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Red Raven (manga)
''Red Raven'' is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinta Fujimoto. It was serialized between April 2010 and October 2013 in the magazine ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' and has been compiled into nine volumes. Synopsis Plagued by corruption and injustice, the country has fallen into the hands of the mafia. The big cities have become the theater of a war opposing two mafia currents: the first, traditional, tries to restore stability in its districts and to protect the inhabitants while the second, new, uses "force" only in their own interests. Hoping to suppress this escalation of violence, the government set up a special organization, Red Raven. The latter aims to uphold the law by methods ... not always orthodox. In order to apply their death sentences, they employ extraordinary fighters, reputed to be ruthless. But at the heart of the conflict, a mysterious group, called the White Mafia, feeds the traffic in dangerous and illegal weapons called ''Sccaggs'' to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Square Enix
is a Japanese multinational holding company, production enterprise and entertainment conglomerate, best known for its ''Final Fantasy'', ''Dragon Quest'', ''Star Ocean'' and ''Kingdom Hearts'' role-playing video game franchises, among numerous others. Outside of video game publishing and development, it is also in the business of merchandise, arcade facilities, and manga publication under its Gangan Comics brand. The original Square Enix Co., Ltd. was formed in April 2003 from a merger between Square and Enix, with the latter as the surviving company. Each share of Square's common stock was exchanged for 0.85 shares of Enix's common stock. At the time, 80% of Square Enix staff were made up of former Square employees. As part of the merger, former Square president Yoichi Wada was appointed the president of the new corporation, while former Enix president Keiji Honda was named vice president. Yasuhiro Fukushima, the largest shareholder of the combined corporation and founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōnen Manga
is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent boys. It is, along with manga (targeting adolescent girls and young women), manga (targeting young adult and adult men), and manga (targeting adult women), one of the primary editorial categories of manga. manga is traditionally published in dedicated manga magazines that exclusively target the demographic group. Of the four primary demographic categories of manga, is the most popular category in the Japanese market. While manga ostensibly targets an audience of young males, its actual readership extends significantly beyond this target group to include all ages and genders. The category originated from Japanese children's magazines at the turn of the 20th century and gained significant popularity by the 1920s. The editorial focus of manga is primarily on action, adventure, and the fighting of monsters or other forces of evil. Though action narratives dominate the category, there is d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monthly Shōnen Gangan
is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company re-branded as Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese market. Its anthologies are home to some popular Square Enix manga series which were adapted into anime series, like ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', '' Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit'', ''Nabari no Ou'', ''Inu x Boku SS'', ''The Case Study of Vanitas'' and '' Soul Eater''. The comics are later collected in paperback volumes under brand names such as , and , which identify the anthology of serialisation. These paperback brand names are formed by omitting any or in the magazine name and inserting directly after the word ''Gangan''. Anthologies ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' (since 1991) is a monthly manga anthology that regularly has over 600 pages. ''Shōnen Gangan'' was launched by Enix (now Square Enix) in 1991, to compete with other magaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in the country. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ('' hentai'' and '' ecchi''), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kana (publisher)
Kana is a French publisher affiliated with Les Éditions Dargaud. ''Kana'' was founded in 1996 by Yves Schlirf. The company publishes manga in French and used to publish in Dutch. Its headquarters are in the Dargaud offices in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. Titles *''A Chinese Life'' (''Une vie chinoise'') * ''Absolute Boyfriend'' * ''Angel Nest'' * ''Bakuman'' * ''Black Butler'' * ''Case Closed'' * ''Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction'' * ''Doraemon'' * '' GE – Good Ending'' * '' Goodnight Punpun'' * ''Harlock Saga'' * ''Honey and Clover'' * ''Hunter × Hunter'' * ''I Am a Hero'' *''In Clothes Called Fat'' * '' Me and the Devil Blues'' * ''Monster'' * '' Mushishi'' *'' No. 5'' * ''Piece – Kanojo no Kioku'' * ''Pluto'' * ''Psychometrer Eiji'' * '' The Rose of Versailles'' * '' Saint Seiya: Time Odyssey'' * '' Saturn Apartments'' * ''Sgt. Frog'' * '' Shaman King'' * ''Si loin et si proche'' * '' Snow White with the Red Hair'' * '' Solanin'' * '' The Summit of the Gods'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Mount Death Play
is a Japanese manga series written by Ryohgo Narita and illustrated by Shinta Fujimoto. It began serialization in Square Enix's ''Young Gangan'' in October 2017. As of April 2023, the series' individual chapters have been collected into eleven volumes. An anime television series adaptation produced by Geek Toys premiered, with the first cour aired from April to June 2023, and the second cour premiered in October 2023. Plot In another world, a hero named Sir Shagrua Edith Lugrid is about to finish off a powerful necromancer known as the Corpse God. However, the Corpse God uses a unique magic skill to reincarnate themself into another world, and ends up in modern-day Shinjuku, in the body of a boy named Polka Shinoyama who has just had his throat slit by an assassin. Thinking that this new world could provide the peaceful life he desired in the last one, the Corpse God takes on Polka's identity, and soon ingratiates himself with the Shinjuku underworld under a woman named Clar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
