Geobreeders | |
ジオブリーダーズ (Jioburīdāzu) | |
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Genre | Action, comedy[1] |
Manga | |
Written by | Akihiro Ito |
Published by | Shōnen Gahōsha |
English publisher | (expired) |
Magazine | Young King OURs |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | 1993 – 2009 |
Volumes | 16 |
Original video animation | |
Get Back the Kitty | |
Directed by | Yuji Moriyama |
Produced by | Hoko Enomoto |
Written by | Yōsuke Kuroda |
Music by | Kotaro Nakagawa |
Studio | Chaos Project |
Licensed by | (expired) |
Released | May 21, 1998 – October 21, 1998 |
Episodes | 3 |
Manga | |
Atomic Attack | |
Written by | Isamu Imakake |
Published by | Shōnen Gahosha |
Magazine | Monthly OURsLITE |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | 2000 – 2001 |
Volumes | 1 |
Original video animation | |
Breakthrough | |
Directed by |
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Produced by | Shigeru Kitayama |
Written by | |
Music by | Motoyoshi Iwasaki |
Studio | Chaos Project |
Licensed by | (expired) |
Released | July 26, 2000 – March 23, 2001 |
Episodes | 4 |
Geobreeders (Japanese: ジオブリーダーズ, Hepburn: Jioburīdāzu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akihiro Ito. It was serialized in Shōnen Gahōsha's seinen manga magazine Young King OURs from 1993 to 2009, before entering on hiatus. Its chapters were collected in sixteen tankōbon volumes. A three-episode original video animation (OVA) adaptation, subtitled Get Back the Kitty, was released in 1998, followed by another OVA, subtitled Breakthrough, released from 2000 to 2001. In North America, the manga and the OVAs were formerly licensed by Central Park Media.
Ayagane City has a phantom cat (also called "bake neko" and "were-cat") problem. A young and overzealous group of entrepreneurs called Kagura Total Security can be hired to combat this problem for the right price when Hound, the official government arm, isn't enough. However, there are plots and subplots floating beneath the surface, both involving Kagura, and the were-cats, led by Kuro-Neko, themselves. Both the manga and the OVAs are heavily action-driven, with gunfights appearing every few chapters.[2]
Written and illustrated by Akihiro Ito, Geobreeders started in Shōnen Gahōsha's seinen manga magazine Young King OURs in 1993.[3] Its latest chapters was published on June 30, 2009, and the series has been on hiatus since.[4] Shōnen Gahōsha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. Sixteen volumes were released from May 24, 1995,[5] to December 10, 2010.[6]
In North America, the manga was licensed by CPM Manga, who only released the first five volumes from January 2000 to January 2003.[7][8]
A three-episode original video animation by Chaos Project,[9] titled in Japan as Geobreeders: File-X – Get Back the Kitty (ジオブリーダーズ File-X ちびねこ奪還, Jioburīdāzu Fairu Ekkus Chibi Neko Dakkan), was released from May 21 to October 21, 1998.[10][11]
Another four-episode OVA, titled Geobreeders 2: Breakthrough (ジオブリーダーズ 2~魍魎遊撃隊 File-XX, Jioburīdāzu 2 ~ Mōryō Yūgekitai Fairu Ekkus Ekkus), was released from July 26, 2000, to March 23, 2001.[12]
In North America, both OVAs were licensed by Central Park Media.[13] The first OVA was released on May 16, 2000,[14] and the second on August 13, 2002.[15]