For fans of the Rockman X manga by Yoshihiro Iwamoto, there is a great auction up for you on the Yahoo! block: all five collected volumes for 7,000 Yen ($70).Often considered to be the Rockman X manga, Iwamato's 12 volume series was re-released and repackaged into five convenient volumes a couple years back with brand new cover/back art by the author himself.
Seller notes of a few bits of wear, scratches and bends, but nothing too serious.
Sure, it's all in Japanese but hey, if you love Iwamato's snazzy art style, don't let that stop you. If it does however, there's always Dark Neko's Lab.
What an ugly art style. O_o X looks like a teenage girl. And his face is squashed.
ReplyDeleteI like a lot his art style... in fact, I think I'll buy them XDDD, jojojo....
ReplyDeleteEwww... I agreed with #1 Anonymous. Ugh!
ReplyDeleteNow I want them.
ReplyDeletea great find, but I'm a little confused. The auction says its a complete series, and yet I recall seeing an image of the X manga that suggested it was an adaptation of X5. Could it be something from one of the pages or something unrelated?
ReplyDeleteIt's probably unrelated. Sadly, Iwamoto did not adapt X5 and onwards.
ReplyDelete@Rock-X: Iwamoto's work finished at X4, and that was an incomplete story as it was.
ReplyDeleteThere are two volumes of an X5 manga, which from what I recall was made by a Chinese artist. It looks more like a doujin to me than a manga. I guess the author is credited as Hup Yee.
digi148 did some scans and soldjermon posted them, which you can find out about here: http://soldjermon.deviantart.com/journal/23130976/
And at the haters, yes Iwamoto's style has some quirks where his faces look a bit off, but he also has some very fabulous pieces where characters, especially the animalistic Mavericks, look very well done. Magma Dragoon. 'Nuff said. Don't just judge him by tiny mugshots on the binding.
Whatwherewhennow dot com...? XD
Rock Miyabi: Yup, the scan of page 4-5 is the image I saw. Thank you for clearing things up.
ReplyDeleteDamn, if only I had money right now. Oh well, time to just look at my X4 manga that I brought awhile ago. I'll buy the rest at a later time.
ReplyDeleteAbout Iwamoto's drawings, so are urgh and some are great. Just an inside look of X4, at the end of the story, Iwamoto did do a drawing of X8.
Boo hoo... *weeps* I want to buy themm! 3X I love these manga! They're so well done! Just wish I could read them. D: Someone needs to pick up where Dr. Neko left off!
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