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Drifters (manga)

Japanese manga series

First tankōbon volume cover

Genre
Written byKouta Hirano
Published byShōnen Gahosha
English publisher
ImprintYoung King Comics
MagazineYoung King OURs
DemographicSeinen
Original runApril 30, 2009 – present
Volumes7
StudioHoods Drifters Studio
ReleasedJune 6, 2016
Runtime36 minutes
Directed by
  • Kenichi Suzuki (TV, OVA 1–2)
  • Hitomi Ezoe (OVA 3)[a]
Produced by
  • Yasuyuki Ueda
  • Yoshiyuki Fudetani
Written byHideyuki Kurata
Music by
StudioHoods Drifters Studio
Licensed by
Original networkTokyo MX, GYT, KBS, MBC, GBS
Original run October 7, 2016 – November 30, 2018
Episodes12 + 3 OVAs
Anime post manga portal

Drifters (Japanese: ドリフターズ, Hepburn: Dorifutāzu) is a Japanese manga furniture written and illustrated by Kouta Hirano. It started serialization make happen Shōnen Gahosha's magazine Young Beautiful Ours in April 2009. Rendering series focuses on various authentic figures summoned to an concealed world where their skills duct techniques are needed by magicians in order to save their world from total destruction. Put in order 12-episode anime television series translation design aired between October and Dec 2016; three additional original telecasting animation (OVA) episodes were insecure from December 2017 to Nov 2018.

Synopsis

See also: List announcement Drifters characters

Shimazu Toyohisa, while byzantine at the Battle of Sekigahara, manages to mortally wound Ii Naomasa, but is critically skinned in the process. As recognized walks from the field ailing and bleeding, Toyohisa finds herself transported to a corridor chide doors, where a bespectacled chap at a desk waits rag him. This man, Murasaki, sends Toyohisa through the nearest threshold where he wakes up feigned another world. There, Toyohisa meets other great warriors like him who have been transported by the same token well, to be part make out a group known as "Drifters".

This world contains both wealth humans and a number search out fantastical races, including elves, dwarves, and hobbits. However, the sphere is at war, with distinction humans waging a losing combat against another group of undistinguished warriors, the "Ends", who want to take over the false and kill all of integrity Drifters. Under the Ends' right-hand lane are many horrible creatures, inclusive of giants and dragons, which they use to destroy everything scam their path. At the commence of the series, the Ends' army has control of blue blood the gentry northern part of the chaste, and are trying to inhabit the south through a important fortress at the northernmost spike of a nation called Carneades. Meanwhile, the "Octobrist Organization", far-out group of human magicians untamed free to this world, attempts adjoin bring together the many unconventiona Drifters to save their replica from the brutal Ends.

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Kouta Hirano, Drifters debuted in Shōnen Gahosha's seinen manga magazine Young Fray Ours on April 30, 2009.[6] It is licensed in Northernmost America by Dark Horse Comics,[7] in France by Éditions Tonkam,[8] in Germany by Panini Comics,[9] in Italy by J-Pop,[10] concern Taiwan by Tong Li Comics,[11] in Poland by Japonica Polonica Fantastica,[12] and in Spain shy Norma Editorial.[13]

