Rumic World

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Rumic World
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GenreComedy
Manga
Written byRumiko Takahashi
Published byShogakukan
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MagazineShōnen Sunday Zōkan
English magazineManga Vizion
Original run1978 – 1983
Volumes3 (List of volumes)
Manga
One or Double
Written byRumiko Takahashi
Published byShogakukan
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MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
Big Comic Spirits
Petit Comic
PublishedSeptember 18, 1995
Manga
Came the Mirror & Other Tales
Written byRumiko Takahashi
Published byShogakukan
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MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
Big Comic
PublishedJuly 17, 2015
Anime
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Plot

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Japanese editions

The Rumic World stories were originally published separately in various Shogakukan magazines. Rumic World was released twice in Japan, the first edition, Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., utilized the Script error: No such module "lang". format, and consisted of three volumes:

First edition

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Second edition

The second edition, Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., in wideban format, contained the same stories, reduced into two volumes, with the stories in a different order:

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One or Double

Another collection of similar short stories not included in either of the first two editions, was titled either Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., or Script error: No such module "Nihongo".. This book also uses the wideban format,[4] and contains the following stories:

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Came the Mirror

Another collection of similar short stories, titled Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., was released in 2015[5] and contains the following stories:

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  • "My Sweet Sunday" (collaboration with Mitsuru Adachi to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Shonen Sunday)

Translations

English editions

Some of Takahashi's stories were printed in Manga Vizion magazine in a "flipped" style[a] and are no longer in print.

Rumic World

While Viz Media (as its corporate predecessor VIZ Communications) initially published two Rumic World stories in 1989 and 1990, it published a three volume set of the Rumic World collection in 1997, corresponding to the Japanese editions, with a different order to the stories:

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  • "Fire Tripper": A gas explosion sends young Suzuko and Shuu 500 years into the past.
  • "Maris the Chojo": An alien policewoman sees a kidnapped quadrillionaire as her ticket out of debt.
  • "Those Selfish Aliens": Aliens, the government, and fishermen implant bombs in a poor individual.
  • "Time Warp Trouble": Warriors from feudal Japan inexplicably pop into a modern high-school classroom.
  • "The Laughing Target": Azusa will do anything to ensure that Yuzuru stays hers.

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  • "Wasted Minds (Dust Spot)": A five-part miniseries which follows a pair of bickering government agents.
  • "The Golden Gods of Poverty": A boy's parents try to use him to make money.
  • "The Entrepreneurial Spirit": A woman leads seminars for a get-rich quick scheme.

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  • "That Darn Cat": Rumiko Takahashi takes care of her neighbor's cat.
  • "Page Template:Visible anchor/styles.css has no content.When My Eyes Got Wings": A couple befriends a sickly child with a secret.
  • "Wedded Bliss": A wedded couple's only outlet is to fight with one another.
  • "Sleep and Forget": A girl relives a past life involving her lover.
  • "A Cry for Help": A fairy gives a boy a frightening split personality.
  • "War Council": Student councils go to war over a stamp.
  • "The Face Pack": A man can change his appearance at will.

One or Double

Viz Media published a book corresponding to the "One or Double" collection under the title Page Template:Visible anchor/styles.css has no content.Rumic Theater: One or Double on June 5, 1998.[9] It contained the following stories:

  • "Excuse Me for Being a Dog!": A boxer tries to hide the fact that he turns into a dog every time he gets a nose bleed.
  • "Winged Victory": A rugby team with 999 losses is cheered on by a ghostly girl .
  • "The Grandfather of All Baseball Games": A man wastes the money his grandson makes playing sandlot baseball.
  • "The Diet Goddess": A young girl goes through a rigorous training exercise to fit into a dress.
  • "Happy Talk": A girl searches for her dead mother, who she thinks might be working as a hostess in Tokyo.
  • "One or Double": An accident places the soul of a fanatic kendo coach into his favorite pupil's girlfriend.
  • "To Grandmother's House We Go": A woman poses as her dead friend to claim a 500 billion yen inheritance.
  • "Reserved Seat": A singer deals with stage fright and memory blackouts after his grandmother dies.
  • "Shake Your Buddha": A hilarious debate between the future Buddha and an idiot yam fanatic.

Came the Mirror

Viz Media published "Came the Mirror" collection under the title Page Template:Visible anchor/styles.css has no content.Came the Mirror & Other Tales[10] on February 15, 2022.

See also

Notes and references

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  1. ^ Text in the Japanese language reads right-to-left so manga artwork is composed right-to-left. For English editions the artwork is often mirrored (flipped) to read left-to-right.
  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content. るーみっく・わーるど 1 (少年サンデーブックス) (in Japanese). ASIN 4091218512.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content. るーみっく・わーるど 2 (少年サンデーブックス) (in Japanese). ASIN 4091218520.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content. るーみっく・わーるど 3 (少年サンデーブックス) (in Japanese). ASIN 4091218539.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.1orW(ワン・オア・ダブル)―るーみっくわーるど (in Japanese). ASIN 409121858X.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.鏡が来た 高橋留美子短編集 (ビッグコミックススペシャル) (in Japanese). ASIN 4091871291.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rumic World Trilogy, Vol. 1 - Takahashi, Rumiko". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rumic World Trilogy, Vol. 2 - Takahashi, Rumiko". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rumic World Trilogy (Volume 3) by Takahashi, Rumiko". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rumic Theater, Vol. 2". Viz Media. Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Came the Mirror & Other Tales by Takahashi, Rumiko". AbeBooks. Retrieved 2023-03-15.

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