Kansen Rettou © Kakizaki Masasumi/Shogakukan (Serialized in Big Comic Superior)
Published in Indonesia as Pandemic by Elex Media/Level Comics
Pandemic
By Kakizaki Masasumi, original story by Eiga [Kansen Rettou] Seisakuiinkai
Original title: クロサギ (Kansen Rettou)
Shogakukan, originally serialized in Big Comic Superior, seinen
This volume first released in Japan 2008.12
Published in Indonesia 2010.04 by PT Elex Media Komputindo/Level Comics
May contain [SPOILERS]
Synopsis
3 January 2011. ER doctor Matsuoka Tsuyoshi examines a patient presenting influenza symptoms. The next day, the patient dies from multiple-organ failure, followed by others who had shown the same symptoms. As the death toll rises, even the high-tech Japanese are at a loss over how to check the further spread of the deadly virus.
Reiterating: The Pandemic manga by Rainbow artist Kakizaki Masasumi adapts the Takahisa Zeze-directed, 2009 Kansen Rettou disaster movie starring award-winning actor Tsumabuki Satoshi (Naoe Kanetsugu, Tenchijin jidaigeki) as Dr. Matsuoka Tsuyoshi.
To the above synopsis, I can add (thanks to Film.com):
As the situation worsens and more cases begin arriving, a medical officer from the World Health Organization named Eiko Kobayashi is dispatched to the area. At the rate the virus is spreading, the entire city's transportation system and infrastructure would be brought to a halt within 3 months. Within 6 months it could spread to tens of millions of people--reaching a death toll far worse than any war.
—from Film.com's Kansen Retto synopsis
The Indonesian version's editor Aryaguna-san takes the eerily realistic premise to its logical and worrying to most number of confirmed human cases of avian influenza A/(H5N1) reported to WHO per 9 April 2010 Indonesia —
Can you imagine what would happen if it really attacked our country!?
Gulp.
Level Comics Volume 2 street date: 21 April 2010
~niki DBA huamulan03 (花木蘭03) who thanks Level editors Lenny-san and Aryaguna-san for the cover, blurb, and initial impressions
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