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Meanwhile, Keita is determined to find out why his mother died after seeing her double as a young boy and to find out who is responsible for trying to destroy the coexistence balance on Earth.Ĭharacters Main protagonists of Black God. Once they are synchronized, she will have 200% as much power (In the anime, Kuro warns Keita that they need to be together at all times because her heart will become necrotic if it is away from the main body).Īs Kuro stays with Keita and gets acquainted with him while meeting with other Tera Guardians and their human masters, they are targeted by the strongest Tera Guardian clan of the East, the Shishigam Clan in an attempt to kidnap Akane and bring about the destruction of the coexistence balance, which Tera Guardians are supposed to protect. Kuro tells them that during this process he must stay close to her as the host body until the arm is completely fused, or it will rot and fall off and that because of the swap her power is temporarily diminished by 50%. In the manga, Keita and Akane strongly disbelieve what Kuro is telling them until Akane grabs Keita's left arm and yanks it around to show that it belongs to Keita, and it comes off. This creates a contract between them, which can make her more powerful than before.

Keita loses an arm during the second round of that fight but Kuro is able to save his life by exchanging his arm for hers since she has enhanced healing abilities like all Tera Guardians (In the anime, his heart is injured and their hearts are exchanged instead). He gives her his dinner, a bowl of ramen, and tries to protect her when she is attacked in an ambush by an unknown Tera Guardian. One night, he has a chance meeting with a high Tera Guardian named Kuro while eating alone at a ramen stand. He tries to stay afloat, survive financially and finance his video game project with money given to him by his 21-year-old childhood friend Akane Sano (In the anime, Keita is an ordinary high school student). The two biggest things on his mind are the death years ago of his mother, a few days after she and he had seen her doppelganger and his project, with two of his friends, to develop and sell a video game program to a big-time video game company in Tokyo.

Keita Ibuki is a 19-year-old independent and struggling freelance computer programmer. The other works of Lim and Park had been done for the manhwa market in South Korea. When Black God was being created, written, and illustrated by Lim, Park, and their manhwa team, it was done entirely in Korean first before it would then be translated from Korean to Japanese, as it was meant to be published and serialized for the Japanese manga market and not for South Korea. It has been adapted into an anime animated by Sunrise, and first aired in Japan and in the United States on January 8, 2009, while South Korea aired it on January 9, 2009. Nineteen volumes have been released in North America. īlack God was among four manga titles licensed by Yen Press along with Zombie-Loan, Alice on Deadlines and Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning when it was announced by their panel at the 2007 New York Comic Convention. They would occasionally make fun of the fact that none of them were fluent in Japanese in omake segments drawn at the end of each manga volume. The manga is created entirely by a Korean manhwa team led by both Lim and Park. In France and other French-speaking countries and territories, the manga goes under the name Kurokami: Black God. 'God' in the title refers to the fact that Kuro is a superhuman, or 'Tera Guardian'. The word 'Black' in the title refers to the character Kuro ( 黒), as it means black in Japanese. The story is initially set in modern-day Tokyo, then changes to the island of Okinawa in the middle of the story. Square Enix published the manga in Japan's bi-monthly seinen magazine Young Gangan.

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Black God ( Japanese: 黒神, Hepburn: Kuro Kami ) is a Japanese-Korean manga series written by Dall-Young Lim and illustrated by Park Sung-woo.