【2007】 Jumbor Barutronica

Cover of Jumbor Barutronica tankōbon.

Jumbor Barutronica (重機人間ユンボル, "Jūki Ningen Yunboru") is a mecha manga series by Hiroyuki Takei, the author of Shaman King. It was serialized by Shueisha in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump between issues 3 and 14 of 2007, and collected in a single bound volume.

After the cancellation of the series, two short story were published inside Ultra Jump in 2009 and 2010. These stories were written by Hiromasa Mikami (加藤大悟) and illustrated by Hiroyuki Takei. Miromasa-sensei worked on Jumbor Barutronica as collaborator and is credited for the world creation along with Takei-sensei. Following the success of the short stories, Hiroyuki Takei and Hiromasa Mikama decided to create a remake of the series, Jumbor. Currently, the new manga is still being serialized in Ultra Jump since August of 2010.

Plot

The background of story revolves around the human civilization in 3002 where destruction and challenge were brought by the harsh nature. In this era of constant war against nature and havoc, construction teams were the star of economy system, the conquering force as well as a weapon themselves, because heavy robots were used in construction works to speed up efficiency.

Baru Craw was the leader of a famous construction team for the kingdom of Dorvok. One day, as their group was about to start a reconstruction work of a tunnel which was destroyed by an earthquake, a much more powerful construction team arrived and claimed the land in no time, killing Baru who tried to protect his teammates against the cruel Genber Diode.

Baru woke up in 3007, finding himself revived in his own cloned memory transplanted inside a physical body of a five years old, and in addition to that, his body was partly mechanized. His robot arms are linked up to and directly controlled by his brain's signals. He was told that the country of Dovork is now gone and the princess Rivetta and the king Tabill disappeared. He was also told he was 'last of the series' created by the Dr. Road Docult. He created eleven Jumbors with every one of them have construction related powers like a drill, crane, shovel. Baru, Nipper and Rivetta began their journey for the restoration of the Kingdom of Dovork.

Manga

Shueisha's collected the ten individual chapters known as Process (工程 "Kōtei"^?) into one tankōbon. Shueisha re-released the series in two volumes on August 4, 2010 in a kanzenban edition.

Weekly Shonen Jump

Process No.	Name	Japanese	WSJ Issue	# of pages
1	The Birth of Jumbor	生まれるユンボル	3	60(3C)
2	The Princess Comeback	復活のプリンセス	4-5	27
3	There Are 11 Of Them	１１人おる!	6-7	23
4	Dr. Docult's Super Kunpō	Dr.ドカルトのSUPER工法（クンポー）	8	21(1C)
5	In Twomessio…	ツメシオにて	9	19
6	The Low Sun	低い太陽	10	19
7	Garden of Yuden	ユデンの園	11	19
8	Remember, Rivetta	リメンバーリベッタ	12	19
9	Docult's Trap	ドカルトトラップ	13	19
10	And Then, Towards Construction	そして建設へ―	14	19

At the end of each issue, every mangakas have a small reserved space to write a message to their readers. Here's Takei-sensei comments on each week.

The season of delicious mandrin* has come! Let's eat it with vigour, and work with vigour! Supports welcomed! <Hiroyuki> 『みかんのおいしい季節になりました！モリモリ食べて、バリバリがんばります！応援よろしく！<宏之>』
Theme song is Bronson's "Mandom - the world of Men". Hmm Jumbor <Hiroyuki> 『テーマソングはブロンソンズ「マンダム～男の世界」です。う～んユンボル<宏之>』
Happy new year! This year amibiton is to *clearly* be an adult. <Hiroyuki> 『あけましておめでとうございます。今年の抱負はキッバリ人大になることです。<宏之>』
4 『神・荒木飛呂彦先生が年末我が家に降臨された。少年の頃の自分にめちゃめちゃ自慢しに行きたい。<宏之>』
5 『今回の背景はフランスのアングレーム市が元になっています。実は名誉市民です<宏之>』
6 『ナイトライダー仕様のカーナビが欲しい。カールにも諭されたいな。30代男性。<宏之>』
7 『先週の目次コメントは誤植。×諭す→○唆すです。カールに諭される私って何。<宏之>』
8 『「ニヤリィ」はreally？の発音で。言えは少し愉快な気持ちに。ならない。<宏之>』
9 『再来週十二傑新人漫画賞発表の為、これから審査させて頂くとこです。読みます<宏之>』
It was 10 very dense weeks. I've read with pleasure your gratitude. Somehow, this is not enough for comics!! <Hiroyuki> 『めっちゃ濃い10週間でした。ご愛読感謝です。足りない分はコミックスで何とか!! <宏之>』

Takei-sensei reference to a mandarin is because of the infamous ending of Shaman King. On the last page of chapter 284, the page contains the words "Owari" ("The End") and next to that, in front of Horohoro's sword, is a mandarin orange, also called "mikan" which is the Japanese word for "incomplete".

Tankōbon

Between chapters, Takei put nine "Jumbor Supplement Column" (ユンボル補足コラムそ "Yunboru hosoku koramu") and a setting data collection at the end of the volume.

No.

Japanese

English

Release date

ISBN

Release date

ISBN

May 2, 2007

ISBN 978-4-08-874377-6

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1st Process: The Birth of Jumbor
Jumbor Supp. Column No. 1: Jumbor word origin
2nd Process: The Princess Come-back
Jumbor Supp. Column No. 2: Clone, memory and Jumbor horns
3th Process: There Are 11 Of Them!
Jumbor Supp. Column No. 3: The Fonctions of a Jumbor horns
4th Process: Dr. Docult's Super Kunpō
Jumbor Supp. Column No. 4: The Armaments of a Jumbor
5th Process: In Twomessio...
Jumbor Supp. Column No. 5: Method of Construction (Kunpō) & Iron Gauntlet
6th Process: The Low Sun
Jumbor Supp. Column No. 6: The Earth Movers (1)
7th Process: Garden of Juden
Jumbor Supp. Column No. 7: The Earth Movers (2)
8th Process: Remember, Rivetta
Jumbor Supp. Column No. 8: Barutronica
9th Process: Docult's Trap
Jumbor Supp. Column No. 9: Jumbor ~A Word Of Man~
10th Process: And Then, Towards Construction
Appendix: Collection of All The Creation Document - Jumbor Japan

Kanzenban

The kanzenban edition of Jumbor Barutronica is called "Ang Zeng Bang" (安全版 "Anzen ban"^?) which means "Security Edition". This edition was printed on Bunkoban (105 x 148mm) which is smaller than the previous release and feature color page still in black and white. The release also include the new one-shot previously released in Ultra Jump.

No.

Title

Japanese release

English release

The First Volume (Up)
"Ue" (上)

August 4, 2010
ISBN 978-4-08-870081-6