Barbara Ikai (バルバラ異界 Barubara Ikai?, also known as Otherworld Barbara in English) is a science fiction manga by Moto Hagio. It is set in a near-future Japan, and begins with a girl, Jyujo Aoba, who has been in a coma since she was nine years old, who was discovered next to her parents' bodies, with their hearts inside her stomach.[1] To discover why she killed her parents, a specialist enters her coma dreams and finds that Jyujo is dreaming about and simultaneously creating the future.[2] Barbara Ikai was serialised in Shinshokan's Flowers between September 2002 and August 2005 and is collected in 4 volumes. Barbara Ikai won the 2006 Nihon SF Taisho Award,[3] and is the first manga that has won this award.[4] It is published in Traditional Chinese by Sharp Point Press.[5]
Development[]
Hagio "wanted to do something about meat" when she created the story for Barbara Ikai, and felt that the story "turned out kind of gross".[6] Thorn felt that Hagio also used her interest in the right and left brain, and the origin of language. She read Noam Chomsky's Noam Chomsky on The Generative Enterprise, A discussion with Riny Hyybregts and Henk van Riemsdijk., Vilayanur S. Ramachandran's Phantoms in the Brain : Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, and Andrew B. Newberg's Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief.[7]
Volume list[]
| No. | Release date | ISBN | |
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| 01 | 26 June, 2003[8] | ISBN 4091670415 | |
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| 02 | 26 March, 2004[9] | ISBN 4091670423 | |
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| 03 | 20 December, 2004[10] | ISBN 4091670431 | |
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| 04 | 26 September, 2005[11] | ISBN 409167044X | |
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References[]
- ↑ http://www.tcj.com/blog/the-moto-hagio-interview-conducted-by-matt-thorn-part-one-of-four
- ↑ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2010/moto-hagio-focus-panel
- ↑ http://www.sfwj.or.jp/list.html
- ↑ http://www.jpf.go.jp/JF_Contents/GetImage/img_pdf/jbn63.pdf?ContentNo=9&SubsystemNo=1&FileName=img_pdf/jbn63.pdf
- ↑ http://www.spp.com.tw/spp2006/all/asp/bookfile.asp?vch=comic&bc=21520117
- ↑ http://www.tcj.com/history/the-moto-hagio-interview-conducted-by-matt-thorn-part-four-of-four
- ↑ http://www.japantimes.co.jp/shukan-st/english_news/opinion/2005/op20051028/op20051028main.htm
- ↑ http://skygarden.shogakukan.co.jp/skygarden/owa/solc_dtl?isbn=4091670415
- ↑ http://skygarden.shogakukan.co.jp/skygarden/owa/solc_dtl?isbn=4091670423
- ↑ http://skygarden.shogakukan.co.jp/skygarden/owa/solc_dtl?isbn=4091670431
- ↑ http://skygarden.shogakukan.co.jp/skygarden/owa/solc_dtl?isbn=409167044X
External links[]
zh:沉睡的秘境