Ex-Arm

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Ex-Arm

Japanese manga series

Ex-Arm[lower-alpha 4] is a Japanese science fiction manga series written by HiRock and illustrated by Shinya Komi. The series is a remake of Komi's earlier manga Ex-Vita. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Grand Jump from February 2015 to December 2017, and later on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ website from December 2017 to June 2019. Shueisha compiled its chapters into fourteen tankōbon volumes. A sequel manga titled Ex-Arm EXA was serialized in Grand Jump Mucha from August 2019 to February 2021 and compiled into two volumes.

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An anime television series adaptation by Visual Flight aired from January to March 2021.

Plot

In 2014, a high school student named Akira Natsume endures a phobia of electrical devices while also being very good at diagnosing them. He leads an average, unfulfilling life, and resolves to change himself for the better and get a girlfriend after being motivated by his older brother. Soon after, he suddenly dies in an accident. 16 years later, a young policewoman named Minami Uenozono and her android partner Alma retrieve and activate a highly advanced AI superweapon known as an "Ex-Arm" and put it into full control of their ship as a last resort. The AI turns out to be Akira's brain, now in a digital form. The series revolves around the police force's attempts to suppress and defeat adversaries using Ex-Arms for their own purposes.

Characters

Akira Natsume (夏目 アキラ, Natsume Akira)
Voiced by: Soma Saito[3]
Minami Uezono (上園 美波, Uezono Minami)
Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu[3]
Alma (アルマ, Aruma)
Voiced by: Akari Kitō[3]
Soushi Shiga (士牙 総司, Shiga Sōshi)
Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa[4]
Chikage Rokuoin (鹿王院 千景, Rokuōin Chikage)
Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka[4]
Alisa Himegami (アリサ 姫神, Arisa Himegami)
Voiced by: Yui Ishikawa[4]
Kimura (キムラ)
Voiced by: Taku Yashiro[4]
Kondō (近藤)
Voiced by: Shōmaru Zōza[4]
Shūichi Natsume (夏目 柊一, Natsume Shūichi)
Voiced by: Kōji Yusa[5]
Sōma (蒼真)
Voiced by: Yū Kobayashi[5]
Yggdrasil (ユグドラシル, Yugudorashiru)
Voiced by: Miyu Tomita[6]
Kaori Munakata (宗像 香織, Munakata Kaori)
Voiced by: Satomi Arai[6]
Elmira (エルミラ, Erumira)
Voiced by: Azumi Waki[7]
Throughhand (スルーハンド, Surūhando)
Voiced by: Takaya Kuroda[7]

Media

Manga

Ex-Arm is written by HiRock and illustrated by Shinya Komi. A first series, written and illustrated by Komi, titled Ex-Vita, was published in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Miracle Jump from December 13, 2011, to April 30, 2013.[8][9] Shueisha collected is chapters into two tankōbon volumes, published on August 17, 2012, and June 19, 2013.[10][11] Ex-Arm was published in Shueisha's Grand Jump from February 18, 2015 to December 6, 2017.[12][13][14][15] The series was then transferred to the Shōnen Jump+ website and app, and ran from December 20, 2017 to June 26, 2019.[16][14] Shueisha collected its chapters into fourteen tankōbon volumes, released from June 19, 2015, to August 19, 2019.[17][18]

A sequel series, titled Ex-Arm EXA, was serialized in Grand Jump Mucha from August 28, 2019, to February 27, 2021.[14][19][20][21] The first collected tankōbon volume was released on December 18, 2020.[22] The second volume was released on March 18, 2021.[23]

A manga adaptation of the novel Ex-Arm the Novel: Deus Ex Machina, titled Ex-Arm Another Code, was serialized in Shueisha's Ultra Jump from February 19 to November 19, 2020.[24][25][26][27] The two collected tankōbon volumes were released on December 18, 2020, and January 19, 2021.[28][29][30]

Volumes

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Novel

A novel titled Ex-Arm the Novel: Deus Ex Machina, written by Atarō Kumo, was published by Shueisha under its Jump J-Books imprint on December 19, 2018.[43]

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced on the release of the manga's 12th volume on December 18, 2018.[44] The series is produced by Visual Flight and directed by Yoshikatsu Kimura, with Tommy Morton in charge of the scripts and Sō Kimura as composer.[45] The main staff of the series have no previous experience with working on anime.[46] Originally set for a July 2020 release,[47][48] the series aired from January 11 to March 29, 2021 on Tokyo MX, SUN, and BS Fuji due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[49][50][51][52] The opening theme is "Rise Again" performed by AIRFLIP, while the ending theme is "Diamonds Shine" performed by Dizzy Sunfist.[53][6]

Episodes

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Reception

The anime was met with backlash due to the poor quality of the computer-generated imagery (CGI) animation.[46][57][58]

Notes

  1. Unconfirmed romanization of 関谷博
  2. Unconfirmed romanization of 鈴木嘉規
  3. Unconfirmed romanization of 岡田秀信
  4. Japanese: EX-ARM（エクスアーム）
  5. All English titles are taken from Crunchyroll.[55]
  6. Information is taken from the ending credits of each episode.

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