Silent Möbius
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Silent Möbius (Japanese: サイレントメビウス, Hepburn: Sairento Mebiusu) is a twelve-volume manga series created by manga artist Kia Asamiya. It is heavily influenced by the film Blade Runner and is centered on the lives of an all-female group of police officers dedicated to protecting Tokyo from an invasion of extra-dimensional creatures called Lucifer Hawks.
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サイレントメビウス (Sairento Mebiusu) | |
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Genre | Science fiction[1] |
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Written by | Kia Asamiya |
Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
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Magazine | Comic Dragon |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | 1989 – 1999 |
Volumes | 12 |
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Music by | Kaoru Wada |
Studio | AIC |
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Released | August 17, 1991 – July 18, 1992 |
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Films | 2 |
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Möbius Klein | |
Written by | Kia Asamiya |
Published by | MediaWorks |
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Magazine | Dengeki Comics EX |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | 1994 – 1994 |
Volumes | 1 |
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Studio | Radix & Shaft[lower-alpha 1] |
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Original network | TXN (TV Tokyo) |
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Original run | 7 April 1998 – 29 September 1998 |
Episodes | 26 |
Game | |
Silent Möbius: Genei no Datenshi | |
Developer | TechnoSoft |
Publisher | Bandai Visual |
Genre | Graphic adventure, Role-playing video game |
Platform | PlayStation |
Released | December 23, 1998 |
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Silent Möbius Tales | |
Written by | Kia Asamiya |
Published by | Square Enix |
English publisher |
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Magazine | Monthly GFantasy |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | 2003 – 2003 |
Volumes | 2 |
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Silent Möbius QD | |
Written by | Kia Asamiya |
Published by | Kodansha |
Magazine | Monthly Young Magazine |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | August 12, 2013 – June 20, 2018 |
Volumes | 4 |
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The series has been adapted into animation twice, first as a pair of films and later as a 26-episode television series. Streamline Pictures originally released the first film in the United States. The entire anime was released in North America by Bandai Entertainment and dubbed in English by Ocean Productions. The series was adapted into the Japan-exclusive J-RPG Silent Möbius: Genei no Datenshi for the PlayStation in 1998. It features an original plot.
A new manga series, titled Silent Möbius QD, started in 2013 and serves as a sequel to the original series.