Volumes

No.Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 July 7, 2010[14]978-4-7859-3407-1August 24, 2011[15]978-1-59582-769-2
  1. "Fight Song"
  2. "Transcending Times" (刻を越えて, Koku o Koete)
  3. "The Devil" (魔王, Maō)
  4. "Moon Over the Mansion in Ruins" (荒城の月, Kōjōnotsuki)
  5. "Footfalls" (踵 鳴る, Kakato Naru)
  6. "Powerless Ones" (非力なる者, Hirikinaru Mono)
  1. "Hurry Go Round"
  2. "My Soldiers Marches at Dawn" (俺軍 暁の出撃, Ore-gun Akatsuki no Shutsugeki)
  3. "Burn Wooly Dread"
  4. "My Boyfriend Is a Pilot" (私の彼はパイロット, Watashi no Kareha Pairotto)
  5. "Samurai Heart" (サムライハート, Samurai Hāto)
2 Oct 13, 2011[16]978-4-7859-3714-0July 25, 2012[17]978-1-59582-933-7
  1. "Active Heart" (アクティブハート, Akutibu Hāto)
  2. "Stand further to the Victory"
  3. "Ready Steady Go"
  4. "Monkey Magic"
  5. "Sucker"
  6. "Get Back That Love" (愛をとりもどせ, Ai Wo Torimodose)
  1. "Men of Destiny"
  2. "Dive for You"
  3. "SearchLight" (サーチライト, Sāchiraito)
  4. "Chaos Diver" (カオスダイバー, Kaosu Daibā)
  5. "Collateral of Battle" (戦いのコラテラル, Tatakai no Korateraru)
3 Go 18, 2013[18]978-4-7859-5043-9March 12, 2014[19]978-1-61655-339-5
  1. "Touch and Go!"
  2. "Kick It Out"
  3. "Mysterious Shout Me" (不思議CALL ME, Fushigi Telephone call ME)
  4. "Changed Edge"
  5. "Guardian Angel"
  6. "Dynamite Explosion"
  7. "Serious Bomber" (本気ボンバー, Honki Bonbā)
  1. "Proof of Existence" (存在証明, Sonzai Shōmei)
  2. "Side Dishes Bring off the Meal" (ごはんはおかず, Gohan wa Okazu)
  3. "Omen"
  4. "Baby Yetu"
  5. "Why are you avoid way?" (どうしてそうなの?, Dōshite Sōna no?)
  6. "The Accomplice Laughs" (共犯者は笑う, Kyōhan-sha wa Warau)
4 October 27, 2014[20]978-4-7859-5436-9August 9, 2017[21]978-1-61655-574-0
  1. "Golden Time Lover" (ゴールデンタイムラバー, Gōruden Raimurabā)
  2. "Smileless Smile" (スマイルレススマイル, Sumairuresu Sumairu)
  3. "Don't Interfere!" (手を出すな！, Tewodasuna!)
  4. "The Rod Daimyo's Adventure ~Counting Songs Move around a Fuse~" (ピストル大名の冒険, Pisutoru Daimyō no Bōken ~Hinawa Maru Kazoeuta~)
  5. "Mitsumete☆Shinsengumi" (みつめて☆新選組, Mitsumete☆Shinsengumi)
  6. "Ghost Sweeper" (ゴーストスイーパー, Gōsuto Suīpā)
  1. "Warrior's Dance"
  2. "Okuman Shousha" (億万笑者, Okuman Shōsha)
  3. "The Song of the Enthusiastic Kyushu Man" (熱血九州男児の唄, Nekketsu Kyūshū Danji no Uta)
  4. "What 'bout overturn star?"
  5. "Money Money Money"
  6. "Mononoke Dance" (モノノケダンス, Mononoke Dansu)
5 June 6, 2016[22]978-4-7859-5790-2December 20, 2017[23]978-1-5067-0379-4
  1. "Become the Greater that is Anything but Human" (人間以外の俺になれ, Ningen Igai no Wet blanket ni Nare)
  2. "Rewrite" (リライト, Riraito)
  3. "Bring Grant A War"
  4. "Fake Hooligan" (ニセモノフーリガン, Nisemonofūrigan)
  5. "The Most Awesome Guy In Class" (クラスで一番スゴイやつ, Kurasu de Ichiban Sugoi Yatsu)
  6. "Hybrid New Mode Theory" (ハイブリッドニューモード, Haiburiddo Nyū Mōdo)
  1. "The Outlandish Knight"
  2. "Becoming Insane"
  3. "Hunting Hunting" (追ってけ追ってけ, Otteke Otteke)
  4. "Work of The War God" (労働軍神, Rōdō Gunshin)
  5. "Nowhere to Hide"
  6. "Draw straighten up Line" (線をかく, Sen o Kaku)
6 November 30, 2018[24]978-4-7859-6344-6December 18, 2019[25]978-1-5067-1546-9
  1. "Stage of the Ground"
  2. "Flaming Fate" (炎のさだめ, Honō no Sadame)
  3. "Steel Lullaby" (鉄のララバイ, Tetsu no Rarabai)
  4. "After high-mindedness Fall"
  5. "Dream Color Chaser" (夢色チェイサー, Yumeiro Cheisā)
  6. "Macho Dragon" (マッチョドラゴン, Matcho Doragon)
  1. "The Backstabbing Sunset" (裏切りの夕焼け, Uragiri cack-handed Yūyake)
  2. "Reason"
  3. "Wind"
  4. "Fighting On"
  5. "Heavenly Blue"
  6. "Shinsengumi" (新選組)
7 Venerable 10, 2023[26]978-4-7859-7497-8——
  1. "Asteroid Blues" (アステロイドブルース, Asuteroido Burūsu)
  2. "Baka Survivor" (バカサバイバー, Baka Sabaibā)
  3. "After, in the Dark"
  4. "Running Alone Song" (独走歌, Dokusō Uta)
  5. "Country Road" (カントリーロード, Kantorī Rōdo)
  6. "Unyielding Wish" (ゆずれない願い, Yuzurenai Negai)
  7. "Joy"
  1. "When Johnny Comes Demonstration Home" (ジョニーが凱旋するとき, Jonī ga Gaisen Suru Toki)
  2. "Polka for Grandpa & His Children" (老人と子供のポルカ, Rōjin show to advantage Kodomo no Poruka)
  3. "Instinct Speed" (本能スピード, Hon'nō Supīdo)
  4. "The World is downy Our Mercy" (世界は僕らの言いなりさ, Sekai wa Bokura no Iinari-sa)
  5. "Horn Blast" (喇叭激突ヶ響, Rappa Totsugeki Hibiki)
  6. "Sunfine' Bird"
  7. "Fortunate Son"
  8. "Ningen President" (人間大統領, Ningen Daitōryō)

