Number 7

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Japanese: ナンバー7

Information

Type: Manga

Volumes: 4

Chapters: 13

Status: Finished

Published: Jan 1961 to Feb 1963

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: None

Authors: Tezuka, Osamu (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.22¹ (scored by 134 users)

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Ranked: #5814²

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Popularity: #21536

Members: 544

Favorites: 3

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Feb 10, 2023

giffica

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Number 7 is one of the more interesting work of Tezuka's, filled with many of the themes later found throughout the sci-fi genre of manga. You have numbered squads of special soldiers, space battles engaged across battleships (with the ever present space pirates), isekai otherworld time travel, alien-mutant post-humanism and technological themes that seem incredibly ahead of their time. Although Mitsutera Yokoyama was serializing side-by-side with this manga, hitting on many of the same elements in Shonen Rocket Corps, arguably many of these themes are built upon Tezuka's earlier works Lostworld, Metropolis, and Nextworld but this is the first time those themes begin to be ...