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DangerMouse
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Wow I haven't gotten onto ANN all week and am greeted with cool news
Bleuster, do you happen to know the name of this book? If it shows up anywhere I'll probably end up buying it like I have most of Murata's art collections.
So true, one of my highlights as well and I agree it was probably quite unfair to expect Shangri-La to match Last Exile as the amount of pre-production work that clearly went into LE was seemingly huge from the likes of Murata and Maeda etc. and also it was Gonzo at the peak of both their funding and almost all of their really important staff in hands on positions (before they got spread out) as Last Exile was billed as their anniversary project and whatnot at the time.
Same here, man do I hope he's still involved.
Hopefully indeed, I was so looking forwards to the bits of the scifi story that were described and Murata's involvement.
Please do I hope he's allowed to answer it.
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hikaru004
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@DangerMouse: That was bleuster who made that comment not me.
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DangerMouse
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Ah yeah, sorry about that. Edited. |
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Shiroi Hane
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I don't actually have any Murata doujin or other artbooks (but have seen pictures and lusted after them), but I do have a few issues of Robot and, more recently, the "100 Master of bishoujo painting" artbook which has a lovely Murata cover.
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bleuster
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I didn't finish Shangri-La, but it seems some of the characteristics from Murata's designs didn't translate well into the series, for whatever reason.
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Shiroi Hane
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He has two pages inside like all the other artists; a full page illustration of Kuniko from the cover of Newtype and three smaller pieces reprinted from other magaines including Robot. The major surprises was that the entire book is bilingual, with most of the text translated into English.
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Dante80
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I wouldn't say that it was Muratas fault though.... Original design by Range MURATA (村田蓮爾) : 
Design by Kumi ISHII (石井久美). |
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bleuster
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@Shiroi Hane: That's really interesting!
I know Murata was doing interviews up and down the streets to promote Robot when DMP had the rights to publish them (at least the first 3 vols.) in the U.S. Too bad the Robot series is "licensing hell", even Udon Entertainment could only publish 3 vols. Stateside, but it sounds like they had importers in mind with this release.
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Zin5ki
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The character designs are certainly appealing. I'm not in the best position to judge this, but there does seem to be a manifest resemblance to Battle Angel. Though tales of vengeance don't constitute usual watching for me, the implied romance angle could compensate.
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