This article is about the manga of Go Nagai. For the Shinto god, see Susanoo.
Susano Oh
Ja kanji凄ノ王
Ja romajiSusano Ō
Susano Oh
manga
AuthorGo Nagai
PublisherKodansha
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Magazine
FirstJuly 22, 1979
LastApril 8, 1981
Volumes9
Susano Oh Densetsu
novel series
AuthorYasutaka Nagai
PublisherKadokawa Shoten
FirstOctober 15, 1982
LastOctober 16, 1987
Volumes12
Susano Oh Densetsu Hi Kami Ko
manga
AuthorGo Nagai
PublisherKadokawa Shoten
MagazineVariety
FirstJune 1985
LastMarch 1986
Volumes7
Shin Susano Oh
manga
AuthorGo Nagai
PublisherNihonbungeisha
MagazineComic Hammer
PublishedJuly 14, 1987
Volumes7
Susano Oh Densetsu Yami no Majin Hen
manga
AuthorGo Nagai
PublisherKadokawa Shoten
MagazineYasei Jidai
FirstApril 1989
LastApril 1990
Volumes7
Susano Oh Densetsu Gaiden
manga
AuthorGo Nagai
PublisherKadokawa Shoten
MagazineComic Comp
FirstMay 1989
LastJune 1989
Volumes7

Susano Oh (凄ノ王, Susano Ō) is a Japanese manga created by Go Nagai. It is loosely based on the Shinto deity Susanoo.

With this manga, Nagai won the Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category. The original serialization of Kodansha was suspended in 1981, but the success of the novels written by Yasutaka Nagai, prompted Kadokawa Shoten to request Go to resume his work on Susano Oh. With this, the manga would be published for a period of ten years, from 1979 to 1989. Even so, the manga was left with an open ending for a possible next part.

An RPG video game adaption titled Susano Oh Densetsu (凄ノ王伝説, Susano Ō Densetsu) was released in Japan by Hudson on April 27, 1989, on the PC Engine. A board game based on the series called Dreadful Susano Oh King Go Nagai was released by a company called Epoch.

Plot

Highschool freshman Shingo Susa follows his childhood friend and crush Sayuri Yukishiro to their school's ESP club, whose members attempt to research psychic powers. However, they later discover there are two real psychics in the school: Chigusa Mitsurugi, the beautiful president of the club, and Rei Uryu, a resident prodigy who opposes Chigusa and offers to enhance the psychic potential of anybody who follows him. Uryu tries to recruit Susa, whom he knows to have an immense power latent, in order to help him fight for justice, but Susa declines out of loyalty for Chigusa.

Eventually Shingo and Sayuri become a couple, but a savage gang of delinquents attack them and rape her. The trauma blows up Shingo's bottled psychic potential and creates a violent, powerful alternate personality bent on getting revenge. Now as a changed person, and having lost track of Sayuri, Shingo fights through yakuza, thugs and his school's corrupt club alliance until discovering that the attack was ordered by a sinister organization named Nosferatu. The latter plans for world domination and has its own team of psychics, led by a mysterious woman named Carmilla, who has influence over the club federation. Shingo leads a school revolution against them, helped by Chigusa, boxing club leader Goda, kendo genius Tatsuya Mido and other students, and eventually overthrows their regime.

It is then revealed that Carmilla is actually a disguised Uryu and that Sayuri worked for him all along. Uryu staged the entire plot in order to liberate Shingo's powers and use him, as an incarnation of the legendary Susanoo, to destroy human civilization, so he could rebuild the world with only psychic humans. However, his plan is too successful, as Shingo loses control of his powers: a part of his soul leaves his body, hijacks a coming star, and becomes a prophesied apocalyptic monster, the Yamata no Orochi. His influence causes demons from other dimensions to start sliding into the world, possessing humans and provoking disasters, while Shingo's body lies apparently dead.

Chigusa reveals herself as the heir of an ancient clan of descendants of Atlantis, as well as the incarnation of ancient goddess Marici, and commands an Atlantean space force formed by clones of her in an attempt to destroy Yamata no Orochi. Shingo's family is also revealed to know the prophecy regarding him, and they join the Atlanteans in their fight. At the same time, Sayuri (who really fell in love with Shingo despite her duplicity) convinces Uryu to try to redeem Shingo by playing the roles of Ame no Uzume and Ame no Tajikarao, respectively. The story of the manga ends in midst of the climax.

In an additional epilogue in the manga's 1996 revised re-edition, Chigusa manages to neutralize the Yamata no Orochi in a secret Atlantean outpost in the Face of Mars. In an Earth ravaged and in a postapocalyptic state, Uryu and Sayuri come out of their refuge and look for Shingo, while Goda has overcome the possession of a demon and is now hunting other monsters. Shingo then comes alive again under the form of Susanoo, apparently now in full control of his powers, and walks past Goda before stopping in front of Uryu and Sayuri. The outcome of their encounter is not revealed.

