#Appleseed (Manga Series)

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MANGA HITS THE WESTERN COMICS MARKET AT THE DAWN OF THE DECADE -- GIRLS WITH GUNS GALORE.

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on print advertisements for "Dirty Pair II" #3 manga series, produced by Studio Proteus for Eclipse International, from late 1989 to early 1990. Artwork by Adam Warren. Story/script by Toren Smith & A.W.

PIC #3: Print advert for the original "Appleseed" series, "The Promethean Challenge," written, & illustrated by the legendary Masamune Shirow, the advert was featured in the sci-fi/girls with guns manga series "Dirty Pair II" (1989-1990). Studio Proteus/Eclipse International.

Sources: www.zipcomic.com/dirty-pair-ii-issue-5 (all found on Zip Comic).

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I tried reading Appleseed Alpha despite absolutely hating the art style, but I am so sad to report I also hate the writing. Because for some reason the person who wrote Appleseed Alpha decided that it should be.... wacky.

One thing people commented on when Masamune went from writing Dominion Tank Police to Appleseed was how he went from writing a comedy series to writing a story that had a much darker tone.

Appleseed Alpha, which is not written or drawn by Masamune, feels like a wacky silly Japanese comedy anime in that particular way where it's not even funny. On top of having art I hate, AND while being an AU of the original series and what Deunan and Bri were up to before the got to Olympus city.

I also don't like the way the manga treats Bri at the start at all. Turning him into deadweight that Deunan has to lug around on the back of a truck because he doesn't have batteries when that's..... that's not how he works.... that's not how their dynamic works. That's not how they were living before Olympus. Also pretty sure Deunan would saw off her left arm before she split from Bri even IF she thought he was somewhere he could be happy but she can't function there. None of this is correct. AND it looks horrible.

I would try and read Appleseed XIII but nobody has translated it (not a good sign) and I also dislike how THAT manga drew Deunan. Taking away her muscle and scowl and making her far more feminine and making her look like a teenaged girl. Idk why. To emphasize that she's the girl in the relationship and a poor innocent babe Briareos has to protecc maybe??? idk it feels very removed from what Deunan's character is supposed to be.

I'm sorry but these are not the same person.

WHY CAN NOBODY WRITE THESE CHARACTERS INTO A GOOD STORY????? WHY DOES LITERALLY NOBODY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING???? INCLUDING MASAMUNE?????

CAN NOBODY JUST WRITE A GOOD STORY FOR THESE CHARACTERS WHILE KEEPING THEM IN CHARACTER?????

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Tekken 8 Guest Character Poll (Light Novel/Manga)

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arc fault references from Appleseed (1988) and the Appleseed manga by Masamune Shirow

Unfortunately, the YouTube link to the movie has been taken down for copyright issues. Fair enough! If you want to watch Appleseed (1988) it is also on Tubi in the English dub version.

Here's some screenshots from the movie itself, and some reference photos from the manga, Appleseed: The Promethean Challenge (Book One) and Appleseed: Promethus Unbound (Book Two). Yes, there are other volumes but I don't own them yet. <3

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Briareos (cyborg)

From The Review Heap

And Briareos and Deunan because I love these panels and I love them and they give me the GhostSoap vibes.

From Appleseed: The Promethean Challenge (Book One) and Appleseed: Promethus Unbound (Book Two)

(No, I don't think Ghost has bunny ear antennae like this, I think he has regular radio/headset antennae but give him bunny ears if your heart desires, the science fiction fanfic is your oyster, babe.)

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Cadmos (landmate)

From Appleseed: The Promethean Challenge (Book One) and Appleseed: Promethus Unbound (Book Two)

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Guges (landmate)

From Appleseed: The Promethean Challenge (Book One) and Appleseed: Promethus Unbound (Book Two)

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Olympus and the Arcology

From The Review Heap

From Appleseed: The Promethean Challenge (Book One) and Appleseed: Promethus Unbound (Book Two)

Yes, I did accidentally crack the spine of Book One while taking these pictures. I don't wanna talk about it.

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Multipede (multi-pede? multi-ped? millipede? idk it's different everywhere I look) Cannon

From r/shittymoviedetails

From The Review Heap

From Appleseed (1988)

Sorry for the horrendous quality, it's a YouTube upload of a forty-year-old animated movie, I did my best.

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If you liked this and/or found it to be a fun cool addition to the cyborg lover, favourite flavour lore, let me know, I had a genuinely great time putting this together.

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Read arc fault and the rest of the series of this ghostsoap fanfic on ao3.org here (you will need an account to access my works)

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Sokyo X Chapter 3 is out!!!

The Sci-Fi FPS Action Epic is at it's midpoint! Chapter's 1-3 are half of the 6 part epic, so I've bundled them at my shop! ❤

Sokyo X follows ace mech pilot Senshiro and his squad as they battle the on-planet rebels. It's a heavy action series, with a tight ensemble, that fuses FPS's like Halo and Titanfall with manga like Appleseed, Biomega, Akira, and Gundam!

If that sounds even remotely interesting, I highly recommend you read the first chapter (which is online here)!

Story/Art by Cory Tran 🥐

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Animation Night 152: Shinji Aramaki

Hi everyone! Welcome back to Animation Night! Tonight I'm running late as ever, but I have a curiosity to present to you!

CG in anime is generally speaking a dirty word. Something to be tolerated, or begrudgingly acknowledge it wasn't bad. Exceptional studios such as Orange (of Houseki no Kuni [AN97], Beastars and most recently Trigun Stampede) may escape the stigma by cleverly integrating 2D layouts, but they're surrounded by a wasteland of CG (often on Netflix) that is mechanical, awkward and just unappealing.

