Himitsu – Top Secret

Himitsu - Top Secret (Japanese秘密-トップ·シークレット- Himitsu - Toppu Shīkuretto ) is a manga series of the Japanese illustrator Reiko Shimizu, published in Japan since 2001. The series was adapted into an anime television series. The work can be classified in the genres of mystery and science fiction.

Content

In a series of murders that can not educate the police, a forensic laboratory in the police begin to make the memory of the victims by MRI visible. But doing all the memories of the subjects are disclosed. Ikko Aoki and Tsuyoshi Maki, head of the laboratory are. Witnesses in the investigation of supernatural occurrences

Publication

The manga is published Melody of the publisher Hakusensha in Japan since December 2001 in the manga magazine. The single chapter was also published in twelve collected volumes so far.

He is also in French at Éditions - Tonkam published (10 volumes to 2012)

Anime

In 2008, the studio Madhouse produced a 26- episode anime television series for manga, when Hiroshi Aoyama directed. The character design designed Kyuma Oshita and the artistic direction took Tomoyuki Shimizu. The series was titled Top Secret - The Revelation aired on April 8, 2008 to September 30, 2008 by Nippon TV in Japan. Later repetitions followed by VAP and NittelEPlus.

Synchronization

Music

The music of the series was composed by Yoshihisa Hirano. The header title Kokoro film (ココロ フィルム) comes from Alvino, the credits song is Kemuri (烟) of Makichang.

Reception

The manga was nominated for the 2002 Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize, but Vagabond was beaten by Takehiko Inoue.

The manga was nominated by the jury of the Japanese Ministry of Culture and the Japan Media Arts Festival 2008. The fourth and fifth band were in their Erstveröffentlichungswochen the top five best-selling books in Japan.