Dimension W(Japanese: ディメンションW, Hepburn: Dimenshon Daburyū) is a Japanese manga series written by Yūji Iwahara and published in Square Enix's Monthly Big Gangan magazine (formerly in Young Gangan) since 2011. The series is licensed in North America by Yen Press. An anime television series aired between January and March 2016.
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Synopsis
In the year 2036, a fourth dimensional axis called Dimension W is proven to exist. Cross-dimensional electromagnetic induction devices, known as Coils, were developed to draw out the inexhaustible supply of energy that exists in Dimension W. New Tesla Energy and governments built sixty giant towers around the world in the pattern of a truncated icosahedron to stabilize the energy from Dimension W and supply power to the entire world. This "world system" is nearing its tenth year of operation as the story begins in 2072, and Coils of various sizes provide remote electrical power to everything from cellphones to vehicles and robots. However, dangerous unregistered Coils that do not send information back to New Tesla are being used for illegal purposes, and bounty hunters known as "Collectors" are tasked with confiscating the illegal Coils. Among the collectors is Kyouma Mabuchi, a Coil-hating loner who one day stumbles upon Mira Yurizaki, the gynoid "daughter" of New Tesla's ailing intellectual founder. When her father disappears while activating an experimental double-ringed Coil, Mira decides to join a reluctant Kyouma and follow the illegal Coils, in the process discovering shady business involving New Tesla.
Main Characters
Kyouma Mabuchi (マブチ・キョーマ,Mabuchi Kyōma)
Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (Japanese); Christopher R. Sabat (English)
A Collector who has largely sworn off all Coil-related technology and has a hobby of restoring old gasoline-powered cars in a junkyard. In the past, to get an experimental prosthetic body for his terminally-ill fiancee, Miyabi, Kyouma joined special-ops unit Grendel and took part in a war over competing ideologies within New Tesla Energy. The war was won with the destruction of Easter Island, though Kyouma lost his memories regarding the battle and lost Miyabi in surgery at the same time. To earn a living and to help prevent dangerous Coil malfunctions, Kyouma became an independent contractor who hunts down illegal Coils and those who use them. His preferred weapons are large throwing spikes. In the series he is most often shown driving a white Toyota 2000GT.
Mira Yurizaki (百合崎 ミラ,Yurizaki Mira)
Voiced by: Reina Ueda (Japanese); Jād Saxton (English)
A highly advanced robot who exhibits human mannerisms and insists that she is a normal girl despite her robotic headgear, metallic tail, and other inhuman physical attributes. Her body was originally designed as a prosthetic for Miyabi Azumaya and bears her physical proportions. After hearing news of her "father's" death, Mira decides to help Kyouma collect illegal Coils. She can override computer systems, use her tail to directly interface with Coils, and can detect dimensional distortions. When Koorogi repairs Mira after a stack of cars falls on her, he adds skin-folds to conceal her Coil.
Illegal Coil Collectors
Mary (マリー,Marī)
Voiced by: Kimiko Saitō (Japanese); Stephanie Young (English)
A shady club owner who contracts Kyouma to collect illegal Coils for the New Tesla bounty.
Koorogi (コオロギ,Kōrogi)
Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Japanese); Josh Grelle (English)
A computer expert and engineer employed by Mary. He doesn't get along with Kyouma, but provides him with information when requested. His name translates as Cricket.
New Tesla Energy
New Tesla Energy is the largest enterprise in the world. Among its known staff members are:
Albert Schuman (アルベルト・シューマン,Aruberuto Shūman)
Voiced by: Akira Ishida (Japanese); Eric Vale (English)
An old friend of Kyouma who works for New Tesla's Dimensional Administration Bureau (D.A.B.), a paramilitary research group which conducts special tasks such as monitoring for potential Coil malfunctions and isolating and covering-up dimensional collapses that occur. Albert and Kyouma met while serving with elite military unit Grendel, of which they are the only two survivors.
Shido Yurizaki (百合崎 士堂,Yurizaki Shidō)
Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (Japanese); Jeremy Schwartz (English)
The "physicist of the century" and founder of New Tesla Energy in America. He foresaw the militarization of Coils and proposed the superhuman unit Grendel. Shido disappeared two years ago following the death of his wife and daughter. He uses his robot "daughter," Mira, to seek out illegal Coils to fuel himself and his research. When the company finally tracks him down in the present, Shido uses the last of his strength to unleash his latest experiment that burns all Coils for several city blocks before vanishing. His current fate is unknown.
Seira Yurizaki (百合崎 セイラ,Yurizaki Seira)
Voiced by: Takako Honda (Japanese); Jamie Marchi (English)
The wife of Shido Yurizaki and a leading prosthetics and robotic developer. She accepted terminally-ill Miyabi Azumaya as a test subject to have her consciousness transferred into a prosthetic body, but an unexplained Coil malfunction during the radical surgery cost Miyabi's life and left Seira badly injured. Seira later created Mira from the body intended for Miyabi. Seira and her daughter Ichigo were killed when the D.A.B. broke into their home to seize the results of her research on the day Mira was activated.
Ichigo Yurizaki (百合崎 苺,Yurizaki Ichigo)
Voiced by: Shiina Natsukawa (Japanese); Kristi Kang (English)
The daughter of Shido Yurizaki and Seira Yurizaki.
