is a manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 scripted by Yasuhiro Imagawa

Yasuhiro Imagawa

is a Japanese anime director and screenwriter.-Selected works:*Mister Ajikko *Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still *Gin Rei...

 (Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Mobile Fighter G Gundam

Mobile Fighter G Gundam

Mobile Fighter G Gundam, known in Japan as , is a Japanese animated television series directed by Yasuhiro Imagawa . Created to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the franchise in 1994, it is the first of the Gundam series to be set in an alternate continuity from the original "Universal Century"...

) and illustrated by Yasunari Toda. The series was created, along with GR: Giant Robo

GR: Giant Robo

is an animated TV series written by Chiaki Konaka and directed by Masahiko Murata . The TV series is a re-imagining of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga of the same name and created to commemorate Giant Robos 40th anniversary...

, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Mitsuteru Yokoyama

Mitsuteru Yokoyama

was a Japanese manga artist born in Suma-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo. His personal name was originally spelled , with the same pronunciation. His works include Tetsujin 28-go, Giant Robo, Akakage, Babel II, Sally, the Witch, Princess Comet, and adaptations of the Chinese classics Outlaws of the Marsh and...

's 1967 manga Giant Robo

Giant Robo

is an original video animation series written and directed by Yasuhiro Imagawa , and inspired by Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga series of the same name....

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The Day the Earth Burned chronicles Daisaku Kusama's involvement in a three way battle between the International Police Organization, the Magnificent Ten and the Murasame Clan. The series follows the general tone and style of the Imagawa's The Day the Earth Stood Still but set in a different continuity.

Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Burned is serialized in Akita Shoten

Akita Shoten

is a Japanese publishing company established on August 10, 1948 in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Its main editorial target has always been teenagers , and it currently publishes mostly manga...

's Champion Red since September 2006.

Story

The story may take place in a reality separate from that of the OVA, The Day the Earth Burned explores what the OVA didn't: the true nature of the GR Project and the true leader of Big Fire, Big Fire himself.

The manga opens with Daisaku Kusama on a plane, leaving school to go visit his father overseas. A chain of strange events, from a man trying to poison him to this continuity's Ginrei jumping off of the plane Daisaku was on, ensues. Daisaku is picked up by a Big Fire agent and they're almost immediately attacked by the Experts of Justice. The groups soon learn of an impending disaster that could bring about the end of the world as they know it, and many feel Daisaku may somehow cause.

All hell breaks loose as Daisaku fleas both Big Fire and the Experts of Justice in an attempt to stop the war between the organizations, save the countless innocent lives caught in the middle, and prevent a fast-approaching doomsday prediction, all while learning to control Giant Robo.

Volumes

1. ISBN 978-4253232319 (Released on March 20, 2007)
2. ISBN 978-4253232326 (Released on September 20, 2007)
3. ISBN 978-4253232333 (Released on March 19, 2008)
4. ISBN 978-4253232340 (Released on September 19, 2008)
5. ISBN 978-4253232357 (Released on April 20, 2009)
6. ISBN 978-4253232364 (Released on September 18, 2009)
7. ISBN 978-4253232371 (Released on May 20, 2010)
8. ISBN 978-4253232388 (Released on November 19, 2010)

External links

• Robos 40th anniversary Official English Website