is a Japanese
manga
Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...
series written and illustrated by
Yuu Asami. It was serialized in ''
Princess'' magazine from 1994 to June 2003.
[ The final chapter of ''A.I. Revolution'' is listed in the table-of-contents of ''Princess'' magazine's July 2003 issue, released on June 6, 2003.] The individual chapters were collected and published in 17 volumes by
Akita Shoten, with the first volume released in July 1995; the last volume was released in October 2003.
The series was licensed for an English-language release by
Go! Comi
Go! Comi was the publishing imprint of the American multimedia company, Go! Media Entertainment, LLC, established to "specializ(e) in publishing Japanese comics for the American market, and in creating new manga and manga-oriented properties for b ...
and for a Spanish-language release by Mangaline Comics.
Plot
The series focuses on Sui, the daughter of a genius engineer, and Vermillion, a new high tech robot created by her father that looks, talks, and acts like a human teenage boy. Sui is tasked with teaching him what it means to be human, not expecting to find herself falling in love.
Media
Volume listing
Reception
Pop Culture Shock's Katherine Dacey compares the manga's artwork to
Keiko Nishi
is a Japanese manga artist.
Life
After graduating from Kagoshima Prefectural Ibusuki High School, she attended Tsuru University from where she graduated with a degree in Japanese literature. While still attending Tsuru University, Nishi made h ...
's artwork "with its slightly stylized character designs, delicate linework, and sparing use of screentone". Michelle Smith compares the episodic nature of the manga to ''
Inuyasha
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from November 1996 to June 2008, with its chapters collected in fifty-six '' ...
'', where "most of the nefarious doings can be traced back to the same culprit". Manga Life's Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane commends the manga for its "detailed and very easy to follow" artwork.
Mania.com's Sakura Eries criticizes the manga for its "not very compelling" protagonists. Later reviews by Sakura Eries criticizes the manga, which was published in 1996, for its "futuristic
anachronism
An anachronism (from the Ancient Greek, Greek , 'against' and , 'time') is a chronology, chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of people, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time per ...
" of the story that is set in 2021. Eries comments that the scenarios would seem dated in the post
9/11
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial ...
world. She also criticized the manga for its unrealistic plot.
References
External links
* {{ann, manga, 2855
1994 manga
Akita Shoten manga
Fiction set in 2021
Go! Comi titles
Science fiction anime and manga
Shōjo manga