Rumic World

Rumic World
るーみっくわーるど
(Rūmikku Wārudo)
Manga
Written by Rumiko Takahashi
Published by Shōgakukan
Original run 1994 – 1995
Volumes 3
Manga
One or Double
Written by Rumiko Takahashi
Published by Shōgakukan
Published September 1995
Related works

Rumic World (るーみっくわーるど Rūmikku Wārudo), can refer either to a series of short manga stories written by Rumiko Takahashi or to a series of Original Video Animation's based on those stories.

Rumic World was later reprinted in Japan as Takahashi Rumiko Kessaku Tanpenshū (高橋留美子傑作短編集). Most of the stories tend to be comedies.

The Original Video Animation's (OVA's) were released in North American and United Kingdom by Central Park Media and Manga Entertainment.

Some of these stories, along with newer stories, were also animated as part of the Takahashi Rumiko Gekijou (Rumiko Takahashi Anthology) anime series.

Manga Stories

Japanese editions

The Rumic World stories were originally published separately in various Shōgakukan magazines. The complete collection was published twice in Japan. Rumic World was released twice in Japan, the first edition, Rumic World (るーみっくわーるど Rūmikku Wārudo), utilized the tankoban format, and consisted of three volumes:

Volume 1[1]
Volume 2[2]
Volume 3[3]

The second edition, Hozonban Rūmikku Wārudo Takahashi Rumiko Kessaku Tampenshū (【保存版】るーみっくわーるど　高橋留美子傑作短編集), in wideban format, contained the same stories, reduced into two volumes, with the stories in a different order:

Volume 1
Volume 2

Another collection of similar short stories not included in either of the first two editions, was titled either One or Double (１　ｏｒ　Ｗ Wan oa Daburu), or Rumic World Rumiko Takahashi Presents "The Collection of Short Stories" (【るーみっくわーるど】高橋留美子短編集 Rūmikku Wārudo Takahashi Rumiko Tampenshū) This book also uses the wideban format,[4] and contains the following stories:

English Editions

Some of Takahashi's stories were printed in Manga-vizion magazine in a "flipped" style [5] and are no longer in print.

While Viz Media initially published two Rumic World stories in 1989 and 1990, it published a three volume set of the Rumic World collection in 1996, corresponding to the Japanese editions, with a different order to the stories:

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

Viz Media also published a book corresponding to the "One or Double" collection of short stories published in Japan, under the title, Rumic Theater: One or Double. It contained the following stories:

Notes and references

  1. ↑ るーみっく・わーるど 1 (少年サンデーブックス) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  2. ↑ るーみっく・わーるど 2 (少年サンデーブックス) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ るーみっく・わーるど 3 (少年サンデーブックス) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  4. ↑ "1orW(ワン・オア・ダブル)―るーみっくわーるど" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  5. ↑ Text in the Japanese language reads right-to-left so manga artwork is composed right-to-left. For English editions the artwork is often mirrored - or flipped - to read left-to-right.

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