The style of CG in anime also tends to be designed towards imitating, or integrating with, traditional animation. Cel-shading is the order of the day, established all the way back in GitS:SAC with its tachikomas and helicopters. And generally speaking, that's a good approach! When it's not followed, as in the case of Psycho-Pass season 3, the results often look very jarring.

But there are exceptions to every rule!

We covered one of them back on Animation Night 85, with the bizarre Square-Enix project Final Fantasy: Spirits Within, which tried to apply the then-very new technique of motion capture to create something like a movie-length videogame cutscene. And this is the start of another strain of Japanese animation (perhaps not anime! depending on whether you define anime in a geographical or technical way) - the feature-length CG animated film.

Let's start with Shinji Aramaki, who has spent decades trying to bring anime fans around to the idea of CGI. Aramaki got his start back in the 80s, doing mechanical design on OVAs like Megazone 23 and Bubblegum Crisis. He debuted as a director with Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 (1987), and in 1989, he became the third director of the constantly-reinventing-itself Megazone 23, following on from Ishiguro and Hirano (AN103) on Part I, and Itano and Umetsu on Part II. So, an old hand at the past way of doing things.

In the 2000s, Aramaki returned to direction jumped on CGI, directing early CG animated films such as Appleseed (2004) in cel-shaded style, following Gainax in adapting the dense Masamune Shirow manga, and its sequel Appleseed Ex Machina in 2007 which started moving the stylisation away from cel-shading. In this time, full-CG movies were still very new; Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children dropped only in 2005. Aramaki continued to drill into full-CG with a mecha series Viper's Creed and a Starship Troopers sequel film. From that you can probably get a sense of his taste: he likes mecha!

The results received mixed reviews, as often about the technology as the movies themselves. The first Appleseed inspired Toshio Suzkui of Studio Ghibli to declare it would revolutionise animation, which doesn't seem to have been entirely borne out.

Still, when Toei decided to do a new CG adaptation of Leiji Matsumoto's renowned Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Animation Night 146), famously first taken on by Rintaro, I suppose Aramaki must have seemed a natural choice. If Appleseed had been made on the cheap, Harlock was the opposite, costing 3 billion yen as the most expensive Japanese CG film (and maybe animated film?) evaaaa, surpassing CG-heavy megaprojects like Eva 3.0+1.0, Otomo's Steamboy and In This Corner of the World. Toei clearly had big ambitions for the return of Harlock.

So. The style of this Harlock resembles more closely videogame cutscenes, or the films of Square Enix's Visual Works, than Aramaki's past films: realistic materials and lighting, only mildly stylised character designs. In contrast to the 'aliens everywhere' maximalism of the original Leijiverse, this film puts a more antiheroic Harlock in conflict with a human government, in the context of space colonists attempting to resettle Earth and fighting a big old war over it. Which isn't to say there's a shortage of alien superweapons, dark matter, and plans to reset the entire universe. It sounds pretty wild.

Following Harlock, Aramaki would continue to direct CG, including a cool take on an Eva launching for a short film for the Animator Expo, and then perhaps his most infamous creation: a sequel to GitS SAC, in SAC 2045, which brought in a plasticy CG style in place of the beloved traditional animation that proved... divisive at best. But this didn't stop him; his most recent work is a Blade Runner TV series, titled Black Lotus.

Alongside that, he continued to work on adapting Appleseed, rebooting the story yet again with Appleseed α in 2014 with CG studio Sola Digital Arts - indeed, Sola is pretty much Aramaki's studio, with almost all of their works directed by him.

Shirow's series, a predecessor to Ghost in the Shell, deserves a better introduction than I can write tonight - but it's the territory you'd expect: post-apocalyptic cyborgs in a bleak world. Far more than the others, α - which is something of a prequel, telling how the main characters came to the city where the story is set - was highly praised for its exceptionally detailed animation and mocap, though not so much its plot.

I admit, I'm taking a big chance on both these films. Neither managed to make much impact on release, but I'm definitely curious to see this anime that isn't 'anime'. (My original plan was to make this a story about a specific CG studio, but I decided it would be better to put the Final Fantasy films side by side on a night when I can write a proper history of FinFan!)

Animation Night 152 is going live now at twitch.tv/canmom. I'd love to see you there!

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THE ULTIMATE BRACKET REVEAL

i have spent all evening on this. it's very late. i need sleep.

i'm incredibly sorry in advance for any unfair match ups! i used a random number generator to avoid bias towards my own blorbos, so if anything's op, blame the google number generator lmao

BUT YAY BRACKET REVEAL WOOOOO

FULL CANDIDATE LIST (below cut):

(alphabetically by media name...)

Jessy Thorn - ADACA

Hikari Kuina - Alice in Borderland

Loba Andrade - Apex Legends

Deunan Knute - Appleseed

Jinx - Arcane

Vi - Arcane

Sevika - Arcane (i accidentally put colette in my list twice and so only had 63 candidates, so since y'all loved sevika so much in the preliminaries i decided to add her in as a wild card!)

Azula - Avatar the Last Airbender

Katara - Avatar The Last Airbender

Lollipop - Battle for Dream Island

Moriarty - BBC Sherlock

Harley Quinn - Birds of Prey and DC Batman

Grell Sutcliff - Black Butler

Sakura Ogami - Danganronpa THH

Susie - Deltarune

Connor - Detriot Become Human

River Song - Doctor Who

c!Wilbur - The Dream SMP

Zora Salazar - Epithet Erased

Evelyn Wang - Everything Everywhere All At Once

Erza Scarlet - Fairy Tail

Sephiroth - Final Fantasy 7

River Tam - Firefly

Risa Hawkeye - Full Metal Alchemist

Olivier Armstrong - Full Metal Alchemist (the vote was so close that i thought both deserved to make the cut)

