Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Burned

Giant Robo
Cover to volume 1 of the manga Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Burned, published by Akita Shoten
ジャイアント・ロボ - 地球の燃え尽きる日 (Jaianto Robo - Chikyū no Moetsukiru Hi)
Genre	Martial arts, Science fiction
Manga
Written by	Yasuhiro Imagawa
Illustrated by	Yasunari Toda
Published by	Akita Shoten
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Champion Red
Original run	September 2006 – January 2011
Volumes	9

Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Burned (ジャイアント・ロボ - 地球の燃え尽きる日 Jaianto Robo - Chikyū no Moetsukiru Hi) is a manga scripted by Yasuhiro Imagawa (Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Mobile Fighter G Gundam) and illustrated by Yasunari Toda. The series was created, along with GR: Giant Robo, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's 1967 manga Giant Robo.

The Day the Earth Burned chronicles Daisaku Kusama's involvement in a three way battle between the International Police Organization, the Magnificent Ten and the Murasame Clan. The series follows the general tone and style of the Imagawa's The Day the Earth Stood Still but set in a different continuity.

Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Burned is serialized in Akita Shoten's Champion Red since September 2006.

Story

The story takes place in a reality separate from that of the OVA, The Day the Earth Burned explores what the OVA didn't: the true nature of the GR Project and the true leader of Big Fire, Big Fire himself.

The manga opens with Daisaku Kusama on a plane, leaving school to go visit his father overseas. A chain of strange events, from a man trying to poison him to this continuity's Ginrei jumping off of the plane Daisaku was on, ensues. Daisaku is picked up by a Big Fire agent and they're almost immediately attacked by the Experts of Justice. The groups soon learn of an impending disaster that could bring about the end of the world, and many feel Daisaku may somehow cause it.

All hell breaks loose as Daisaku flees both Big Fire and the Experts of Justice in an attempt to stop the war between the organizations, save the countless innocent lives caught in the middle, and prevent a fast-approaching doomsday prediction, all while learning to control Giant Robo.

Volumes

1. ISBN 978-4-253-23231-9 (Released on March 20, 2007)
2. ISBN 978-4-253-23232-6 (Released on September 20, 2007)
3. ISBN 978-4-253-23233-3 (Released on March 19, 2008)
4. ISBN 978-4-253-23234-0 (Released on September 19, 2008)
5. ISBN 978-4-253-23235-7 (Released on April 20, 2009)
6. ISBN 978-4-253-23236-4 (Released on September 18, 2009)
7. ISBN 978-4-253-23237-1 (Released on May 20, 2010)
8. ISBN 978-4-253-23238-8 (Released on November 19, 2010)
9. ISBN 978-4-253-23239-5 (Released on April 20, 2011)

External links

• Giant Robo's 40th anniversary Official English Website