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Ajin: Demi-Human (Japanese: 亜人Hepburn: Ajin) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gamon Sakurai. It was adapted into an 3D animated film trilogy by Polygon Pictures between November 2015 and September 2016. An anime television series adaptation also by Polygon Pictures aired between January and April 2016, with a second season premiering on October 8, 2016. A live-action film adaptation was released on September 30, 2017.

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Plot[edit]

Ajin: Demi-human presents the story of a student named Kei Nagai (永井 圭Nagai Kei), who discovers he is an 'Ajin' when he is fatally wounded in a traffic accident. In the world of Ajin, a small number of humans (termed 'Ajin') possess extreme regenerative abilities that trigger upon death or mortal injury, allowing them to completely recover from their wounds in a matter of seconds to such an exceptional extent that missing limbs can be restored and Ajin can regenerate from being turned into literal meat patties. Additionally, Ajin can create 'black ghosts', which are highly dangerous combat-oriented entities that are invisible to normal humans and only visible to other Ajin. 'Black ghosts' are resistant to physical injury and exhibit extraordinary physical strength, and have razor-sharp teeth and claws. Different 'black ghosts' have varying degrees of intelligence. For example, most 'black ghosts' are completely reliant on their Ajin for directions, and others, such as that of Kei's, are more independent and likely to engage in self-initiated actions.

Consequently, Ajin are considered dangerous and inhuman by the public, and most are captured by governments. On paper, governments claim to protect Ajin, but in reality, most governments use them as subjects for cruel and inhumane experiments, as their abilities to completely recover from fatal wounds provides an unlimited source of organs and bodies in dangerous tests (such as live-fire weapons testing). As a result, Ajin that have escaped from government custody (such as Satou, the main antagonist) are bent on exacting revenge from governments – with the exception of Kei, who wants no part in the emerging Ajin-human conflict. However, in an agreement with Japanese governmental agents, Kei agrees to fight against Satou in exchange for his freedom from government experimentation.

Characters[edit]

The plot introduces the Ajin universe quite well and it explains it decently. However, the movie did what most of the live action movies based on manga-anime do: try to fit in too many elements in a few hours length movie and, in the end, the story feels flat. There wasn't time for the characters to develop or be presented in depth.

Kei's Group[edit]

Kei Nagai (永井 圭Nagai Kei)

Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano^[7] (Japanese); Johnny Yong Bosch (English)

Played by: Takeru Satoh

The protagonist who first discovers that he is an Ajin after being killed in a traffic accident. To his peers, he appears to be a normal and carefree student, but in reality he is emotionally detached from other people and often willing to endanger the lives of other people in order for him to accomplish his own goals. He differs from most Ajin as he has the ability to create an abnormally large amount of IBM (Invisible Black Matter, which is key to an Ajin's regeneration and ability to create 'black ghosts'), allowing Kei to manifest more 'black ghosts' than his Ajin peers. According to Ikuya, he is implied to have manifested his Ajin-realed abilities at a very young age.

Kaito (海斗)

Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya^[7] (Japanese); Bryce Papenbrook (English)

A close friend of Kei who helps him to escape from the police. He was later sent to prison for assisting in Kei's escape and later befriends Takeshi, another Ajin, allowing Kaito to escape imprisonment.

Kō Nakano (中野 攻Nakano Kou)

Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese); Griffin Burns (English)

Kō is an Ajin and a partner of Kei with the intention to stop Satō, as Satō's plans for the creation of an Ajin-led government will lead to the loss of many human lives. Unlike Kei, who is indifferent and cold to others, Kō values friendship and is willing to put the safety of others above his own. He is also physically fitter than Kei, but lacks Kei's intellectual capabilities, often relying on Kei for planning in combat operations, with him acting as the 'muscle' of the operation. Kō has the rapid regenerative abilities common to Ajin, but lacks the ability to manifest his own 'black ghost'.

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare[edit]

Yū Tosaki (戸崎 優Tosaki Yuu)

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai^[7] (Japanese); Todd Haberkorn (English)

Played by: Tetsuji Tamayama

Yū is the head of Ajin Research under the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and has a comatose girlfriend, Ai. He is protected by an Ajin bodyguard named Izumi Shimomura. He agrees to let Kei work with him to stop Satō on the condition that Kei is allowed to live a normal life afterwards.

