Kūbo Ibuki

Kūbo Ibuki
First tankōbon volume cover
空母いぶき
GenreMilitary[1]
Manga
Written by
Published byShogakukan
MagazineBig Comic
DemographicSeinen
Original runDecember 10, 2014 – December 10, 2019
Volumes13
Live-action film
Directed bySetsurō Wakamatsu
Written by
Music byTaro Iwashiro
Studio
  • Kino Films
  • Kinoshita Group
ReleasedMay 24, 2019 (2019-05-24)
Runtime134 minutes
Manga
Kūbo Ibuki Great Game
Written by
  • Kaiji Kawaguchi
  • Osamu Eya
Published byShogakukan
MagazineBig Comic
DemographicSeinen
Original runDecember 25, 2019 – present
Volumes12

Kūbo Ibuki (空母いぶき, "Aircraft Carrier Ibuki") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kaiji Kawaguchi with cooperation by journalist Osamu Eya. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic from December 2014 to December 2019. A sequel, titled Kūbo Ibuki Great Game, began in the same magazine in December 2019. A live-action film adaptation premiered in Japan in May 2019.

By October 2022, the manga had over 8 million copies in circulation. In 2018, Kūbo Ibuki won the 63rd Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.

Plot

In October 20XX, an agent, who is believed to have disguised himself as a shipwrecked person during a storm, landed on Minamikojima Island in the Senkaku Islands, saying, This island is an inherent territory of China, and we are trying to avoid ships from mainland China. The Chinese Landing Incident on the Senkaku Islands, which claims to wait, has occurred. Furthermore, the situation escalated with a collision between a Chinese Coast Guard vessel attempting to invade Japan's territorial waters and a Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel, and warning shots being fired at an escort vessel dispatched for investigation purposes, and the Japanese government half-yielded to China. Although he tried to settle the situation, the Prime Minister felt a sense of crisis about China's actions, and at the same time decided to bring forward the "Pegasus Plan", which consists of commissioning a new type of escort ship and establishing a new escort group with that ship as the flagship. do. One year after the incident, the SDF's first aircraft carrier, Ibuki was completed. Captain Ryuta Akitsu, who has an unusual career as a former Air Self-Defense Force ace pilot, is appointed as the captain, and Toshiya Shinba is selected as the deputy commander and chief navigator.

In April 20XY, while the IBUKI was on a training voyage off the coast of Minamitorishima, the Chinese military launched the "Shuguang Project" and suddenly began to invade Japan. The Chinese army took control of the Sakishima Islands and the Senkaku Islands, causing the first deaths in the postwar period. Under the command of Keiichiro Tarumi, the first defense dispatch in history was ordered. Began to fear that a war might break out in my country. The Ibuki fleet, which was in training, rushes to the scene, but the Chinese military also sent the North Sea fleet, centered on the new aircraft carrier "Guangdong", to the Sakishima Islands. Negotiations with the Chinese government, which had begun to move, broke down, and finally the territorial recapture operation "Hayabusa" was launched by force.

Media

Manga

Kūbo Ibuki is written and illustrated by Kaiji Kawaguchi with cooperation by journalist Osamu Eya. The series was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic from December 10, 2014,[2][3] to December 10, 2019.[4][5] Shogakukan has collected its chapters into thirteen tankōbon volumes, released from September 30, 2015,[6] to June 30, 2020.[7]

A direct sequel, titled Kūbo Ibuki Great Game (空母いぶきGreat Game, Kūbo Ibuki Gurēto Gēmu), began in Big Comic on December 25, 2019.[8] Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on June 30, 2020.[9] As of January 30, 2024, 12 volumes have been released.[10]

Kūbo Ibuki

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1 September 30, 2015[6]978-4-09-187210-4
2 September 30, 2015[11]978-4-09-187214-2
3 January 29, 2016[12]978-4-09-187439-9
4 June 24, 2016[13]978-4-09-128096-1
5 October 28, 2016[14]978-4-09-189223-2
6 February 28, 2017[15]978-4-09-189383-3
7 July 28, 2017[16]978-4-09-189615-5
8 November 30, 2017[17]978-4-09-189696-4
9 March 30, 2018[18]978-4-09-189823-4
10 July 30, 2018[19]978-4-09-860054-0
11 December 27, 2018[20]978-4-09-860159-2
12 April 26, 2019[21]978-4-09-860306-0
13 June 30, 2020[7]978-4-09-860645-0

Kūbo Ibuki Great Game

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1 June 30, 2020[9]978-4-09-860637-5
2 October 30, 2020[22]978-4-09-860718-1
3 January 29, 2021[23]978-4-09-860842-3
4 May 28, 2021[24]978-4-09-861054-9
5 September 30, 2021[25]978-4-09-861161-4
6 January 28, 2022[26]978-4-09-861241-3
7 May 30, 2022[27]978-4-09-861346-5
8 September 30, 2022[28]978-4-09-861420-2
9 January 30, 2023[29]978-4-09-861572-8
10 May 30, 2023[30]978-4-09-861715-9
11 September 28, 2023[31]978-4-09-862528-4
12 January 30, 2024[10]978-4-09-862686-1

Live-action film

A live-action film adaptation of the manga was released in Japan on May 24, 2019. The film stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as Ryōta Akitsu and Kuranosuke Sasaki as Toshiya Niinami. The film is directed by Setsurō Wakamatsu, with scripts by Kazunori Itō and Yasuo Hasegawa and planning by Harutoshi Fukui.[32][33][34]

Cast

Reception

By December 2018, the Kūbo Ibuki manga had over 4 million copies in circulation.[35] By October 2022, the manga had over 8 million copies in circulation.[36]

In 2018, alongside After the Rain, Kūbo Ibuki won the 63rd Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.[37][38] The manga ranked 18th on the 2019 "Book of the Year" list by Da Vinci magazine.[39]

As of June 2019, the Kūbo Ibuki live-action film grossed ¥931,625,500 ($8.58 million).[40] The film opened at second at the Japanese box office and earned ¥332,068,500 ($3.07 million) over its first three days.[41] The film dropped to third in its second weekend, and earned ¥148,651,000 ($1.37 million) over the second weekend.[42] The film dropped to fourth in its third weekend, and earned ¥82,234,500 ($757,900) from June 7–9, 2019.[40]

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