Goshiki no Fune
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Goshiki no Fune

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Five-color Boat
Japanese: 五色の舟


Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 8
Status: Finished
Published: Jul 12, 2013 to Feb 12, 2014
Genres: Award Winning Award Winning, Drama Drama
Theme: Historical Historical
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Comic Beam
Authors: Tsuhara, Yasumi (Story), Kondou, Youko (Art)

Statistics

Score: 6.611 (scored by 293293 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #147362
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Popularity: #19556
Members: 706
Favorites: 0
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Volumes: /1
Chapters: /8

Synopsis

Circumstances have intertwined the fates of five strangers. As a team of five, they make their living running a freak show. As a family of five, they live on a small boat together. In the midst of a terrible war, they add to their number the kudan, a monster rumored to tell the future.

(Source: MU)

Background

Goshiki no Fune won the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize Winner in manga category in 2014 and was nominated for the 19th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2015.

Characters

Yukinosuke
Main
Kazuo
Main
Isaka
Supporting
GHQ Commander-in-Chief
Supporting
The Kudan
Supporting
Inukai,
Supporting
Sakura
Supporting
Kiyoko
Supporting
Shousuke
Supporting

Reviews

Nov 23, 2016
The manga comments on and shows us about lives of people who are physically very different from majority of us. Very truly, without any softening they show how their lives are. What they have to do to survive. As it shows harsh realities, it is no manga for children as the bitter reality will be too much for them to digest. It is not obscene, just states the things as they are.
The manga also has elements of fantasy in it. But those things haven't been very well explained. But I may be feeling that because I am an outsider to Japanese culture. It also ...

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