BakéGyamon
| BakéGyamon | |
 Cover of the fifth manga volume | |
| 妖逆門 | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Adventure,[1] fantasy[2] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Mitsuhisa Tamura |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Shōnen Sunday Comics |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | March 1, 2006 – March 20, 2007 |
| Volumes | 5 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Negishi |
| Written by | Kazuho Hyodo |
| Music by | Kazunori Miyake |
| Studio | Radix Ace Entertainment |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | April 3, 2006 – March 26, 2007 |
| Episodes | 51 |
BakéGyamon (妖逆門) is a Japanese manga and anime series. Kazuhiro Fujita created the original concept and Mitsuhisa Tamura wrote and illustrated the manga. The series ran in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 2006 vol. 13 through 2007 vol. 16 and was collected in five volumes. The anime series, directed by Hiroshi Negishi, was animated at Radix Ace Entertainment and aired from April 3, 2006 to March 26, 2007 for 51 episodes.
Viz Media published it in English in the United States as BakéGyamon: Backwards Game.[3] Chuang Yi published the manga in English in Singapore as Bakegyamon.[4] In France Sakka published the manga.[5] The anime aired on TV Tokyo. It also aired on Cartoon Network in Taiwan and on Hero in the Philippines.
The series stars Sanshiro Tamon (多聞 三志郎, Tamon Sanshirō), a boy in Gyakunippon. And a man named Fue (不壊) invites Sanshiro to play the Bakegyamon game.
Sanshiro's chances of having an adventure are slim to none in his tiny island hometown, until the day a mysterious stranger invites him to play a game... Without warning, Sanshiro is taken to a backwards universe to play BakéGyamon—a game pitting monsters against monsters. Along the way he meets other players who have a particular reason for being there—to obtain the wish that is granted to the winner. But how far can Sanshiro get when the monsters he's been paired with are a bunch of little mud balls?
As the series concept was created by Kazuhiro Fujita, and contains a number of monsters from his popular manga series Ushio and Tora.
Video game
A Nintendo DS 3D fighting game was published by Takara Tomy on March 1, 2007 in Japan.[6]
References
- ^ "The Official Website for BakéGyamon". Viz Media. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
- ^ 妖逆門（話）. Sunday Web Every (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on January 1, 2019. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- ^ "BakéGyamon." Viz Media. Retrieved on November 2, 2009.
- ^ National Library Board, Singapore. "Bakegyamon. 2 / story & art by Tamura Mitsuhisa ; original concept, Fujita Kazuhiro". nlb.gov.sg. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
- ^ "Sakka official page". Sakka. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
- ^ 妖逆門 アヤカシ・ファイティング (in Japanese). Nintendo. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
External links
- Official TV Tokyo website (in Japanese)
- BakéGyamon at IMDb
- Aeschliman, Lesley (Blogcritics.com). "Manga Review: Bakegyamon Volume Five by Mitsuhisa Tamura". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Monday, January 16, 2012.
- BakéGyamon (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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