Claire Skyheart (クレア・スカイハート,Kurea Sukaihāto)
Voiced by: Rica Fukami (Japanese); Monica Rial (English)
Chief Operations Officer (C.O.O.) of Central 47 and Albert's superior. Her granddaughter, Shiora, is one of the four children who play around Kyouma's place.
Shiora Skyheart (シオラ・スカイハート,Shiora Sukaihāto)
Voiced by: Yurika Kubo (Japanese); Bryn Apprill (English)
The granddaughter of Claire Skyheart.
Easter Island
A dangerous and forbidden ruin of dimensional collapse, the remote island was once home to New Tesla's Adrastea research facility, which employed:
Julian Tyler Smith (ジュリアン・タイラー＝スミス,Jurian Tairā-Sumisu) / Loser (ルーザー,Rūzā)
Voiced by: Yuichi Nakamura (Japanese); J. Michael Tatum (English)
A masked art thief who's popular with the public for broadcasting his heists, that apparently always fail, hence his nickname. In reality he's after the 'Numbers' Coils alongside his daughter Elizabeth, seeking to expose the truth of New Tesla's involvement in revenge for a Numbers malfunction that cost him his face, hands and feet, and the life of his wife. He had once been a top researcher for New Tesla, where he invented energy shields.
Haruka Seameyer (ハルカ・シーマイヤー,Haruka Shīmaiyā)
Voiced by: Yūki Kaji (Japanese); Chris Patton (English)
A former New Tesla scientist and protege of Shido Yurizaki who went mad after his promising research was suppressed by New Tesla executives while he was on the verge of a breakthrough. He convinces many other scientists to join his cause and conducts illegal Coil research while committing terrorist acts against their corporate masters.
Islero
Salva-Enna-Tibesti (サルバ＝エネ＝ティベスティ,Saruba Ene Tibesuti)
Voiced by: Kōsuke Toriumi (Japanese); Ian Sinclair, Justin Briner (child) (English)
Berber C.E.O. of robot manufacturer Islero and C.O.O. of New Tesla Central 60. Known as "The Wind of Africa," he is a considerable celebrity. His childhood dream was to create the world that his adoptive brother Lwai would one day rule. After mistakenly crippling Lwai, Salva has been searching a way to heal his brother.
Voiced by: Daiki Yamashita (Japanese); Clifford Chapin (English)
The young heir to the throne of Isla. During a revolt, he unwittingly stepped into the crossfire and was gravely injured by one of Salva's war machines. His broken body is kept on life support while an invention of Salva's permits Lwai to remotely inhabit robotic bodies.
Lashiti (ラシティ,Rashiti)
Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese); Mallorie Rodak (English)
A faithful retainer of the Tibesti royal family, she once took an assassin's bullet meant for Prince Salva.
Other characters
Elizabeth Greenhough-Smith (エリザベス・グリーンハウ＝スミス,Erizabesu Gurīnhau-Sumisu)
Voiced by: Eri Suzuki (Japanese); Maxey Whitehead (English)
Another collector who's secretly Loser's assistant and daughter. She's good at using drones in the form of animals like pigeons and bats.
Miyabi Azumaya (四阿屋 雅,Azumaya Miyabi)
Voiced by: Kaede Okutani (Japanese); Trina Nishimura (English)
Kyouma's deceased fiancee. She was dedicated to her photography hobby, and was diagnosed with a terminal illness that caused her muscles to eat themselves, a type of muscular dystrophy. During the operation that was meant to save her life, there was an accident with the Coil that was supposed to support her android body and her head was lost in the explosion. This led to Kyouma's hatred for Coils.
Tsubaki Azumaya (四阿屋 椿,Azumaya Tsubaki)
Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (Japanese); Anastasia Muñoz (English)
Miyabi's older sister, who manages a kimono shop with assistants Hirose and Ayukawa. She is protective of Kyouma and makes happi coats for him with concealed pockets for his skewers.
Manga
Yūji Iwahara began serializing Dimension W in Square Enix's seinen magazine Young Gangan on 16 September 2011. The manga ceased running in Young Gangan on 20 November 2015, moving to Square Enix's Monthly Big Gangan on 25 December 2015. Yen Press announced their license to the series in October 2015, with plans to publish the first volume in spring or summer 2016. The series has been collected into ten tankōbon volumes.
Anime
Studio 3Hz and Orange produced an anime television adaptation based on the Dimension W manga. The series is directed by Kanta Kamei with Shôtarô Suga acting as the series organizer and Tokuyuki Matsutake serving as the character designer. Funimation Entertainment serves as part of the anime's committee. The opening theme song, "Genesis", is performed by Stereo Dive Foundation, and the closing theme song, "Contrast", is performed by Fo'xTails.
The series premiered on 10 January 2016, and aired on Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, BS11, AT-X, Sun TV, and TV Aichi, and was simulcast worldwide with a broadcast dub by Funimation. Madman Entertainment procured the rights to stream the anime on AnimeLab. On 12 February 2016, it was announced that the anime would be broadcast on Toonami, replacing Akame ga Kill!, beginning on 27 February 2016.
On 21 March 2016, a new unaired OVA episode was announced. It was bundled up with the anime's 6th Blu-ray release, which was released on 26 August 2016.
The series has been licensed in the UK by Anime Limited.
