Postby El Squibbonator » Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:48 pm
I don't know if I've talked about this here before, but I am seriously fascinated by Mohiro Kitoh. If you don't know who he is, he's a manga author who has a fondness for writing stories that look like they're for kids at first glance, but turn out to be anything but. Stories sort of like Eva, in other words. He also has a very unique drawing style--his human characters tend to be tall and slender, and he draws very detailed vehicles, especially airplanes. Some of the things he's written include. . .
Bokurano-- his most famous work. 15 kids pilot a giant robot to save the world. The catch is that the robot runs on the pilot's life energy, and in every battle, the loser gets their planet dimension UNIVERSE destroyed. Made into a anime with a very different ending from the manga.
Narutaru--Came out in 1998, back when Pokemon was white-hot. Takes that franchise's basic kid-meets-cute-monster-and-goes-on-fantastic-journey narrative and graphically mutilates it. Adapted into a anime, but that stopped halfway through the story, presumably because the animators freaked out at what they would have to draw.
Owari to Hajimari no Miles-- This is (or rather was, it's on hiatus) a cool fantasy series set in an airborne world where every object has its own spirit. The heroine, Miles, is the only person who can communicate with these spirits. It almost looks like a Miyazaki movie, but once again it is not for the kiddies.
Wings of Vendemiaire-- A steampunk-style two-volume manga about a series of robots (that look like teenage girls, natch) called Vendemiaires. The story tells how they treat, and are treated by, humans; there is also a very strong flight motif.
Hallucinations from the Womb--a collection of short sci-fi stories in a "half-fantsy, half-futuristic city" detailing the lives of its inhabitants and how they have become corrupted in various ways. Each story takes the form of a police procedural.
Ekrano--a oneshot about two people in ekranoplans (look it up, it's a sort of half-airplane, half-hovercraft thing) fighting creatures called "Kujirani". Actually feels like the first chapter of a longer story that wasn't completed.
SiNNa 1905/ Tumikorot: A Record of A War-- Probably his most obscure work. Apparently this one was published online in 1998 (an early webcomic, in other words). It's a short story about a civil war in an alternate Japan fought with odd-looking mechs, and it has really bad CGI illustrations.
Nanika Mochigatte Masuka-- A sort of "Carrie"-type story about a teenager with psychic powers who's tricked by his classmate into using them for his own evil purposes. Not as good as Bokurano or Narutaru, but still worth a read.
Norririn--A manga about mountain biking. Seriously. It's pretty much G-rated.
He also did the character design for the Third Angel in the second Rebuild movie (you know, the one we call Tunniel). So, have you guys read anything by him?
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El Squibbonator on Thu Feb 25, 2016 8:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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