Kanata Kara Anime Begins Broadcast After Decades
A 1991 shoujo isekai that predates the genre's recent boom returning as an anime shows how older, pre-trope works are being mined now, and its language barrier premise is a reminder that the genre's staples were once choices, not formula.
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The anime adaptation of Kyoko Hikawa's Kanata Kara began broadcasting on October 5. The story follows Noriko, a high school student sent to another world, saved by a man named Izark, where she does not understand the local language. The original manga started in 1991 in the shoujo magazine LaLa, ran for 11 years, and comprised five parts.
Noriko carries a smartphone, which places the anime firmly in the present even though the manga she comes from began in 1991. In that world she is attacked by a creature called a hanamushi and saved by Izark, who is searching for the Awakening, a being that will wake the destructive monster Tenjouki. No one there speaks her language.
The manga ran 11 years across five parts in LaLa, whose 50th anniversary the article notes this year. The broadcast began on October 5.
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