World Embryo | |
ワールドエンブリオ (Waarudoenburio) | |
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Manga | |
Written by | Daisuke Moriyama |
Published by | Shōnen Gahosha |
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Imprint | Young King Comics |
Magazine | Young King OURs |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | April 30, 2005 – May 30, 2014 |
Volumes | 13 |
World Embryo (Japanese: ワールドエンブリオ, Hepburn: ワールドエンブリオ, Wārudo Enburio) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Daisuke Moriyama. It was serialized by Shōnen Gahosha's seinen manga magazine Young King OURs from April 2005 to May 2014, with its chapters collected in thirteen tankōbon volumes. The story follows a group of humans who combat monstrous creatures that spread around by using cell-phone signals.
At the start of the series, high-schooler Riku Amami receives a cellphone picture from his dead stepsister, Amane, with a hospital in the background. When he visits the said building, he is attacked by electromagnetic monsters called Kanshu, which travel and reproduce using cellphone signals: if a human hears his cellphone giving off an eerie static sound, his body is then gruesomely converted into a Kanshu or suffers irreversible infection. Riku is saved by two warriors, Rena and Youhei, who wield Jinki weapons designed to destroy Kanshu. During the battle, however, Riku finds a cocoon, out of which hatches a toddler looking exactly like Amane. As the situation goes downhill, Riku ends up receiving his own Jinki and gets drawn into the shadowy organization that fights the Kanshu.
Main article: List of World Embryo chapters |
Written and illustrated by Daisuke Moriyama, World Embryo was serialized in Shōnen Gahōsha's seinen manga magazine Young King OURs from April 30, 2005,[4] to May 30, 2014.[1][5] Shōnen Gahosha collected its chapters in thirteen tankōbon volumes, released from March 2, 2006,[6] to September 30, 2014.[7]
The series was licensed for an English language release in Singapore by Chuang Yi,[8] in Australia by Madman Entertainment,[9] and in North America by Dark Horse Comics[2] (although they never released any volume of the series).[1] It was also licensed in Italy by J-POP Edizioni,[10] and in France by Kazé Manga (formerly Asuka).[11] in Russia by Comics Factory.[12]