Marginal

マージナル · まーじなる

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Year1986 〜 1994

Volumes8

Latest volumeVol. 3 1994-04-20

Estimated circulation~0.3M est.

StatusCompleted

Publisher小学館

est. Rough estimate based on volume count, reprints and magazine — not an official figure

Overview

In the year 2999, only eleven cities still survive on Earth. The climate has changed drastically, and a biochemical apocalypse has made women extinct. For centuries, the male population of Earth has survived by depending on only one woman, called the Holy Mother, whose ova are harvested to create genetically engineered children. By now, any concept of a world in which women exist as ordinary people is long gone. Society has re-structured itself around all-male families, and gay relationships have become the norm. At the beginning of Marginal, the Holy Mother is assassinated by a terrorist known as Grinja. The government in power doesn't want to start a mass panic, so it pretends that the Holy Mother has only shed her vessel, and that she will be miraculously "reborn" in the near future. The public, which is superstitious and devout, believes this easily. Only government officials know that behind the scenes, there is a frantic effort to create a new being with an XXY chromosome -- a male capable of giving birth. (This is a BL misrepresentation of an actual phenomenon known as Klinefelter's Syndrome.) The manga's story revolves around one such boy -- Kira, the product of a genetic experiment, who becomes involved in a three-way relationship with Grinja, the aforementioned terrorist, and Ashijin, a young man who calls himself Kira's owner. A complex plot and flawless world-building make the story irresistible, and Kira's search for freedom is as symbolic as it is…

Source: AniList

Synopsis 日本語

西暦2999年、地球は汚染されて不毛の地となっていた。人々は不妊ウイルスにより生殖能力を失い、唯一の女性である聖母「マザ」を中心として、その息子たちで世界は構成されていると信じられていた。世界の中枢であるセンターはこの世界をミツバチ型社会「マージナル」と呼び、管理している。年々子供は減少し、不安が募るなか、祭礼の日にマザが暗殺されてしまう。

Source: Wikipedia「マージナル (漫画)」 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Boys' Love Sci-Fi Dystopian Drama Fantasy Post-Apocalyptic Mystery

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Volumes

PETIT COMICS First edition 5vols · 1986-07〜1987-11

#	Release	ISBN	Buy	Pages
Vol. 1	1986-07-20	4091780415	Rakuten · Amazon PR	195
Vol. 2	1987-02-20	4091780423	Rakuten · Amazon PR	216
Vol. 3	1987-04-20	4091780431	Rakuten · Amazon PR	208
Vol. 4	1987-10-20	409178044X	Rakuten · Amazon PR	205
Vol. 5	1987-11-20	4091780458	Rakuten · Amazon PR	222