Zeni Geba

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Zeni Geba (銭ゲバ) is a Japanese manga story written by George Akiyama. The series was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1970 to 1971. Shōnen Sunday was once specified as "harmful" in some prefectures when the series has started, because of its violent and drastic depiction.[1]

Zeni Geba
銭ゲバ
Manga
Written byGeorge Akiyama
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
Original run19701971
Anime
Written byYoshikazu Okada
Released 17 January 2009 14 March 2009

The series was dramitized into a TV series in 2009, and was aired from January to March by the NNN TVs in Japan, starring Ken'ichi Matsuyama. The original story was released shortly after when Student activism was on in Japan and thus reflected such historical backgrounds as represented in its use of the word ゲバ (geba) in the title. The background of the TV series, on the other hand, was adjusted to reflect the 2009 world, including positioning of the main character as a temp worker (派遣社員, haken shain) working at a factory.[2]

General description

Zeni means money in Japanese and Geba means die Gewalt (power) in German. The gekiga comic strip was serialized from No. 13 in 1970 to No. 6 in 1971 in Weekly Shōnen Sunday.

The story was that by extreme poverty, a boy named Fūtarō Gamagōri (蒲郡風太郎) repeated murders and grasped money and honor.

Story

Gamagori Futaro has been poor since the day he was born. As a child his recklessly wasteful and abusive father sunk the family into debt and disappeared, leaving Futaro and his sick mother to fend for themselves. With no money to pay for medical treatment for his ailing mother she eventually died. After her death Futaro became obsessed with money and willing to do anything for it. Several years pass and Futaro finds himself working at "Mikuni Shipbuilding" where he meets the company president's daughters Midori, who was his former classmate, and her younger sister Akane, who is wheelchair-bound, and like Futaro, has a scarred face. In a plot to acquire their fathers company, Futaro begins to get close the sisters.

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References

  • 『銭ゲバ 上 (1) 』(幻冬舎文庫 し 20-4) ジョージ秋山 (文庫 - 2007/10)
  • 『銭ゲバ 下 (2) 』(幻冬舎文庫 し 20-5) ジョージ秋山 (文庫 - 2007/10)