Zipang (manga)

Zipang
Cover of volume 43 of the manga Zipang by Kaiji Kawaguchi, as published by Kodansha
ジパング
(Jipangu)
Genre
Manga
Written byKaiji Kawaguchi
Published byKodansha
MagazineMorning
DemographicSeinen
Original runJuly 2000November 2009
Volumes43
Anime television series
Directed byKazuhiro Furuhashi
Written by
  • Kazuhiro Furuhashi
  • Yuichiro Takeda
Music byToshihiko Sahashi
StudioStudio Deen
Licensed by
Original networkTBS
Original run October 7, 2004 March 31, 2005
Episodes26 (List of episodes)
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Zipang (Japanese: ジパング, Hepburn: Jipangu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kaiji Kawaguchi. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning from 2000 to 2009, with its chapters collected in forty-three tankōbon volumes. It tells the story of the members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force who are transported back in time more than 60 years to 1942.

A twenty-six episode anime television series by Studio Deen and directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi was broadcast on TBS from 2004 to 2006. It was licensed for English release in North America by Geneon Entertainment.

In 2002, Zipang won the 26th Kodansha Manga Award for the general category.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Zipang-End-ANN was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Martin, Theron (January 26, 2007). "Zipang DVD 2 - Review". Anime News Network. Retrieved April 24, 2022.