Altair: A Record of Battles
Japanese manga series by Kotono Kato / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Altair: A Record of Battles (Japanese: 将国のアルタイル, Hepburn: Shōkoku no Arutairu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kotono Kato. It tells the story of Tuğril Mahmut, a young military officer and his exploits to protect his country from invasion by a neighboring empire. The manga was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sirius from July 2007 to November 2023, with its chapters collected in 27 tankōbon volumes.
Altair: A Record of Battles | |
将国のアルタイル (Shōkoku no Arutairu) | |
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Genre | Historical fantasy[1] |
Manga | |
Written by | Kotono Kato |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Monthly Shōnen Sirius |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | July 26, 2007 – November 25, 2023 |
Volumes | 27 (List of volumes) |
Manga | |
Shōkoku no Altair-san | |
Written by | Shiina Soga |
Published by | Kodansha |
Magazine | Monthly Shōnen Sirius |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | April 26, 2012 – September 26, 2013 |
Volumes | 1 |
Manga | |
Shōkoku no Altair Gaiden: Tōkoku no Subaru | |
Written by | Hirokazu Kobayashi |
Illustrated by | Chika Kato |
Published by | Kodansha |
Magazine | Monthly Shōnen Sirius |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | January 26, 2016 – April 26, 2019 |
Volumes | 7 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Kazuhiro Furuhashi |
Written by | Noboru Takagi |
Music by | Ryo Kawasaki |
Studio | MAPPA |
Licensed by | Amazon (streaming) |
Original network | JNN (MBS, TBS, BS-TBS, BSN) |
Original run | July 7, 2017 – December 22, 2017 |
Episodes | 24 (List of episodes) |
Anime and manga portal |
A 24-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by MAPPA, aired from July to December 2017. Amazon Video streamed the series worldwide as it aired in Japan.
In 2017, Altair: A Record of Battles won the 41st Kodansha Manga Awards in the shōnen category.