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Mermaid Saga (manga)

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Alternative title:
El Bosque de la Sirena (Spanish)
La saga delle sirene (Italian)
Mermaid Forest
Mermaid Saga 1 (German)
Ningyo no Mori (Japanese)
Syrenie opowieści (Polish)
Лес русалок (Russian)
人魚の森 (Japanese)
人魚之森 (Chinese (Taiwan))
인어의 숲 (Korean)
Genres: action, adventure, horror
Objectionable content: Intense
Plot Summary: Part of a three part series known as Mermaid's Saga, this part is about Yuta and Mana running into another person who's in search of the immortality you get from eating a mermaid's flesh. This time it's in at a house in the middle of a forest known as "Mermaid's Forest".
User Ratings: 96 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 7 votes (Eng:4, sub:1, dub:1, others:1
1 German
)
 Excellent: 15 votes (Eng:7, sub:6, ?:1, dub:1)
 Very good: 31 votes (Eng:24, dub:4, sub:3)
 Good: 27 votes (Eng:18, dub:3, sub:2, ?:1, raw:1, others:2
1 Italian subtitled
1 German dubbed
)
 Decent: 14 votes (Eng:8, dub:3, sub:2, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 So-so: 2 votes (Eng:2)
 Not really good: -
 Weak: -
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 250 users, rank: #349 (of 7041)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.667 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.1785, rank: #1802 (of 7924)
Weighted mean: 7.663 (Very good−), rank: #2119 (of 7924) (seen all: 7.71 / seen some: 7.01)
Bayesian estimate: 7.664 (Very good−), rank: #1126 (of 3557)
Number of tankoubon: 1
Number of pages: 256
Chapter titles: We have 6
Vintage:
1984-07-27 to 1987-05-06 (Chapter 1 carried in Weekly Shōnen Sunday Zōkangō)
1984-08 (Ep. 1 carried in Weekly Shōnen Sunday Zōkangō) 
Release dates: We have 11
Trivia: We have 4
Review:
Mermaid Saga Collector's Edition Vol. 1 (Dec 7, 2020)
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Graphic novel
    Mermaid Forest (GN 1) 1994-11-28 (from $7.97)
    Mermaid Saga (GN 1) 2004-07-10 (from $7.16)
    Mermaid Saga (GN 2) 2004-09-21 (from $30.95)
    Mermaid Saga [Collector's Edition] (GN 1) 2020-11-17 (from $14.13)
    Mermaid Saga [Collector's Edition] (GN 2) 2021-02-16 (from $21.01)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Story & Art: Rumiko Takahashi

Executive Editor: Katsuya Shirai
(none)
Japanese companies
Publisher: Shogakukan
English staff
English cast
Translation: Rachel Thorn

Adaptation: Rachel Thorn
Assistant Marketing Manager: Jaime Starling
Assistant Sales Director: Denya Jur
Design:
Hidemi Sahara (Mermaid Saga Action Edition)
Yukiko Whitley (Mermaid Saga Collector's Edition)
Editing:
Amy Yu (Mermaid Saga Collector's Edition)
Elizabeth Kawasaki (Mermaid Saga Action Edition, vol. 1)
Megan Bates (Mermaid Saga Action Edition, vols. 2-4)
Satoru Fujii
Trish Ledoux
Editing Assistant:
Annette Roman
Toshifumi Yoshida
Executive Editor: Seiji Horibuchi
Lettering: Joanna Estep (Mermaid Saga Collector's Edition)
Marketing Director: Dallas Middaugh
Publisher: Keizo Inoue
Touch-up Art & Lettering: Wayne Truman
(none)
English companies
Licensed by: Viz Media
French cast
French staff
Translation: Anthony Prezman
(none)
French companies
Publisher: Glenat
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Publisher:
Editorial Ivréa (Argentina, 2023)
LARP Editores S.A. (Argentina)
Spanish cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Translation: Chigusa Namihira

Adaptation: Andrea Baricordi
(none)
Italian companies
Publisher:
Edizioni Star Comics (vol. 2-3)
Granata Press (vol. 1)
German staff
German cast
Translation: Ute Maaz
(none)
German companies
Publisher: Egmont Manga & Anime
Polish staff
Polish companies
(none)
Polish cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Licensed by: Sharp Point Press
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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