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Message to Adolf (manga)

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Alternative title:
Adolf ni Tsugu (Japanese)
Adolf: A Tale of the Twentieth Century
Aufruf an Adolf! (German)
Do Adolfów (Polish)
I tre Adolf (Italian)
L'Histoire des 3 Adolf (French)
La storia dei tre Adolf (Italian)
Recado a Adolf (Portuguese)
Storia dei tre Adolf (Italian) 
Tell Adolf
アドルフに告ぐ (Japanese)
三個阿道夫 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: drama
Themes: World War II
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: This is a story about three Adolfs. Sohei Toge, a Japanese reporter for 1936 Berlin Olympics was surprised that his younger brother, an international student in , was mysteriously murdered right after informing him about an important document. To add more confusion to his sadness, all information regarding his younger brother as a student in have been erased systematically, as if he never existed. Meanwhile in Japan, a half-German, half-Japanese boy named Adolf Kauffmann and his best friend, a Jewish-German boy named Adolf Kamil, were accidentally involved in this incident. Their lives and fates are now inevitably interwoven around the biggest secret of the third Adolf -- Adolf Hitler.
Ratings: 90 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 28 votes (Eng:11, sub:10, dub:2, others:5
1 French subtitled
1 Italian
1 Spanish
1 French
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Excellent: 35 votes (Eng:23, dub:5, sub:4, others:3
1 French edited dub
1 Swedish subtitled
1 German
)
 Very good: 13 votes (Eng:8, raw:2, dub:1, sub:1, others:1
1 Spanish
)
 Good: 5 votes (dub:2, Eng:1, others:2
1 Spanish
1 French
)
 Decent: 4 votes (Eng:2, sub:1, others:1
1 French dubbed
)
 So-so: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Not really good: 1 vote (Eng:1)
 Weak: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 2 votes (sub:2)
Seen in part or in whole by 175 s, rank: #506 (of 6968)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.556 (Excellent−), std. dev.: 1.8804, rank: #332 (of 7833)
Weighted mean: 8.667 (Excellent−), rank: #377 (of 7833) (seen all: 8.83 / seen some: 8.46 / won't finish: 4.70)
Bayesian estimate: 8.625 (Excellent−), rank: #40 (of 3540)
Number of tankoubon: 5
Number of pages: 260
Volumes:
#1. A Tale of the Twentieth Century
#2. An Exile in Japan
#3. The Half-Aryan
#4. Days of Infamy
#5. 1945 and All That Remains
Vintage:
1983-01-06 to 1985-05-30 (Serialized in "Shukan Bunshun")
1999-10 to 2000-06 (Spain)
Release dates: We have 23
Comment:
This was one of the first manga to be sold as literature instead of manga. In 1986 it won the Kodansha Manga Award.
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    Message to Adolf (GN 1) 2012-08-07 (from $19.86)
    Message to Adolf (GN 2) 2012-12-18 (from $12.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Story & Art: Osamu Tezuka
(none)
Japanese companies
Publisher: Bungeishunju
English staff
English cast
Translation:
Yuji Oniki

Director of Sales and Marketing: Dallas Middaugh
Editor-in-Chief: Hyoe Narita
Introduction:
Yuji Oniki (Vol. 2)
Managing Editor: Annette Roman
Production:
Tomoe Tsutsumi (2012)
Publisher: Seiji Horibuchi
Senior Editor: Trish Ledoux
Touch-up Art & Lettering: Yoshiyuki Higuchi
(none)
English companies
Licensed by:
Viz Media
Publisher: Cadence Books, Inc.
French staff
French companies
(none)
Publisher: Editions Tonkam
French cast
(none)
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Art Director: Jesús Gómez (Spain)
Translation: Jesús Pece (Spain)

Collection Director: Jaime Rodriguez (Spain)
Editing: Jaime Rodriguez (Spain)
Editorial Director: Jesús Pece (Spain)
(none)
Spanish companies
Graphic & Layout: Estudio Fenix (Spain)
Publisher: Planeta DeAgostini Comics
Italian staff
Italian companies
Translation: Jacopo Costa Buranelli (J-Pop)
Publisher:
J-Pop (2018)
Italian cast
(none)
German staff
German cast
Translation:
Yūko Tanaka
(none)
German companies
Publisher: Carlsen Comics
Dutch staff
Dutch companies
(none)
Distributor: Xtra
Dutch cast
(none)
Polish staff
Polish companies
(none)
Publisher: Waneko
Polish cast
(none)
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
Translation: Drik Sada (Brazil)
Publisher:
Pipoca & Nanquim (Brazil)
Portuguese cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Licensed by: Taiwan Tohan Co., Ltd.
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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