Nyx no Lantern
- Creator
- Kan Takahama.
- Date
- 2015.
- Language
- Japanese.
- Genre
- historical anime and manga.
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• Ja Kanji — ニュクスの角灯 • Ja Romaji — Nyukusu no Rantan • Genre — * Fantasy • Historical • Slice of life
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• Type — manga • Author — Kan Takahama • Publisher — Leed Publishing • Magazine — Monthly Comic Ran • First — March 27, 2015 • Last — June 27, 2019 • Volumes — 6
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• Portal — yes Nyx no Lantern is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kan Takahama. It was serialized in Leed Publishing's Monthly Comic Ran from March 2015 to June 2019, with its chapters collected in six tankōbon volumes In 2018, Nyx no Lantern won the Excellence Award at the 21st Japan Media Arts Festival, as well as the Grand Prize of the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020.
Plot
Plot
In 1878, Miyo, a shy girl who lost her parents in the Satsuma Rebellion, started working at a tool store "Ban" that handles the import and export of handicrafts in Kajiya-cho, Nagasaki. Her beauty gradually grows as she comes in contact with people around her, including her shopkeeper, Koura Momotoshi. At the same time, she begins to be conscious of Momotoshi as her love interest, but Momotoshi cannot stop his feelings for Judith, his first love in Paris, where he used to live.
Publication
Publication
Written and illustrated by Kan Takahama, Nyx no Lantern was serialized in Leed Publishing's Monthly Comic Ran from March 27, 2015, to June 27, 2019. Leed Publishing collected its chapters in six tankōbon volumes, released from January 29, 2016, to August 27, 2019.
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Course of the series
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2015
Nyx no Lantern published.
2017
Nyx no Lantern Volume 3 (2 catalogued editions) (2017) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
Reception
The series was nominated for the 20th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2016, and won the Grand Prize in its 24th edition in 2020. The series ranked fourth on "The Best Manga 2017 Kono Manga wo Yome!" ranking by Freestyle magazine. The series was one of the Jury Recommended Works at the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2017, and received an Excellence Award at the 21st edition in 2018. Nyx no Lantern won the Best Miniseries Manga at the Anime Click Awards 2022. French newspaper Le Figaro selected the series as one of their six recommended manga featured at the 2019 Paris Book Fair.
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Context
The circumstances in which Nyx no Lantern stands. Credited to the author Kan Takahama. Recorded as manga series. Works and catalogued output.
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- “Nyx no Lantern”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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