Purple Eyes in the Dark
Purple Eyes in the Dark | |
闇のパープル·アイ (Yami no Pāpuru Ai) | |
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Genre | Drama, romance, supernatural |
Manga | |
Written by | Shōjo Comic |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Original run | 1984 – 1986 |
Volumes | 12 |
Music video | |
Directed by | J.C. Staff, Youmex |
Released | 1987 |
Runtime | 30 minutes |
Light novel | |
Purple Eyes in the Dark Novel | |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Original run | August 1991 – November 1992 |
Volumes | 6 |
Television drama | |
Directed by | Masato Tsuzino |
Written by | Minoru Tanabe |
Studio | Toei Company |
Original network | TV Asahi |
Original run | July 1, 1996 – September 9, 1996 |
Episodes | 11 |
Purple Eyes in the Dark (
The series was adapted into a 30-minute music video (
Purple Eyes in the Dark was awarded the 1987 Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōjo manga category.
Story
Rinko Ozaki is a normal high school girl, but she has a fixation on a weird birthmark on her arm. Her biology teacher, Ms. Sonehara, has a peculiar interest in the birthmark, and it fires up when her childhood friend, Shin'ya Mizushima, tries to make a move on her. Not only that, Rinko also notices her eyes glow purple. The next day when Rinko is sexually assaulted, she finally discovers that her birthmark causes her to shapeshift into a leopard.
Characters
- Rinko Ozaki
- A first year in high-school, she has a crush on her childhood friend Shin'ya Mizushima. When assaulted by some of her classmates, Rinko involuntarily transforms into a leopard and kills them.
- Shin'ya Mizushima
- A third year high-school student, Shin'ya has known Rinko since they were very young. He first shelters Rinko after finding her unconscious after the deaths of their classmates.
- Kaoruko Sonehara
- Rinko's biology teacher. She and her father studied humans who could turn into beasts. She first suspects Rinko of being one of these humans after she sees her birthmark. She is a cruel woman who tries to conduct experiments on Rinko and even her sister Maiko, assuming that she can transform too because they have the same blood.
- Maiko Ozaki
- Rinko's sister. She later dies when Sonehara experiments on her, thinking she too can transform.
- Professor Sonehara
- Kaoruko's father, he also studied people who can transform into beasts. When he presents his evidence to the world of science, he is shamed and rejected leading him to set himself on fire in a fit of madness. Kaoruko douses the flames and he survives, but ends up succumbing to insanity. Kaoruko locks him in the basement of their home to make the world believe he died instead of tainting his image and research with his mental breakdown.
- Mitusgu Odagiri
- A journalist who originally tries to expose Sonehara's research on humans that can turn into beasts, but later on ends up pursuing Rinko and revealing hat he has purple eyes too. He can transform into a black panther that is larger than Rinko.
Media
Manga
Written and illustrated by
No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN |
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1 | October 26, 1984[4] | 4-09-131651-4 |
2 | January 26, 1985[5] | 4-09-131652-2 |
3 | March 26, 1985[6] | 4-09-131653-0 |
4 | May 25, 1985[7] | 4-09-131654-9 |
5 | August 21, 1985[8] | 4-09-131655-7 |
6 | October 26, 1985[9] | 4-09-131656-5 |
7 | January 25, 1986[10] | 4-09-131657-3 |
8 | April 26, 1986[11] | 4-09-131658-1 |
9 | June 26, 1986[12] | 4-09-131659-X |
10 | August 20, 1986[13] | 4-09-131660-3 |
11 | November 26, 1986[14] | 4-09-131851-7 |
12 | February 26, 1987[15] | 4-09-131852-5 |
Albums
OVA
Novels
The series was adapted as a series of six light novels published by Shogakukan entitled Purple Eyes in the Dark Novel (小説 闇のパープル·アイ, Shousetsu Yami no Pāpuru Ai).
No. | Release date | ISBN |
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1 | August 1991[18] | 978-4-09-420121-5 |
2 | November 1991[19] | 978-4-09-420122-2 |
3 | February 1992[20] | 978-4-09-420123-9 |
4 | June 1992[21] | 978-4-09-420124-6 |
5 | August 1992[22] | 978-4-09-420125-3 |
6 | November 1992[23] | 978-4-09-420126-0 |
Live-action drama
The series was adapted into an 11-episode
Reception
In 1987, Purple Eyes in the Dark was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōjo manga category.[24]
References
- ^ Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
- ^ 闇のパープル·アイ〔小学館文庫〕 1 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
闇のパープル·アイ〔小学館文庫〕 2 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
闇のパープル·アイ〔小学館文庫〕 3 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
闇のパープル·アイ〔小学館文庫〕 4 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27. - ^ 闇のパープル·アイ〔小学館文庫〕 5 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
闇のパープル·アイ〔小学館文庫〕 6 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
闇のパープル·アイ〔小学館文庫〕 7 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27. - ^ "闇のパープル・アイ〔FC〕 1" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ 闇のパープル・アイ〔小学館文庫〕 2 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ 闇のパープル・アイ〔小学館文庫〕 3 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ 闇のパープル・アイ〔小学館文庫〕 4 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ 闇のパープル・アイ〔小学館文庫〕 5 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ 闇のパープル・アイ〔小学館文庫〕 6 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ 闇のパープル・アイ〔小学館文庫〕 7 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ 闇のパープル・アイ〔小学館文庫〕 8 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ 闇のパープル・アイ〔小学館文庫〕 9 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ 闇のパープル・アイ〔小学館文庫〕 9 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ 闇のパープル・アイ〔小学館文庫〕 9 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ "闇のパープル・アイ〔FC〕 12" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
- Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
- Amazon.co.jp. ASIN 4094201211.
- Amazon.co.jp. ASIN 409420122X.
- Amazon.co.jp. ASIN 4094201238.
- Amazon.co.jp. ASIN 4094201246.
- Amazon.co.jp. ASIN 4094201254.
- Amazon.co.jp. ASIN 4094201262.
- ^ 小学館漫画賞: 歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on 2005-04-24. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
External links
- Purple Eyes in the Dark (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Purple Eyes in the Dark (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia