Spirit of Wonder

Spirit of Wonder (Japaneseスピリット オブ ワンダー, supiritto obu Wanda ) is a manga series of the artist Kenji Tsuruta, which was implemented as anime. They can be assigned to the His - genus and consists of eleven science fiction episodes. The stories combine modern with old technology.

Action

Some episodes deal with a treasure hunt, where a young woman and a scientist involved. In other episodes the life of " Miss China " in their small restaurant is described at Bristol, of their daily lives with the restaurant guests.

Publications

After Tsuruta had worked for various fan magazines and as an assistant for other manga artists, he created in the 1980s, the first episode of Spirit of Wonder, It is a great and wonderful universe, is not it? (広くてすてきな宇宙じゃないか, Hiroku te suteki na ja nai ka Uchū ). He took the story in a competition of the manga magazine Morning and won the prize of the contest. By 1995, followed by other episodes of the Spirit of Wonder series. While most of the eleven stories in Morningside were first published, the episodes about " Miss China " between 1990 and 1995 to Afternoon magazine published. The Kodansha publishing house brought the eleven episodes in August 1997 collected out as a book.

Spirit of Wonder has been translated into several languages ​​, among other things. In German language the book was published from 2001 to 2002 when Dino Verlag. As the Spirit of Wonder appeared as a single band in Japan, said the Dino publishing the manga for the German publication in three parts. Were translated these episodes of Akiko Altmann. Glénat published Spirit of Wonder in Spain, also in three volumes. In the U.S., the manga was published by Dark Horse Comics, France by Casterman.

Films

The animation studio adapted Asiadou Spirit of Wonder as a 45 -minute anime film. This was published in June 1992 in the form of an original video animation (OVA ) directly to video. Mitsuru Hongo directed the Spirit as of Wonder: China -san no Yūutsu (ザ スピリット オブ ワンダー チャイナ さん の 憂鬱, supiritto obu Wanda: chaina -san no Yūutsu ) titled series. Later Asiadou produced under the title Spirit of Wonder: Shōnen Kagaku Club (ザ スピリット オブ ワンダー 少年 科學 倶楽部, supiritto obu Wanda - shōnen kagaku kurabu ) a sequel with four episodes. These four resulting directed by Takashi Anno episodes, we published in Japan in 2001, again as an OVA.

In 2004, Bandai Visual any consequences in the DVD boxset " Wonderbox " out, also in English. A DVD with Japanese, German and Italian synchronization was published in 2004 in Germany with Panini video. Published in Germany DVD contains four episodes of 2000.

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