Jyu Oh Sei

Jyu Oh Be (Japanese獣 王星Jūōsei ) is a manga series of the Japanese illustrator Natsumi Itsuki, which was implemented as a anime television series. The approximately 950 -page manga is aimed primarily at a female audience and thus can be assigned to the shōjo - or Josei genus.

Action

In the year 2436 has humanity in the solar system "Balkan ", 150 light- years away from Earth, settled. The twins Rai and Thor live together with their parents on the spaceship colony "Juno". The father of two boys is an influential man why many see him as the next Prime Minister of Juno in the government of the colony. The young Thor would like to be a pilot to be able to visit the very distant earth can. His brother Rai, however, would like his parents are scientists.

However, the dreams of the twins burst. When they go into the home to their parents, only to discover in horror that they were murdered in cold blood by unknown. The boys are beaten unconscious by the secret police and locked in a spaceship. They are thus relegated to the next planet " Chimaera ", on which it is teeming with plants of all kinds. Most of these plants are carnivorous. " Chimaera ", also known as "Planet of the king of the beasts " ( Jūōsei ), many criminals and outcasts serves as home. Many of them were banished just like now Rai and Thor on this planet. It applies the law of the strongest, humanity can not expect here. Who is weak dies. There are only two seasons on the planet, half the year is shrouded the entire planet in darkness and bitter cold, the other 181 days, there is an unbearable heat. Shortly after the two boys in the crashed spaceship coming to him, they are attacked by a group threatening people. They flee through the jungle, the persecutors always on his heels. Only after Thor kills one of the pursuers, they are saved by their leader. His name is Zagi and he explains to them the rules and structures on the planet.

Due to the different skin color to " Chimaera " people living there are four different strains. In addition, the men and women live separately. The undisputed ruler of the planet of the beast king, he is also the only one who can leave the planet, all other stays this way is blocked. Each of the four strains has a leader, the "top ". He directly follows the " Second", he is the deputy of the " firsts ". The third- highest in the root is the " Third". They are the only ones who exercise direct command power over the rest of the tribe.

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Publications

The first chapter of the manga was published in the December 1993 issue of the manga magazine LaLa, where at that time, among other things Miwa Abikos Mikan Enikki was published. Until February 1995 four more chapters in the magazine appeared, until December 1997, published in October to three in the newly founded magazine Melody, which is aimed at an older audience than the LaLa. By 2003, more chapters were published in LaLa at irregular intervals. The total of fourteen individual chapter summarized the Hakusensha publishing together in five anthologies.

Filming

From April to June 2006 ran on the Japanese television station Fuji TV an eleven-part anime series based on the manga. The produced by the animation studio Bones series was directed by Hiroshi Nishikiori and was part of the program series NoitaminA. OVA Films has licensed the series for the German market and 2008 under the name Planet of the Beast King - Jyu -Oh -Sei released on three DVDs.

Awards

The manga was nominated for the 2004 Seiun Award for Best Comic, but Kyoko Hikawas Kanata Kara had to admit defeat.