982 and also published a complete edition in addition to a paperback series.

Trivia

According to Leloup, the idea for the Vineans came about when he was looking at a faded advertising poster for Nivea in his father's barber shop in his youth, whereby the skin of the model depicted there appeared blue. The name Vinea is an anagram of the brand name Nivea.

In contrast to the German translations, which today are closer to the French-language original, there are earlier German versions of the first volumes published in Topix by Bastei Verlag, in which the heroine appears as Joko Zuno - Das Karate Girl . The titles were phrased a little more sensationally, such as B. The melody of the last hour for L'orgue du diable . The translation was also less careful: For example, today's Knut Knolle (in the original "Pol Pitron") was called "Paul" according to his Dutch name "Paul Pola", while "Vic Video" was translated as "Max".

Stories

  1. Underground encounter ( Le trio de l'étrange , 1971, 45 pages)
    Alternative title: Mysterious journey (Topix)
  2. The organ of the devil ( L'orgue du diable , 1972, 44 pages)
    Alternative title: Melody of the last hour (Topix)
  3. Die Vulkanschmiede ( La forge de vulcain , 1973, 44 pages)
    Alternative title: The factory of the volcanoes (Topix)
  4. Under high tension ( Aventures électroniques , 1970–1974, 44 pages)
  5. Flight into the past ( Message pour l'éternité , 1974, 44 pages)
    Alternative title: Emergency call from the Valley of the Apes (Topix)
  6. The third sun of Vinea ( Les 3 soleils de Vinéa , 1975, 44 pages)
    Alternative title: The three suns of Vinea (Topix)
  7. Between life and death ( La frontière de la vie , 1976, 44 pages)
    Alternative title: Das Wunder der Lebenskugel (Topix)
  8. The titans ( Les titans , 1977, 44 pages)
  9. The daughter of the wind ( La fille du vent , 1978, 44 pages)
  10. The forgotten planet ( La lumière d'Ixo , 1979, 44 pages)
  11. Die Zeitspirale ( La spirale du temps , 1980, 44 pages)
  12. Spook in Scotland ( La proie et l'ombre , 1981, 44 pages)
  13. The city of the abyss ( Les archanges de Vinéa , 1982, 44 pages)
  14. Wotan's fire ( Le feu de Wotan , 1984, 44 pages)
  15. The Kra cannon ( Le canon de Kra , 1985, 44 pages)
  16. The dragon of Hong Kong ( Le dragon de Hong Kong , 1986, 44 pages)
  17. The revenge of the demons ( Le matin du monde , 1988, 44 pages)
  18. The city of the exiles ( Les exilés de Kifa , 1990–1991, 44 pages)
  19. Rheingold ( L'or du Rhin , 1992–1993, 44 pages)
  20. The astrologer of Bruges ( L'astrologue de Bruges , 1994, 44 pages)
  21. Ethera ( La porte des âmes , 1996, 44 pages)
  22. The sky junk ( La jonque céleste , 1998, 44 pages)
  23. The pagoda of the fog ( La pagode des brumes , 2001, 44 pages)
  24. The seventh code ( Le septième code , 2005, 45 pages)
  25. The servant of Lucifer ( La servante de Lucifer , 2010, 45 pages)
  26. The amethyst ( Le maléfice de l'améthyste , 2012, 46 pages)
  27. Khany's secret ( Le Secret de Khâny , 2015, 48 pages)
  28. The Temple of the Immortals ( Le Temple des immortels , 2017, 48 pages)
  29. Angels and Falcons ( Anges et Faucons , 2020, 64 pages)

Web links

Commons : Yoko Tsuno  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yoko Tsuno Volume 1
  2. ↑ lambiek about Roger Leloup
  3. ^ Comments in the complete edition by Yoko Tsuno , Carlsen Verlag
  4. ↑ Roger Leloup (French)
  5. ↑ Yoko Tsuno in Spirou on bdoubliees.com (French)
  6. ↑ Yoko Tsuno at Dupuis on bedetheque.com (French)
  7. ↑ Yoko Tsuno Intégrale at Dupuis on bedetheque.com (French)
  8. ↑ Joko Zuno (1976–1978) in Topix (2, 5, 9, 14, 17, 25) on comicguide.de
  9. ↑ Yoko Tsuno (1982–) at Carlsen on comicguide.de
  10. ↑ Yoko Tsuno (1990–1991) in Carlsen Pocket (6, 16, 26) on comicguide.de
  11. ↑ Yoko Tsuno Complete Edition (2007-2011) from Carlsen on comicguide.de