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| Satoshi_Miwa 2349th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):Escaflowne Manga"
, posted Mon 1 Sep 17:30
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I just saw it at the book store and skimmed through it. I haven't seen the anime in a few years, but is it me or is the manga almost completly different? How many volumes is it? How much does the story deviate from its anime counterpart?
Well...
There rae two version of the Escaflowne manga. A shonen one, which Tokyopop is publishing, and the Shoujo one which ran in Asuka 120% and hasn't been licenced yet.
The Shonen manga is 8 volumes, and was started before the TV series went into pre-production. Kawamori had the orginal idea, floated it out there, and then went off to do Macross Plus/7. Kadokwa Shoten was intrested enough that they used the idea for a manga series...
As for differences? Well, Hitomi looks completly different. Dilandu looks completly differenty, and the story pretty much flows differently (having more of the Shonen adventure flavor). It really doesn't have the shoujo/realtionship elements that helped the show in NA...
I expect Tokyopop will be disapointed with sales on this. Volume 1 should sell well, but I expect the larger Esca fan base to pass on Volume 2. They would of been better off with the Shoujo series, which was done while the anime was on and has more of the elements from the series.
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| thebigword
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| "Re(2):Escaflowne Manga" , posted Mon 1 Sep 17:41
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I just saw it at the book store and skimmed through it. I haven't seen the anime in a few years, but is it me or is the manga almost completly different? How many volumes is it? How much does the story deviate from its anime counterpart?
Well...
There rae two version of the Escaflowne manga. A shonen one, which Tokyopop is publishing, and the Shoujo one which ran in Asuka 120% and hasn't been licenced yet.
The Shonen manga is 8 volumes, and was started before the TV series went into pre-production. Kawamori had the orginal idea, floated it out there, and then went off to do Macross Plus/7. Kadokwa Shoten was intrested enough that they used the idea for a manga series...
As for differences? Well, Hitomi looks completly different. Dilandu looks completly differenty, and the story pretty much flows differently (having more of the Shonen adventure flavor). It really doesn't have the shoujo/realtionship elements that helped the show in NA...
I expect Tokyopop will be disapointed with sales on this. Volume 1 should sell well, but I expect the larger Esca fan base to pass on Volume 2. They would of been better off with the Shoujo series, which was done while the anime was on and has more of the elements from the series.
yeah, i'm a big fan of the anime, but when I saw the Tokyopop manga at the local bookstore last week, I passed. It feels totally different altogether. I was disappointed :(
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| Maou
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| "Re(5):Escaflowne Manga" , posted Mon 1 Sep 23:28
Yeah, the original Esca comic was pretty much everything that the groundbreaking TV show escewed: ie the comic has oh-so-typical, vaguely-YuuYuuHakusho esque character design, Hitomi (who has a different family name, as I recall) has longer hair, glasses, and tends to be in more compromising positions, and Van looks like your usual spikey-haired chump. I think it may have come out a good deal before the TV show was conceived, but I don't have the year on it. But at any rate, the TV show took an ordinary comic and made something truly extraordinary out of it.
Maou
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