Megaera - Hades

Hornet - Hollow Knight

Mantis Lords - Hollow Knight

Vriska Serket - Homestuck

Snowman - Homestuck

Jolyne Cujoh - JoJo's Bizzare Adventure: Stone Ocean

Maki Zen'in - Jujutsu Kaisen

Vilanelle - Killing Eve

LL!ZombieCleo - Last Life SMP/Life Series

Mei - Lego Monkie Kid

Tony Stark - MCU

Vera Oberlin - Monster Prom

Lady Nagant - My Hero Academia

Nya - Ninjago

Aubrey - OMORI

Bossman Hero - OMORI

Annabeth Chase - Percy Jackson

GLaDOS - Portal

Buttercup - Powerpuff Girls

Death - Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Colette - Ratatouille

Albert Wesker - Resident Evil

April O'Neil - Rise of the TMNT

Cassandra Jones - Rise of the TMNT

Catra - She-Ra

Huntara - She-Ra

Garnet - Steven Universe

Morticia Addams - The Addams Family

Ellie Rose - The Henry Stickmin Collection

Gideon Nav - The Locked Tomb

The Mandalorian - The Mandalorian

Eda Clawthorne - The Owl House

Five Hargreeves - The Umbrella Academy

Elendira the Crimsonnail - Trigun Maximum (the manga)

Mettaton - Undertale

Undyne - Undertale

Lord Dominator - Wander Over Yonder

Urbosa - Zelda BOTW

Revali - Zelda BOTW

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What I Watched This Week – 11/5 – 11/11

Pluto – I came to this without ever reading or watching any Astro Boy or other Tezuka manga, and I’ve never read or watched anything by Naoki Urasawa, but I got into this just fine without ever feeling like I was missing a prerequisite or something. I understand that it’s a reimagining of the Astro Boy manga about a lifelike boy robot named Atom, who, in this story, gets caught up in a series of murders involving other advanced robots and several humans who were instrumental in developing robot technology or in the movement to give robots civil rights. Most of the story centers on the police investigator named Gesicht, who is a robot himself, as he travels around the world meeting with other robots and scientists he suspects will be future targets, unravelling a giant world-altering plot in the process.

The story is paced well, dishing out bits of background on the world and the characters slowly as the investigation plods along, and the animation was usually very good, with a few excellent moments that made perfect use of lighting or action to be particularly moving. My one complaint would be the way the female characters were few and limited to being wives and relatives of the male characters. The male characters were entirely responsible for driving the action, whether that was through fighting or being a brilliant scientist, while the female characters were restricted to having feelings about what was happening. Some of that is due to the source material, I’m sure, but the choice to retain this gender divide in a reimagining is thoughtless at best. 8/10

Nichijou – This is my second try at watching this series, as I started it years ago and turned it off in the middle of one of the Hakase and Nano skits early in the series and never went back. I don’t live under a rock, so I keep seeing all the clips from this show that are objectively hilarious and gorgeously animated, so I gave it another go. After watching the whole thing this time, it’s just a case of feast or famine. Pretty much all of the skits involving the kids from the school are incredibly funny, and any time Hakase is on screen being a tiny sociopath in a voice that tests the range of sounds the human ear can register without bleeding, the show is insufferable. Luckily, more of the show involves the school cast than the Shinonome household, so it’s a good enough time. 7/10

Appleseed – I feel like I’ve seen this 80’s OVA talked about over the years, but after watching it, I’m not sure why this would have been much of a hit for anyone. It’s set in the aftermath of World War III, with what’s left of humanity living in a utopian city run by genetically engineered humans called “bioroids”, and follows a human woman and her cyborg partner on the police force as they track down a terrorist. The story generally felt underdeveloped, like it was speeding through the plot without stopping to take the time to flesh out character motivations and make sure things made sense. By the end of the runtime, I’m not sure who I should have been rooting for, and the conclusion felt anticlimactic. 6/10

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Manga in het Nederlands

Een zijsprongetje in mijn comicverzameling is manga. Toen ik midden jaren '90 verder begon te kijken dan de Nederlandstalige comicuitgaven, ontdekte ik door fan magazines als Hero Illustrated en Wizard naast vele series uit de Verenigde Staten ook strips uit Japan. Rond die tijd verscheen ook de legendarische anime Akira voor het eerst op VHS in Nederland en België. Er ontstond toen een korte maar krachtige anime hype. En jawel, ook stripvorm manga vond voorzichtig de weg naar Nederlandstalige uitgaven. Een overzicht:

De eerste stapjes

Technisch gezien was de eerste manga in het Nederlands eigenlijk geen manga 😅. 'Strijd Der Planeten' (Battle of the Planets) is een Westerse edit van de Japanse Gatchaman anime. De tekenfilm deed het vrij aardig in de VS, waardoor er ook een comicversie verscheen bij uitgeverij Gold Key. De vertaling daarvan verscheen begin jaren '80 in het Nederlands bij Juniorpress en werd zo dus de allereerste 'min of meer' manga in de Lage Landen.

Enkele jaren later, in 1985, kregen we wél een echte manga in het Nederlands. Candy Candy was oorspronkelijk een manga van Yumiko Igarashi uit 1975. Er werd echter ook een tekenfilmserie van gemaakt die in 1984 ook een tijdje in Nederland op TV kwam bij KRO. Dat zorgde voor de nodige bekendheid waardoor uitgever SBP de manga hier uitgaf op comicbook formaat.

Zijn tijd vooruit

Midden jaren '90 kregen we de échte start van manga in het Nederlands. Na de VHS release van de anime Akira volgden er een hele hoop andere video's met (vooral) gewelddadige shonen anime. Geen wonder dat deze behoorlijk populair waren bij de tieners van toen (zoals ik dus 🥳).