Izumi Shimomura (下村 泉Shimomura Izumi) / Yōko Tainaka (田井中 陽子Tainaka Youko)

Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu^[7] (Japanese); Cristina Vee (English)

Played by: Rina Kawaei

Izumi is a stoic and taciturn Ajin working for Yū Tosaki at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Izumi's birth name is Yōko Tainaka. As Yōko, she first discovered her Ajin abilities in her teenage years, when she first died after defending herself from a rape attempt of an abusive stepfather. Yōko would run away from home, where she is eventually recruited by Yū as a bodyguard under a special contract. The contract allowed Yōko to adopt the alias of 'Izumi Shinomura', such that 'Yōko Tainaka' is legally deceased and that 'Izumi Shimomura' is a separate identity. She affectionately refers to her “black ghost” as “Kuro”.

Sokabe (曽我部)

Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura^[7] (Japanese); Martin Billany (English)

Yū's junior at the Ministry who was also assigned to supervise Yū. After Yū decides to defy orders from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Sokabe was appointed as his successor.

Ajin[edit]

Satō (佐藤Satou) / Samuel T. Owen (サミュエル・T・オーウェンSamyueru. T. Ouwen)

Voiced by: Hōchū Ōtsuka^[7] (Japanese); Pete Sepenuk (English)

Played by: Gō Ayano

The leader of the pro-Ajin movement, also known as Hat (帽子Boushi) due to his signature deerstalker hat, Satō is a calm and collected individual who is well-known within the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as the most dangerous Ajin. Despite his appearance as a genial old man who enjoys video gaming, he is in reality a sinister, calculating tactician with combat experience as a former special-operations soldier in the USMC.^[8] Satō originally claims that he wishes to protest against the mistreatment of Ajins worldwide, but it is later revealed that he uses this claim as an excuse to gather an army of Ajin under his command to create an immortal army to rule Japan and simply for the sake of violence and destruction. He is frequently described as a 'player' in the latter half of the anime, as he is prone to using strategies adapted from video games to carry out assassinations of famous politicians in order to force negotiations with the government for allowing rights of Ajins. He enjoys the use of violence against anybody (human or Ajin) who attempts to disrupt his plans and is especially irked by provocation.

Kōji Tanaka (田中 功次Tanaka Kouji)

Voiced by: Daisuke Hirakawa^[7] (Japanese); Keith Silverstein (English)

Played by: Yu Shirota

He is the second Ajin to be discovered in Japan. He was rescued by Satō from brutal experimentation and joins in with his pro-Ajin movement against the Japanese government.

Masumi Okuyama (奥山 真澄Okuyama Masumi)

Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino (Japanese); Lucien Dodge (English)

Played by: Yudai Chiba

Masumi is one of the few Ajins who accepts Satō's invitation to use genocide to fight for Ajins' rights. He is a skilled hacker knowledgeable in weaponry and machines. In the anime, he eventually betrays Satō and reaches out to Kei in order to defeat him.

Takeshi Kotobuki (琴吹 武Kotobuki Takeshi)

Voiced by: Sōma Saitō

A prisoner who had escaped from jail after seeing Sato's announcement to protest for Ajins' rights. Takeshi becomes Kaito's partner after Kaito helped him when he was bullied by the other prisoners wanting to know how he had escaped from jail. His IBM is shown to have wings, which was his means of escape from prison. After he and Kai reconcile he promises to let Kai use his IBM to escape prison if, for whatever reason, he wishes to escape in order to assist Kei. In the anime, Takeshi uses his IBM to bring himself as well as Kai to Eriko's hospital in order to save both her and Kei from the riots occurring there.

Others[edit]

Eriko Nagai (永井 慧理子Nagai Eriko)

Voiced by: Aya Suzaki^[7]

Played by: Minami Hamabe

Kei’s sister who seems to suffer from a terminal illness and is hospitalized throughout most of the series.

Ikuya Ogura (オグラ・イクヤOgura Ikuya)

Voiced by: Hiroyuki Kinoshita^[7] (Japanese); Kyle McCarley (English)

He is a researcher who studied Ajins in the United States and has a great deal of knowledge about them.

