Fist of the North Star manga artist to revisit samurai friend of Maeda Keiji
This year’s 46th issue of Shinchosha’s Weekly Comic Bunch magazine has announced on Friday that Fist of the North Star artist Tetsuo Hara is launching a spinoff to his Hana no Keiji -Kumo no Kanata ni- manga about the historical samurai figure Maeda Keiji. The new Gifū Dōdō Naoe Kanetsugu -Maeda Keiji Tsuki-Gatari- series will begin in the magazine on November 7. According to Hara’s comments in the current Weekly Comic Bunch issue, he feels that he didn’t delve far enough into the life of Maeda’s close friend, the samurai Naoe Kanetsugu, when he drew Keiji from 1990 to 1993. A four-installment Keiji short story that focuses on Maeda and Naoe’s first meeting is already running in the magazine.
Hara and his writer Mio Aso loosely based their samurai stories on a novel written by Keiichiro Ryu. The defunct North American manga publisher Gutsoon! Entertainment published portions of the original Keiji manga in its Monthly Raijin Comics magazine.
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New York Anime Festival (NYAF) has announced on Saturday that it will host acclaimed artist and character designer Yoshitaka Amano during the September 26-28 convention at New York City’s Jacob Javitz Center. NYAF programming manager Peter Tatara made the announcement at New Jersey’s AnimeNEXT convention.
Amano designed characters in Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Shinzo Ningen Casshan, Time Bokan, Yatterman, Vampire Hunter D, Genesis Climber Mospeada, and other anime. He gained additional fame by creating the conceptual artwork for various videogames in the Final Fantasy series and drew the original illustrations in the Vampire Hunter D, The Heroic Legend of Arslan, and Guin Saga novels. He created or co-created several more animated works, such as the surreal Angel’s Egg film, the Fantascope ~tylostoma~ and Tori no Uta videos, and the whimsical Yasai no Yousei - N.Y. Salad television series. An anime is planned for his recent Mateki: The Magic Flute book, a re-imagining of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s classic opera. He splits his time between Tokyo and New York, and recently had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Geneva, Hong Kong, and Berlin.
NYAF already announced that it is hosting Vampire Hunter D creator Hideyuki Kikuchi and his novel translator Kevin Leahy.
Thanks to Anime News Network for the info
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