Tetsuko no Tabi

Tetsuko no Tabi (鉄子の旅, lit. "Tetsuko's Travels") is a Japanese non-fiction manga series authored by Hirohiko Yokomi and illustrated by Naoe Kikuchi. The manga was serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Monthly Ikki between 2001 and 2006. An anime version was adapted by the animation studio Group TAC and contained 13 episodes.

Tetsuko no Tabi
鉄子の旅
Manga
Written byHirohiko Yokomi
Illustrated byNaoe Kikuchi
Published byShogakukan
MagazineMonthly Ikki
DemographicSeinen
Original run2001 – 2006
Volumes6
Anime television series
Directed byAkinori Nagaoka
StudioGroup TAC
Original run June 24, 2007 – September 23, 2007
Episodes13
Manga
Shin Tetsuko no Tabi
Written byHirohiko Yokomi
Illustrated byKanoko Hoashi
Published byShogakukan
MagazineMonthly Ikki
DemographicSeinen
Original runJuly 2009 – 2013
Volumes1
Manga
Tetsuko no Tabi 3-daime
Written byHirohiko Yokomi
Illustrated byAkira Kirioka
Published byShogakukan
MagazineMonthly Sunday Gene-X
DemographicSeinen
Original runMay 19, 2016[1] – January 19, 2019[2]
Volumes4

Overview

Tetsuko no Tabi is a non-fiction series. It is inspired on the book Getting On and Off of JR’s 4600 Stations by Hirohiko Yokomi, published in 1998, which chronicles his experience visiting all of Japan rail's train stations.[3][4] The editor in chief of Shogakukan's Monthly Ikki, Hideki Egami, wanted to recapture Yokomi's experience in manga. Masahiko Ishikawa, Shogakukan's editor and a rail fan, recruited Naoe Kikuchi, a new manga artist who worked with Shogakukan on a number of shorts, and this would be her first serialized work.[5][4] Tetsuko no Tabi is about Kikuchi herself, traveling with Yokomi and Ishikawa, to illustrate a manga based upon their.[4]

Characters

Main characters
  • Hirohiko Yokomi (voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama) is the travel-writer, who turns out to be a huge train-fan. He has a lot of energy and passion for trains, and sometimes girls, but also micro-manages all their trips, planning every detail down to the second. He cares mostly about following the schedule and successfully achieving his planned goals (e.g. visiting all stations on a line in a completely bizarre order to accommodate infrequent trains).
  • Naoe Kikuchi (voiced by: Akira Tomisaka) is a manga artist, she has no interest in trains whatsoever, and she keeps getting freaked out by Yokomi's antics. She's also cynical, sarcastic, and rather lazy, mainly looking forward to the next eki-ben.
  • Masahiko Ishikawa (voiced by: Tokuyoshi Kawashima) is Kikuchi's editor, another train geek.
  • Masaki Kamimura (voiced by: Tetsuharu Ōta) is Kikuchi's second editor.

Other characters
  • Kinako (voiced by: Masumi Toyooka) is a candidate for train-fan. She came to the solicitation by Yokomi.
  • Asako Yamada
  • Narrator (voiced by: Yoshio Harada)

Media

Manga

Tetsuko no Tabi debuted in Shogakukan's Spirits Zōkan Ikki (re-branded as Monthly Ikki in 2003) on November 30, 2001.[6] The series finished in the October 2006 issue of Monthly Ikki, published on August 25, 2006.[7][8] Shogakukan compiled its chapters into six tankōbon volumes, released from November 30, 2004 to February 28, 2007.[9] The series was again intermittently serialized from 2007 to 2008, and these chapters were compiled in a volume on February 25, 2009, titled Tetsuko no Tabi Plus.[7]

References
  1. 鉄子の旅　三代目：流行語大賞ノミネートの鉄道ルポマンガが“復活”　ファンの後押しで新連載スタート. Mantan Web (in Japanese). May 19, 2016. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  2. 月刊サンデージェネックス 2019年2月号. Neowing (in Japanese). Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  3. 乗った降りたJR4600駅 (日本語) 単行本 (in Japanese). Amazon. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  4. Chavez, ED (December 1, 2008). "Tetsuko no Tabi". Otaku USA Magazine. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  5. ［鉄子の旅］菊池直恵＆横見浩彦. IKKI Paradise (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on March 17, 2014. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  6. 本誌掲載作品一覧 (創刊号). Ikkist Paradise (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on December 3, 2002. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  7. 鉄子の旅プラス (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on March 17, 2015.
  8. 月刊 IKKI (イッキ) 2006年 10月号 [雑誌] 雑誌 – 2006/8/25 (in Japanese). Amazon. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  9. 鉄子の旅 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on November 12, 2007. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
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