The World Is Mine (manga)

The World Is Mine (Japanese: ザ・ワールド・イズ・マイン, Hepburn: Za Wārudo izu Main) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideki Arai. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from 1997 to 2001, with its chapters collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes.

The World Is Mine
First tankōbon volume cover
ザ・ワールド・イズ・マイン
(Za Wārudo izu Main)
Manga
Written byHideki Arai
Published byShogakukan
MagazineWeekly Young Sunday
DemographicSeinen
Original run1997 – 2001
Volumes14

Publication

Written and illustrated by Hideki Arai, The World Is Mine was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from 1997 to 2001.[1][2] Shogakukan collected its chapters in fourteen tankōbon volumes, released from June 5, 1997, to May 1, 2001.[3] Enterbrain republished the manga in a five-volume revised edition, "Shinsetsu The World Is Mine" (真説 ザ・ワールド・イズ・マイン), from August 31 to October 25, 2006.[4][5]

The manga was licensed in France by Casterman and published under their Sakka imprint.[6][7]

Reception

The manga was a finalist for the fourth and sixth installments of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2000 and 2002, respectively.[8][9][10]

Tomo Machiyama of Pulp included the series on the "Most Hellish (Untranslated) Manga....ever!!!" list. Machiyama described the series as "A Clockwork Orange meets Natural Born Killers". Machiyama said that the story "sounds really stupid and meaningless", but that it is "meticulously rendered in detailed super-realism", highlighting its art. Machiyama concluded: "To get through this comic is a challenge to your humanity."[11]

Legacy

Manga author Tatsuki Fujimoto commented the influence that Arai's The World Is Mine and Kiichi!! had on his manga series Fire Punch.[12] Film director Tetsuya Mariko said that the manga influenced him for the 2016 film Destruction Babies.[13]

References
  1. ヤングサンデー連載作品年表. Weekly Young Sunday (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on January 18, 2006. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  2. ヤングサンデー　２００１年１５号. s-book.com (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on April 20, 2001. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  3. THE WORLD IS MINE 14件中1～14件. s-book.com (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on November 23, 2004. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  4. 真説 ザ・ワールド・イズ・マイン 1巻 (in Japanese). Enterbrain. Archived from the original on November 6, 2008. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  5. 真説 ザ・ワールド・イズ・マイン 6巻 (in Japanese). Enterbrain. Archived from the original on November 10, 2006. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  6. "The World is mine (Tome 1)" (in French). Casterman. Archived from the original on June 25, 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  7. "The World is mine (Tome 14)" (in French). Casterman. Archived from the original on June 25, 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  8. Hahn, Joel. "2000 (4th) Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prizes". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  9. Hahn, Joel. "2002 (6th) Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prizes". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  10. 第６回手塚治虫文化賞 選考委員のコメント集. asahi.com (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on September 15, 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  11. Machiyama, Tomo (August 2002). "The Most Hellish (Untranslated) Manga....ever!!! (Maybe)". Pulp. Viz Media. Archived from the original on October 2, 2002. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  12. 【インタビュー】藤本タツキ『ファイアパンチ』ネットでも話題騒然になった第1話・衝撃的なネームを超特別公開!!. Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (in Japanese). Takarajimasha. June 9, 2017. Archived from the original on October 19, 2021. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  13. Kotzathanasis, Panos (September 9, 2020). "Interview with Tetsuya Mariko: Sometimes you Find Yourself in a Position that you Have to Use Violence". Asian Movie Plus (in Japanese). Archived from the original on January 11, 2022. Retrieved January 11, 2022.

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