Frau Faust
- Creator
- Kore Yamazaki
- Date
- 2014
- Language
- Japanese
- Genre
- dark fantasy · fantasy anime and manga
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Key facts
Key facts
• Ja Kanji — フラウ・ファウスト • Ja Romaji — Furau Fausuto • Genre — Dark fantasy
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Key facts
• Type — manga • Author — Kore Yamazaki • Publisher — Kodansha • Magazine — Itan (magazine) • First — October 7, 2014 • Last — December 7, 2017 • Volumes — 5
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Key facts
• Portal — yes Frau Faust is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kore Yamazaki. It was serialized in Kodansha's josei manga magazine Itan (magazine) from October 2014 to December 2017.
Plot
Plot
Marion, a young boy, meets Johanna Faust, and asks her to be his teacher because his impoverished mother can no longer afford to send him to school. After their first meeting, he follows her in her quest to retrieve the parts of Mephistopheles, who had been cut in pieces by the Inquisition and sealed 100 years ago. Meanwhile, Lorenzo and his assistant Vico are hunting down Faust in order to prevent her to fulfill her quest.
Publication
Publication
Written and illustrated by Kore Yamazaki, Frau Faust was serialized in Kodansha's josei manga magazine Itan (magazine) from October 7, 2014, to December 7, 2017. Kodansha collected its chapters in five tankōbon volumes, released from April 7, 2015, to March 7, 2018. In North America, the manga was licensed for English release by Kodansha USA. The five volumes were released from September 26, 2017, to November 6, 2018.
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Frau Faust is associated with Japan.
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Catalogued output is recorded as follows. Credited to the author Kore Yamazaki. It is also recorded that frau Faust is classed in the genre dark fantasy. Classed in the genre fantasy anime and manga.
Reception
In 2020, Frau Faust was one of the manga titles that ranked on the "Top 10 Graphic Novels for Teens" by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the American Library Association.
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Institutional holdings are recorded as follows. Frau Faust, Vol. Institutional cataloguing adds that frau Faust, Vol. The register further records that frau Faust, Vol.
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- 1.Natasha, Inc. Comic Natalie. April 7, 2015.
- 2.Natasha, Inc. Comic Natalie. October 7, 2014.
- 3.Natasha, Inc. Comic Natalie. December 7, 2017.
- 4.Hodgkins, Crystalyn. Kodansha Comics Adds Frau Faust, Fairy Tail: Rhodonite, Kigurumi Defense Squad, Aho Girl, Hōseki no Kuni, More Manga. Anime News Network. October 6, 2016.
- 5.Kodansha.
- 6.Kodansha USA. Frau Faust, Volume 1.
- 7.Kodansha.
- 8.Kodansha USA. Frau Faust, Volume 2.
- 9.Kodansha.
- 10.Kodansha.
- 11.Kodansha USA. Frau Faust, Volume 3.
- 12.Kodansha.
- 13.Kodansha.
- 14.Kodansha USA. Frau Faust, Volume 4.
- 15.Kodansha.
- 16.Kodansha.
- 17.Kodansha USA. Frau Faust, Volume 5.
- 18.Ressler, Karen. Silver Spoon, My Brother's Husband Rank in YALSA's Top 10 Graphic Novels for Teens. Anime News Network. January 29, 2019.
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This entry is compiled from 8 catalogued sources across 4 independent registers. The registers consulted are Crossref registry, Wikidata, Internet Archive and Wikipedia. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.
(Open Library, catalogue records for “Frau Faust”) • Digitised Edition: Frau Faust, Vol.
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