Aposimz | |
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人形の国 (Ningyō no Kuni) | |
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Genre | |
Manga | |
Written by | Tsutomu Nihei |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Monthly Shōnen Sirius |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | February 25, 2017 – August 26, 2021 |
Volumes | 9 |
Aposimz (stylized in all caps), known in Japan as Ningyō no Kuni (人形の国, "Country of Dolls"), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sirius from February 2017 to August 2021, with its chapters collected in nine tankōbon volumes.
The series takes place on an artificial celestial body known as Aposimz (アポシムズ, Aposhimuzu), which is 200,000 kilometers in diameter. Most of the planet's volume is occupied by its core, which is covered by a superstructural shell. Five thousand years ago, people who lost a war against the inhabitants of the core were exiled to the surface, a cold and harsh environment. Surface dwellers face both the rapidly-spreading Frame Disease (人形病, Ningyō-byō), which slowly converts normal humans into biomechanical, zombie-like beings, and aggressive native biomechanical creatures known as automatons. Certain people have been transformed by special "codes" into Regular Frames (正規人形, Seiki Ningyō), beings composed of a substance called placenta (胞衣, ena) and fueled by Heigus Particles (ヘイグス粒子, Heigusu Ryūshi), which renders them biologically immortal and makes them stronger and more resilient than normal humans. Regular Frames are also able to assume an armored form and each one has a unique special ability or weapon. These Regular Frames are highly revered by normal humans and are often leaders and protectors in their communities.
Aposimz is written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei. Nihei published a one-shot in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine on May 9, 2016.[2] In November 2016, it was announced that the manga would be serialized in Monthly Shōnen Sirius, being the first time that Nihei would publish a manga in a shōnen manga magazine.[3] The series ran in the magazine from February 25, 2017,[3][4] to August 26, 2021.[5] Kodansha collected its chapters in nine tankōbon volumes, released from May 9, 2017,[6] to December 9, 2021.[7] Kodansha also started publishing a full-color edition of the series on November 8, 2019,[8][9] and five volumes have been released as of August 8, 2022.[10]
The manga was simultaneously published in English by ComiXology and Crunchyroll Manga.[11][12] In November 2017, Vertical announced that they would release the series in print.[13] The volumes were released from October 9, 2018,[14] to June 28, 2022.[15]
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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1 | May 9, 2017[6] | 978-4-06-390706-3 | October 9, 2018[14] | 978-1-94719-430-4 |
2 | February 9, 2018[16][17] | 978-4-06-510937-3 978-4-06-510975-5 (LE) | January 15, 2019[18] | 978-1-94719-444-1 |
3 | September 7, 2018[19][20] | 978-4-06-395307-7 978-4-06-513528-0 (LE) | June 18, 2019[21] | 978-1-94719-481-6 |
4 | April 9, 2019[22] | 978-4-06-515256-0 | January 28, 2020[23] | 978-1-94719-496-0 |
5 | November 8, 2019[24] | 978-4-06-517554-5 | September 8, 2020[25] | 978-1-94998-036-3 |
6 | May 8, 2020[26] | 978-4-06-519616-8 | January 19, 2021[27] | 978-1-94998-066-0 |
7 | November 9, 2020[28][29] | 978-4-06-521161-8 978-4-06-521180-9 (LE) | July 6, 2021[30] | 978-1-64729-055-9 |
8 | April 30, 2021[7][31] | 978-4-06-523002-2 978-4-06-523951-3 (LE) | January 18, 2022[32] | 978-1-64729-061-0 |
9 | December 9, 2021[33][34] | 978-4-06-526219-1 978-4-06-526220-7 (LE) | June 28, 2022[15] | 978-1-64729-100-6 |
As of February 2018, the manga had 250,000 copies in circulation.[35][36]