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Homunculus (Japanese: ホムンクルス, Hepburn: Homunkurusu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideo Yamamoto. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits from March 2003 to February 2011, with its chapters collected in 15 tankōbon volumes. A live-action film adaptation, directed by Takashi Shimizu and starring Gō Ayano premiered in April 2021.
Homunculus | |
ホムンクルス (Homunkurusu) | |
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Genre | |
Manga | |
Written by | Hideo Yamamoto |
Published by | Shogakukan |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Weekly Big Comic Spirits |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | March 17, 2003 – February 21, 2011 |
Volumes | 15 |
Live-action film | |
Directed by | Takashi Shimizu |
Licensed by | Netflix |
Released | April 2, 2021 |
Trepanation is the procedure of drilling holes in a person's head, supposedly increasing the circulation of blood and helping to improve the pressure inside one's skull, bringing out a person's sixth sense and causing them to gain superhuman powers such as ESP, being able to see ghosts, and controlling objects remotely with one's mind. This is speculative fiction based on the concept of trepanation.
Susumu Nakoshi is a 34-year-old homeless man living out of his car. For two weeks, he has declined his fellow homeless men's invitations to set up a tent with them, preferring to sleep in his car. However, one day, he is accosted by a strange-looking man searching for participants to subject themselves to trepanation. Nakoshi tells the man to leave, and discards the flier he'd placed on his windshield. However, when his car is towed, he agrees to let medical student Manabu Itoh drill a hole in his skull in exchange for ¥700,000. Itoh claims to be interested in trepanation for the sake of science; he is interested in humans, fascinated with ESP and the sixth sense, and wants to disprove the existence of the occult. Itoh's father owns a lab facility, as his father is a rich hospital director. Itoh performs the trepanation surgery on Nakoshi and does a variety of ESP tests. When Nakoshi reveals that he sees distorted humans when using only the left side of his body, Itoh researches and discovers that Nakoshi can see homunculi.
Itoh explains psychoanalytic theory to Nakoshi after the yakuza incident.
Homunculus, written and illustrated by Hideo Yamamoto, was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits from March 17, 2003,[6][7] to February 21, 2011.[8][9] Shogakukan collected its chapters in 15 tankōbon volumes, released from July 30, 2003, to April 28, 2011.[10][11] They later republished the series in a ten-volume bunkoban edition from May 15, 2015,[12] to January 15, 2016.[13]
The manga is licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment.[14][15] They started publishing the series in a 2-in-1 five-volume omnibus edition on June 27, 2023.[16]
No. | Release date | ISBN |
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1 | July 30, 2003[10] | 978-4-09-187071-1 |
2 | April 30, 2004[17] | 978-4-09-187072-8 |
3 | July 30, 2004[18] | 978-4-09-187073-5 |
4 | December 24, 2004[19] | 978-4-09-187074-2 |
5 | February 28, 2005[20] | 978-4-09-187075-9 |
6 | August 30, 2005[21] | 978-4-09-187076-6 |
7 | November 30, 2006[22] | 978-4-09-180772-4 |
8 | June 29, 2007[23] | 978-4-09-181068-7 |
9 | February 29, 2008[24] | 978-4-09-181747-1 |
10 | August 28, 2009[25] | 978-4-09-182129-4 |
11 | December 26, 2009[26] | 978-4-09-182250-5 |
12 | February 27, 2010[27] | 978-4-09-183018-0 |
13 | July 30, 2010[28] | 978-4-09-183353-2 |
14 | December 25, 2010[29] | 978-4-09-183535-2 |
15 | April 28, 2011[11] | 978-4-09-183790-5 |
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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1 | May 15, 2015[12] | 978-4-09-196012-2 | June 27, 2023[16] | 978-1-68579-729-4 |
2 | May 15, 2015[30] | 978-4-09-196013-9 | June 27, 2023[16] | 978-1-68579-729-4 |
3 | June 13, 2015[31] | 978-4-09-196014-6 | September 26, 2023[32] | 978-1-68579-926-7 |
4 | July 15, 2015[33] | 978-4-09-196015-3 | September 26, 2023[32] | 978-1-68579-926-7 |
5 | August 12, 2015[34] | 978-4-09-196016-0 | December 19, 2023[35] | 978-1-68579-952-6 |
6 | September 15, 2015[36] | 978-4-09-196017-7 | December 19, 2023[35] | 978-1-68579-952-6 |
7 | October 15, 2015[37] | 978-4-09-196018-4 | March 19, 2024[38] | 979-8-88843-354-6 |
8 | November 13, 2015[39] | 978-4-09-196019-1 | March 19, 2024[38] | 979-8-88843-354-6 |
9 | December 15, 2015[40] | 978-4-09-196020-7 | July 2, 2024[41] | 979-8-88843-472-7 |
10 | January 15, 2016[13] | 978-4-09-196039-9 | July 2, 2024[41] | 979-8-88843-472-7 |
In September 2020, it was announced that Homunculus would receive a live-action film adaptation.[42] The film is directed by Takashi Shimizu and stars Gō Ayano. It premiered in Japan on April 2, 2021, and premiered exclusively on Netflix worldwide on April 22.[4][43]
By September 2020, the Homunculus manga had over 4 million copies in circulation.[42]
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