Waarom het dan ook eens niet proberen met het bronmateriaal van die films? Mana, een kleine Belgische uitgever uit Gent waagde het er op. Ze brachten Dominion en Appleseed uit. Twee manga van auteur Masamune Shirow, die later wereldberoemd zou worden met Ghost in the Shell.

De uitgaven van Mana waren mooi verzorgd en werden op 'de Japanse manier' uitgegeven. Je moest ze dus lezen van achter naar voor en de pagina's van rechts naar links. Helaas bleek het publiek hier toch nog niet helemaal klaar voor, waardoor Appleseed na 2 deeltjes helaas onvolledig werd stopgezet. Dominion kreeg ook 2 delen, maar was daarmee gelukkig wél compleet.

Een vreemde keuze

Rond dezelfde tijd van de Mana uitgaven waagde ook Balloon Publications zich aan Nederlandstalige manga. Hun aanpak was op zich iets commerciëler, met uitgaven op een iets groter (ongeveer tpb) formaat en met gespiegelde pagina's zodat op de westerse manier gelezen kon worden. Alleen maakten ze een vreemde keuze over met welke titel ze zich op de wereld van de manga zouden storten: Striker. Niemand had ooit van deze manga gehoord. En eerlijk gezegd is het ook een nogal generieke, weinig originele strip. Niet echt verwonderlijk dus dat ook deze manga het niet verder schopte dan 2 deeltjes.

Unieke uitgave

De volgende die zijn kans waagde met manga in de Lage Landen was Arboris. Deze uitgever had zich natuurlijk al lang bewezen met vertaalde comics als Judge Dredd en Elfquest. Hun keuze voor de Nederlandse en Belgische markt was Ghost in the Shell. Een topper van formaat, die het toen ook al tot populaire tekenfilm had geschopt.

De manga werd uitgegeven in 8 albums op traditioneel Europees formaat. Het 2e deeltje in de Ghost in the Shell reeks is trouwens best uniek. De manga van Masamune Shirow is namelijk vrij berucht om enkele expliciete naaktscènes. In alle uitgaven buiten Japan werden die telkens gecensureerd of weggelaten... behalve bij de Nederlandse versie van Arboris 😜

Ondanks al deze troeven bleek ook deze uitgave niet erg populair. Het duurde zelfs meerdere jaren vooraleer alle 8 uitgaven verschenen waren.

De tweede golf

Na de poging van Arboris gingen enkele jaren voorbij zonder nieuwe manga uitgaven in het Nederlands. De hype leek alweer voorbij. Tot Glénat plots met Akira op de proppen kwam. Deze uitgever had al jaren ervaring met vertaalde manga in Frankrijk. En ze hadden goed opgelet, want Akira was natuurlijk dé grote video hit waarmee de hele manga rage begonnen was. Bovendien is Akira van auteur Katsuhiro Otomo ook gewoon één van de allerbeste manga ooit gemaakt. De uitgave van Glénat was ook best toegankelijk voor het Westerse publiek, met gespiegelde pagina's en een Europees (zij het veel dikker) albumformaat.

Doorbraak

De échte doorbraak volgde snel daarna. De Dragonball Z anime was begin jaren 2000 al enkele jaren oud, maar werd toen voor het eerst uitgezonden op de nationale commerciële televisie in België. De reeks was meteen zeer populair bij tieners en iets oudere geeks.

Ik herinner me dat ik toen al begin de 20 was, maar toch vond ik de Dragonball wereld van schrijver Akira Toriyama geweldig. Een vriend van me was deels opgegroeid in Frankrijk en kende de reeks al veel langer uit zijn kindertijd. Hij had ook nog een oude Super Nintendo met enkele DBZ games. We waren toen niet altijd zo'n ijverige studenten en hebben heel wat tijd doorgebracht met die games en mij wegwijs te maken in de who's who van het Dragonball universum. Those were the days 🥳.

Uitgeverij Glénat aarzelde trouwens niet na het succes van de serie op TV en bracht meteen ook de Dragonball manga uit in een goedkope, zeer vlot verkrijgbare versie. De kleine 'blauwe boekjes' waren werkelijk overal en verkochten zeer goed. In de topperiode is sprake van 10000 verkochte exemplaren per nummer! 💪

Ik had ze zelf ooit helemaal volledig, maar besliste op een dag ze weg te doen. Nu vele jaren later heb ik daar natuurlijk dik spijt van en probeer ik ze langzaam maar zeker weer volledig te krijgen 🙈.

Graantje meepikken

Kana, in Frankrijk al jarenlang de grote manga concurrent van Glénat, merkte het succes van Dragonball in België en Nederland ook op en besloot een graantje mee te pikken. Met Yu-Gi-Oh mikten ze op hetzelfde shonen publiek als de Dragonball lezers. En met succes! De titel verkocht goed, zelfs al was die uitgegeven op de originele Japanse manier, zonder gespiegelde pagina's. Na verloop van tijd volgden meer titels in hetzelfde genre zoals Bleach, Shaman King en natuurlijk Naruto.

Goed geprobeerd

De trein was nu helemaal vertrokken. Standaard Uitgeverij, een grote Vlaamse uitgever bekend van oa. Suske&Wiske, bracht met Astroboy een echte oldschool manga op de markt. De klassieker van Osamu Tezuka kreeg een mooie uitgave met een goede distributie, een gigantische oplage van 25000 stuks en best een grote reclamecampagne. Toch vonden veel lezers (toegegeven, ik ook 🙈) deze verhalen midden jaren 2000 iets té gedateerd en gingen ze op zoek naar wat 'edgier' leesvoer...

Cult classics

... en dat 'edgier' materiaal kwam er dan ook 😎. Na de 'brave' start van Glénat met gespiegelde pagina's en zekerheidjes als Akira en Dragonball, gingen zij nu net als Kana voor de 'full Japanese style'. Ze richtten zich nu ook meer volwassen cult klassiekers als Battle Angel Alita, Berserk en Say Hello to Black Jack.

