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Lunatic
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"The Masakazu Katsura appreciation thread" , posted Tue 16 Jul 22:10

HUD.HA.ShoRyuKen!!

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Lunatic
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"Re(1):The Masakazu Katsura appreciation threa" , posted Tue 16 Jul 22:23

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HUD.HA.ShoRyuKen!!

RugalBernstein

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"Re(1):The Masakazu Katsura appreciation threa" , posted Tue 16 Jul 22:38

I quite like Mr. Katsura's work. He's quite noted for obviously lavishing attention on the butts of his characters (yep.)
Pity I can't find any old Video Girl or Shadow Lady manga around.. All the Shadow Lady I have is in " Boy's Jump " format.

Juke Joint Jezebel

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"Re(2):The Masakazu Katsura appreciation threa" , posted Wed 17 Jul 02:30

whoa cool!
man last two days, i've been bombarded with beautiful art. inspirational (well, to draw my own)

oh yea, to do a smile, type

check this out
http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~mmcafe/forums/bm_register.cgi?read_dir&emoticons
lots of stuff ^-^

Holiday

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"Re(1):The Masakazu Katsura appreciation threa" , posted Wed 17 Jul 11:09

Great! Thanks for the links :)
I like Masakazu Katsura's style too. I first learnt of him when I picked up the Dna2 manga.

He draws some naughty stuff too like that "M" short story :)

BTW, does anyone know if he has done anything new since Dr. Chambalee?

dorikyasu

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"Re(3):The Masakazu Katsura appreciation threa" , posted Wed 17 Jul 11:23

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Masakazu Katsura is an artist. He's the creator of manga such as Shadow Lady, DNA^2, and I"s. I don't know how famous these are, but he sure draws the best manga art and *ahem other stuff, so! hope you like them..

I'm a fan of Mr. Katsura myself also. Especially with Video Girl Ai being one of my fav manga (I have entire set of Japanese original manga release + one special volume I got signed by the man himself years ago...

Rid Hershel

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"Re(4):The Masakazu Katsura appreciation threa" , posted Wed 17 Jul 15:38

I liked him at first, and still like his art (I have various I"s volumes and the 4C set of artbooks) but lately my interest in him has slowed down a little. Maybe it's because of the lack of variety in his works... (then again, I'm a declared Fujishima fan, and he has the same trouble), but I never found Katsura's characters likable, just well drawn.

If you don't know, he made the designs for a game a couple of years ago, Love & Destroy. NOT a good game, if anyone is interested.

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Lunatic
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"Re(1):The Masakazu Katsura appreciation threa" , posted Wed 17 Jul 18:14

that looks like a crappy game alright, haha

I like how the characters are created, and how she developes throughout in a way that suits to the look.
But if you're talking about variety, it's all just sex appeal anyways. But at least the 2 fight guys in DNA^2 look better than Goku from any issue.

Actually i have the whole set of I"s, and i must say it ended so much better than i expected.

Where did you get the artbook? I've seen one before if it's too damn expensive...

HUD.HA.ShoRyuKen!!

Rid Hershel

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Platinum Carpet V.I.P- Board Master

"Re(2):The Masakazu Katsura appreciation threa" , posted Wed 17 Jul 18:20

The artbook? ordered it through its ISBN code in a library in the local chinatown (I'm in Buenos Aires). It should be harder to get by now... but it's worth it, at least to me.

TheBeast

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"Re(2):The Masakazu Katsura appreciation threa" , posted Wed 17 Jul 19:11

Welcome to the board Lunatic! Warm welcome!!

You can click on EmoIcons on the top right of the screen to figure out how to use the faces et al.

Yeah, I like Masakazu Katsura as well. He can really draw very well cute and young ladies!!! I enjoyed 'I's, and yes Lunatic the story ended in a very heart-warming manner, though somewhat draggy before reaching there. I have seen the CD to the whole comic - apparently some pirate scanned the whole volume of comics and burn them into a CD.

And the female lead to 'I's is apparently... IORI! (check out one of the pictures above)...Hmmmmm IORI!? ISn't that a guy's name??

Lunatic
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"Re(3):The Masakazu Katsura appreciation threa" , posted Wed 17 Jul 21:48

thanks Beast!

frankly... Iori sounds more like a girl's name to me if you translate into japanese or chinese...the second word is moon....

HUD.HA.ShoRyuKen!!