Ichi the Killer (manga)

Ichi the Killer
First tankōbon volume cover
殺し屋1
(Koroshiya Ichi)
Genre
Manga
Ichi
Written byHideo Yamamoto
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
MagazineWeekly Young Sunday
DemographicSeinen
Published1993
Volumes1
Manga
Written byHideo Yamamoto
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
  • NA: Seven Seas Entertainment
MagazineWeekly Young Sunday
DemographicSeinen
Original run19982001
Volumes10 (List of volumes)
Original video animation
Ichi the Killer: Episode 0
Directed byShinji Ishihira
Produced byYoshinori Chiba
Written bySakichi Sato
Music byYui Takase
StudioAIC
Licensed by
ReleasedSeptember 27, 2002
Runtime50 minutes
Live action films

Ichi the Killer (Japanese: 殺し屋1, Hepburn: Koroshiya Ichi) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideo Yamamoto. A first series, titled Ichi, was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday in 1993; Ichi the Killer was serialized in the same magazine from 1998 to 2001, with its chapters collected in ten tankōbon volumes. The series revolves around Ichi, a psychologically troubled killing machine, and his confrontation with the yakuza of Kabukichō, Shinjuku.

In 2001, the manga was adapted into a live-action film directed by Takashi Miike. A second live-action film, 1-Ichi, directed by Masahito Tanno, was released in Japan in 2003. A prequel original video animation (OVA), titled Ichi the Killer: Episode 0, animated by AIC, was released in Japan in 2002. The OVA was licensed in North America by Central Park Media and in Australia and New Zealand by Siren Visual.

  1. ^ 山本英夫「殺し屋1」Tシャツ登場、デザインは泣き顔のイチと笑顔の垣原. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. October 5, 2016. Archived from the original on April 19, 2021. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Siren was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Garrity, Shaenon (June 11, 2015). "Five Amazing Untranslated Manga - House of 1000 Manga". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on November 17, 2021. Retrieved January 24, 2022. Hideo Yamamoto is best known for Ichi the Killer, the famously effed-up yakuza manga that inspired the famously effed-up movie