Would no longer it be good if Kodansha’s “Osamu Tezuka Manga Total Works” editions were in English? Properly, they kinda are.
Yes! A charmingly typewritten synopsis of his traditional shojo manga PRINCESS KNIGHT! Elegant, the relaxation of the amusing is in Eastern, nonetheless it’s miles a initiate. Is there extra? Yes there is – great extra! This Kodansha living was once a 400 quantity living published over a twenty Three hundred and sixty five days length, and as attain as I will resolve, all of them enjoy English-language forewords. Every thing from his breakout traditional Unique Take care of Island to, deliver, Ambassador Magma!
AMBASSADOR MAGMA aka SPACE GIANTS! All correct! So, how reasonably a couple of is this from the Location Giants expose we enjoyed as children?
Yeah, that is colorful reasonably a couple of. For one ingredient, token Caucasian reporter “Liz” will not be always even mentioned! Howdy, what about KIMBA THE WHITE LION, you know, JUNGLE EMPEROR?
No, that is rarely any longer Santa Claus there, it’s Hige Oyaji and a grown-up Kimba – now named Leo – bravely going through the substances atop Mount Moon! A grown up Kimba?? What the heck?
Yes, the conventional manga goes places NBC would no longer dare… on the least no longer in cool intelligent film kind. They took a gargantuan aged mosey on Tezuka’s continuation of the Kimba storyline, and we would want to again till CBN Cable aired “Leo The Lion” to search out out how Kimba grew up. However ample of these popular Tezuka works – did Kodansha liberate Total Works editions of his extra, shall we are asserting, imprecise manga?
Yes! Yes they did. JET KING, the epic of an alien boy who can change his form at will to higher defeat immoral, has a spoiler correct in the English synopsis, so construct no longer be taught it! Additionally in this quantity, HIKARI is the epic of a boy with loopy hair and two handguns who fights gangsters. Basically based on a correct epic.
However what about ASTRO BOY? I will hear you now, where’s TETSUWAN ATOMU? Okay, here is your MIGHTY ATOM already.
This quantity contains the epic “The Three Magicians”, which was once one in every of the first Astro Boy tales I was once ever uncovered to, because it’s miles usually the subject of this LP:
These three magicians procure around.
Somebody could well just aloof take the hint and procure to work giving this traditional Tezuka manga some right North American releases; PRINCESS KNIGHT would sell like cotton candy on the gorgeous and who would mosey up of enterprise to hang the conventional tales in the again of SPACE GIANTS and KIMBA THE WHITE LION? Now not me! In the length in-between, I inform we’ll could well just aloof be order material with 30 Three hundred and sixty five days aged typewritten summaries.
(editor’s demonstrate – because it became out our pleas were heard and Princess Knight did procure a manga liberate in English courtesy Vertical. Ambassador Magma and Jungle Emperor reside unlicensed.)
-Dave Merrill