Concurrentie houdt je scherp en dat was hier ook het geval voor Kana. Na de volwassener uitgaven van Glénat gingen zij nu ook voor steengoede seinen manga zoals Doubt, Ikigami en grote hit (en één van mijn persoonlijke favorieten) Death Note.

Het nirvana

Rond 2006 was manga in het Nederlands zo groot geworden dat in zowat elk segment van de stripmarkt iets van Japanse makelij werd vertaald. Zo werd ook het volwassen graphic novel publiek verwend met prachtige uitgaven door uitgeverij L van het Boeddha epos van mangaka Tezuka.

Ik ben zelf alles behalve gelovig, maar dit 8-delige meesterwerk maakte toch enorme indruk op me. En niet enkel op mij, want de reeks kreeg een groot aantal herdrukken. Bovendien bracht L nog meer Tezuka graphic novels uit met Ode aan Kirihito, MW en Ayako.

Terwijl uitgever L zich op het werk van Tezuka stortte, deed Casterman hetzelfde met de prachtige poëtische verhalen van Jiro Taniguchi die allemaal een heel mooie vertaalde uitgave kregen. Ik ben zijn werk recent trouwens nog meer gaan bewonderen nadat ik op reis ben geweest in Japan. Indrukwekkend hoe hij de (leef)wereld van Japan in beeld weet te brengen.

Nog een volwassen reeks die veel indruk op mij maakte was Gen Barrevoets (Barefoot Gen) van uitgever Xtra over een jongen in het Hiroshima vlak voor, tijdens en na de ontploffing van de atoombom. Een zeer intense strip die vandaag de dag jammer genoeg nog steeds erg relevant is. 😢

Illustrated Classics

Nog een bijzonderheidje: in de jaren '60 waren Amerikaanse comics in het Nederlands niet enkel bekend om hun superhelden verhalen. Er waren ook de 'Illustrated Classics', hervertellingen van klassieke literatuur in stripvorm. Daar verschenen meer dan 200 nummers van.

Wat ik al wél kan vertellen is dat uitgever EPO rond 2010 de Japanse versie van de Illustrated Classics heeft uitgegeven in Nederland en België. Waarschijnlijk was deze luxe hardcover uitgave nét iets te prijzig voor de eigenlijke jongere doelgroep van de verhalen. In tegenstelling tot de Amerikaanse versie uit de jaren '60 hield deze Japanse het slechts 6 edities vol...

Het einde

Tegen 2010 waren er met alles samen ongeveer 300 releases zoveel manga op de Nederlandstalige stripmarkt dat ze implodeerde. Lezers zagen door de bomen het bos niet meer en verloren hun interesse. Na een tijdje werden quasi alle reeksen dan ook stopgezet. Zelfs de 'Deluxe editie' van Dragonball door Glénat, dit keer wél op de Japanse manier uitgegeven en met de originele geschildere pagina's in kleur, werd halfweg de serie stopgezet. 😭

Alsof dat nog niet voldoende was, ontstonden er ook problemen met de rechten op de uitgaven. Ballon Media kocht de mangarechten voor Nederlandstalige uitgaven op van zowel Glénat als Kana. Op het eerste zicht goed nieuws, want Ballon was een nieuwe, kapitaalkrachtige speler op de markt. Maar helaas zetten ze meteen de weinige reeksen die nog liepen stop. Bovendien gaat het gerucht dat de overgebleven stock van de eerdere uitgaven volledig vernietigd zou zijn. Wie dus nog op zoek gaat naar oude Nederlandstalige manga van Glénat en Kana moet zich richten op de weinige exemplaren die nog tweedehands circuleren...

Tot slot nog een leestip: op het forum van Mangaheuvel vind je een compleet overzicht van alle in het Nederlands verschenen manga, leuke weetjes en reviews 🙌

[major2501]

Briareos from Appleseed. Such an overlooked and often forgotten anime and manga series.

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Part 6 of Giant Post of Completed Good Omens Human AU’s: August 2021

Happy August! <3 And thank you to all the creators who bring us so much joy!

Also! A searchable list of all of my Good Omens human AU recs.

You can use it to find fics where Aziraphale is a librarian, or fics with Ineffable Wives, etc.

More of my Completed Good Omens Human AU Recs on Tumblr

More Good Omens recs from me here: Dannye’s fic recs Dannye’s artist recs

And my Carrd

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Series: (not all of these series are complete but the fics in them are finished)

All Alike My Songs And Praises Be by Euterpein Rated M-E (C moves to a small town and meets priest A)

Good Omens Human AU by @lady-divine-writes (Ao3 White Queen Writes) Rated T-M. (Series contains several human AUs: 1. Ineffable wives: C tries to escape a bad blind date; 2. Ineffable wives: C & A are actors; 3. C & A are customers at a bakery; 4. ballerina C & shoemaker A; 6. Sex worker C & client A; 7. C mourns the death of his husband A; 8. C & A are on a blind date…sort of; 9. a Fahrenheit 451 AU; 10. Tattoo artist C and flower shop owner A)

Meet Cutes by @summerofspock Rated T-M (series contains 2 human AUs: 1. 1. Trash collector C and new home owner A; 2. Ineffable wives: C & A are roller derby skaters)

Noah's Ark Zoo by AppleSeeds Rated G (C & A are co-workers at a zoo)

Omens of Love by ranguvar82 (Series contains 14 human AUs: 1. C meets A on a bad day; 3. A buys chocolates from C; 5 & 23. Gift shop owner A & customer C; 7 & 9. C & A meet on a train; 11, 13, & 25. A listens to street musician C; 15. Coffee shop owner A & customer C; 17. C & A are new neighbors; 19. Coffee shop worker A & customer C; 21. C & A are in an established relationship; 27. C & A are market vendors)

