Velveteen & Mandala
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Cover of the Japanese tankōbon
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| べっちんとまんだら (Becchin to Mandara) |
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| Genre | Dystopia |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Jiro Matsumoto |
| Published by | Ohta Publishing |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Manga Erotics F |
| Original run | June 2007 – October 2009 |
| Volumes | 1 |
Velveteen & Mandala, known in Japan as Becchin & Mandara (Japanese: べっちんとまんだら Hepburn: Becchin to Mandara?), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Jiro Matsumoto.
Plot
Velveteen & Mandala takes place in a dystopian Tokyo[1] that is in the midst of a war. The story focuses on the high school students Velveteen (べっちん Bechhin),who lives in a battle tank on a riverbed in Tokyo's Suginami ward, and Mandala (まんだら Mandara). After a large air raid, zombies start to fall from the sky.[2] and the girls get involved in exterminating the zombies in the dry river bed area.[3] Although they have to fight the zombies, most of conflict is between them[4] as they are both deeply disturbed, and both are harboring dark secrets that even they don't know.[2]
Release
A seinen manga,[4] Velveteen & Mandala first appeared as a serial from June 2007 and October 2009 in Ohta Publishing's Manga Erotics F magazine.[2][5][6] The 14 chapters[6] of the series were compiled into a single tankōbon released by Ohta Publishing on November 26, 2009.[7] In the following year, at the Anime Weekend Atlanta, Vertical announced that it had licensed the manga for an English-language translation in North America.[3] Vertical's representative Ioannis Mentzas said the series was chosen among other Matsumoto's title on the basis that it had not been scanlated.[8] Vertical released the manga on August 30, 2011.[1]
Reception
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External links
- Velveteen & Mandala (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
