Luger Code 1951

ルガーコード1951

In this one-of-a-kind shounen story, a gifted young linguist and university professor named Testa is enlisted by his commanding officer, Sergeant Rossa, to work for the Allied Cryptanalysis Department. His assignment: decipher the encrypted radio communications used by hostile werewolves. To his shock, Testa discovers that the coded messages translate into nothing more than the chilling howls of wolves. Despite pouring all his efforts into cracking it, his research reaches a standstill. Driven by determination, Testa decides he must capture a live werewolf to help him with the decoding work. After exhausting every other possibility, he at last succeeds in tracking down a female werewolf by the name of Yonaga.

Adapted to anime

Luger Code 1951

Background

Luger Code 1951 began as a story idea that Haruto Haneki submitted for the Shounen Jump+ × Animax Anime Scenario Award contest (少年ジャンプ＋×アニマックス アニメシナリオ大賞). The theme of the contest was "your original scenario in the image of Shounen Jump." The contest accepted unpublished entries that could be made into a short anime, 30 to 40 minutes in estimated length. Haneki's scenario won the Grand Prize, winning him 2 million yen, a manga adaptation on Shounen Jump+ and an anime adaptation. Akira Akatsuki, who was one of the judges in the competition, drew the manga.

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