Us and Them Makes Family by @darknessandfyre Rated G-E (C & A are childhood friends who reunite)

Single Fics:

Absolution by Furuba_Fangirl 2565 words, Rated E (C confesses to priest A)

Against Expectations by @summerofspock and @asparklethatisblue (Ao3 Blue_Sparkle) 69,302 words, Rated E (C & A enter into an arranged marriage)

A Heart in the Scrum by @sk3tchid (Ao3 Sk3tch) 7006 words, Rated T (Ineffable wives: C & A are college students in 1935)

A Kind of Fighting by mozbee 4530 words, Rated G (C & A have a fight but make up)

A New Building Isn't the Only Erection in the Area by @quefish77 (Ao3 Quefish) 4783 words, Rated E (C hits on the one construction worker who doesn't hit on her)

Angelic Whispers by AppleSeeds 20,563 words, Rated T (ASMR therapist A & client C)

An Outpouring of Love by @ambrasue (Ao3 Ambra_Sue) 2319 words, Rated T (Bartender A & customer C)

A Portrait For You by @izabella95 1581 words, Rated T (Artist A draws a portrait of stranger C)

A seat at the table. by @mugglebornsyltherin (Ao3 DarkAngel2891) 6976 words, Rated E (A teaches C to cook in an AU based on the manga Our Dining Table)

Batteries Not Included by @caedmonfaith (Ao3 Caedmon) and @bornonthesavage (Ao3 KiaraMGrey) 24,813 words, Rated E (Sex shop worker A & customer C)

Coarse Grind by @verdantvulpus 5045 words, Rated E (Cafe owner C & small appliance repairman A)

Crown the Fallen Star-Maker by @arcafira, 8367 words, Rated M (Ineffable wives: C meets bookseller A while recovering from illness)

Dancing Hearts and Bingo Calls by @saretton 500 words, Rated G (C & A are co-residents in a retirement home)

Dark Literature by @unproblematicme 51,619 words, Rated E (Ex-lovers C & A work together in a haunted building)

Delivery by @naromoreau 6384 words, Rated E (Pizza deliveryman A & customer C)

Devilishly Heavenly Bakes by @junkshop-disco 30,348 words, Rated T (Musician C & vicar A compete on the Great British Bake Off)

don't call me angel by @leilakalomi 18,286 words, Rated M (Dancer C & software developer A in an AU based on the movie Dirty Dancing)

Funnel Cakes and Falling by @ineffableomenshusbands (Ao3 Dashicra1) 4821 words, Rated T (C & A work at a fairground)

Hell's kitchen, heaven's chef by @sani-86 (Ao3 Sani86) 19,679 words, Rated T (A & C are co-chefs in a restaurant)

I Saw Crowley Kissing Santa Claus by @caedmonfaith (Ao3 Caedmon) 4074 words, Rated E (A is a mall Santa and C is his elf photographer)

It's Always Been You and Me by @izabella95 4661 words, Rated G (C & A are college roommates)

Magnificat by @entanglednow 2859 words, Rated M (C & A are priests)

Miracles by @tawnyontumblr (Ao3 TawnyOwl95) 24,317 words, Rated E (An AU based on the movie The Full Monty)

Model Rivalries by @asparklethatisblue (Ao3 Blue_Sparkle) 2328 words, Rated M (Ineffable wives: C & A are models for rival agencies)

Once upon a time by @elfontheshelves (Ao3 elf_on_the_shelf) 42,764 words, Rated E (C & A are writers)

On the Matter of Traffic Violations by @contraststudies (Ao3 hanap) 3495 words, Rated E (Officer A stops C for speeding)

Paper Thin Walls by @angelsnuffbox (Ao3 MrsCaulfield) 16,677 words, Rated E (C & A are best friends and neighbors)

Radio! Someone still loves you by Joseph_Amadeus 5255 words, Rated T (Spouses C & A are radio hosts on different schedules)

Roads Not Taken by @bornonthesavage (Ao3 KiaraMGrey) 8299 words, Rated E (C & A are ex-lovers)

Room Service by Epimeliad 5312 words, Rated E (Room service waiter C & customer A)

Salesmen by @unproblematicme 1524 words, Rated T (C & A are rival traveling salesmen)

Seven Thousand Six Hundred & Sixty Five Days. by demondoll 8436 words, Rated T (C & A meet on New Year's Eve)

Shelter from the Storm by AppleSeeds 13,283 words, Rated T (C & A are co-workers who must share a hotel room in a winter storm)

She Will Be Loved by Starlight_fallen 16,257 words, Rated M (C & A are high school students)

Summer Swims and Strings by @jamgrlsblog (Ao3 jamgrl) 5143 words, Rated M (Ineffable wives: C & A are high school sweethearts who reconnect years later)

Sweet Surprises by Euterpein 15,130 words, Rated G (Ineffable wives: C's son and A's nephew go to school together)

The Arrangement by @tawnyontumblr (Ao3 TawnyOwl95) 19792 words, Rated E (Scientists C & A are set up on a blind date)

The End of an Era by @balder12 6473 words, Rated T (C & A are spies)

The Importance of Being Earnest by mozbee 2304 words, Rated G (C gets drunk and hits on his husband A, forgetting they are married)

There Was Only One Closet by @kanna-ophelia 1898 words, Rated T (C & A are spies)

The Utter Rudeness by ElliottRook 2420 words, Rated G (A's best friend C has a bad day on his paper route)

The Wit of the Bee by @melibemusca (Ao3 Melibe) 32,369 words, Rated M (C & A are Adam's adoptive parents)

To The Road by @smolalienbee and @tastymoves (Ao3 Sway) 11,680 words, Rated T (C & A meet on a bus)

Until by @teslatherat (Ao3 Nadzieja) 6712 words, Rated T (An AU based on the time-travel movie Kate and Leopold)

Working Up a Sweat by @naromoreau 6489 words, Rated E (Personal trainer A & client C)

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

ESWAT's FINEST ON FULL DISPLAY -- A PIECE FOR EVERY OCCASION.

