Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Animal Land (Japanese: どうぶつの国, Hepburn: Dōbutsu no Kuni, lit. \"Country of the Animals\") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Makoto Raiku. The series follows a human baby abandoned by his mother who ends up in a world inhabited solely by animals and is raised by a tanuki (Japanese raccoon dog). It was originally serialized in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from October 2009 to February 2014. Later, it was compiled into fourteen collected volumes by Kodansha in Japan. These volumes were licensed by Kodansha Comics USA to be published in the Northern America, starting from August 2011.Raiku chose animal word as the main theme of the series because he wanted a topic that had never been attempted before in a shōnen manga. The animals are used as metaphor to explore human themes, and because of the subjects it deals with it has been described as \"darker\" than apparently it was. This, however, did not prevent it for being well received by critics and winning the Kodansha Manga Award for Best Children's Manga. It has also sold reasonably, appearing in weekly top ten lists of best-seling manga both in Japan and North America."@en }
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- Animal_Land abstract "Animal Land (Japanese: どうぶつの国, Hepburn: Dōbutsu no Kuni, lit. \"Country of the Animals\") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Makoto Raiku. The series follows a human baby abandoned by his mother who ends up in a world inhabited solely by animals and is raised by a tanuki (Japanese raccoon dog). It was originally serialized in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from October 2009 to February 2014. Later, it was compiled into fourteen collected volumes by Kodansha in Japan. These volumes were licensed by Kodansha Comics USA to be published in the Northern America, starting from August 2011.Raiku chose animal word as the main theme of the series because he wanted a topic that had never been attempted before in a shōnen manga. The animals are used as metaphor to explore human themes, and because of the subjects it deals with it has been described as \"darker\" than apparently it was. This, however, did not prevent it for being well received by critics and winning the Kodansha Manga Award for Best Children's Manga. It has also sold reasonably, appearing in weekly top ten lists of best-seling manga both in Japan and North America.".