Tokyo Tribes
- Name
- Tokyo Tribes
- Creator
- Santa Inoue
- Date
- 1997
- Language
- Japanese
- Genre
- drama anime and manga
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• Name — Tokyo Tribes • Ja Kanji — トウキョウ トライブ トゥー • Ja Romaji — Tōkyō Toraibu Tū
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• Type — manga • Title — Tokyo Tribe • Author — Santa Inoue • Publisher — JICC Shuppankyoku Bijutsu Shuppansha Shueisha • Published — April 1993 • Volumes — 1
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• Type — manga • Author — Santa Inoue • Publisher — Shōdensha • Magazine — Boon • Imprint — Shōdensha Comics • First — 1997 • Last — 2005 • Volumes — 12
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• Type — tv series • Director — Tatsuo Satō Mitsuyuki Masuhara (assistant) Takuji Endō (assistant) • Writer — Tatsuo Satō • Music — MURO Takeshi Yanagawa • Studio — Madhouse • Network — WOWOW • First — November 11, 2006 • Last — February 17, 2007 • Episodes — 13
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• Type — manga • Title — Tokyo Tribe 2: Spin Off! • Author — Santa Inoue • Publisher — Shōdensha • Magazine — Various • Published — March 22, 2008 • Volumes — 1
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• Type — live film • Title — Tokyo Tribe • Director — Sion Sono • Producer — From First Production Nikkatsu • Writer — Sion Sono • Music — BCDMG • Studio — Nikkatsu • Released — 2014 8 30 • Runtime — 116 minutes
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• Portal — yes Tokyo Tribes, known in Japanese as Tokyo Tribe-2, is a Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Santa Inoue. A previous series titled Tokyo Tribe was published into a single-volume in 1993. Tokyo Tribes was originally serialized from 1997 to 2005 in the urban fashion magazine boon. It is a continuation of the plot in Tokyo Tribe, although many of the characters from that story do not appear in this series. A live-action film adaptation directed by Sion Sono was released in Japan on August 30, 2014.
Plot
Plot
Five years after the Shibuya riots, the Tribes of Tokyo have been enjoying a period of relative peace, until Kim and two other members of the Musashino Saru intrude on the territory of the Wu-Ronz in Bukuro. Mera, the leader of Wu-Ronz kills the three Saru, under the assumption that they were members of the Shibuya Saru. Two days later, after searching for who killed his friends, Musashino Saru member Kai runs into Mera. Old friends in their high school days, the two get into a confrontation that ends up leaving Tera, the leader of Musashino Saru, dead and setting the stage for violence between the Tribes.
Characters
Characters
• Kai Deguchi • Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese); Emmanuel Garijo (French) • A DJ and a member of Musashino Saru. • Big Daddy • Daisuke Gōri (Japanese); Benoît Allemane (French) • The leader of the Buppa clan and the main antagonist of the series, Buppa is shown as a big, ugly, morbidly obese, bisexual Yakuza crime lord with a lecherous, sadistic personality.
Manga-only Characters
Manga-only Characters
• Nagisa – The main protagonist and a member of the Shivuya (an alteration of "Shibuya") Saru gang. • Megane (Specs) – Nagisa's friend and a member of Shivuya Saru. • Totoro – Nagisa's friend and a member of Shivuya Saru. • Otogiri – Shivuya Saru member who lives in Shivuya Mansion. The Saru are often seen at his apartment. • Fujio – Nagisa's girlfriend. • Iwao – The leader of Saru's rival gang, the Shinjuku (written in katakana differently than the actual place) Hands. • Yama-Chan – Shivuya Saru member who is attacked by the Hands in Shinjuku.
Anime
Anime
• Opening Theme: Top of Tokyo, by Illmatic Buddha MC's • Ending Theme: TT2 Owari no Uta, by Scha Dara Parr The show was originally planned as a movie which would have been distributed by MTV.
Course of the series
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Course of the series
Explore 1997–2007
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1997
Tokyo Tribes published.
2004
Tokyo Tribes (4 catalogued editions) digitised by Open Library.
2005
Tokyo tribes (2 catalogued editions) digitised by Open Library.
2005
Tokyo Tribes Volume 3 (Tokyo Tribes) digitised by Open Library.
2006
Tokyo Tribes 5(Tokyo Tribes) digitised by Open Library.
2007
Tokyo Tribes 6 (Tokyo Tribes) digitised by Open Library.
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Tokyo Tribes is associated with Japan.
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Digitised editions and texts
Tokyo Tribes (4 catalogued editions) (2004) — Open Library. Tokyo tribes (2 catalogued editions) (2005) — Open Library.
Tokyo Tribes 5(Tokyo Tribes) (2006) — Open Library
Tokyo Tribes 6 (Tokyo Tribes) (2007) — Open Library
Tokyo Tribes Volume 3 (Tokyo Tribes) (2005) — Open Library
Tokyo Tribes Volume 4 (Tokyo Tribes) (2005) — Open Library
Tokyo Tribes Volume 7 (Tokyo Tribes) (2008) — Open Library
Tokyo Tribes Volume 8 (Tokyo Tribes) (2009) — Open Library
Film
A live action film adaptation directed by Sion Sono was released in Japan on August 30, 2014.
Legacy
The series has gained notoriety for a scene in which a man is anally raped to death, which has come to be known as "Goosh Goosh" and is used as a shock video.
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