PIC INFO: Mega spotlight on a character bio & pin-up of "Extra-Special Weapons and Tactics" member Deunan Knute (with her arsenal), artwork & text by Masamune Shirow, from the cyberpunk manga series "Appleseed" (1985-'89).

""Appleseed is set 130 years in the future, so, as I have written elsewhere, Deunan is a complex mix of several races. As far as I can recall, however, I've never made her of Japanese descent. Anyway, who cares? Sorry, but her measurements are a secret."

-- MASAMUNE SHIROW (mangaka, creator of "Appleseed")

Sources: www.pinterest.com/pin/354799276868111606 & Facebook.

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Netflix Festival Japan 2021: una valanga di novità dall’Anime Day

Annunci, trailer e date di debutto per il 2022 della piattaforma, all’insegna dell’animazione giapponese.  

Di seguito trovate tutte le, numerosissime, novità presentate da Netflix durante la diretta streaming della prima delle due giornate del Netflix Festival Japan 2021, tutta dedicata agli anime. 

LE BIZZARRE AVVENTURE DI JOJO: STONE OCEAN

I primi 12 episodi dell’attesissima nuova serie basata sulla sesta parte della celebre saga generazionale ideata da Hirohiko Araki, il cui popolarissimo manga è edito in Italia da Star Comics, arriveranno in streaming dal 1 dicembre.

Inizialmente il Media Center di Netflix riportava una distribuzione mensile, ma ora quella dicitura è sparita.

TIGER & BUNNY 2

La seconda stagione dell’originale serie supereroistica sarà composta sempre da 25 episodi e arriverà in streaming divisa in due parti: i primi 13 episodi saranno disponibili a partire da aprile 2022. 

THERMAE ROMAE NOVAE

La nuova serie animata ispirata al manga “Thermae Romae” di Mari Yamazaki, farà il suo debutto sulla piattaforma nel 2022. 

Il protagonista, Lucius, sarà interpretato da Kenjio Tsuda (Tatsu in La via del grembiule - Lo yakuza casalingo).

KAKEGURUI TWIN

Annunciata la produzione, sempre da parte dello studio MAPPA (Jujutsu Kaisen, Dorohedoro), di una serie animata tratta dal manga prequel di “Kakegurui”, edito in Italia da J-POP Manga.  

A differenza della serie principale, questo fumetto ha come protagonista Mary Saotome, che sarà interpretata ancora una volta da Minami Tanaka (Nitocris in Fate/Grand Order The Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table - Camelot).

GHOST IN THE SHELL SAC_2045

Confermata una seconda stagione per la nuova serie animata in computer grafica della celebre saga fantascientifica, diretta da Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) assieme a Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed Alpha).

I nuovi episodi debutteranno globalmente nel corso del 2022.

THE SEVEN DEADLY SIN: GRUDGE OF EDINBURGH

Annunciato un nuovo film d’animazione in computer grafica ispirato al popolare manga shonen fantasy di Nakaba Suzuki, edito in Italia da Star Comics. La pellicola avrà come protagonista Tristan, il figlio di Meliodas, e racconterà una storia inedita scritta dall’autore. 

Il film prodotto dagli studi MARVY JACK e ALFRED IMAGEWORKS sarà diviso in due parti, che verranno distribuite nel corso del 2022. La regia è affidata a Bob Shirahata (Hetalia World Series), sotto la supervisione di Noriyuki Abe (The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Prisoners of the Sky), mentre della sceneggiatura si sta occupando Rintaro Ikeda (The Seven Deadly Sins: Il giudizio del drago).

EXCEPTION

L’originale serie horror sci-fi diretta da Yuzo e sceneggiata da Hirotaka “Otsuichi” Adachi (My Capricorn Friend, Summer Ghost, Goth) debutterà in streaming nel 2022. 

Prodotta presso gli studi BAKKEN RECORD (Joran The Princess of Snow and Blood) e 5 INC (Make My Day), la serie si avvale del character design ad opera di Yoshitaka Amano, lo storico illustratore legato al celebre franchise di Final Fantasy.  

AGGRETSUKO

La quarta stagione della popolare commedia diretta e sceneggiata da Rareko, con protagonista l’adorabile e metallara mascotte di Sanrio, arriverà su Netflix il 16 dicembre.

ULTRAMAN

Svelato un nuovo teaser trailer per la seconda stagione della serie animata, che sbarcherà su Netflix nella primavera 2022.

L'adattamento in computer grafica si basa sull’omonimo manga di Eichi Shimizu e Tomohiro Shimoguchi (il duo dietro Linebarrels of Iron), edito in Italia da Star Comics, ispirato a sua volta allo storico supereroe protagonista della popolare serie tokusatsu anni ‘60 di Tsuburaya Productions.

VAMPIRE IN THE GARDEN

Il debutto dell’originale serie animata targata WIT STUDIO (Ousama Ranking, Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song) è stato spostato al 2022. Le due protagoniste della storia, Momo e Fine, saranno interpretate rispettivamente da Megumi Han (Atsuko Kagari in Little Witch Academia) e Yuu Kobayashi (Noi in Dorohedoro).

l progetto sta venendo diretto da Ryotaro Makihara (L’impero dei cadaveri, Hal) con l’assistenza di Hiroyuki Tanaka (Claymore). Il character design e il comparto animazioni sono supervisionati da Tetsuya Nishio (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations), mentre le musiche sono composte da Yoshihiro Ike (Takt Op. Destiny).