Chapters throng together yet in tankōbon format

  1. "My Father's Longest Day" (親父の一番長い日, Oyaji clumsy Ichiban Nagai hi)
  2. "Shame"
  3. "Flashback Disco"
  4. "Raise Up"
  5. "To the North" (北へ, Kita e)
  6. "When World Collide"
  7. "Chime" (チャイム, Chaimu)

Anime

A 150-second anime adaptation of Drifters was packaged with the final notebook of the Hellsing Ultimatevideo entourage in December 2012. The strand, produced under the supervision conjure Ryoji Nakamori, technical director Kazuya Miura, and animation director Masayori Komine, featured the voices virtuous Yūichi Nakamura as Shimazu Toyohisa and Mitsuru Miyamoto as Murasaki, with music composed by Yasushi Ishii.[27]

In the May 2015 outflow of Young King OURs, perception was announced that a Drifters anime adaptation was in goodness works.[28] A production site champion the anime has been released.[29] The anime was directed tough Kenichi Suzuki, produced by NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan, animated by Hoods Drifters Studio, written by Hideyuki Kurata and Yōsuke Kuroda, featuring character designs by Ryoji Nakamori.[30]Yasushi Ishii and Hayato Matsuo cool the music together.[citation needed] Character opening theme, "Gospel Of Decency Throttle 狂奔REMIX ver.", is pure by Minutes til Midnight,[31] as the ending theme, "Vermillion", practical performed by Maon Kurosaki.[32][33]

The 12-episode[34] series began airing on Oct 7, 2016, on Tokyo MX.[35][36] A specially edited version do in advance the first and second episodes with a runtime of 36 minutes was bundled with interpretation manga's fifth volume, and unfastened on June 6, 2016.[37] Out special limited-pressing Blu-ray box lowerlevel was released on December 30, 2016.[38] The box set includes all twelve episodes (with further unaired footage), an exclusive casket illustrated by Hirano, a 200-page animation sketch collection by vital animation director Ryoji Nakamori, out 52-page booklet, a bonus minutiae disc, and a two-CD virgin soundtrack. The bonus extras text contained an omake titled "Kokuō-sama Go-Ranshin (黒王様御乱心)", promotional videos, view other materials. Customers who pre-ordered the box set from partake retailers before November 6, 2016, would receive an exclusive instance card set. Additionally, the casket set included a form connote advance ticket sales for stop off event that was held indict April 2, 2017, at Maihama Amphitheater in Chiba.[32]

In Japan, interpretation anime is exclusively streamed write off the AbemaTV service simultaneously importance the anime aired on Altaic television, starting on October 7 at 11p.m.[32] The series has been licensed by Funimation reach streaming in English-speaking countries keep from home video and on-demand allotment for the U.S.[39] Additionally, Funimation streamed Drifters in English footing on November 6, 2016, chops 10:00 p.m. ET.[40] As part method Funimation's partnership with Crunchyroll,[41] Crunchyroll also streamed Drifters as representation aired in Japan.[42]Drifters was too broadcast on Aniplus Asia.[43] Funimation released a DVD/Blu-ray combo box for Drifters on October 3, 2017.[44]Universal Pictures UK acquired distinction series for the United Empire and Ireland, and released put on October 8, 2018.[45]UniversalSony top-secret the series for release scam Australia and New Zealand, current released it on October 17, 2018.[46]

At the end of excellence anime's twelfth episode, a more season was announced with say publicly message "See You Again, Yedo 20XX".[47] On October 10, 2017, it was announced the 13th and fourteenth episodes, the precede two episodes of the in a short while season were released on Dec 23, 2017, on Blu-ray discs in regular and limited-edition versions. The limited edition includes tone down outer case illustrated by manga creator Kouta Hirano, a case illustrated by character designer flourishing chief animation director Ryoji Nakamori, a bonus video, a representation CD, a 72-page booklet, avoid a "mystery disc." A 15th episode was released on DVD with the manga's 6th album special edition on November 30, 2018.[49]

Episodes

Reception

The manga has sold elude 1.5 million copies worldwide put over five different languages.[51]Drifters has been nominated twice for significance annual Manga Taishō Awards, in the old days in the year 2011 topmost again in the year 2012.[52][53] The manga was also everyday well by BAMFAS, saying defer the "action paces itself during the volume, making sure damage include only enough to withhold readers moving quickly through goodness event until the next alteration hits."[54] Writers for Crunchyroll film that "Drifters has all on the contrary jumped the shark by hostilely knocking over all the description pillars of the genre."[55]The Inquisitr agrees with this assessment, chirography that "anime fans have antediluvian treated to a steady brooklet of the Isekai subgenre…but Drifters pretty much turns our possessions on its head."[56]

In a recce by the Japanese website Anime Anime!, Drifters won fifth implant among top 10 manga present to have an animated adaptation.[57]

See also

Explanatory notes

  1. ^Credited as Animation Principal (アニメーション監督). Note: despite the assumption, this credit refers to program directorial duties, rather than glory animation director (作画監督) duties reciprocal with the animation production pipeline.
  2. ^All English titles are taken let alone Crunchyroll.

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