Heat (manga) 4109711 216209392 2008-05-31T16:26:46Z TheFarix 928626 Infobox animanga update using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] {{Infobox animanga/Header | name = Heat | image = [[Image:Heat cover.jpg|180px]] | caption = Cover of Heat Manga Vol. 1 | ja_name = HEAT -灼熱- (HĪTO -SHAKUNETSU-) | ja_name_trans = Heat -Incandescence- | genre = [[Crime fiction]] }} {{Infobox animanga/Manga | title = | author = [[Buronson]] | illustrator = [[Ryoichi Ikegami]] | publisher = [[Shogakukan]] | demographic = [[Seinen]] | magazine = [[Big Comic Superior]] | first = 1999 | last = 2004 | volumes = 17 }} {{Infobox animanga/Footer}} {{nihongo|'''''Heat'''''|HEAT-灼熱-}} is a [[seinen]] [[manga]] written by [[Yoshiyuki Okamura]] and illustrated by [[Ryoichi Ikegami]]. It was serialized in ''[[Big Comic Superior]]'' from 1999 to 2004. In 2002, it received the [[Shogakukan Manga Award]] for general manga.<ref name="ShogakukanAward">{{cite web | url=http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html | title=小学館漫画賞:歴代受賞者 | publisher=Shogakukan | language=Japanese | accessdate=2007-08-19}}</ref> It was adapted into a live-action movie in 2004 featuring [[Yoshihiko Hakamada]], [[Takeshi Yoshioka]], and [[Hakuryu]] as main actors. ''Heat'' is a crime story featuring a young man named Tatsumi Karasawa who suddenly rises in the criminal world of [[Shinjuku, Tokyo]], and becomes the leader of a group of amateurs who show no reluctance to face police and gangs alike. His successes in the Tokyo underground make a chief and a yakuza boss plot a conspiracy to eliminate him. == References == {{reflist}} == External links == * {{ann manga|2541}} [[Category:Crime anime and manga]] [[Category:Seinen]] [[Category:Winner of Shogakukan Manga Award]] {{manga-stub}} [[fr:Heat (manga)]] [[ja:HEAT -灼熱-]]