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Tetsuya Imai's Break of Dawn Science Fiction Manga Gets Anime Film

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Boy obsessed with impending comet impact meets extraterrestrial in fall film

Gustav Holst's famous classical piece "Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity."

Imai also drew the below illustration to celebrate the film's announcement.

The "juvenile science fiction" manga's story is set in the near-future year of 2049, where humanity has become aware for a number of years that the Earth will have an unavoidable collision with a large-scale comet. The manga's story focuses on Yūma, a boy obsessed with space, robots, and the impending collision. He has an encounter with an extraterrestrial being, which he finds out is connected to the incoming comet.

Imai Afternoon magazine in January 2011. Kodansha published two compiled book volumes for the manga.

Imai Media Arts Festival Awards in 2013.

The Alice & Zouroku manga dub for the anime. Funimation released the anime on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in July 2018.

Sources: Break of Dawn anime's website, Avex Pictures' Twitter , Comic Natalie


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