- Megumi (manga)
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Megumi めぐみ Genre Drama, Biography, Historical, Crime Manga Written by Souichi Moto
Sakie Yokota
Shigeru YokotaPublished by Futabasha Magazine Weekly Manga Action Original run December 2004 – July 2005 Volumes 2 Original net animation Directed by Hidetoshi Omori Written by Hideki Mitsui Studio Trans Arts Released 2008 Related works Megumi (めぐみ) is a manga about Megumi Yokota, a Japanese girl who was abducted when she was 13 years old by North Korean spies in 1977. The manga concept was conceived by her mother and father and was penned by Souichi Moto under their supervision.
Contents
Plot
The manga follows Megumi's final days in her home town before her abduction.
Anime
As of 2008 the Government of Japan announced an Anime adaptation will be created from the manga. The series is dubbed in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, English, Russian. In addition there are Japanese dubbed versions with subtitles in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The Government authorized a free downloadable version from online, as well as a DVD release. The anime consists of nine episodes at 30 minutes each.[1][2]
Cast
All Japanese casts were asked by Kōichi Yamadera for participation through the Japan Actors Union (Nippairen). Yamadera said, "The abduction is an act of disregarding human rights, not accepted. We, Japanese people should emphasize our anger."[3]
Character Voice Actor Japanese English Chinese Korean Megumi Yokota Minami Takayama Soness Stevens Li Liang Jin Dal-rae Shigeru Yokota Kōichi Yamadera Walter Roberts Qi Zhongling Park Kyong-wan Sakie Yokota Rika Fukami Sally Koshinaka Piao Zhenlin Lee Mi-sung Takuya Yokota (boy) Megumi Tano Stacy Powell Li Xiangning Kim Eui-jung Takuya Yokota (adult) Bin Shimada David Shufle Wang Wanzhou Cheon Kui-uk Colleague Shin-ichiro Miki David Shufle Chang Yuxing Chang Sung-hee Nurse Yumiko Akaike Stacy Powell Clerk Masahito Kawanago David Shufle Administration official Aruno Tahara David Shufle Tsubo Junko Shimakata Stacy Powell Narrator Michio Hazama Walter Roberts See also
- Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
- North Korean abductions of Japanese
References
- ^ "Megumi Manga about Girl Abducted by N. Korea Gets Anime". Anime News Network. March 19, 2009. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-03-19/megumi-manga-about-girl-abducted-by-n-korea-gets-anime.
- ^ MEGUMI(Japanese animation film). Abductions of Japanese Citizens by North Korea. Retrieved on May 31, 2009.
- ^ "山寺宏一「めぐみ」のアニメ完成披露会見". Daily Sports. 2008-03-29. Archived from the original on 2008-03-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20080330172355/http://www.daily.co.jp/gossip/2008/03/29/0000895244.shtml. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
External links
Categories:- Manga series
- Anime ONAs
- Anime of 2008
- Manga of 2004
- North Korean abductions of Japanese
- Japanese documentary films
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