Publication[edit]

The series began publication in Kodansha's magazine Good! Afternoon in 2012.^[9] Initially, it was written by Tsuina Miura; however, his name is not mentioned in the credits after the first volume, and Gamon Sakurai has been creating the manga himself since.^[10]

In February 2014, Vertical announced that it had licensed the series for English release.^[9] On March 15, 2014, Crunchyroll began to release the series on their manga service under the title Ajin: Demi-Human, starting with the first two chapters.^[11]

Volume list[edit]

Chapters not yet in tankōbon format[edit]

63. 'Strike Back'

64. 'Him'

65. 'The Showdown Comes'

66. 'Dead Heat'

66.5. 'Dead Heat 2'

67. 'Victory'

Media[edit]

Film[edit]

Plans to adapt the series into an anime film trilogy were announced in June 2015.^[38] The films were directed by Hiroaki Andō and written by Hiroshi Seko, with animation by Polygon Pictures.^[39] The first film, titled Ajin: Shōdō (Ajin: Impulse),^[7] debuted in Japan on November 27, 2015.^[40] This film is a compilation of the first six episodes of the TV series. The second film, titled Ajin: Shōtotsu (Ajin: Collision), debuted in Japan on May 6, 2016, and the third and final film in the trilogy, titled Ajin: Shōgeki (Ajin: Clash), was released on September 23, 2016.^[41]

Anime[edit]

A television series that follows the anime films premiered on January 16, 2016.^[a][42] It is produced by the staff that produced the film trilogy.^[43][42] It aired on MBS, TBS, CBC and BS-TBS,^[43] with 13 episodes.^[44] The series was streamed by Netflix,^[43] starting on April 12, 2016, along with English, French, Spanish, German and Brazilian Portuguese dubs.^[45] The series is licensed by Sentai Filmworks for home video release in North America.^[46] An OAD was bundled with the manga's 8th limited edition volume, which was released on May 6, 2016.^[47] A second OAD was bundled with manga's 9th limited edition volume, which was released on October 7, 2016.^[48] A third OAD was bundled with manga's 10th limited edition volume, which was released on April 7, 2017.^[49] A second season premiered on October 8, 2016 and continued the original numbering sequence.^[50][51] The second season premiered on Netflix on December 27, 2016.^[52]

Live-action film[edit]

The production of a live-action film was announced in November 2016,^[53] with release on September 30, 2017. The director is Katsuyuki Motohiro, with Takeru Satoh in the lead role. The action scenes were planned by the team behind the Rurouni Kenshin trilogy, which also starred Satoh.^[54]

Reception[edit]

The Japanese manga news site Comic Natalie awarded the series third place in its poll of the best manga in 2013.^[55] The third volume ranked 6th on the Oricon manga chart on the week of its release.^[56] In a survey of 400 manga and publishing professionals for the manga guidebook Kono Manga ga Sugoi!, the series was rated 3rd place in a list of top 20 manga for Male readers.^[57] The manga had over 4 million copies in print as of December 2015. ^[58]

The series was listed as a nominee for the Readers Award in the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, and in the Seinen category in the 38th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards.^[59][60]

Notes[edit]

1. ^The episode is listed for broadcast at 25:55 on January 15; this is the same as a broadcast time of 1:55 on January 16.^[42]

References[edit]

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39. ^'Ajin: Demi-Human Film Trilogy Unveils Teaser Trailer, Staff from Sidonia'. Anime News Network. June 4, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
40. ^'Ajin - Demi-Human Film's Trailer Reveals flumpool Song, Release Date'. Anime News Network. September 14, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
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47. ^'Ajin: Demi-Human Original Anime DVD Promo Previews 'Shinya Nakamura Incident''. Anime News Network. April 18, 2016. Retrieved April 30, 2016.
48. ^'Ajin Manga Bundles 2nd Anime DVD in 9th Volume'. Anime News Network. April 29, 2016. Retrieved April 30, 2016.
49. ^'Ajin Manga's 10th Volume to Bundle Anime DVD in April'. Anime News Network. October 7, 2016. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
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51. ^'Ajin Anime Season 2 Reveals October 7 Premiere, New Visual'. Anime News Network. August 31, 2016. Retrieved August 31, 2016.
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53. ^'Ajin - Demi Human Manga Gets Live-Action Film With Rurouni Kenshin's Takeru Satoh'. Anime News Network. November 3, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
54. ^'Live-Action Ajin Film Slated for September 30, 2017'. Anime News Network. December 16, 2016. Retrieved December 16, 2016.
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56. ^'Japanese Comic Ranking, November 4–10'. Anime News Network. November 13, 2013. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
57. ^'Top Manga Ranked by Kono Manga ga Sugoi 2014 Voters'. Anime News Network. December 9, 2013. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
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External links[edit]