Media

Manga

Susano Oh

  • Kodansha (KC Magazine, 1980–1981)
Japanese release dateVol.ISBN
January 17, 1980[1]1ISBN 978-4061726444
January 17, 1980[2]2ISBN 978-4061726451
February 18, 1980[3]3ISBN 978-4061726499
May 19, 1985[4]4ISBN 978-4061726659
July 17, 1980[5]5ISBN 978-4061726789
October 17, 1980[6]6ISBN 978-4061726949
November 18, 1980[7]7ISBN 978-4061727014
March 16, 1981[8]8ISBN 978-4061727373
May 18, 1981[9]9ISBN 978-4061727441
  • Kodansha (KC Phoenix 10, 1996)
Japanese release dateVol.ISBN
June 21, 19961ISBN 978-4-063290103
July 23, 19962ISBN 978-4-063290110
August 23, 19963ISBN 978-4-063290127
September 20, 19964ISBN 978-4-063290134
October 23, 19965ISBN 978-4-063290141
November 22, 19966ISBN 978-4-063290158
  • Kodansha (Kodansha Manga Bunko, 2000–2001)
Japanese release dateVol.ISBN
November 10, 2000[10]1ISBN 978-4-062608558
November 10, 2000[11]2ISBN 978-4-062608565
December 12, 2000[12]3ISBN 978-4-062608770
December 12, 2000[13]4ISBN 978-4-062608787
January 12, 2001[14]5ISBN 978-4-062608862
January 12, 2001[15]6ISBN 978-4062608879
  • Fukkan.com (Kanzen Hatsude Shūkan Shōnen Magajin-ban, 2021–2022)
Japanese release dateVol.ISBN
December 24, 20211ISBN 978-4-835458465
January 21, 20222ISBN 978-4-835458472
February 28, 20223ISBN 978-4-835458489
March 23, 20224ISBN 978-4-835458496
  • 001 Edizioni (Hikari Edizioni, 2022–present)

This edition is an Italian language translation for the European market.

Italian release dateVol.ISBN
March 23, 2022 [16]1ISBN 978-8-871821788
June 1, 2022 [17]2ISBN 978-8-871821900
November 16, 2022 [18]3ISBN 978-8-871821917
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Susano Oh Densetsu (Manga Version)

  • Kadokawa (Kadokawa Shoten Yamato Comics Special, 1985–1990)

First five volumes of this edition are a reprint of the original Weekly Shōnen Magazine serialization. Volumes six and seven contain Susano Oh Densetsu Hi Kami Ko, Shin Susano Oh, Susano Oh Densetsu Yami no Majin Hen, and Susano Oh Densetsu Gaiden.

Japanese release dateVol.ISBN
July 31, 19851ISBN 978-4049210019
August 29, 19852ISBN 978-4049210026
September 30, 19853ISBN 978-4049210033
October 25, 19854ISBN 978-4049210040
November 29, 19855ISBN 978-4049210057
November 27, 19896ISBN 978-4049210309
August 28, 19907ISBN 978-4049210316

Novels

Susano Oh Densetsu (Novel Version)

  • Kadokawa (Kadokawa Novels, 1982–1987)
Japanese release dateVol.ISBN
October 15, 19821ISBN 978-4047740013
February 17, 19832ISBN 978-4047740020
June 17, 19833ISBN 978-4047740037
October 15, 19834ISBN 978-4047740044
March 16, 19845ISBN 978-4047740051
October 18, 19846ISBN 978-4047740068
April 11, 19857ISBN 978-4047740075
November 15, 19858ISBN 978-4047740082
March 17, 19869ISBN 978-4047740099
November 17, 198610ISBN 978-4047740105
May 15, 198711ISBN 978-4047740112
October 16, 198712ISBN 978-4047740129
  • Kadokawa (Kadokawa Library, 1988–1990)
Japanese release dateVol.ISBN
October 24, 19881ISBN 978-4041577516
December 16, 19882ISBN 978-4041577523
January 31, 19893ISBN 978-4041577530
April 20, 19894ISBN 978-4041577547
June 20, 19895ISBN 978-4041577554
September 1, 19896ISBN 978-4041577561
October 19, 19897ISBN 978-4041577578
December 13, 19898ISBN 978-4041577585
February 16, 19909ISBN 978-4041577592
April 17, 199010ISBN 978-4041577608
June 20, 199011ISBN 978-4041577615
August 21, 199012ISBN 978-4041577622

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