Megumi (manga)

Megumi (めぐみ) is a manga based on the life of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese girl who was abducted when she was 13 years old by North Korean spies in 1977. The manga concept was conceived by her mother and father and was penned by Souichi Moto under their supervision.

Megumi
めぐみ
GenreDrama, Biography, Historical, Crime
Manga
Written bySouichi Moto
Sakie Yokota
Shigeru Yokota
Published byFutabasha
MagazineWeekly Manga Action
DemographicSeinen
Original runDecember 2004 – July 2005
Volumes2
Original net animation
Directed byHidetoshi Ōmori
Produced byHajime Hashimoto
Kōji Tsunematsu
Shigeyuki Koresawa
Written byHideki Mitsui
StudioTrans Arts
Released2008
Related works

Plot

The manga follows Megumi's final days in her home town before her abduction.

Anime

As of 2008, the Government of Japan announced an anime adaptation will be created from the manga. The anime is dubbed in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, English and Russian. In addition, there are Japanese dubbed versions with subtitles in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The government authorized a free downloadable version, as well as a DVD release.[1][2]

Cast

All Japanese cast members were asked by Kouichi Yamadera for participation through the Japan Actors Union (Nippairen). Yamadera said, "The abduction is an act of disregarding human rights, not accepted. We Japanese people should emphasize our anger."[3]

Megumi cast
Role Japanese English Korean Mandarin Russian
Narrator Michio Hazama Walter Roberts Kyong-wan Park Zhongling Qi Grigory Apukhtin
Megumi Yokota Minami Takayama Soness Stevens Dal-rae Jin Liang Li Marina Artyushenko
Shigeru Yokota Kouichi Yamadera Walter Roberts Kyong-wan Park Zhongling Qi Grigory Apukhtin
Sakie Yokota Rika Fukami Sally Koshinaka Mi-sung Lee Zhenlin Piao Marina Belova
Takuya Yokota (child) Megumi Tano Stacy Powell Eui-jung Kim Xiangning Li Anastasia Boldyreva
Takuya Yokota (adult) Bin Shimada David Schaufele Kui-uk Cheon Wanzhou Wang Fedor Solntsev
Tetsuya Yokota Thomas Melesky
Colleague Shin-ichiro Miki David Schaufele Sung-hee Chang Yuxing Chang Anatoly Krasnov
Nurse Yumiko Akaike Stacy Powell Eui-jung Kim Gyomei Ri Anastasia Boldyreva
Clerk Masahito Kawanago David Schaufele Sung-hee Chang Gyosei Jo Anatoly Krasnov
Administration official Aruno Tahara David Schaufele Sung-hee Chang Gyosei Jo Anatoly Krasnov
Tsubo Junko Shimakata Stacy Powell Eui-jung Kim Gyomei Ri Anastasia Boldyreva

See also

References
  1. "Megumi Manga about Girl Abducted by N. Korea Gets Anime". Anime News Network. March 19, 2009.
  2. MEGUMI (Japanese animation film). Abductions of Japanese Citizens by North Korea. Retrieved on May 31, 2009.
  3. "山寺宏一「めぐみ」のアニメ完成披露会見". Daily Sports. 2008-03-29. Archived from the original on 2008-03-30. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
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