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Unico (DMP)

Unico (DMP)

English Title: Unico
Japanese Title: ユニコ
Publication Date: 2012 (2015)
Publisher: DMP
No. of Volumes: 1
In Print:
Digital:

From the Publisher

A little unicorn named Unico lives with his mistress Psyche, bringing her happiness and good fortune in return for her unconditional love. The goddess Venus, however, grows jealous of Psyche’s legions of admirers and flings Unico across time and space! When he awakens, he’s facing down mean buffalo in the American West, with no memory of Psyche or his past life. It’s the first of many exciting adventures that will bring Unico face to face with high society in Imperial Russia, characters from fairy tales and Shakespeare, and even an automated factory intent on blotting out the sun.

WITH LOVE, ANYTHING’S POSSIBLE

Presented in its original full color format, Unico is a magical series of adorable and thought-provoking adventures that’s the perfect first manga to read with the little ones, straight from the mind of Osamu Tezuka, internationally beloved creator of “Astro Boy” and “Buddha.”

What you should know

Following on the success of DMP’s Kickstarter campaign to publish Barbara in 2012 –  the first Osamu Tezuka manga to be successfully funded and printed through crowdfunding –  DMP returned to the platform again in 2012 to successfully fund their “Osamu Tezuka Family Pack” campaign.  A total of 715 backers pledged $49,411 (of an initial $20,500 goal) to successful fund the publication of Uncio in a full-colour edition, with both the Atom Cat (at $26,000) and Triton of the Sea (at $47,000) stretch goals being successfully met as well.

Unlike most of DMP’s editions, Uncio was published in the Western right-to-left reading style, however it should be considered unflipped as, in a conscious effort to reach a more international readership, this is the original order that Tezuka intended Unico to be read.  The English edition is 400 pages in length and is printed in slightly smaller (and more square) than A5 (5.875″x8.25″) format.  In 2015, a digital edition was released and is available on DMP’s emanga.com website for legal download in a number of popular formats (ePub, CBR/CBZ, PDF, etc.).

Also in 2015, as part of the successful Kickstarter campaign to publish Storm Fairy in English, stretch goals to not only reprint Uncio (at $26,000), but actually re-publish it using higher quality colouring (at $27,000) and paper were both met – thus bringing this Tezuka classic back into print.