{"id":2609,"date":"2014-07-21T00:57:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T00:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=2609"},"modified":"2015-09-06T13:21:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T13:21:47","slug":"unico-dmp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=2609","title":{"rendered":"Unico (DMP)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>

Unico<\/em> (DMP)<\/p><\/div>\n

English Title:<\/strong> Unico<\/em><\/a>
\nJapanese Title:<\/strong> \u30e6\u30cb\u30b3
\nPublication Date:<\/strong> 2012\u00a0(2015)
\nPublisher:<\/strong> DMP<\/a>
\nNo. of Volumes:<\/strong>\u00a01
\nIn Print:<\/strong> \u2714
\nDigital:<\/strong> \u2714<\/p>\n

From the Publisher<\/h3>\n

A little unicorn named Unico lives with his mistress Psyche, bringing her happiness and good fortune in return for her unconditional love. The goddess Venus, however, grows jealous of Psyche’s legions of admirers and flings Unico across time and space! When he awakens, he’s facing down mean buffalo in the American West, with no memory of Psyche or his past life. It’s the first of many exciting adventures that will bring Unico face to face with high society in Imperial Russia, characters from fairy tales and Shakespeare, and even an automated factory intent on blotting out the sun.<\/em><\/p>\n

WITH LOVE, ANYTHING’S POSSIBLE<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Presented in its original full color format, Unico is a magical series of adorable and thought-provoking adventures that’s the perfect first manga to read with the little ones, straight from the mind of Osamu Tezuka, internationally beloved creator of \u201cAstro Boy” and “Buddha.”<\/em><\/p>\n

What you should know<\/h3>\n

Following on\u00a0the success of DMP<\/a>\u2019s Kickstarter campaign to publish\u00a0Barbara<\/em><\/a> in 2012 \u2013 \u00a0the first Osamu Tezuka manga to be successfully funded and printed through crowdfunding \u2013 \u00a0DMP<\/a>\u00a0returned to the platform again in 2012 to successfully fund their \u201cOsamu Tezuka Family Pack\u201d campaign. \u00a0A total of 715 backers pledged $49,411 (of an initial\u00a0$20,500<\/span> goal) to successful fund the publication of\u00a0Uncio<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>in a full-colour edition, with both the\u00a0Atom Cat<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(at $26,000) and Triton of the Sea<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(at $47,000) stretch goals being successfully met as well.<\/p>\n

Unlike most\u00a0of\u00a0DMP<\/a>\u2019s editions,\u00a0Uncio<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>was published in the Western right-to-left reading style, however it should be considered\u00a0unflipped\u00a0<\/strong>as, in a conscious effort to reach a more international readership, this is the original order that Tezuka intended Unico to be read. \u00a0The English edition is 400 pages<\/strong> in length and is printed in slightly smaller (and more square) than A5 (5.875\u2033x8.25\u2033) format. \u00a0In 2015, a digital edition was released<\/a> and is available on DMP\u2019s emanga.com<\/a> website for legal download in a number of popular formats (ePub, CBR\/CBZ, PDF, etc.).<\/p>\n

Also in 2015, as part of the successful Kickstarter campaign to publish Storm Fairy<\/a><\/em> in English, stretch goals to not only reprint\u00a0Uncio<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(at $26,000), but actually re-publish it using higher quality colouring (at $27,000) and paper were both met – thus bringing this Tezuka classic back into print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japanese Title: \u30e6\u30cb\u30b3 | Publication Date: 2012 (2015) | Publisher: Digital Manga Platinum | No. of Volumes: 1 | In Print: \u2714 | Digital: \u2714<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5730,"parent":493,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[176,181,8,177],"class_list":["post-2609","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-editions","tag-digital-editions","tag-dmp","tag-kickstarter","tag-print-editions","has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6vZWu-G5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5768,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2609\/revisions\/5768"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}