• Ajin: Demi-Human on IMDb
• Ajin: Demi-Human at Monthly Afternoon‹See Tfd›(in Japanese)
• Official anime website‹See Tfd›(in Japanese)
• Ajin: Demi-Human (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Ajin (TV Series) on IMDb

Ajin: Demi-Human (Japanese: 亜人Hepburn: Ajin) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gamon Sakurai. It was adapted into an 3D animated film trilogy by Polygon Pictures between November 2015 and September 2016. An anime television series adaptation also by Polygon Pictures aired between January and April 2016, with a second season premiering on October 8, 2016. A live-action film adaptation was released on September 30, 2017.

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• 3Publication
• 4Media

Plot[edit]

Ajin: Demi-human presents the story of a student named Kei Nagai (永井 圭Nagai Kei), who discovers he is an 'Ajin' when he is fatally wounded in a traffic accident. In the world of Ajin, a small number of humans (termed 'Ajin') possess extreme regenerative abilities that trigger upon death or mortal injury, allowing them to completely recover from their wounds in a matter of seconds to such an exceptional extent that missing limbs can be restored and Ajin can regenerate from being turned into literal meat patties. Additionally, Ajin can create 'black ghosts', which are highly dangerous combat-oriented entities that are invisible to normal humans and only visible to other Ajin. 'Black ghosts' are resistant to physical injury and exhibit extraordinary physical strength, and have razor-sharp teeth and claws. Different 'black ghosts' have varying degrees of intelligence. For example, most 'black ghosts' are completely reliant on their Ajin for directions, and others, such as that of Kei's, are more independent and likely to engage in self-initiated actions.

Consequently, Ajin are considered dangerous and inhuman by the public, and most are captured by governments. On paper, governments claim to protect Ajin, but in reality, most governments use them as subjects for cruel and inhumane experiments, as their abilities to completely recover from fatal wounds provides an unlimited source of organs and bodies in dangerous tests (such as live-fire weapons testing). As a result, Ajin that have escaped from government custody (such as Satou, the main antagonist) are bent on exacting revenge from governments – with the exception of Kei, who wants no part in the emerging Ajin-human conflict. However, in an agreement with Japanese governmental agents, Kei agrees to fight against Satou in exchange for his freedom from government experimentation.

Characters[edit]

Kei's Group[edit]

Kei Nagai (永井 圭Nagai Kei)

Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano^[7] (Japanese); Johnny Yong Bosch (English)

Played by: Takeru Satoh

The protagonist who first discovers that he is an Ajin after being killed in a traffic accident. To his peers, he appears to be a normal and carefree student, but in reality he is emotionally detached from other people and often willing to endanger the lives of other people in order for him to accomplish his own goals. He differs from most Ajin as he has the ability to create an abnormally large amount of IBM (Invisible Black Matter, which is key to an Ajin's regeneration and ability to create 'black ghosts'), allowing Kei to manifest more 'black ghosts' than his Ajin peers. According to Ikuya, he is implied to have manifested his Ajin-realed abilities at a very young age.

Kaito (海斗)

Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya^[7] (Japanese); Bryce Papenbrook (English)

A close friend of Kei who helps him to escape from the police. He was later sent to prison for assisting in Kei's escape and later befriends Takeshi, another Ajin, allowing Kaito to escape imprisonment.

Kō Nakano (中野 攻Nakano Kou)

Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese); Griffin Burns (English)

Kō is an Ajin and a partner of Kei with the intention to stop Satō, as Satō's plans for the creation of an Ajin-led government will lead to the loss of many human lives. Unlike Kei, who is indifferent and cold to others, Kō values friendship and is willing to put the safety of others above his own. He is also physically fitter than Kei, but lacks Kei's intellectual capabilities, often relying on Kei for planning in combat operations, with him acting as the 'muscle' of the operation. Kō has the rapid regenerative abilities common to Ajin, but lacks the ability to manifest his own 'black ghost'.

