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Lone Wolf and Cub's Kazuo Koike to Hold Reddit AMA on Thursday
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Manga creator Kazuo Koike will hold an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit on Thursday at 8:30 p.m. EST. Koike will reveal the Reddit URL on his official Twitter account before the AMA takes place.
The manga creator's latest project includes a Kickstarter campaign for a motion comic version of Lone Wolf and Cub in Japanese and English.
Koike co-created several popular manga titles that have been licensed in North America, including Lone Wolf and Cub, Samurai Executioner, Crying Freeman, and Lady Snowblood. Dark Horse Comics has published Koike's Lone Wolf and Cub, Samurai Executioner, and other titles, and Viz Media and Dark Horse Comics both published Crying Freeman.
He also established Gekikia Sonjuka, a college course that teaches manga. Its alumni include Rumiko Takahashi, Tetsuo Hara, Yuji Horii, and Keisuke Itagaki.
He currently serializes Yume Genji Tsurugi no Saimon with artist Natsuki Tsumeraki in Kadokawa Shoten's Samurai Ace magazine, the Mahō Shōjo Mimitsuki Mimi no QED manga with Konoka Sekizawa on the Nico Nico Seiga website, and several others.
Koike was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2004.
Reddit's AMA threads give fans a chance to find out information from a creator's inspiration to what they eat for breakfast every day. Former Under the Dog producer and Creative Intelligence Arts founder Hiroaki Yura used the format during the project's initial Kickstarter run. Crunchyroll CEO Kun Gao, Weekly Shonen Jump's English-language editors, and Tokyopop founder Stu Levy have all held AMAs.
