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Wilco499
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I'd like to say despite the implication this article raises, Books-A-Million is US-based and has no European/British affiliate. The only UK/European distributor is Forbidden Planet. Anyways, I guess I'll have to figure out what duties will be for ordering from Forbidden Planet (thanks Brexit). |
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whiskeyii
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Wait, this is that series I’ve been seeing art for all over Twitter! I’ve never heard of Toypress before, does anyone have any insight into this series? I only know that it’s supposedly pretty broad.
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BodaciousSpacePirate
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It was the first manga I ever seriously got into, after discovering that there were mecha franchises other than Gundam. I remember buying volumes of it off the Protoculture Addicts website. I stopped buying the original English volumes around volume 20, not because the series was bad, but because I lost track of it during college. I wish I had kept up with the releases, because the last few are simply impossible to find for under $100 now. Anyway, it’s a pretty sprawling story. The timeline posted in the back of the volumes spans millenia, and it is clear that the author has the whole thing planned out, but is only interested in showing you the absolute coolest parts. Whether you find that interesting is up to you, but the art…well, it isn’t for everybody, but if it IS the sort of thing you like, you are going to find it absolutely stunning on every page. |
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BlueAlf
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It's a very niche thing. The author worked with Sunrise back in the 80's and a lot of his weird sensibilities are expressed in it. Generally, it's a sci-fi space opera about conflicts between bio-engineered superhuman knights, the humanoid mostly-female bio-computers that serve them, and the gigantic mechs they pilot. It also has god-like beings and space-magic too, with themes of prophecy and destiny. The story is kinda hard to get into. But it is pretty amazing once you get it. It plays out in a series of acts. And even though it has action, it's more about the drama and the intrigue. The previous English publications had kinda iffy translations with a lot of editing mistakes. Which is why there's a lot of expectation for this version. |
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Fluwm
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And with Tomino specifically, so yeah, weird. He also created the (better-known?) Heavy Metal L-Gaim, which is one of those "forgotten classics" of 80s mecha anime, alongside Votoms, Dougram, Dunbine, and pretty much everything else not-titled Gundam or Macross. FSS also got a (very abbreviated) anime adaptation in 1989. It's just like a 60-minute OVA, but it was one of those movies that got a bit of a cult-following in the anglophone fandom back in the day.
And excitement! Though speaking of lackluster English translations, I need to look into the Ghost in the Shell manga and see if it ever got a better localization. I have the original Dark Horse release and, uh... it ain't great. |
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