DETECTIVE CONAN

Netflix ha annunciato che distribuirà in esclusiva gli adattamenti animati di “The Culprit Hanzawa” e “Zero’s Tea Time”, due spinoff di “Detective Conan” che per il momento non hanno una data di debutto.

Il primo è un gag manga ad opera di Mayuko Kanba, che ha come protagonista la classica silhouette del colpevole misterioso, che incontriamo sempre nelle varie storie del celebre investigatore di Gosho Aoyama.

Il secondo ci porta invece dentro la vita quotidiana dell’uomo dalle molteplici identità, conosciuto come Bourbon, super agente degli Uomini in Nero, Rei Furuya, agente segreto della NPA e Toru Amuro, detective privato nonché cameriere del Café Poirot.

KOTARO LIVES ALONE

Mostrato un primo teaser trailer per l’anime tratto dal manga slice of life “Kotaro wa Hitorigurashi” di Mami Tsumura, che arriverà su Netflix nel corso della primavera 2022.

La serie sta venendo diretta da Tomoe Makino (Woodpecker Detective's Office) presso gli studi LIDENFILMS (Tokyo Revengers, Cells at Work! Black) e la sceneggiatura è stata affidata a Yu Sato (Space Battleship Tiramisu).

Il piccolo Kotaro è doppiato da Rie Kugimiya (Kagura in Gintama), mentre Toshiki Masuda (Eijiro Kirishima in My Hero Academia) ha il ruolo di Shin Karino, il mangaka che abita vicino al bambino.

THE ORBITAL CHILDREN

Il nuovo anime sci-fi del regista e sceneggiatore Mitsuo Iso (Denno Coil), dal titolo “Chikyugai Shonen Shojo” (Extra-Terrestrial Boys and Girls), arriverà in streaming sulla piattaforma dal 28 gennaio 2022.

I 6 episodi della miniserie sono stati realizzati presso PRODUCTION +H, un nuovo studio d’animazione, fondato appositamente per creare il titolo.

RILAKKUMA’S THEME PARK ADVENTURE

La nuova serie animata in stop-motion, dedicata all’adorabile orsacchiotto di San-X, arriverà su Netflix nel corso del 2022.

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[kajira-kreations]

🎥

Oof! I have a few faves but my top 3 fave films of all time has got to be:

1. Matilda

Cuz I know that feeling of being the odd one out in my family growing up...but things are better now.

Enjoyed both the book and the film.

2. Napoleon Dynamite

...'cuz it's just so dumb it's funny!

Whenever I hear the song, "The Rose" by Amanda McBroom I cannot help but think of the Happy Hands Club scene in the film and will literally do the hand motions. My sister and I watched Studio Ghibli's "Only Yesterday" last Sunday and the ending song was literally the song mentioned above and the two of us CRACKED UP so hard because it will forever reminded us of Napoleon Dynamite. 😆

3. Appleseed (both the 2004 film and Ex Machina):

I have yet to watch the original 80's OVA...read the manga years ago! My fave anime films after reading about it on Newtype USA (Yes! Newtype used to be in English until they ceased publications in 2009-ish...one of my favorite anime mags too).

It's also one of Masamune Shirow's most criminally underrated series, it wasn't as popular as Ghost in the Shell... 😭

Also, Deunan Knute was my first anime waifu 😘💕

'cuz I dreamed of a lady who's has short blonde hair, has beauty and grace yet can be ultra fierce and protective too!

Thank you for making the time to get to know me!

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Ghost in The Shell SAC_2045 1st Season Gets A Compilation Film in 2021

    The official website for Ghost in The Shell SAC_2045, the latest installment from the anime series based on Masamune Shirow's sci-fi action manga, announced today that a compilation film based on its first season is set to be released in 2021. The film edition will be reconstructed with some newly-created scenes.

  A teaser visual drawn by the character designer Ilya Kuvshinov is also revealed.

  攻殻機動隊 SAC_2045 劇場公開決定???????????? シーズン１に新たなシーンを加えて再構成した劇場版を2021年に劇場公開することが決まりました！ 乞うご期待！#攻殻機動隊 #SAC2045 pic.twitter.com/61L5YcqG5K

— 攻殻機動隊 SAC_2045 公式 (@gitssac2045) July 8, 2021

    The 12-episode first season of the 3DCG series was streamed on Netflix worldwide (except China mainland) in April  2020, and the second season has already been in the works. Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series) and Shinji Aramaki (APPLESEED, Starship Troopers: Invasion) have worked as co-directors at Production I.G and SOLA DIGITAL ARTS.

    Message from Kenji Kamiyama:

  "I have always edited a compilation of my own works by myself, but this time, for the first time, I entrusted the compilation to another creator. I wanted to know how SAC_2045 would look from someone else's perspective. Even for those who have already watched Season 1, they may find a different interpretation. Can't wait for the release!"

    Message from Shinji Aramaki:

  "I'm Aramaki, and I'm currently working on Season 2 with Director Kamiyama, since Season 1 was streamed last year. I'm happy to hear that Season 1 will be released as a compilation film. What kind of compilation will be made of that story? I actually don't know yet (laughs). Please look forward to it. I'm looking forward to it too!"

      1st season key visual:

    Source: "Ghost in The Shell SAC_2045" official website / Twitter 

  © Masamune Shirow,Production I.G/KODANSHA, Ghost in The Shell 2045 Production Committee

  By: Mikikazu Komatsu

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Sokyo X Chapter 4 (Out Now!)

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Sci-fi mecha action comic! FPS x manga vibe! Follow a mech squad as they deal with the on-planet rebels and rigid commander. Gundam X Halo X Titanfall X Appleseed

Sokyo X is a 6 chapter series by Cory Tran.