×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

Orochi (manga)

Have you read this? want to / read some / read all

Alternative title:
Orochi: Blood
おろち (Japanese)
Genres: horror
Plot Summary: Orochi, a strange girl who wakes up for ten years at a time once every century, observes two sisters growing up in the mansion of their wealthy family. The older girl can do no wrong and the younger girl is constantly criticised and berated for not living up to her sibling's exemplary standards. Years later, Orochi's spirit returns in the body of another girl. The two sisters are now grown women: the younger sister is a bitter woman, forced to return to her family home after an unsuccessful marriage and the older sister is now a bed-ridden widow with a terminal illness. It seems the younger sister has been made bitter and sadistic by her traumatic childhood but maybe the seemingly angelic older sister isn't quite as perfect as she seems.
User Ratings: 8 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: -
 Excellent: -
 Very good: 1 vote (Eng:1)
 Good: 3 votes (Eng:2, ?:1)
 Decent: 3 votes (Eng:3)
 So-so: -
 Not really good: 1 vote (Eng:1)
 Weak: -
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 27 users, rank: #2251 (of 6913)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.375 (Decent+), std. dev.: 1.111, rank: #4528 (of 7755)
Weighted mean: 6.710 (Good−), rank: #4404 (of 7755) (seen all: 6.66 / seen some: 7.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.036 (Good), rank: #2497 (of 3524)
Number of tankoubon: 6
Vintage: 1969 to 1970 (Weekly Shonen Sunday 1969 #25 - 1970 #35)
Release dates: We have 10
Reviews:
Orochi: The Perfect Edition GN 3 (Dec 13, 2022)
Orochi: The Perfect Edition GN 2 (Jul 19, 2022)
Orochi: The Perfect Edition GN 1 (Mar 25, 2022)
News: Show:
SNK Reveals News for King of Fighters, Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown Franchises in Video (Apr 3, 2023)
North American Anime, Manga Releases, March 19-25 (Mar 23, 2023)
North American Anime, Manga Releases, December 11-17 (Dec 15, 2022)
North American Anime, Manga Releases, November 13-19 (Nov 15, 2022)
North American Anime, Manga Releases, July 17-23 (Jul 20, 2022)
North American Anime, Manga Releases, March 13-19 (Mar 16, 2022)
Viz to Release Demon Slayer Spinoff Manga, Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, Alice in Borderland, More Manga (Jul 9, 2021)
Live-Action Series About Baki BL Essay Casts Baki Anime's Akio Ohtsuka, Yoshihisa Kawahara (Jul 2, 2021)
Bushiroad's Road59 Multimedia Franchise Gets Manga This Spring (Jan 2, 2021)
Shingo Honda's Kyoryū Senki Manga Ends on January 15 (Jan 8, 2020)
Creatiure!'s Shingo Honda Launches New Manga on July 31 (Jul 24, 2019)
North American Anime, Manga Releases, October 14-20 (Oct 16, 2018)
Netflix to Stream New Baki Anime Series (Aug 2, 2017)
Rengoku ni Warau Stage Play Reveals Cast Visuals (Jun 2, 2017)
Laughing Under the Clouds Prequel Manga Gets Stage Play (Mar 14, 2017)
Live-Action Laughing Under the Clouds Adds 4 New Cast Members (Sep 29, 2016)
Live-Action Laughing Under the Clouds Film Casts Yūta Koseki (Sep 8, 2016)
Drifting Classroom Creator Kazuo Umezu Interviewed (Dec 9, 2009)
Manga Creator Kazuo Umezu's Documentary Trailer Posted (Oct 24, 2009)
Manga Creator Kazuo Umezu Stars in First Documentary (Oct 14, 2009)
Horror Master Kazuo Umezu to Teach Manga-Drawing on TV (Sep 23, 2009)
Daily Links: Code Geass, Ghibli Exhibit, File-Sharing (Mar 17, 2008)
IDW Publishes Umezu's Reptilia as Its First Manga (Oct 3, 2007)
Movie Based on Kazuo Umezu Manga (Oct 19, 2005)
Interest:
Japan's Readers Pick 20 Horror Manga to Keep You Up at Night (Aug 30, 2018)
Other articles: Show:
The Spring 2021 Manga Guide - Laughing Under the Clouds (Jun 3, 2021)
RIGHT TURN ONLY!! - Wild Wild West (May 13, 2008)
RIGHT TURN ONLY!! - The Manga Review Delivery Service (Oct 3, 2006)
You can contribute information to this page, but first you must login or register

Graphic novel
    Orochi: Blood (GN) 2002-09-05 (from $39.90)
    Orochi: The Perfect Edition [Hardcover] (GN 1) 2022-03-15 (from $18.99)
    Orochi: The Perfect Edition [Hardcover] (GN 2) 2022-07-19 (from $16.85)
    Orochi: The Perfect Edition [Hardcover] (GN 3) 2022-12-13 (from $20.30)
    Orochi: The Perfect Edition [Hardcover] (GN 4) 2023-03-21 (from $19.08)

Japanese staff
Japanese companies
Story & Art: Kazuo Umezu
Publisher:
Akita Publishing (tankōbun)
Shogakukan (serialization, bunko)
Japanese cast
(none)
English staff
English cast
Translation: Jocelyne Allen (Perfect Edition)

Adaptation:
Molly Tanzer (Perfect Edition)
Yuji Oniki
Afterword: Patrick Macias (biography / bibliography)
Book Design: Izumi Evers
Design: Adam Grano (Perfect Edition)
Editing:
Alvin Lu
Joel Enos (Perfect Edition)
Lettering: Evan Waldinger (Perfect Edition)
Touch-up Art & Lettering: Susan Daigle-Leach
(none)
English companies
Licensed by: Viz Media
Italian staff
Italian companies
(none)
Italian cast
(none)

This encyclopedia is collaboratively edited by the users of this site
DISCLAIMER add information report an error lookup sources

Compare this manga's credits with others

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Manga anthology