ジパング（１）

Zipang (ジパング) #1

by Kaiji Kawaguchi

6 Juni 200X, seluruh awak kapal Miraiyang akan menuju Ekuador demi menjalankan misi perdamaian di sana terseret kembali ke masa Perang Dunia Kedua. Seluruh awak kapal merasa heran dengan kehadiran kapal perang Yamato di Lautan Pasifik. Apakah mereka akan ikut campur dalam Pertempuran Midway tersebut dan akan mengubah sejarah atau diam saja melihat pasukan Jepang dibantai di depan mata?

Genres: Manga, Alternate History

226 pages, Paperback

Published January 23, 2001

About the author

Kaiji KAWAGUCHI (Japanese: 川口開治 or かわぐちかいじ) is a Japanese manga author whose works include Eagle and Zipang. Generally, his stories involve Japan and examine the moral choices that people make in extreme situations. He received the Kodansha Manga Award three times, for Actor in 1987, for The Silent Service in 1990, and for Zipang in 2002. He has also received the Shogakukan Manga Award, for A Spirit of the Sun in 2006 and Kūbo Ibuki in 2014.

Reviews

[Erik Jay Weber · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read up to the current chapter available through translation so far, 85, and loved the whole damn thing. Hope it gets a full English release; I'll buy every edition happily.

[Randy Pradhana · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Harold Dávila Garrido · Rating 5 out of 5]

La súper recomiendo...!!! Es uno de los mejores mangas que leí hasta la fecha ;D

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great!!! Recommended buat yang manga-addict sekaligus penggemar tema Perang Dunia Kedua.

Diceritakan dari sudut pandang tentara bela diri Jepang dari tahun 2000-an... Loh, katanya temanya Perang Dunia II?

Tenang, Saudara-saudara... tema lainnya adalah tema favorit gw yang lain: Time-Travel. Jadi kayak Back to The Future gitu, tapi rame-rame satu kapal perang. Eniwei, para pelaut malang yang kesasar ke masa lalu itu mendapati kapal mereka berada di tengah-tengah Pertempuran Midway! Lalu bagaimana? Ikutan perang atau tidak? Bagaimana caranya balik ke masa depan?

Penasaran nih... tapi nyari mangascannya belum dapet, terpaksa nunggu manganya terbit sebulan sekali (itu juga kalo Level nerbitinnya sebulan sekali). Huhuhu...

[Zephyr · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is a carbon copy of Hollywood movie "Manhattan Project" if I am not mistaken.

Basic premise of the move is a US modern ship of 199x era, due to some freak of nature, travel back in time, to the time prior to the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese. The dilema is whether the modern ship should prevent the attack, since as a soldier the crew are sworn to protect US against any enemy,foreign or domestic, regardless of what year.
Yet to do so will alter the timeline in which they do not know what the repurcussion will be.

Well in this book the premise is reversed, it's the Japanese ship that get stranded back in time, somewhere after the midway battle.

An interesting premise. Let see how the story develop from the first book.

[Mayank Agarwal · Rating 2 out of 5]

Picked up the mange knowing only 7 of the 43 volumes are English Translated, the plot seemed too interesting to miss out on.A 21st century Japanese warship transported to WW-2.I was interested in knowing what would they do, knowing the history about the inevitable use of nukes, about actually being one of the leading countries 50 years later even after losing the war.What side would they choose and in what way change the history.

What I got was quite different,the storytelling and the scenarios are silly and disappointing, instead of being a decisive force they always seem to be reacting to events created by others.

The review is based on reading the first 7 volumes.

[Sancaka · Rating 5 out of 5]

sejauh ini masih akurat. saya suka :D

[Khari · Rating 3 out of 5]

この本好きになってちょっとびっくりした。こなハードな歴史的なストーリーあまり興味ないし海軍の船や機械や設備は全然興味ないので多分嫌いだと思った。

でもアート以外は面白い！次の巻も読みたい。この巻の最後のページのセリフ「生きているということは知ることなのだ」すごく好きだった。