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Ice Blade

Ice Blade (Japanese: 地雷震, Hepburn: Jiraishin; lit. 'Earth-Lightning-Quake') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsutomu Takahashi. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from September 1992 to November 1999, with its chapters collected in 19 tankōbon volumes. The story follows Kyoya Ida, a plainclothes police officer, and his colleagues at the Shinjuku Police Department as they investigate and solve crimes in the Greater Tokyo Area. Sometimes, these crimes are solved with some prices to pay.

Ice Blade
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Kyoya Ida
地雷震
(Jiraishin)
Genre
Manga
Written byTsutomu Takahashi
Published byKodansha
English publisher
ImprintAfternoon KC
MagazineMonthly Afternoon
English magazine
Original runSeptember 25, 1992 – November 25, 1999
Volumes19 (List of volumes)
Manga
Jiraishin Diablo
Written byTsutomu Takahashi
Published byKodansha
ImprintAfternoon KC
MagazineGood! Afternoon
Original runNovember 7, 2008 – November 7, 2011
Volumes3 (List of volumes)
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A sequel, titled Jiraishin Diablo, was serialized in Kodansha's Good! Afternoon from November 2008 to November 2011, with its chapters collected in three tankōbon volumes. It portrays Ida and his interactions with various people after his absence from the force due to an eye disease while hearing of mysterious deaths of villagers living in the fictional Amakura Island in Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture in the year 2008 while assisting a police detective in initially trying to figure out who or what was responsible for their deaths after it was reported back in 2007.

Plot

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Jiraishin: Ice Blade

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Kyoya Ida is a hard-nosed detective from the Shinjuku Police precinct, known to use lethal force to solve cases whenever they need to be solved. He works in a bleak, gritty representation of Shinjuku alongside his partner Tsuyoshi Yamaki in hunting down suspects and arresting them before he was killed in the line of duty. Ida was later assigned to another partner named Eriko Aizawa, the two working together to solve cases pertaining to the city's interests.

Jirashin Diablo

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In the year 2008, Ida was beginning to suffer from the effects of Keratoconus after leaving the police force. He later gets wind of mysterious deaths of an unknown plague that killed the villagers in Ishikawa Prefecture's Amakura Island when he meets up with Taichi Kogure, a detective of the Ishikawa Police precinct and a now grown up Aya Koike, who is a known information handler in the underworld.

Publication

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Written and illustrated by Tsutomu Takahashi, Jiraishin was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from September 25, 1992,[a] to November 25, 1999.[b][6][7] Kodansha collected its chapters in 19 tankōbon volumes, released from October 23, 1993,[2] to January 21, 2000.[4] The series was republished in a ten-volume bunkoban edition from May 9, 2003,[8] to September 12, 2003,[9] and in a ten-volume aizoban edition from February 23, 2009,[10] to November 20, 2009.[11]

The North American version of the manga, retitled Ice Blade, was serialized in Tokyopop's MixxZine magazine,[12][13] but it was discontinued after three volumes.[14] There were instances of censorship in some of its panels as MixxZine was a new magazine when it was released and thus did not wish to offend potential distributors.[15]

It was licensed in France by Génération Comics;[16] in Italy by Stars Comics;[17] in Germany by Carlsen Comics;[18] in South Korea by Samyang Comics;[19] and in Taiwan by Tong Li Comics.[20]

A sequel to Jiraishin, titled Jiraishin Diablo (地雷震 ディアブロ, Jiraishin Diaburo), was serialized in Kodansha's Good! Afternoon magazine from November 7, 2008,[1][21] to November 7, 2011.[22][23] Kodansha collected its chapters in three tankōbon volumes, released from February 5, 2010,[24] to December 7, 2011.[25]

Reception

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Serdar Yegulalp of Advanced Media Network compares Jiraishin to Miami Vice as the "blood, grit, and sin spatter so thickly that it's a miracle you don't get your fingers dirty when you turn the pages".[26]

It was nominated for the 23rd Kodansha Manga Awards in the general category in 1999.[27]

Notes

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  1. ↑ Debuted in the magazine's November 1992 issue,[2] released on September 25, 1992.[3]
  2. ↑ Finished in the magazine's January 2000 issue,[4] released on November 25, 1999.[5]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Loo, Egan (August 25, 2008). "Takahashi's Ice Blade Manga to Relaunch in Japan". Anime News Network. Retrieved January 15, 2010.
  2. 1 2 地雷震（１） (in Japanese). Kodansha. Archived from the original on March 22, 2012. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Contents". Monthly Afternoon (in Japanese). No. September 1992 issue. Kodansha. Table of contents. Archived from the original on February 26, 2026. Retrieved February 25, 2026. […] アフタヌーン11月号(9月25日発売)誌上にて。
  4. 1 2 地雷震（１９） (in Japanese). Kodansha. Archived from the original on March 22, 2012. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Contents". Monthly Afternoon (in Japanese). No. November 1999 issue. Kodansha. Table of contents. Archived from the original on February 26, 2026. Retrieved February 26, 2026. […] アフタヌーン1月号(11月25日発売)誌上にて。
  6. ↑ Takahashi, Tsutomu. Works – 地雷震. Tsutomu Takahashi Official Website (in Japanese). Archived from the original on September 8, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh #14 – When The Angel Of Death Carries A Badge". Bleeding Cool. August 31, 2009. Retrieved January 15, 2010.
  8. ↑ 地雷震（１） - 漫画文庫 (in Japanese). Kodansha. Archived from the original on March 22, 2012. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  9. ↑ 地雷震（１０） - 漫画文庫 (in Japanese). Kodansha. Archived from the original on March 22, 2012. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  10. ↑ 新装版 地雷震（１） (in Japanese). Kodansha. Archived from the original on March 22, 2012. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  11. ↑ 新装版 地雷震（１０） (in Japanese). Kodansha. Archived from the original on March 22, 2012. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  12. ↑ Roderick "Agitator" Lee. "mixxzine". EX. Archived from the original on February 4, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2010.
  13. ↑ Adam "OMEGA" Arnold. "Full Circle: The Unofficial History of MixxZine". Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  14. ↑ "TOKYOPOP Inc. Out of Print Titles". Tokyopop. Archived from the original on January 26, 2006. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  15. ↑ "About Jiraishin". Retrieved January 15, 2010.
  16. ↑ "JIRAISHIN" (in French). October 14, 2004. Archived from the original on March 19, 2009. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  17. ↑ "Jiraishin" (in Italian). Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  18. ↑ "Jiraishin" (in German). Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  19. ↑ "地雷震-JIRAISHIN (지뢰진-소장본)" (in Korean). Archived from the original on August 10, 2011. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  20. ↑ 地雷震 1 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on September 28, 2011. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  21. ↑ ｇｏｏｄ！アフタヌーン　初号. JBook (in Japanese). Archived from the original on November 15, 2008. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
  22. ↑ Fin de Jiraishin Diablo. manga-news.com (in French). September 23, 2011. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
  23. ↑ 「地雷震 ディアブロ」完結、掲載誌には気になる予告も. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. November 7, 2011. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
  24. ↑ 【2月5日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. February 5, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
  25. ↑ 【12月7日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. December 7, 2011. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
  26. ↑ Yegulalp, Serdar. "What You're Missing, April 2008: Jiraishin". Advanced Media Network.
  27. ↑ "Kodansha Manga Award". Archived from the original on January 23, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
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