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare[edit]

Yū Tosaki (戸崎 優Tosaki Yuu)

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai^[7] (Japanese); Todd Haberkorn (English)

Played by: Tetsuji Tamayama

Yū is the head of Ajin Research under the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and has a comatose girlfriend, Ai. He is protected by an Ajin bodyguard named Izumi Shimomura. He agrees to let Kei work with him to stop Satō on the condition that Kei is allowed to live a normal life afterwards.

Izumi Shimomura (下村 泉Shimomura Izumi) / Yōko Tainaka (田井中 陽子Tainaka Youko)

Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu^[7] (Japanese); Cristina Vee (English)

Played by: Rina Kawaei

Izumi is a stoic and taciturn Ajin working for Yū Tosaki at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Izumi's birth name is Yōko Tainaka. As Yōko, she first discovered her Ajin abilities in her teenage years, when she first died after defending herself from a rape attempt of an abusive stepfather. Yōko would run away from home, where she is eventually recruited by Yū as a bodyguard under a special contract. The contract allowed Yōko to adopt the alias of 'Izumi Shinomura', such that 'Yōko Tainaka' is legally deceased and that 'Izumi Shimomura' is a separate identity. She affectionately refers to her “black ghost” as “Kuro”.

Sokabe (曽我部)

Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura^[7] (Japanese); Martin Billany (English)

Yū's junior at the Ministry who was also assigned to supervise Yū. After Yū decides to defy orders from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Sokabe was appointed as his successor.

Ajin[edit]

Satō (佐藤Satou) / Samuel T. Owen (サミュエル・T・オーウェンSamyueru. T. Ouwen)

Voiced by: Hōchū Ōtsuka^[7] (Japanese); Pete Sepenuk (English)

Played by: Gō Ayano

The leader of the pro-Ajin movement, also known as Hat (帽子Boushi) due to his signature deerstalker hat, Satō is a calm and collected individual who is well-known within the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as the most dangerous Ajin. Despite his appearance as a genial old man who enjoys video gaming, he is in reality a sinister, calculating tactician with combat experience as a former special-operations soldier in the USMC.^[8] Satō originally claims that he wishes to protest against the mistreatment of Ajins worldwide, but it is later revealed that he uses this claim as an excuse to gather an army of Ajin under his command to create an immortal army to rule Japan and simply for the sake of violence and destruction. He is frequently described as a 'player' in the latter half of the anime, as he is prone to using strategies adapted from video games to carry out assassinations of famous politicians in order to force negotiations with the government for allowing rights of Ajins. He enjoys the use of violence against anybody (human or Ajin) who attempts to disrupt his plans and is especially irked by provocation.

Kōji Tanaka (田中 功次Tanaka Kouji)

Voiced by: Daisuke Hirakawa^[7] (Japanese); Keith Silverstein (English)

Played by: Yu Shirota

He is the second Ajin to be discovered in Japan. He was rescued by Satō from brutal experimentation and joins in with his pro-Ajin movement against the Japanese government.

Masumi Okuyama (奥山 真澄Okuyama Masumi)

Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino (Japanese); Lucien Dodge (English)

Played by: Yudai Chiba

Masumi is one of the few Ajins who accepts Satō's invitation to use genocide to fight for Ajins' rights. He is a skilled hacker knowledgeable in weaponry and machines. In the anime, he eventually betrays Satō and reaches out to Kei in order to defeat him.

Takeshi Kotobuki (琴吹 武Kotobuki Takeshi)

Voiced by: Sōma Saitō

A prisoner who had escaped from jail after seeing Sato's announcement to protest for Ajins' rights. Takeshi becomes Kaito's partner after Kaito helped him when he was bullied by the other prisoners wanting to know how he had escaped from jail. His IBM is shown to have wings, which was his means of escape from prison. After he and Kai reconcile he promises to let Kai use his IBM to escape prison if, for whatever reason, he wishes to escape in order to assist Kei. In the anime, Takeshi uses his IBM to bring himself as well as Kai to Eriko's hospital in order to save both her and Kei from the riots occurring there.

