12 Beast

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12 Beast
12 Beast volume 1.jpg
Cover of the first Japanese volume
トゥエルヴビースト
(Tueruvu Bīsuto)
Genre Action Adventure
Manga
Written by Okayado
Published by Fujimi Shobo
English publisher
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Monthly Dragon Age
Original run November 9, 2013 (volume 1) – present
Volumes 4 (List of volumes)
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12 Beast (トゥエルヴビースト Tueruvu Bīsuto?) is an ongoing Japanese action adventure seinen manga series written and illustrated by Okayado.[lower-alpha 1] It is published by Fujimi Shobo, and began serialization in the Age Premium magazine. When Age Premium was shut down, it transferred to Monthly Dragon Age.[2] The chapters have been compiled into three tankōbon volumes as of August 2015.[3] It is published in English by Seven Seas Entertainment.[4]

Characters

  • Eita Touga: A teenage boy who just wants to be left alone to play video games.[5]
  • Aero: A female Harpy who asks Eita to help her save her world, the Re-verse.[5]
  • Jawea: A female Harpy war leader who has her doubts about Eita, but joins him nonetheless.
  • Asterio: A female Minotaur and master blacksmith who forges a new gauntlet for Eita and later joins him on his quest as well.[6]
  • Steela

Volumes

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 November 9, 2013[7] ISBN 978-4-04-712932-0 April 14, 2015[8] ISBN 978-1-626921-77-1
2 September 9, 2014[9] ISBN 978-4-04-070173-8 July 7, 2015[8] ISBN 978-1-626921-78-8
3 August 8, 2015[10] ISBN 978-4-04-070664-1 February 9, 2016[8] ISBN 978-1-626922-61-7
4 June 9, 2016[11] ISBN 978-4-04-070918-5 September 13, 2016[8] ISBN 978-1-626923-12-6

Reception

On Anime News Network, Rebecca Silverman gave volume one an overall grade of C, calling the story generic and textbook. She found the art to be interesting and that the characters distinctive, comparing the series to Okayado's Monster Musume characters. [5] Also on Anime News Network, Lynzee Lamb listed the series at number four on a list of "7 Manga for Monster Girl Lovers".[12]

Two volumes of the English translation have made it onto the New York Times Manga Best Sellers list:

  • Volume 2 stayed for one week, debuting at number 3.[13]
  • Volume 3 stayed for two weeks, debuting at number 3.[14]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Okayado is the pen name of Takemaru Inui.[1]

References

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