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うえきの法則 (Ueki no Hōsoku) | |
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Genre | Adventure, comedy[1] |
Manga | |
Written by | Tsubasa Fukuchi |
Published by | Shogakukan |
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Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
Original run | August 8, 2001 – October 27, 2004 |
Volumes | 16 (List of volumes) |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Hiroshi Watanabe |
Written by | Toshifumi Kawase |
Music by | Akifumi Tada |
Studio | Studio Deen |
Licensed by | |
Original network | TV Tokyo |
Original run | April 4, 2005 – March 27, 2006 |
Episodes | 51 (List of episodes) |
Manga | |
The Law of Ueki Plus | |
Written by | Tsubasa Fukuchi |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
Original run | April 20, 2005 – July 4, 2007 |
Volumes | 5 (List of volumes) |
The Law of Ueki (うえきの法則Ueki no Hōsoku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsubasa Fukuchi. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from August 2001 to October 2004. Sixteen tankōbon volumes were compiled and published by Shogakukan. An anime adaptation was first broadcast on TV Tokyo on April 4, 2005, and ended with 51 episodes on March 27, 2006. In Indonesia, this anime Originally Broadcast by Lativi (now tvOne) since year 2007 and Global TV since year 2008. It was produced by Studio Deen. A manga sequel, The Law of Ueki Plus (うえきの法則プラスUeki no Hōsoku PURASU), was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from April 2005 to July 2007.
The manga was licensed for distribution in North America by Viz Media,[2] while the anime adaptation was licensed by Geneon.[3] On July 3, 2008, Geneon and Funimation announced an agreement to distribute select titles in North America. While Geneon would still retain the license, Funimation would assume exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of select titles. The Law of Ueki was one of several titles involved in the deal.[4] The rights to the series expired in 2011.[5]ImaginAsian TV broadcast the anime series to the American audience on its Anime EnerG block, starting on January 30, 2007.[6] The anime has been license rescued by Discotek Media in 2018.[7]
The story starts out with the Battle of the Supernatural Powers, a tournament to decide who will be the next god of The Celestial World (rendered as God Candidates in the Animax version[8] and Kami (天界人) in the Japanese version).
Each candidate (100 in total) is required to choose a junior high school student to act as their fighter. The student is given a unique power and told to eliminate as many enemies as possible. The winning God Candidate will become The New God of Heaven and the winning student will receive the Blank Zai (or talent), a talent that can be anything they choose.
While this leads many students to thoughts of greed and selfishness, Kosuke Ueki decides to take it upon himself to win this tournament to keep that power away from those that would abuse such a gift.
Two years after the tournament in The Law of Ueki, Kosuke Ueki is now a 3rd year student in Hinokuni Junior High School. For some reason, everyone in the real world has lost their memory of their most important person, including his friends who participated in the tournament two years ago. Ueki is the only one unaffected, and is fighting in order to restore everyone's memories. He follows a little sheep named U-lu (wool in English) to another world called Hangekai where he meets new companions and gains new abilities.
Initially, fights in the tournament consist of a battle between two power users - one wins by knocking the other opponent out.
When a knock-out is obtained, the loser will lose their power and the winner will gain a talent Zai (才), which is a talent of some sort (e.g. 'talent of running,' 'talent of studying,' and so on). A power user who has lost a fight is disqualified and their power is labeled 'retired.'
The rules for the combatants of the tournament revolve around the talents:
There are also rules which apply to the Celestial World Candidates, also known as God Candidates. The punishment for breaking them is that the candidate is sent to Hell.
Near the end of the tournament, power users are allowed to form groups of five for 'battle royale'-style fighting. Knock-outs during this stage do not result in losing powers. Each team is given a penalty if it loses, such as having all of the members die or losing their hair in addition to losing their powers.
To decide who receives the Blank Talent among the winning team, a device is used to measure the growth in power that each participant has shown from the beginning to the end of the tournament. To decide who is to become King of the Celestial World, the winning team votes which of the candidates should be given that honor.
All heavenly beings, or Celestials, have the potential to master a total of ten attacks which correspond with different levels of their growth. These attacks are called Jingi, or 'sacred treasures'. Higher level sacred treasures have a higher damage capability than lower ones. Grub manual boot. If a heavenly being is a power-user (having received a power from a God Candidate), their power is merged with their sacred treasures, becoming Neo-Celestials. In the case of Ueki, he manifests these abilities through his talent of tree growth. A heavenly being's sacred treasures with no special powers will take the form of stone. In the Battle Game, there are only six heavenly beings: Ueki, Robert, Kilnorton, Diegostar, Balo and Ban Dicoot, but only Ueki and Robert are level 2 power users.
Every middle school student has talents that help them in battle or in life. An important rule in the tournament to prevent power users from attacking anyone they please is that the power user will lose a talent if they attack a non-power user, but they can gain a random talent by knocking out another power user. If the power user loses all their talents, they will vanish.
Ueki starts the series with eleven talents: Girl charisma, ability to study, ability to run, accuracy, ability to eat fast, ability to search, lottery, animal charisma, ability to swim, ability to dodge, and the ability to imitate. However, those soon begin to dwindle down because of his desire to protect innocent civilians with his powers, a source of endless frustration to Mori.
The talent of blank zai is a reward of winning the battle that allows the winner to write any talent they desire down and instantly become the best in existence with this talent, no matter what it is.
Robert Haydn's name and personality is a reference to the African American poet Robert Hayden (1913–1980). His entire childhood was fraught with traumatic events and parental abuse. One of his more famous poems 'The Whipping' was about a child who was being beaten by his grandmother, with underlying symbolism of slavery.
The Law of Ueki is written and illustrated by Tsubasa Fukuchi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from August 8, 2001 to October 27, 2004.[9][10] Sixteen tankōbon volumes were compiled and published by Shogakukan, with the first volume published on December 18, 2001,[11] and the last on January 14, 2005.[12]
A manga sequel, The Law of Ueki Plus, was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from April 20, 2005 to July 4, 2007,[13] and compiled in five tankōbon volumes released from August 8, 2005[14] to September 18, 2007.[15]
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The Law of Ueki was also adapted into a PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Advance game released only in Japan. The PlayStation 2 game is called Ueki no Hōsoku: Taosu ze Roberuto Jūdan!! (うえきの法則: 倒ぜロベルト十団!) while the Game Boy Advance game is called Ueki no Hōsoku: Jingi Sakuretsu! Nōryokusha Battle (うえきの法則: 神器炸裂!能力者バトル). They are based on the story of the anime.
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Carlo Santos | Overall (dub): D Overall (sub): C Story: C- Animation: B- Art: C Music: C | DVD/Anime Review of DVD 1 | [16] |
Chris Beveridge | Content: C Audio: B+ Video: B+ Packaging: B Menus: B- Extras: B- | DVD/Anime Review | [17] |
Ueki appeared briefly in the episode Saving Face of Kappa Mikey as a portrait in the background of Dr. Takashi Katashi's office. He also appeared in background and crowded scenes of the show.
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