Others[edit]

Eriko Nagai (永井 慧理子Nagai Eriko)

Voiced by: Aya Suzaki^[7]

Played by: Minami Hamabe

Kei’s sister who seems to suffer from a terminal illness and is hospitalized throughout most of the series.

Ikuya Ogura (オグラ・イクヤOgura Ikuya)

Voiced by: Hiroyuki Kinoshita^[7] (Japanese); Kyle McCarley (English)

He is a researcher who studied Ajins in the United States and has a great deal of knowledge about them.

Publication[edit]

The series began publication in Kodansha's magazine Good! Afternoon in 2012.^[9] Initially, it was written by Tsuina Miura; however, his name is not mentioned in the credits after the first volume, and Gamon Sakurai has been creating the manga himself since.^[10]

In February 2014, Vertical announced that it had licensed the series for English release.^[9] On March 15, 2014, Crunchyroll began to release the series on their manga service under the title Ajin: Demi-Human, starting with the first two chapters.^[11]

Volume list[edit]

Chapters not yet in tankōbon format[edit]

63. 'Strike Back'

64. 'Him'

65. 'The Showdown Comes'

66. 'Dead Heat'

66.5. 'Dead Heat 2'

67. 'Victory'

Media[edit]

Film[edit]

Plans to adapt the series into an anime film trilogy were announced in June 2015.^[38] The films were directed by Hiroaki Andō and written by Hiroshi Seko, with animation by Polygon Pictures.^[39] The first film, titled Ajin: Shōdō (Ajin: Impulse),^[7] debuted in Japan on November 27, 2015.^[40] This film is a compilation of the first six episodes of the TV series. The second film, titled Ajin: Shōtotsu (Ajin: Collision), debuted in Japan on May 6, 2016, and the third and final film in the trilogy, titled Ajin: Shōgeki (Ajin: Clash), was released on September 23, 2016.^[41]

Anime[edit]

A television series that follows the anime films premiered on January 16, 2016.^[a][42] It is produced by the staff that produced the film trilogy.^[43][42] It aired on MBS, TBS, CBC and BS-TBS,^[43] with 13 episodes.^[44] The series was streamed by Netflix,^[43] starting on April 12, 2016, along with English, French, Spanish, German and Brazilian Portuguese dubs.^[45] The series is licensed by Sentai Filmworks for home video release in North America.^[46] An OAD was bundled with the manga's 8th limited edition volume, which was released on May 6, 2016.^[47] A second OAD was bundled with manga's 9th limited edition volume, which was released on October 7, 2016.^[48] A third OAD was bundled with manga's 10th limited edition volume, which was released on April 7, 2017.^[49] A second season premiered on October 8, 2016 and continued the original numbering sequence.^[50][51] The second season premiered on Netflix on December 27, 2016.^[52]

Live-action film[edit]

The production of a live-action film was announced in November 2016,^[53] with release on September 30, 2017. The director is Katsuyuki Motohiro, with Takeru Satoh in the lead role. The action scenes were planned by the team behind the Rurouni Kenshin trilogy, which also starred Satoh.^[54]

Reception[edit]

The Japanese manga news site Comic Natalie awarded the series third place in its poll of the best manga in 2013.^[55] The third volume ranked 6th on the Oricon manga chart on the week of its release.^[56] In a survey of 400 manga and publishing professionals for the manga guidebook Kono Manga ga Sugoi!, the series was rated 3rd place in a list of top 20 manga for Male readers.^[57] The manga had over 4 million copies in print as of December 2015. ^[58]

The series was listed as a nominee for the Readers Award in the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, and in the Seinen category in the 38th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards.^[59][60]

Notes[edit]

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1. ^The episode is listed for broadcast at 25:55 on January 15; this is the same as a broadcast time of 1:55 on January 16.^[42]

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External links[edit]

Students For Life

• Ajin: Demi-Human on IMDb
• Ajin: Demi-Human at Monthly Afternoon‹See Tfd›(in Japanese)
• Official anime website‹See Tfd›(in Japanese)
• Ajin: Demi-Human (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Ajin (TV Series) on IMDb

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