Dogs (manga)
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First volume cover of the original Japanese release in 2006
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狗-DOGS- (Ku -Dogs-) |
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| Genre | Action, Biopunk, Drama, Thriller |
| Manga | |
| Dogs: Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark | |
| Written by | Shirow Miwa |
| Published by | Shueisha |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Ultra Jump |
| Published | 2001 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Manga | |
| Dogs: Bullets & Carnage | |
| Written by | Shirow Miwa |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Ultra Jump |
| Original run | 2005 – present |
| Volumes | 10 |
| Original video animation | |
| Dogs: Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark | |
| Directed by | Tatsuya Abe |
| Produced by | Goro Taniguchi |
| Written by | Kiyoko Yoshimura |
| Studio | David Production |
| Released | May 19, 2009 – May 29, 2009 |
| Runtime | 16 minutes |
| Episodes | 4 |
Dogs (Japanese: 狗-DOGS- Hepburn: Ku -Dogs-?) is a Japanese manga series by Shirow Miwa. The first manga of the series was published in 2001 as Dogs: Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark (Dogs: Prelude in the English version published by Viz Media). In 2005, a manga sequel began serialization in the manga magazine Ultra Jump as Dogs: Bullets & Carnage, continuing the storyline. The Dogs: Prelude manga volume has been adapted into a two-volume original video animation series (OVA) by David Production in 2009.
Dogs is set in a dystopic European city where violence, crime, genetic manipulation and other scientific brutalities have become common. The story focuses on four antihero protagonists who, through a series of coincidences, meet as they search for a way down to "the Below", looking for answers to their individual pasts.
The series originally began with Dogs: Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark (グッドドッグ・ステイ Guddo Doggu: Sutei?, lit. "Good Dog: Stay"): a one-shot manga that serves as prequel to the main series, Dogs: Bullets & Carnage (ドッグス: バレッツ&カーネイジ Doggusu: Barettsu Ando Kāneiji?). The Stray Dogs manga introduces the four main characters and the majority of the support characters, in four chapters that are largely independent of each other. The storyline presented in Dogs: Bullets & Carnage continues the adventures of the four main characters. Publication of the series took a short hiatus and resumed in the March 2010 issue of Ultra Jump.
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