Yaiba

Yaiba is a manga series of the Japanese Gosho Aoyama signatory, the 1988-1993 first appeared and was implemented as an anime series. It comprises about 4,300 pages and is aimed primarily at young, male readership, so the Shōnen- genus can be assigned.

Action

The boy Yaiba Kurogane lives with his father Kenjuro in the jungle. In order to realize his dream of becoming a great samurai, trained Yaiba. Since the father 's education is mainly limited to the learning swordplay, Yaiba is somewhat awkward in society.

One day the camp of father and son is attacked by a wild tiger, which is just behind the fried prey of the two, a gorilla come from. Although the two initially planned, but to cook the tiger instead of the gorillas, they flee with the tiger in a box, because to attack a bunch of gorillas Yaiba and his father. The box is part of a transport of exotic fruits and so the three travelers are loaded on a plane and flew to Narita in Japan.

At its airport the three as troublemakers are pursued by security personnel. Using the Tiger can Yaiba fight those present at the airport until the winner of the Asia - Kendo Cup, Raizo mine, who has just returned from a tournament. His daughter Sayaka, who picked him up, Yaiba challenges and wants to know who he is. It turns out that Kenjuro is the former rival of Raizo.

Kenjuro then brought under Yaiba in the Mines, which met with displeasure. The grandmother Sayakas makes an offer. If Yaiba the strongest fighters of their dojo, where she is a trainer defeat, he may stay with them for free and train. Yaiba it succeeds. From then on he lives in the Mines, while his father disappears again and again in the short or long training trips. The " civilized world " outside of the jungle can Yaiba discover a lot of new and introduces him to some problems.

Publications

Yaiba was released in Japan from 1988 to 1993 in separate chapters in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday, which has been published weekly with a circulation of about 1.5 million. The Shogakukan publishing house brought this single chapter out in 24 paperback anthologies. Later, several new editions of anthologies published in various formats.

In France Soleil laid the anthologies since January 2006. In Spain Planeta DeAgostini in the volumes published since July 2006. Since February 2007, Star Comics brings out the books in Italy.

Success and Awards

The manga series was developed in Japan became a bestseller. Masanao Amano sees the reason for the popularity of the " for shônen manga typical [n ] action together with a noble actor and lovable minor characters ."

Gosho Aoyama won the 38th Shogakukan Manga Award in the category of children for Yaiba 1993.

Guest appearances

Aoyama had Yaiba also occur in other of his works, and vice versa emerged the figure of Kaito Kid also in Yaiba. In one scene were briefly shown Kuroba and Nakamori from Kaito Kid. This confirms that they go to the same school as Yaiba. Later Aoyama 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 is filmed as a special anime episode to Detective Conan.

Filming

One of the animation studio Pastel titled Densetsu Yaiba Kenyu (剣 勇 伝 説Yaiba ) produced animated series beamed the Japanese broadcaster TV Tokyo from April 1993 to April of 1994. The series full episodes Kunihiko Yuyama directed 51. The title song and the guy sang the band Kabuki Rocks. The series ran among other things, in Polish, Portuguese, Filipino and Chilean television.

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