March 2010

  • Ashen Victor

    By msarko on 3/25/10 7:19am
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    Yukito Kishiro is one of the youngest manga artists to ever reach nationwide acclaim in Japan. The Shogakukan publishing company nominated him for the Best New Artist award in 1984 when he was just 17. Kishiro wouldn't see widespread fame, especially outside of his native Japan, until several years later when he released Gunnm, known in the anglophone world as Battle Angel Alita. For Battle Angel Kishiro created a vivid, post-apocalyptic world that transformed middle American into a violent wasteland. Much of the story takes place in Scrapyard, an isolated portion of the desert territory that has fallen to lawlessness and chaos. Battle Angel is an orgy of violence and bizarre existential questions, though not without an artful touch. In 1997, Yukito Kishiro created a small but punchy manga set in the same world as Battle Angel though featuring entirely new characters. This was Haisha, localized as Ashen Victor.



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  • Nick Simmons Copies from Famous Manga?

    By akgoemans on 3/2/10 6:20am
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    Photo Source: Gene Simmons' Son Plagiarizing Bleach? (Livejournal)


    With the Nick Simmons case doing the rounds, there's no use talking about anything else, is there? Well, here goes.

    First of all, let's talk about the Nick Simmons case. Simmons is an artist for a comic book series called Incarnate. Recently, it came to light that he might have been 'borrowing' heavily from his idols. To this effect, fans of various manga series found that the characters depicted in his comics bore a startling resemblance to characters from Bleach, Death Note and a number of others. Folks are looking into the matter and from what I last read, they are not going ahead with his comic until this issue has been sorted out, one way or another.

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